THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MATT HAIG`S SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he`s been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, & now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover
- working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach the kids about wars & witch hunts as if he`d never witnessed them first-h&. He can try to tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom must not do is fall in love. How to Stop Time is a wild & bittersweet story about losing & finding yourself, about the certainty of change & about the lifetimes it can take to really learn how to live. This special Illustrated Edition features over fifty enchanting line drawings by the award-winning artist Chris Riddell
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How to Store Your Garden Produce -- the key to self-sufficiency is the modern guide to storing & preserving your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The easy to use reference section provides applicable storage & preservation techniques for the majority of plant produce grown commonly in gardens & allotments. Why is storing your garden produce the key to self-sufficiency? Because with less than an acre of garden you can grow enough produce to feed a family of four for a year, but as much of the produce will ripen simultaneously in the summer, without proper storage most of it will go to waste & you`ll be off to the supermarket again. Learn simple & enjoyable techniques for storing your produce & embrace the wonderful world of self-sufficiency. In the A-Z list of produce, each entry

Includes:: recommended varieties, suggested methods of storage & a number of recipes. Everything from how to make your own cider & pickled gerkhins to how to string onions & dry your own apple rings. You will know where your food has come from, you will save money, there will be no packaging & you`ll be eating tasty local food whilst feeling very good about it.

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There are many different ways to surprise a dad. Some surprises you make. Some surprises you do & some surprises you find. This fun book is full of tips to have fun with your dad & make him feel special. From the author-illustrator team behind the bestselling How to Babysit a Grandad & How to Babysit a Grandma comes a funny & heartwarming celebration of fathers, perfect for Father`s Day. Praise for How to Babysit a Grandad: ` Youngsters will recognize some of the sayings they`ve heard from their own grandparents & will thoroughly enjoy the tongue-in-cheek role reversal.`
- School Library Journal Illustrated by the winner of the Red House Children`s Book Award 2013 & a New York Times bestselling artist.
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How to Survive Anything, A Visual Guide to Laughing in the Face of Adversity.is a book that will teach you How to Survive Anything. Using the witty, graphic format it will help you withstand any challenge, from the extreme to the ordinary, that life might throw your way. In-laws coming round for dinner? Earthquake imminent? Stuck in the middle seat on a long-haul flight? Don`t panic! Learn how to deal with challenges from the extreme to the ordinary, the mundane to the mortifying, with this book you will always prevail! Brilliantly illustrated by Rob Dobi this is a great gift book & will become source of conversations & laugh-out-louds! ...

1912... Captain Robert Bartlett sets sail aboard the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition. The journey ahead would be one of the most treacherous ever, with the loss of the ship & subsequent deaths of the crew. The survivors, Bartlett & an Inuk companion set out across the ice for the Siberian coast, in search of help. 1926...23-year old Inuit Ada Blackjack signs on as a seamstress for a top-secret Arctic expedition. But soon she finds herself alone & stranded in the treachorous landscape of the arctic. Present day...A disgraced university professor, tracking the lives of these survivors soon finds history repeating itself as he follows in the footsteps of those before him... With stunning narrative skill, this compelling book weaves together true life narratives from 1912, 1926 & a fictional narrative set in the present day that will take you on an unforgettable journey of love, loss & most importantly shows the strength, no matter how harsh the circumstances, it takes to survive. ...

This essential phrasebook collects the most colourful, explicit & outrageous ways to tell people off in different languages from all around the world. Featuring dozens of different languages, the sayings range from everyday swears to family curses to x-rated encounters with animals. Some of the most useful expressions include wishing an enemy a painful death, insulting a person`s grandmother & accusing someone`s mother of having intimate relations with bears in the forest. ...

Since its first publication in 1992, this book has become a curious classic, taking a simple (yet often incorrectly performed) activity & depicting it with a graphic, manga-style edge. In twelve drawings a young Japanese man is shown preparing, rinsing, soaking, communing, relaxing, contemplating--all an encouragement to readers to slow down, ease into the hot water, & enjoy this timeless ritual of purity & release. ...

Would you be bewildered if someone described you as radgy? Do you know how to recognise a tittamatorter? & would you understand if someone called you a culchie? ” How to Talk Like a Local” gathers together hundreds of words from all over the country & digs down to uncover their origins. From dardledumdue, which means daydreamer in East Anglia, through forkin robbins, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to clemt, a Lancashire word that means hungry, it investigates an astonishingly rich variety of regional expressions, & provides a fascinating insight into the history of the English language. If you`re intrigued by colourful words & phrases, if you`re interested in how English is really spoken, or if you simply want to find out a bit more about the development of our language, ” How to Talk Like a Local” is irresistible
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Parenting experts Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish provide effective step by step techniques to help you improve & enrich your relationships with your children. Learn how to break a pattern of arguments, cope with your child`s negative feelings, engage your child`s co-operation, set clear limits & still maintain goodwill, express your anger without being hurtful & resolve family conflicts peacefully ...