In ITV1's flagship cooking competition, Britain's Best Dish, in partnership with The Good Food Guide, each professional chef will cook a main or a dessert that is unique to them, that they feel champions the style of cooking in their restaurant & that could be added to their menu after the competition. They will compete over the course of 8 weeks in daily regional heats, leading to fourteen regional finalists, & ultimately just two battling it out at the final stage. The perfect gift for every keen cook, this sumptuously illustrated book combines all these recipes, bringing the UK's top chefs to you. The step-by-step instructions to each of the 112 recipes will help you re-create their dishes in your own home. ...

Back in the fifties, motoring was a liberating experience. Before motorways, traffic jams & road rage, the leisurely Sunday drive could be the highlight of the week. Now, armed with period driving guides, Richard Wilson has packed his picnic, flask & himself into some very stylish vintage cars to retrace six classic routes through the UK & recreate the pleasure of the golden age of motoring for BBC TV. Including the dramatic winding roads of the North Cornwall coast, the lochs & peaks of the Central Highlands & the bronze-age monoliths of the North Yorkshire moors, Richard explores some of the most striking & beautiful scenery & landmarks Britain has to offer. Along the way he meets the people who live there & remember how these places once were, & wonders why things aren't what they used to be. ...

Britain's Best Hotels in the AA Lifestyle Guides series; comprising a range of market-leading titles dedicated to accommodation, food & drink, & camping & caravanning in Britain, in addition to selected European guides. The guides provide a comprehensive survey of a range of pubs, hotels & restaurants as well as themed titles focussing on days out, camping & caravanning, golf courses & pet-friendly places to stay. Each of the UK guides in the series has a similar layout, with hotels, restaurants, camping & caravanning & sites organised by county, while the European format is based upon regions. Detailed listings are accompanied by colour photographs & include details of telephone numbers, addresses, e-mail, website, directions, room details, prices, menus, local facilities & a short description of the hotel, restaurant or other destination. AA also operates a starred rating out of 5 as well as a percentage rating to help visitors distinguish between places. Introductory chapters in each book provide further information & practical guidance on the symbols & abbreviations that are used, pubs, hotels & restaurants of the year, the AA star classification system, booking online, prices, facilities for disabled guests, children, website addresses, bank & public holidays, leisure breaks & entertainment. ...

AA, Britain's Best Hotels features a selection of the very best country house, small & metro hotels from the best-selling AA Hotel Guide, covering Engl&, Scotl&, Wales & the Channel Islands. This fully revised & updated edition

Includes:: nearly 300 AA professionally inspected hotels, ensuring the highest quality of hospitality, accommodation & food. In county & town order, this guide provides clear & practical information about each hotel & its facilities, as well as details about recommended attractions in the local area.

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AA, Britain's Best Hotels features a selection of the very best country house, small & metro hotels from the best-selling AA Hotel Guide, covering Engl&, Scotl&, Wales & the Channel Islands. This fully revised & updated edition

Includes:: nearly 300 AA professionally inspected hotels, ensuring the highest quality of hospitality, accommodation & food. In county & town order, this guide provides clear & practical information about each hotel & its facilities, as well as details about recommended attractions in the local area.

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Full-colour guide to over 260 pubs throughout the UK which have interiors of real historic significance
- some of them stretching
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Celebrating the wonderful diversity of the British landscape, this gorgeous book accompanies the namesake major television series showcasing our most stunning vistas. All locations have been filmed lovingly throughout an entire calendar year & championed as the greatest view in the land by stars & celebrities, thus generating a wonderful sense of event & provoking national debate. This book celebrates each selected location, giving the historic, geographic & social perspective to enhance every viewer ...

Britain's Great Waterways Outdoors is the ultimate leisure guide to Britain's canals. Discover the slow world of canals, a haven for wildlife & people. Packed with days out, holidays & all the best things to do on the water & along the waterside. This book is a collaboration from the heart of the canals giving handpicked favourites from real waterways people who are knowledgeable & passionate
- with contributions from BW (British Waterways) SUSTRANS, WWT (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust), IWA (Inland waterways Association) & RSPB.A bumper guide of canal walks, narrowboat holidays, the best towpath bike rides, sightseeing, heritage, wildlife & nature, waterways festivals, waterside pubs, engineering wonders & amazing days out. & for money-conscious times, the book is bursting with things to do that are absolutely free. Splits the UK into 6 regions for easy reference
- handpicked routes to travel by boat, bike & boot
- sightseeing, heritage, wildlife, food & drink, festivals, days out & plenty to do for free
- narrowboat holiday ideas
- special featured highlights
- easy-to-follow maps
- illustrated with hundreds of photos.






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An essential guidebook to Britain's most popular & classic mountains. From the mountaineering editor of Trail magazine this illustrated guide describes 170 of the best walking & scrambling routes & five 'challenge' routes. Every mountain in England & Wales over 3, 000 ft, & every mountain in Scotland over 4, 000 ft is described. This selection encompasses a wide variety of terrain & routes, from a simple walk up Snowdon to an exhilarating adventure on the towering cliffs of Ben Nevis. Each route
Includes:: Detailed description of each descent & ascent Alternative routes to suit different preferences, levels of ability, & experience Relief maps showing each peak & their approaches Hand drawn illustrations highlight points of interest & changes to the terrain
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This guide is for anyone, native or visitor, who enjoys visiting the enormous range of houses of all types & periods which are open to the public in Britain. It offers a key to literally hundreds of days out in all parts of the United Kingdom. There are almost 300 main entries, all of which are illustrated with colour photographs, & more than 250 see also entries which cover buildings of lesser importance. The guide

Includes:: houses owned by the National Trust, English Heritage, the National Trust for Scotland & local authorities, as well as those which remain in private ownership. The houses are grouped by county or group of counties, with a map for each area showing their position in relation to principal towns & main roads. In each case, the entry gives information on access & opening hours, & indication of the entry charge, if any, & directions for getting there. There is a full description of the building, its history & contents, written in a lively & opinionated style which encourages the reader to share the author's enthusiasm the for the splendours & oddities of our vast & varied architectural heritage. There are also feature spreads throughout the book covering themes such as development of the country house, the most important architects of each period & the great families who commissioned them.

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