This Book is Winner Of The Desmond Elliott Prize 2015. ” Fuller handles the tension masterfully in this grown-up thriller of a fairytale, full of clues, questions & intrigue.” (The Times). ” Extraordinary... From the opening sentence it is gripping.” (Sunday Times). 1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children & listening to her mother`s grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. & a tiny wooden hut that is everything. ...

This is a completely new edition of one of the most outstanding recipe compendiums of Asian homecooking. First published in 1987, the book covers dishes from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thail&, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, & the Philippines. The 210 recipes are unusual yet authentic, & are a welcome addition to the standard repertoir published in cookbooks on Asian food. The extraordinary collection of traditional & contemporary dishes, developed by well-known home chefs & bestselling cookbook authors, include Coriander Chicken, Vietnamese Coconut Chicken, Buah Keluak Sambal, Foochow Pork Ribs, Sambal Lengkong, Baked Cheese Prawns, Fried Brijal Curry, Cashew Nut Curry, String Hopper Pilau, Babingka, Mee Jawa, Shin Beef Soup, Soya Bean Nest Soup, Baked Seafod Rice, Coconut Chiffon Jelly, Sri Lankan Love Cake, & Coconut Bread Pudding. Our Favourite Recipes is designed as a companion volume to My Favourite Recipes, Ellice Handy`s classic cookbook. ...

Global warming means that our coastlines change & areas of the world disappear; it means that habitats vanish, ecosystems are unbalanced, climate zones shift, & that animal & plant life disappear. The photographs in this book illustrate the wealth that is at stake. Unforgettable images reveal the unexpected, exhilarating beauty of the world`s carefully balanced ecosystems, & the people whose traditional way of life is in tune with nature. ...

“ Our Fragile Earth” is a collection of thirty postcards looking at ‘the beauty of a planet under pressure’ from New International Publications Ltd. From coral reefs to the Arctic ice, the world’s finely-balanced ecosystems are creaking under the weight of human activity. This collection of postcards turns the camera lens on the world itself, looking at landscapes wide, great & minute; there is a postcard here for any & all occasions. ...

` The best spy novel set in wartime London. A masterpiece` Edward Wilson, author of A Very British Ending London, 1941. The city is in blackout, besieged by nightly air raids from Germany. Two strangers are about to meet. Between them they may alter the course of the war. While the Blitz has united the nation, there is an enemy hiding in plain sight. A group of British citizens is gathering secret information to aid Hitler`s war machine. Jack Hoste has become entangled in this treachery, but he also has a particular mission: to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent in the country. Hoste soon receives a promising lead. Amy Strallen, who works in a Mayfair marriage bureau, was once close to this elusive figure. Her life is a world away from the machinations of Nazi sympathisers, yet when Hoste pays a visit to Amy`s office, everything changes in a heartbeat. Breathtakingly tense & trip-wired with surprises, Our Friends in Berlin is inspired by true events. It is a story about deception & loyalty
- & about people in love who watch each other as closely as spies.
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Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant, & Larry Pettifer, bored radical don, philanderer & for twenty years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other into the lawless wilds of Moscow & then Southern Russia until a small, unheard-of nation becomes their proving ground in the finale to John le Carre's dazzling novel. ...

Le Carre`s post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire & drama. The Cold War is over & retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry
- dreamer, dissolute, philanderer & disloyal friend
- has vanished, along with Tim`s mistress. As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia & the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for. Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carre`s brutal story of falsehoods & betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control.

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In this beautiful, collectible new volume, street artist Matt Sewell offers his own unique take on 52 of our favourite British garden birds. Since its first appearance in July 2009, Matt`s ` Bird of the Week` feature for the Caught by the River website has quickly become a cult hit. His pop-art watercolours are distinctive & enchanting, as are his innovative descriptions, which see great tits `bossing the other birds around`, the `playful yet shy buoyancy` of bullfinches & the `improbable` nature of the waxwing (`like a computer-generated samurai finch`). With 52 birds, one for each week of the year, this delightful gift book will appeal to bird watching enthusiasts, children & adults, & art & illustration fans alike. ...

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- who may or may not be Graham Greene
- arrives in Havana in 1955 in search of a good time. He heads to the Shanghai Theatre,

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An amazing novel about forgiving & being forgiven, about loving & being loved, & about happiness
- that can be found in a truly
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