Whether it is topped with swirls of whipped cream, subtly spiced with cinnamon or laced with liqueur, a hot chocolate is one of the world`s best-loved drinks. You will make the Classics over & over again, with simple recipes for all-time favourites such as French Vanilla, Mocha & Viennese. Whether you`re after a salty kick or a rich swirl of caramel, the recipes here will take the simplest drink to tasty new heights. The next chapter, Candy & Cakes, brings together the sweetest combinations that are perfect after dinner instead of dessert. From Boston Cream or Red Velvet to Cherry Bakewell & Toffee Apple, there is a recipe here to satisfy every sweet tooth. For more grown-up palates, why not try something with the added warmth of spices or a shot of alcohol? Fireside Favourites contains a luxurious collection of adult tipples, from Cherry Brandy to Bourbon & Maple Syrup & spiced delights, such as White Chocolate & Spiced Chai or Chilli Chocolate. Finally, what better time to indulge in luxuriously warming cupfuls than the holiday season? Festive Treats comprises deliciously Christmassy hot drinks that are perfect for those chilly days & dark nights. Nobody can resist a Pumpkin Latte or a gloriously festive Gingerbread Spiced Hot Chocolate, perfect for bringing the family together during the holidays. Whether you`re after a quick pick-me-up, a milky bedtime drink or a comforting cupful to warm you up from inside out, there is a recipe here to satisfy your sweet tooth. ...

A hilarious new picture book by Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner Peter Bently & bestselling illustrator Tom Mc Laughlin. Sausage dog Hal loves his trusty old blanket & takes it everywhere, even though his friends all say that it makes him look like a sausage covered in mustard. From the beach to the zoo, wherever Hal goes his blanket goes with him. Little do Hal`s friends know just how useful it might turn out to be when a thunderstorm strikes & Hal manages to rescue his canine chums using that scruffy old blanket! ...

Hot Hands Hand Warmers (2 pack) are a safe, odourless & natural way of keeping your hands warm; they are air-activated & provide up to 10 hours of comfortable, concentrated warmth (126-144F / 52-62C)
- simply slip the activated pouch inside your gloves. Hot Hands Hand Warmers are not reusable. Please read usage instructions carefully.
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A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale of mothers & daughters from the Man Booker-short-listed author of Swimming Home. Two women arrive in a Spanish village
- a dreamlike place caught between the desert & the ocean
- seeking medical advice & salvation. One of the strangers suffers from a mysterious illness: spontaneous paralysis confines her to a wheelchair, her legs unusable. The other, her daughter Sofia, has spent years playing the reluctant detective in this mystery, struggling to understand her mother`s illness. Surrounded by the oppressive desert heat & the mesmerising figures who move through it, Sofia waits while her mother undergoes the strange programme of treatments invented by Dr Gomez. Searching for a cure to a defiant & quite possibly imagined disease, ever more entangled in the seductive, mercurial games of those around her, Sofia finally comes to confront & reconcile the disparate fragments of her identity. Hot Milk is a labyrinth of violent desires, primal impulses, & surreally persuasive internal logic. Examining female rage & sexuality, Deborah Levy`s dazzling new novel explores the strange & monstrous nature of motherhood, testing the bonds of parent & child to breaking point

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Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous & controversial Dr Gomez
- a man of questionable methods & motives. Intoxicated by thick heat & the seductive people who move through it, both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in years. Through the opposing figures of mother & daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange & monstrous nature of womanhood. Dreamlike & utterly compulsive, Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency, a story both modern & timeless.
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From festive party punches to cosy bedtime treats, here you'll find the perfect winter tipple. What could be more welcome on a cold wintry day than a hot drink with a kick. Whether you prefer a whisky-based toddy, aromatic mulled wine, coffee laced with a little brandy or a spiced tea, you'll find a tempting array of tasty & warming treats for every winter occasion in this collection of delicious recipes. Warming Toddies & Cocktails to try include Hot Tea Toddy; Hot Buttered Rum; & Blue Blazer. Mulls & Punches are perfect when entertaining a crowd
- recipes include Orange Mulled Wine; Swedish Glogg; & Hot Rum & Cider Punch. Nogs & Creamy Drinks make an indulgent treat
- choose from Egg Nog Latte; Honey Rum Baba; & Spiced Rum Chocolate. Tipsy Coffees include the classic Irish Coffee; Mocha Maple Coffee; & Caribbean Cafe. Finally, Non-alcoholic Warmers are perfect for drivers or when just relaxing at home
- try an exotic Saffron Milk; Pumpkin Latte; or Indian Chai Masala.


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The elite hotels of Africa serve as an interface between the tribal, religious, social & cultural aspects of Africa & the global uniformity of international business culture. They are also the places where the unseen resources of many African countries
- oil, diamonds, minerals
- are bartered away behind closed doors. These are environments which have a strangely hybrid quality
- their design, their cuisine, musak & global TV echoing `international` standards. Yet they are ultimately sites of tension, where cultures collide & conflict. At the same time, however, these hotels are viewed by their local communities as symbols of achievement which contradict the more usual representations of Africa. Far from being despised as enclaves of the rich, these hotels have become `objects of desire`, the dream venue for weddings & where to be invited to a business conference is to have reached the pinnacle of success. & for most hotel employees there is the reassurance of wages that are higher than they could earn elsewhere & therefore their duties are carried out with pride & self-assurance.


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Sam is a war photographer famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a particularly gruelling assignment, she checks into an expensive hotel. Unfortunately she has chosen the exact moment terrorists attack the hotel. Abhi, the hotel manager, begs her to stay quiet & stay put. Abhi has never wanted to be a hero; a disappointment to his army father & brother. He thought he`d come to a safe haven at the hotel, a place where he could be himself. Now stuck inside the sealed-off manager`s office in the middle of a terrorist attack, he is desperately trying to keep those still alive safe. His lover Dieter is amongst the hostages in the bar & the photographer Sam, refusing to stay in her room, is roaming through the hotel taking pictures, potentially coming face to face with the terrorists at any moment. A small child, Billy, is found alive under the bodies of his dead parents & Abhi has to persuade the non-maternal Sam to bring him back to her room. He`s hurt & Sam has no clue how to look after a child. As the tension mounts & more people are killed, the bond between Sam & Abhi, between Sam & Billy, grows. If any of them get out alive, none of them will ever be the same... ...

` Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.` All of the following is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death & the insanity are exactly as was told by Anonymous
- someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels at the heart of London`s luxury hotel industry. However, for legal reasons, the stories now take place in a fictitious hotel known as Hotel Babylon. More than a decade is compressed into a day. Everything else is as it should be. The rich spend money, the hotel makes money & the chambermaids still fight the bellboys over a two-pound coin. It`s just another twenty-four hours in an expensive London hotel.
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Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbul`s only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring an old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room Kati cannot resist the temptation to start her own maverick investigation. After all her friend Petra is the police`s principal suspect & reading all those detective novels must have taught Kati something. This is a crime story but also a wonderful book about Istanbul & Turkish society. It uses humour, social commentary & even erotic fantasy to expose Western European prejudices about Turkey as well as Turkish stereotyping of other Europeans. ...