' What shall we have for supper tonight?' must be one of the most familiar daily cries in every household. Now, at last, the answer has been supplied by Claire Macdonald in this extremely practical cook book which contains a huge range of delicious, informal meals ranging from exotic ethnic dishes to plain bangers & mash.

Most of the recipes are for everyday meals, but there are also chapters on supper dishes for more special occasions, for Sundays after a heavy midday meal, for single people, for children. There are also suggestions for 'high tea', inspirations for using up leftover food, & 'panic' suppers which can be made from a few items in your cupboard. Most of the meals, however, cater for the good old family supper which must be prepared & cooked mid-week when most people are at their busiest &, arguably, hungriest.

Whichever dish she is describing, Claire Macdonald brings to it her own highly experienced techniques. Whether it is toad-in-the-hole for an ordinary supper, or monkfish in gruyère cheese soufflé for a special evening meal, you can be assured that the food will taste delicious. & you will no longer be short of ideas as to what to serve up for the daily evening meal, whether for yourself or a demanding family.



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In this, the sixth & final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, a fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York & a husband & child in San Francisco. Wistful & compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is a triumphant finale to one of the most addictively entertaining series of novels ever written. ...

Working-class Manchester: a seedy underworld populated in part by rough, butch security guards & clubowners. Amongst its denizens is Matt, recently discharged from Her Majesty's armed forces & now employed by the security firm Sureforce
- a company ruled by an iron-fisted, well-muscled boss. Matt
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker & storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity & eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped & then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate & totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age. ...

Hiding, lying in wait on the sea bed, is EX16, one of the most important ships in the Royal Navy. She's not much to look at, & she's only 54 feet long, with no defensive armament. But her four-man crew knows that the outcome of the war could depend on this midget submarine. Seaton, her commander, understands what his men face. There is the boredom, the discomfort, the jealousy & bickering; & already they have confronted enormous dangers on desperate raids into Norway. Now, poised for the attack on a secret Nazi rocket installation, Seaton must hold his crew together for the hell that awaits them- ...

Little Panda is frightened of the dark, so he has a moonlight lamp on at night. But the only thing he can afford to get for Mum's birthday is one very small plant, & it needs light. He has to put it in the attic, as it's the one place Mum won't look, & it's not light up there at all. So Little Panda lets the plant have his special lamp: it needs it more than he does. He finds that soon he gets used to the dark, & doesn't find it frightening any more. & when it's time to show Mum her present, the little plant has grown into an extravaganza of foliage seething with exotic birds! ...

When Melanie joins the staff of The Hotel she enters a world of new sexual experiences & frightening demands, in which there are three kinds of duty she must perform. In this place of luxury & beauty there are many pleasures, serving her deepest desires, but there is also peversity & pain. The Hotel is founded on a strict regime, but Melanie cannot help but break the rules. How can she survive the severe torments that follow? ...

Wrongly branded as a spy, the dark & handsome Viking lord Selig Haardrad suffered greatly in the dungeons fo Lady Erika of Gronwood. As he hung in chains, his magnificent body wracked with pain & fever, one thought sustained him
- revenge!

But Destiny's great wheel has turned, delivering Selig's exquisite, honey-haired tormentor into the Viking's hands. Now Selig is the master, determined to break the proud spirit of his captive ice queen & to conquer her with passion's sword
- never dreaming that his own heart would be vanquished by a desire to surrender to love.



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Mike Stroud, polar explorer, practising hospital physician & recently adviser to the Ministry of Defence on survival, sets out in this fascinating book the genetics, diet & exercise that enable humans to perform at their peak.

Based soundly in medical science, Dr Stroud analyses individual feats of survival & athletic prowess that illustrate the way the body functions at its best. He dissects his own challenging experiences of crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes, running marathons in the Sahara & participating in gruelling cross-country endurance races in the United States & gives some tips on how to stay fit for life for those of us who find walking the dog & endurance challenge
- First published to great acclaim in 1998, this fully updated edition now

Includes:: a chapter on the Global 7 Marathons in 7 Days with Sir Ranulph Fiennes.




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Mike Stroud, polar explorer, practising hospital physician & recently adviser to the Ministry of Defence on survival, sets out in this fascinating book the genetics, diet & exercise that enable humans to perform at their peak.

Based soundly in medical science, Dr Stroud analyses individual feats of survival & athletic prowess that illustrate the way the body functions at its best. He dissects his own challenging experiences of crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes, running marathons in the Sahara & participating in gruelling cross-country endurance races in the United States & gives some tips on how to stay fit for life for those of us who find walking the dog & endurance challenge
- First published to great acclaim in 1998, this fully updated edition now

Includes:: a chapter on the Global 7 Marathons in 7 Days with Sir Ranulph Fiennes.




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