Benjamin Hale's fiction abounds with a love of language & a wild joy for storytelling In prose alternately stark lush & hallucinatory occasionally nightmarish & often absurd the seven stories in this collection are suffused with fear & desire introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love jealousy megalomania & despair As in his acclaimed debut novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore the voices in these stories speak from the margins a dominatrix whose longtime client a US congressman drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippie in Colorado in the summer before 911 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis these stories rove freely across time & place carried by haunting peculiar narratives threads in the vast tapestry of American life Weaving a pleasure in the absurd with an exploration of the extraordinary variety of the human condition & the sway our most private selves & hidden pasts hold over us the stories in The Fat Artist reside in the unnerving intersections between life & death art & ridicule consumption & creation ...

In this beautiful smaller format edition of the award-winning Big Fat Duck Cookbook we hear the full story of the meteoric rise of Heston Blumenthal & The Fat Duck birthplace of snail porridge & bacon-&-egg ice cream & encounter the passion perfection & weird science behind the man & the restaurant Heston Blumenthal is widely acknowledged to be a genius & The Fat Duck has twice been voted the Best Restaurant in the World by a peer group of top chefs But he is entirely self-taught & the story of his restaurant has broken every rule in the book His success has been borne out of his pure obsession endless invention & a childish curiosity into how things work
- whether it's how smell affects taste what different flavours mean to us on a biological level or how temperature is distributed in the centre of a souffle In the first section of The Fat Duck Cookbook we learn the history of the restaurant from its humble beginnings to its third Michelin star (the day Heston received the news of this he had been wondering how exactly he would be able to pay his staff that month) Next we meet 50 of his signature recipes
- sardine on toast sorbet salmon poached with liquorice hot & iced tea chocolate wine
- which while challenging for anyone not equipped with ice baths dehydrators vacuum pumps & nitrogen on tap will inspire home cooks & chefs alike Finally we hear from the experts whose scientific know-how has contributed to Heston's topsy-turvy world With an introduction by Harold Mc Gee incredible colour photographs throughout & illustrations by Dave Mc Kean The Fat Duck Cookbook is not only the nearest thing to an autobiography from the world's most fascinating chef but also a stunning colourful & joyous work of art


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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 Comedy based on the characters from the Viz comic books Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England Sandra (Fiona Allen) & Tracey (Sophie Thompson) head for London in search of fame & fortune Sean Cooley (Jerry O& Connell) an internationally renowned billionaire suffers a blow to the head rendering him temporarily insane on the day The Fat Slags arrive in London; spotting them on a TV chat show he falls in love with their larger than life look & is determined to make them stars ...

Are you fed up with restrictive dieting? Do you feel you've tried everything before & failed? Then this plan is for you This is different This will work Joe Wicks is back with another instalment of 100 br&-new delicious recipes & five speedy effective HIIT workouts The Fat-Loss Plan can motivate everyone on their way to achieving a fit lean & healthy body Inside the book is a combination of reduced-carb post-workout & snacks & sweet treat recipes
- all incredibly tasty & easy to make in 15 minutes flat Every recipe is filling & fuels you with energy for your day & your workout
- including Steak Taco with Lime Salsa Lamb Kofte Tagine & Veggie Super Bowl Thanks to sample weekly plans Joe makes it simple for you to prep like a boss & eat well every day of the week Joe has more than 4 million followers on social media where fans share their personal journeys towards a leaner fitter lifestyle The Lean in 15 titles won platinum & gold awards at the Specsavers Nielsen book awards Joe's first book Lean in 15 The Shift Plan has become the bestselling diet book of all time & all his books have been non-fiction number one bestsellers Start your journey to better health & fitness now with The Body Coach

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The cruel Merdrun the greatest warriors in the void have invaded Santhenar but their portal failed leaving them stranded They're desperately trying to regain contact with the summon stone so they can reopen the portal & begin the slaughter of humanity Llian hurled through another portal sees the summon stone wake & knows the allies have but one chance to destroy the Merdrun
- though it will involve an alchemical quest that has always ended in ruin a mad invasion in untested sky ships with untrained pilots & the most unequal battle in all the Histories
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In 1787 the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia An epic description of the brutal transportation of men women & children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag & was the origin of Australia The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning scholarly brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia ...

London the 1720s Welcome to ' Romeville' the underworld of that great city The financial crash caused by the South Sea Bubble sees the rise of Jonathan Wild self-styled ' Thief-taker General' who purports to keep the peace while brutally controlling organised crime Only two people truly defy him Jack Sheppard apprentice turned house-breaker & his lover the notorious whore & pickpocket Edgworth Bess From the condemned cell at Newgate Bess gives her account of how she & Jack formed the most famous criminal partnership of their age a tale of lost innocence & harsh survival passion & danger bold exploits & spectacular gaol-breaks
- & of the price they paid for rousing the mob of Romeville against its corrupt master Bess dictates her narrative to Billy Archer a Grub Street hack & aspiring poet who has rubbed shoulders with Defoe & Swift But he also inhabits that other underworld of 'molly-houses' & 'unnameable sin' & has his own story of subterfuge treachery & doomed romance to deliver As the gallows casts its grim shadow who will live to escape the Fatal Tree? By the acclaimed author of THE LONG FIRM this is a tour de force; inventive atmospheric & rich in the street slang of the era Drawing on real figures & a true history of crime punishment & rough justice it tells a heartbreaking story of love & betrayal
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Tracklist Right Here Right Now Block Rockin& Beats Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)19 2000 (Soulchild Remix)I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Radio Edit) Lazy (Fatboy Slim Remix) Nyc Beat We Are Your Friends Kelly Watch The Stars (Moog Cookbook Remix)1999 Trippin On Sunshine Body Movin& (Fatboy Slim Remix) Because Of You Magic Carpet Ride A Deeper Love (A Deeper Love Mix) Waterfall (Original Netherlands Mix 7" Radio Edit Eat Sleep Rave Repeat (Calvin Harris Edit) Bonus Track Uptown Funk ...

Track Listings Disc 11 Right Here Right Now
- Fatboy Slim 2 Block Rockin& Beats
- The Chemical Brothers 3 Where&s Your Head

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1793 As the Terror begins to cast a great shadow over France Thomas Pryce the new Vicar of Deal crosses the Channel to find the parents of his beautiful French wife Facing grave dangers he makes his way to Brittany where he not only discovers the fate of his in-laws but also uncovers a plot which threatens to topple the British monarchy Fighting against a sinister secret society in a race against time Pryce battles to thwart the plans of a Parisian spymaster & his agents in London The Fate of Kings is the first in a series of gripping spy thrillers that will engross readers of CJ Sansom Dan Brown as well as the many avid watchers of Poldark & Grantchester In the first years of the British Secret Service Thomas Pryce truly is the original James Bond ...