A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic The Three Musketeers Across Madrid Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil Lucas Corso solitary & obsessive is the detective hired to authenticate both texts But the further he follows the trail of devil worship the more it leads him back to Dumas He's the unwitting protagonist in someone's evil plot but is he sleuth or hero Sherlock Holmes or d' Artagnan? ...

As a child Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence designed to test the innateness of language As Luke grows up his interest in language & the delicate balance of life & death leads to amateur dissections of small animals
- tiny hearts revealed still pumping as life trickles away But as an adult following the death of his mother Luke's obsession deepens resulting in a haunting & bizarre experiment on Luke's own children
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Over 100 deliciously fuss-free recipes from The Dumpling Sisters' Kitchen Amy & Julie Zhang have been entertaining & educating their thousands of followers on Youtube with their recipes for deliciously easy homemade Chinese food
- now THE DUMPLING SISTERS COOKBOOK brings you more of the easy Chinese recipes & advice that those fans have been clamouring for Dedicated to & destined to be adored by every Chinese food lover this book is full of Chinese-food favourites impressive sharing dishes & even sweet treats that have been little acknowledged in a western understanding of Chinese food
- until now This is Chinese home cooking at its best The recipes are structured as to give a gradual introduction to Chinese dishes beginning with the simple; Best Ever Fried Rice & working up to the more elaborate Cracking Five-Spice Roast Pork Belly & are interspersed with the insider tips & tricks that the girls' Youtube fans adore There is also a focus on Chinese culture & eating etiquette (for perfecting those chopstick skills) including sharing menu planner & a guide to shopping at the Chinese supermarket Amy & Julie write with wit & gusto
- they are the perfect cooks to take any food lover on a journey to discover real Chinese cooking


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John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring protecting & celebrating the British landscape & its wildlife His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays
- spent scrambling through hedges & ditches after birds & small beasts keeping pigeons in the loft & tracking foxes around the edge of the garden
- were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions exploring the wonders of nature & writing about them Threaded through his adventures
- from moving to the Scottish Highlands to work with Gavin Maxwell to founding the famous Aigas Field Centre
- is an elegy to his remarkable mother & a wise & affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape



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Attention Adventurers The only Dungeon battle map you will ever need The Dungeon Books of Battle Mats are a unique product which combines easy storage & portability with up to an epic 24x 24 map area & an endless number of dungeon combination options Fully Laminated throughout & thus wipe clean these rewritable tomes of dungeon map combinations will save hours of game preparation time & mean no more hastily drawn mid game maps Just open &38; roll The wire bound spine allows the books to lay completely flat or fold in half to fit your space & adventure It also means you can ensure the books are 100 level so your adventure can move seamlessly across the map Linked designs feature standard entry &38; exit points so the books line up seamlessly allowing you to create your own maps from hundreds of combinations The Dungeon Books of Battle Mats feature
- Wipe Clean laminated pages of Dungeon themed Battle Maps for RPG encounters Two Hardback Books presented as a set Each book is 40 map pages Portable adaptable expandable & modular Standard entryexit points & linked designs allow you to create your own maps Wire Bound format 360 spine offers unrivalled flexibility & lays completely flat 1 inch grid design throughout So its over to you Roll initiative Set of 2 Modular Books of Battle Mats Lay flat wipe clean books Hundreds of combinations thanks to standard entryexit points Easily Portable & storablecreate a 24x 24 play area
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The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family & Other Animals & its ITV adaptation The Durrells But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place
- & what happened to them after they left? The real story of the Durrells is as surprising & fascinating as anything in Gerry's books & Michael Haag with his first hand knowledge of the family is the ideal narrator drawing on diaries letters & unpublished autobiographical fragments The Durrells of Corfu describes the family's upbringing in India & the crisis that brought them to England & then Greece It recalls the genuine characters they encountered on Corfu
- Theodore the biologist the taxi driver Spiro Halikiopoulos & the prisoner Kosti
- as well as the visit of American writer Henry Miller & Haag has unearthed the story of how the Durrells left Corfu including Margo's & Larry's last-minute escapes before the War An extended epilogue looks at the emergence of Larry as a world famous novelist & Gerry as a naturalist & champion of endangered species as well as the lives of the rest of the family their friends & other animals The book is illustrated with family photos from the Gerald Durrell Archive many of them reproduced here for the first time


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A warm funny feel-good series about a family’s adventures on a gorgeous Greek island when they uproot from their English home in the hope of a better life Based on Gerald Durrell’s much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels The Durrells sees impoverished but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to seek out a new destiny for her family when her options in late 1930s England seem to be limited to struggling on or marrying a wealthy but dreary older man Concerned that the lives of her four ‘children’ are heading down the wrong track she relocates her reluctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun This beautifully-shot series follows the family as they adjust to their new life face a whole new set of challenges & meet new friends rivals lovers – & animals ...

Adventures of the High Seas the first expansion for The Dutch East Indies features six modules that can be integrated into the base game one at a time or all at once The expansion is compatible with both the standard & deluxe edition of the base game These are the new modules as depicted on the top of the box going clockwise 1 Forts In the base game you have to watch out for pirates & other players while sailing & nothing else When you deliver your spices back on your home island they are safe Now not anymore&166; You start with a fort on your home island with which you can defend against other players trying to steal your spices Pirates get 2 forts on the High Seas to aid them but if you defeat them you could own those forts! 2 Settlements Because this expansion comes with a lot more options to spend your gold on its only fair that you also get the opportunity to earn more You can now build settlements on wild islands with no cards left on them The settlement will produce crates for you & act as a harbor to protect you from attacks too! 3 Treasures Similarly to settlements when you find a treasure you find gold! Which aids you wih modules 1 & 6 4 Events No longer can you only draw trade propositions at wild islands When you least expect it lightning strikes! Or you summon the Kraken Or who knows something helpful may happen It also means you can no longer safely look at the last card at an island It may be an event which means then the deck is empty & you can be attacked! 5- Reefs Another danger on the High Seas for you your opponents & the pirates! Are you going to be safe & sail around them or take the risk & hope your ship passes safely through it? Getting stuck is no fun except for when it happens to the pirates! 6- Crew When an island runs out of trade cards in the base game they are of no interest Not anymore! You can now build settlements but the locals on the island are also looking for something to do! Pay a local for their services & upgrade your ship in a whole new way! Just be careful in battles not to get your crew killed! ...

In The Dutch East Indies you are a captain & you have two ships & a clear mission Collect desired spices & do so before any other country can! Now you could just use the trading goods from your own country & try to trade the spices with locals Or maybe you find it more satisfactory to simply fire away at your competitors & try to steal the spices they collected! Upgrade your ships to get faster stronger or be able to carry more goods at a time & beware of pirates who do not care about spices but do care about sending your ships to the bottom of the sea! Whoever collects the 8 desired spices the fastest wins! ...

The Dutch Revolt 1559-1648 begins by illustrating the historical background & causes of the revolt This is followed by chronological sections devoted to each phase of the revolt & an assesment section that takes a more thematic approach looking at the military economic political & constitutional issues ...