Ted L Nancy continues his gently surreal correspondence with the great & the good. His hilarious & bizarre letters
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Revelling in revolting fact, positively dripping with deadly deeds, first there was A Macabre Miscellany; now, with a further dose of spine chilling, stomach turning grotesquery, there is More Macabre Miscellany.
A foul mix of modern murder & ancient atrocity, More Macabre Miscellany is the blood & guts of world history spattered with the most monstrous of contemporary carnage.
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From the pleasure of escaping our daily lives & finding laughter, to musing on what makes the world go round & finding solace, poets of all ages have helped us find a way there. In 1996 BBC Bookworm held a poll to find 100 of the nation's best-loved poems. They were published in the Nation's Favourite Poems & featured classics, including Tennyson's ' The Lady of Shalott' & Wordsworth's ' The Daffodils', alongside popular contemporary poems, such as Jenny Joseph's ' Warning' & W.H Auden's ' Stop All the Clocks'. This collection continues to delight & move us with its eclectic mix of favourite poems. Yet, while it contains so many of our best-loved poems, there are a wealth of outstanding poems across the ages that we were unable to include in the collection. To celebrate the richness of poetry in our lives, BBC Books is holding another poll to find more of the nation's favourite poems. Perhaps the anthology will include Byron's poignant, ' So we'll go no more a roving', other outstanding pieces by Auden, Lawrence, Wordsworth & Shakespeare or Edwin Muir's ' The Confirmation'. The anthology will be published this autumn. In June the nation will be able to have its say. ...

Now readers can sing along with this hilarious book & CD read by Lenny Henry.
You can never have enough pants, as this exuberant
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In 1982 the Griffins left the security of suburbia to grow garlic in West Wales. From the struggle with rurality that ensued grew (organically) the very amusing, & informative, warts-&-all account Scenes From a Smallholding.

Now in this sometimes touching, but always funny sequel, Chas reveals what happened four years after their arrival
- when the dream had been well & truly dreamt & they were experiencing some rather rude awakenings. Did they ever achieve the blissful good life? Are they surrounded by organic veg? How have the family coped with their new rural life?

Written with Chas Griffin's trademark charm & humour, enjoy another compelling romp through the countryside.




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Claire Macdonald's fresh approach to food has won her a wide appreciative audience. With her husband, the high Chief of Clan Donald, Claire runs the charming & popular Kinloch Lodge Hotel on the Isle of Skye, where she combines her best seasonal ingredienrs with flair & ingenuity to create truly original dishes.

In More Seasonal Cooking Claire shares with us some of her favourite recipes in a month-by-month sellection. From first courses such as asparagus timbales & pheasant, cumin & apricot soup, through nourishing & tasty dishes like ragout of lamb with lemon & saffron or monkfish baked with lime, to the justly famous range of Kinloch Lodge puddings, this is a timeless & irresistible collection from an outstanding & inspired cook.

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Claire Macdonald's fresh approach to food has won her a wide appreciative audience. With her husband, the high Chief of Clan Donald, Claire runs the charming & popular Kinloch Lodge Hotel on the Isle of Skye, where she combines her best seasonal ingredienrs with flair & ingenuity to create truly original dishes.

In More Seasonal Cooking Claire shares with us some of her favourite recipes in a month-by-month sellection. From first courses such as asparagus timbales & pheasant, cumin & apricot soup, through nourishing & tasty dishes like ragout of lamb with lemon & saffron or monkfish baked with lime, to the justly famous range of Kinloch Lodge puddings, this is a timeless & irresistible collection from an outstanding & inspired cook.

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THE BOOK: This omnibus edition features four books from R. K. Narayan's famous series based in the imaginary Indian town of Malgudi: The World of Nagaraj, Mr Sampath-Printer of Malgudi, Waiting for the Mahatma & The Financial Expert. Each of these novels demonstrates Narayan's rare talent & extraordinary gifts & are confirmed of his status as a major international writer. ...