A food for all occasions, pastas huge variety of shapes, textures & flavours makes it the perfect basis for all kinds of meals, from sophisticated dinner parties to simple suppers at home. In this fully revised & updated edition, Antonio Carluccio once again shares with you his Passion for Pasta, providing innovative & exciting recipes for soups, main courses, salads & even desserts to promote this staple ingredient of traditional Italian cookery to the rank of haute cuisine. The 100 delicious dishes include Egg in Raviolo with White Truffles, Oriecchiette with Lamb Ragout, Pappardelle with Quail Sauce & the unusual Chocolate Pasta Sauce. Forget the blasphemy of bottled sauces, ready-made pasta dishes & pre-packed Parmesan cheese. Instead, seek inspiration from the palette of delicious Italian ingredients Parma ham, mozzarella, radicchio, artichoke hearts, wild mushrooms & truffles combined with originality & genius in Antonio Carluccios pasta masterpieces. ...

Adie Hamilton is young, ambitious & wants to make a name for herself in Egyptology. When the enigmatic & sexy Killian Carmichael invites her to join his research team at the deser necropolis of Saqqara it's not all dusty tombs & broken pots. Whilst Adie is drawn into the search for a vital missing fragment of an erotic mural, Dareth Sadler, a charismatic leader of a cult hooked on sex magic, arrives to threaten the future of the project. Sadler is Killian's bitter rival, so it's up to Adie to keep one step ahead of Sadler & his scheming coterie of Ankh-wearing New Age groupies. The desert landscape & the hidden chambers of its monument are suffused with sybaritic secrets. They have a beguiling effect on the archaeological team & everyone who is drawn to learn more about the mysterious erotic rites of the ancient Egyptians. ...

Adie Hamilton is young, ambitious & wants to make a name for herself in Egyptology. When the enigmatic & sexy Killian Carmichael invites her to join his research team at the deser necropolis of Saqqara it's not all dusty tombs & broken pots. Whilst Adie is drawn into the search for a vital missing fragment of an erotic mural, Dareth Sadler, a charismatic leader of a cult hooked on sex magic, arrives to threaten the future of the project. Sadler is Killian's bitter rival, so it's up to Adie to keep one step ahead of Sadler & his scheming coterie of Ankh-wearing New Age groupies. The desert landscape & the hidden chambers of its monument are suffused with sybaritic secrets. They have a beguiling effect on the archaeological team & everyone who is drawn to learn more about the mysterious erotic rites of the ancient Egyptians. ...

After completing his first, highly succesful quilt book, Kaffe's interest in patchwork continued & he expanded his enthusiastic involvement in the craft by beginning to design his own patchwork fabrics. With this collection Kaffe has seized the opportunity to delve more deeply into the intricate arrangement of geometric patches & interesting prints
- occasionally incorporating his own stunning fabric designs. The twenty new designs include full-size quilts, tablecloths, cushion covers & baby quilts, all in exciting saturated colour schemes so characteristic of Kaffe's renowned work. Chapters explore the use of the building blocks of circles, squares diamonds & triangles & an elegant mixture of colours & prints give each of the designs in this new collection a unique & subtle energy. As ever, Kaffe's creations illustrate how awe-inspiring & breathtaking the decorative crafts can be. There are detailed instructions & simple, coloured piecing diagrams for each patchwork. Templates for tracing are included at the back of the book. & for those new to patchwork, the necessary basic start-to-finish directions are given in a special chapter.
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Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Strafford resign at the height of his parliamentary career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly & coldly reject him? Why, seventy years later, should people go to such lengths
- even as far as murder
- to prevent the truth from being revealed? Martin Radford, history graduate, disaffected & unemployed, leaps at the chance to get to the island of Madeira & begin the hunt for a solution to the intriguing secret of Edwin Strafford's fall from grace. However, his seeming good fortune turns to nightmare as his investigation triggers a bizarre & violent train of events which remorselessly entangles him & those who believed they had escaped the spectre of crimes long past but never paid for

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1910: Distinguished MP Edwin Strafford resigns at the pinnacle of his career, removing himself from the public eye. The woman he loves, & for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything, suddenly & coldly rejects him. All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness.

Seventy years later, historian Martin Radford is down on his luck when a mysterious benefactor offers him the opportunity of a lifetime: to uncover what exactly happened to Edwin Strafford. But this apparent good fortune swiftly turns into a nightmare. Radford

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1910: Distinguished MP Edwin Strafford resigns at the pinnacle of his career, removing himself from the public eye. The woman he loves, & for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything, suddenly & coldly rejects him. All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness.

Seventy years later, historian Martin Radford is down on his luck when a mysterious benefactor offers him the opportunity of a lifetime: to uncover what exactly happened to Edwin Strafford. But this apparent good fortune swiftly turns into a nightmare. Radford

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