We all know that baked treats can warm our hearts as well as our stomachs, & that everything tastes better when you`ve made it yourself. This collection of delicious recipes is peppered with thoughtful"es & bursting with fail-safe pick-me-ups, from piping-hot pies to sinful double-chocolate muffins. Bake these recipes & be down in the dumplings no more! ...

All day long the baker`s cat toils in the bakery & all night he is expected to catch the mice that run riot in the storeroom. If he doesn`t catch any mice, the beastly baker tells him, he won`t get any food. Too exhausted to chase after the cheeky rodents, the baker`s cat becomes thin & sad & weepy, until the mice take pity on him & together they concoct a clever plan...” Posy Simmonds delights as ever with a subversive story rich in humour & glorious in its bakery details.” Guardian ” Anything by Posy Simmonds is a must for parents as well as children.” (Evening Standard). ...

Military topographic survey mapping with contours. These maps are designed primarily as flying charts for aircraft, but they are useful as general topographical maps where nothing else is available. Contours are shown in feet, with elevation colouring & spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown (but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named, & the road information is not necessarily up to date). Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Double-sided sheet. ...

John Watson has barely settled into his new school, Baker Street Academy, when his teacher Ms De Rossi announces a trip to one of London`s top museums, home to the Alpine Star, the world`s most famous jewel. But the gem has been stolen
- from right under their noses! The police are soon on the trail & the whole of the country is talking about the crime. When police catch the thief along with the stolen gem, it seems the case is closed. But Sherlock Holmes has other ideas. With John & Martha at his side, can he uncover the mystery behind this extraordinary gem? Told through Watson`s blog, detective notes, school assignments, media reports, & energetic comic-strip illustrations, this introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle`s classic characters will have every young super-sleuth hooked!
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Paul Morley, author, journalist & cultural commentator, tells the story in Earthbound of post-punk, music & changing times
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Meet Angel Tungaraza, professional cake-baker, amateur matchmaker, an ear to listen & a shoulder to cry on. A uniquely charming, funny & touching novel of life, life & food set in Rwanda, a country recovers from unimaginable terror & violence. Angel Tungazara has recently moved to Rwanda from her native Tanzania. With her husb&, Pius, & the five orphaned children of their late son & daughter, she is hardly short of things to do. But she still finds time to pursue her hobby & her passion, her small but increasingly successful business, baking individually-designed cakes for the parties & celebrations of her neighbours & their friends. Angel is entirely aware that many of the Rwandans around her have witnessed & survived horrors she can barely imagine. But she also knows that their lives continue, that they also have reasons to celebrate, to be joyous & to be happy. As she gets to know her neighbours & as they tell her their stories, she comes to realise how much each of them has to mourn as well as how much they have to celebrate. &, finally, she comes to accept how much that is true of her too. ...

This attractive planner will soon become an invaluable help in the kitchen. Every keen cook likes to have somewhere to record favourite baking recipes
- from weekend cakes & sweet pies, to celebration cakes & cookies for the kids. With plenty of lined pages to write down or stick in your most treasured recipes, you`ll never again have to search through kitchen drawers for photocopied recipes or scribbled notes.
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Bakony & Somló Mountains Atlas from the Budapest-based Cartographia with detailed, contoured & GPS compatible mapping at 1:25, 000, plus an extensive, Hungarian language guide section providing descriptions of numerous places of interest. The guide has detailed topographic maps at 1:40, 000 with contours at 10m intervals enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring & graphics for different types of vegetation & land use, e.g. vineyards, orchards, meadows, woodlands, etc. An overprint highlights local and/or long-distance hiking trails, indicating their waymarking signage. Also marked are recommended cycling routes. Local roads indicate bus routes & stops, & railway lines are shown with stations. Symbols mark various facilities & places of interests including campsites, hostels & other tourist accommodation, restaurants & cafes, etc. The maps have margin ticks with latitude & longitude at 1’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. Extensive text, illustrated with colour photos, is in Hungarian only – a challenge indeed! – but a lot of useful information, including telephone numbers for tourist offices, can be deciphered with help from a pocket dictionary. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbul`s only crime bookshop. She has learned the corrupt ways of her adored city & soon takes possession of an apartment obtained with the help of a generous bribe to a government official. All is well until a man is found murdered in her dream apartment & Kati becomes the police`s primary suspect. In her second novel Esmahan Aykol takes us to the alleys & boulevards of cosmopolitan Istanbul, to posh villas & seedy basement flats, to the property agents & lawyers, to Islamist leaders & city officials
- in fact everywhere that baksheesh helps move things along.
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Baku on a double-sided map with an indexed street plan of its central districts (Yasamal, Nasimi, Narimanov, Khatai & Sabayil), plus the centre including the Old Town in greater detail highlighting 57 places of interest. The main plan is at 1;8, 000 & shows one way streets, locations of petrol station, as well various public buildings & facilities, etc. On most streets selected street numbers are provided for easy location of addresses. On the reverse a city centre, the Old Town & surrounding area, is shown in greater detail at 1:4, 000, annotated with 57 various places of interest, cross-referenced to a panel with brief descriptions. All place names are in the Latin alphabet & all the text is in English. ...