Christmas 1860. Polly, already living in grinding poverty, finds herself alone on the streets of Hull when her mother dies in childbirth. Rosalie, brought up in affluence & comfort on the other side of town, loses her own mother in similar circumstances & on the same day.

Polly takes a job as scullery maid in Rosalie

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When Richard Whiteley died in 2005, he was mourned by a nation. He had been the face of teatime television for many years. But the wordplay & wit shown on Countdown hid a tenacious political journalist who had interviewed every Prime Minister from Macmillan to Blair.

Kathryn Apanowicz went on her first date with Richard when she was seventeen. They had an on-off relationship over the years, finally living together for the last eight years before his death.

In this intimate retelling of his life & their years together, we get to see the man behind the laughter for the first time.



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Main Courses is one of three titles from Ricks delightful new series of beautifully designed gift books.

Rick has hand picked

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Puddings is one of three titles from Ricks delightful new series of beautifully designed gift books.

Rick has hand picked

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Rick Stein, one of the UKs most popular & respected chefs, opens your eyes to the wealth of produce available on your doorstep with his book, Rick Stein's Food Heroes.

Now available for the first time in paperback as well as hardback, this book is both an inspirational collection of recipes & a delightful celebration of British ingredients & those who create them.

Rick has always encouraged us to think carefully about the food we eat, to seek out the best-quality ingredients & to cook them simply. In his accompanying TV series he travelled around Britain, searching out the best of all British produce, from bread to beer & lamb to cheese.

The book contains over 100 recipes, including all those broadcast on BBC2.

In addition to a host of brand new recipes (including Smoked Duck Breast Salad with New Potatoes & Fresh Raspberry Tart with Hazelnut & Coconut Pastry), Rick adds his own variations on traditional dishes, such as The Definitive Welsh Rarebit.







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RECIPES INSPIRED BY THE FOOD HEROES OF BRITAIN Rick Stein has always encouraged us to think carefully about the food we eat, to seek out the best-quality ingredients & to cook them simply. In his new series of Food Heroes he is back on the road, travelling around Britain & Irel&, searching out the best produce, from bread to beer & lamb to cheese.

The book contains over 100 of Rick's favourite recipes, many of them traditional, all of them with his own special spin.

Guaranteed to open your eyes to the wealth of produce available on your doorstep, Rick Stein's Food Heroes: Another Helping is both an inspirational collection of recipes & a delightful celebration of British & Irish ingredients & those who create them.

Rick Stein OBE is one of Britain's top five TV chefs & his cookery credentials are impeccable.

He is a best-selling BBC author with sales of over 1 million copies of his BBC Books.







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Rick Stein embarks on a journey of gastronomic discovery from Padstow to Bordeaux ad then to Marseille. The book is divided into a diary section & recipe chapters. Featuring starters, light lunches, main courses & desserts, the recipes include authentic versions of the classics
- Vichyssoise, Pissaladiere, Bouillabasse, Cassoulet and Tarte Tatin - as well as new takes on traditional ingredients: Seared Foie Gras on Sweetcorn Pancakes, Fillets of John Dory with Cucumber & Noilly Prat, Rabbit with Agen Prunes & Polenta & Prune and Almond Tart with Armagnac.

Fully illustrated with beautiful food photography by James Murphy & landscape photography by Craig Easton, Rick Stein's French Odyssey is both a souvenir of an unusual & idyllic journey through rural France & an inspiring collection of classic & original recipes. The good news is that the French rural gastronomic dream is still a reality, & the best of its food can be reproduced at home.


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