Personal finance journalist Michelle Mc Gagh takes on a challenge to not spend money for a whole year in an engaging narrative that combines personal experience with accessible advice on money so you can learn to spend less & live more Michelle Mc Gagh has been writing about money for over a decade but she was spending with abandon & ignoring bank statements Just because she wasn't in serious debt apart from her massive London mortgage she thought she was in control She wasn't Michelle's took a radical approach & set herself a challenge to not spend anything for an entire year She paid her bills & she has a minimal budget for her weekly groceries but otherwise Michelle spent no money at all She found creative ways to live have a social life & to travel for free She has saved money but more importantly she is happier Her relationship with money with things with time with others has changed for the better The No Spend Year is Michelle's honestly written & personal account of her challenge But it is more than that it is also a tool for life There are top tips for your own finances including easy to understand advice on interest mortgages savings pensions & spending less to help you live a more financially secure life ...

Be it for breakfast lunch or dinner this book will show you how to cook in a totally new way Discover 100 easy innovative inspiring recipes that don't involve conventional oven cooking
- instead you'll find a wealth of clever shortcuts & simple alternative techniques for transforming fresh ingredients into vibrant & nutritious meals The no-cook philosophy is about far more than just assembly You'll be surprised & delighted at the variety of gorgeous food you can magic up without even turning on the oven including dips soups noodles & slaws cheats' pizzas & pasta dishes simple sushi & ceviche no-cook interpretations of familiar kitchen classics & foolproof no-bake desserts Many of these recipes are naturally much healthier than their oven-cooked counterparts since there's no frying in oil or basting in butter but instead plenty of fresh ingredients simply prepared & assembled & in some cases kept raw thereby retaining their natural nutrients & antioxidants Not forgetting that a no-cook approach helps keep your kitchen cooler & your energy bills that little bit smaller So whether you're a curious cook in search of new ideas a kitchen novice with a fear of the oven or a busy parent seeking weeknight-ready meals these smart delicious no-cook recipes are the answer you've been waiting for
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Oluwalase Babatunde Benson is No 1 He's the No 1 car spotter in his village
- probably the No 1 car spotter in the world! 96 pages
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Oluwalase Babatunde Benson is No 1 He's the No 1 car spotter in his village The No 1 car spotter in the world! The start of an exciting new series about the irresistible No 1 whose hobby is car spotting but who is good at solving all sorts of problems for his village When the family's cart breaks down & there's no way of bringing goods to market it's No 1 who devises the Toyota Cow-rolla & saves the day He runs errands for his family & helps Mama Coca-Cola feed the busloads of people who stop for her delicious fried akara No 1 even helps Grandmother get to the medical centre when she can't afford treatment No 1 is bright & plucky & resourceful
- a fantastic new character in what will undoubtedly prove to be a brilliant series!
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The sixth & final title in this brilliant series about the No 1 car spotter by a renowned Nigerian storyteller Oluwalase Babatunde Benson is the No 1 car spotter in the village
- maybe even the world! & No 1 is excited when he learns that a factory is being built in his Nigerian village There will be jobs for the villagers including No 1's father But strange things begin to happen the goats become sick & the fish in the river are dying What is going on? & can No 1 put things right?
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Wayward daughters Missing Husbands Philandering partners Curious conmen If you've got a problem & no one else can help you then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe Botswana's only
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- female private detective Her methods may not be conventional & her manner not exactly Miss Marple but she's got warmth wit & canny intuition on her side not to mention Mr J L B Matekoni the charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors & Precious is going to need them all as she sets out on the trail of a missing child a case that tumbles our heroine into a hotbed of strange situations & more than a little danger Delightfully different THE NO1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY offers a captivating glimpse of an unusual world

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This fascinating new book explores the world of numbers from pin numbers to book titles & from the sixfold shape of snowflakes to the way our roads houses & telephone numbers are designated in fact & fiction 208 pages Illustrations color Binney Ruth ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play An exceptional & ambitious single film directed by Anthony Minghella & scripted by Richard Curtis (Love Actually) based on the best-selling books series by Alexander Mc Call Smith Starring Grammy Award Winning Jill Scott as Precious Remotswe this is the first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana & the last Minghella work before he passed away Broadcast on BBC One Easter Sunday 2008 ...

The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years & the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013 It is a book brimming with warmth mischief & a self-deprecating humour as well as with a charming ' Larkinesque' crankiness a quarrel with ageing an impatience with youth the grievousness of losing friends & colleagues But for all its intimate hearthside rumination this is a volume of poems that looks outward in equal measure at Scottish independence British politics & an international refugee crisis & reflects unflinchingly on what it is to consider oneself a contributor to society Penned with a dexterous wit & a steady nerve The Noise of a Fly is a mesmeric imagining of our later years by one of this country's most senior & celebrated writers' It is hard to think of many poets who can equal his combination of imaginative ambition formal resource & range of tone Written on these terms poetry is a matter of permanent urgency' Sean O' Brien' The most respected Scottish poet of his generation' Nicholas Wroe ...

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block He waits all through the night expecting to be taken away to the ' Big House' Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now & few who are taken to ever return ...