The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London & then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame Mallory, in the remote French village of Lumiere. A culinary war ensues, pitting Hassan`s Mumbai-toughened father against the imperious Michelin-starred cordon bleu, until Madame Mallory realizes that Hassan is a cook with natural talents far superior to her own. Full of eccentric characters, hilarious cultural mishaps, vivid settings & delicious meals described in rich, sensuous detail, Hassan`s charming account lays bare the inner workings of the elite world of French haute cuisine, & provides a life-affirming & poignant coming-of-age tale. ...

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window & Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson quickly became an international bestselling sensation, winning praise from the author’s native Sweden where his novel is set, across Europe, to the reviews in British press. Described as “completely crazy, hilarious, zany, overflowing with humour”, etc, the book describes the adventures of an elderly man who escapes from an old people’s home to avoid his one-hundredth birthday party. As his escapades unfold, his earlier life is revealed; a life in which, remarkably, he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the 20th century
- leafing through the book you will quickly spot many names of the great & the good & the not-so-good. An enjoyable addition to the current unending, it seems, Scandinavian invasion of Britain!
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This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud & passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as ”child-devouring cannibals” & ”bloodthirsty Huns” but it was not long before the Hungarians became steadfast defenders of Christendom & fought heroic freedom struggles against the Tartars, the Turks &, among others, the Russians. Paul Lendvai tells how, despite a string of catastrophes & their linguistic & cultural isolation, the Hungarians have survived as a nation-state for more than 1000 years. He traces Hungarian politics, culture, economics & emotions from the Magyars` dramatic entry into the Carpathian Basin in 896 to the brink of the post-cold War era. Lendvai brings to life the short-lived revolutionary triumphs of 1848-9 & 1918-19; the traumatic Treaty of Trianon (1920) which deprived Hungary of Transylvania & other historic Magyar lands; & the successive Nazi & Communist tyrannies. These are among the episodes that have formed the consciousness of the Hungarian people. Through anecdotes of heroes & traitors, victors & victims, geniuses & impostors, Lendvai conveys the multifaceted interplay, on the grand stage of Hungarian history, of progressivism & economic modernisation versus intolerance & narrow-minded nationalism. This work is a blend of narrative, irony & humour, occasional anger without taboos or prejudices. It also offers an authoritative key to understanding how & why this corner of Europe produced such a galaxy of great scientists, artists & entrepreneurs. ...

'I know you'll return'. These are his grandmother's last words to him. He has them in his head as he boards the truck at 3am on a freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him company during the long journey to Russia. They keep him alive
- through hunger, pain, & despair
- during his time in the brutal Soviet labour camps. &, eventually, they bring him back home. But when he does return, he finds that an embarrassed, traumatised silence hangs over his harrowing experiences. Even with his two friends, fellow Romanian-Germans who survived the camps with him, the memories that have branded them so indelibly seem impossible to put into words. This is the major new novel from one of the most important international writers, writing at the height of her creative abilities.

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`I know you`ll return.` These are his grandmother`s last words to him. Leo has them in his head as he boards the truck one freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him company during the long journey to Russia. They keep him alive
- through hunger, pain, & despair
- during his time in the brutal Soviet labour camp. &, eventually, they will bring him back home. Leo spends the next five years shovelling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar, & battling the relentless calculus of hunger that governed the gulag: 1 shovel load = 1 gram bread. Herta Muller calls upon her unique combination of poetic intensity & detached precision to conjure the distorted world of that Soviet camp. The heart is reduced to a pump, the breath mechanized to the rhythm of a swinging shovel, & coal, s&, & cement have a will of their own. Hunger becomes an insatiable angel who haunts the camp, but also a bare-knuckled sparring partner, delivering blows that keep Leo feeling the rawest connection to life. Muller has distilled Leo`s struggle into words of breathtaking intensity that take us on a journey far beyond one man`s physical travails & into the depths of the human soul.

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First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy, this new foiled edition of THE HUNGER GAMES is available for a limited period of time. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys & twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister`s place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature. ...

The sudden death of David Bryant, the charismatic owner of a rambling Derbyshire wildlife park, leaves an indelible mark on three very different people. David`s young widow, Maggie, struggles to preserve the park & to forge friendships untainted by the suspicions of others. His old friend Louisa, a falconer who lives on the grounds, just wants to be left alone with her hawks & the dark secret she has shared with David since their youth. Meanwhile, Christopher, David`s eccentric teenage son from an earlier marriage, strives for a life beyond the park & trawls the internet for a woman who shares his family values. With the arrival of a stranger, & unforeseen disaster amid the worst rains for a hundred years, the loyalties of Maggie, Louisa & Christopher will be stretched to breaking point, & each must face the decisions which will define them... ...

The morning after
- the drilling headache, the waves of nausea, the paranoia, the guilt, the shame
- yes, it`s the dreaded

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A camping cookbook like no other, The Hungry Camper not only gives more than 200 quick, cheap & delicious recipes that all the family will love, but also

Includes:: helpful checklists on what to bring along, how to prepare for big family meals, & invaluable camping tips for a stress-free trip. With chapters dedicated to making sure you have a hearty breakfast, making the most of a campfire with barbecue dishes, one pot simplicity & a host of salads, sides & snacks aplenty, camping food never has to be boring again. Including recipes from treacle & mustard beans, grilled sardines with salsa & goulash with caraway dumplings, to coconut dahl, hot barbecued fruit salad & creole pineapple wedges, each recipe is easy to make in a campsite for even the most novice cook, tired from a day`s adventure.

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The Hungry Cyclist sees Tom Kevill-Davies pedalling the Americas, from New York City to Rio de Janeiro in search of the perfect meal in a book about one man, one bike, one huge appetite & 15, 000 miles to ride. Whilst Tom’s pedal-powered quest sees him tasting the real flavours of South America from eating guinea pigs one day & armadillos the next to dining with beauty queens & avoiding ending up as dinner to a hungry bear. Above all this is a book about cycling yourself to where you want to be – one bite at a time. ...