A comprehensive textbook on how to prepare a yacht for extended cruising as well as for living aboard. The author considers the equipment, systems & modifications that will transform a basic yacht into a long-range cruiser. He covers a range of topics, from the bare essentials to improvements on deck & below deck, safety afloat, electronics & more. There is also a section on integrated energy systems for offshore cruising yachts. ...

It`s the year 2044, & the real world has become an ugly place. We`re out of oil. We`ve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, & disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live & play & fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. & like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS
- & his massive fortune
- will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. & then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world

Dimensions
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From Olympic gold medal winner, national treasure & father of four Mo Farah, bestselling author Kes Gray, & illustrator Marta Kissi comes Ready Steady Mo! The must-read picture book debut. With bright vibrant illustrations & rhyming text
- this is a fun & action-packed book that will get kids reading, & running too! So, what are you waiting for? Warm up, do the MOBOT, & then.. . Run on the pavement Run on the grass Run in the playground Perhaps not in class! The nation watched with bated breath as Mo Farah seized Olympic gold in London for the 10, 000m & 5000m & he`s been a national treasure ever since. In June 2016, he broke the British 3, 000metres record. Mo`s Rio Olympic preparations are firmly on track. & do look out for more children`s books by Mo Farah in 2017.
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It is 3 a.m. in The City, & in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate & violent affair. Boy: nineteen, beautiful, ready for anyone to take him home, & `O`: the Older Man, cynical, unpredictable, & at the mercy of his personal demons. Their romance is orchestrated & observed by the owner of The Bar, Madame, who looks after her boys & ensures that their haven remains inviolate. At once a joyful celebration of homosexual love & culture, & a devastating evocation of the homophobic climate which stemmed from the 80s AIDS crisis, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall offers a decisively contemporary recasting of the traditional love story. First published in 1990 & immediately acclaimed as the work of a bold new voice in English fiction, Neil Bartlett`s powerful debut continues to shine with an ageless wisdom & wit. ...

This title features cool gardening projects for kids, with the experts at the RHS. Get your child in the garden, get sowing & harvesting & they will learn to grow all kinds of plants, vegetables & fruits quickly & easily! No need to wait months for results: they`ll be able to follow the simple instructions to raise fantastic plants in twelve weeks or much less. Soon they`ll have tasty tomatoes & delicious strawberries, pretty marigolds & sprouting seeds ready to eat in a week. There are fun projects, too: from making a pizza garden & growing a fairy ring, to designing a wildlife windowbox. & you don`t even need a garden: there are lots of ideas for using containers, baskets & boxes. So get ready, get steady & get growing! ...

Cider is a quite delicious drink which has been known for thousands of years & which has enjoyed a fashionable makeover in recent years. This practical book by Michael Pooley & John Lomax, both cidermakers of national repute for more than 20 years, explores both modern & traditional approaches, & has been designed to enable the enthusiast using any type of apples to make real cider with skill & confidence. The book covers the history of cidermaking, techniques for preserving apple juice for drinking, washing & crushing the apples, pressing the pulp, fermentation, blending & storing, cider-based recipes, the making of perry from pears & also

Includes:: instructions & a set of superb scaled plans for building an inexpensive cider press using hardwood or good quality softwood.

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' Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?' Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home Guard. Dad's Army, the iconic comedy series is as well-known today as it was forty years ago. But the reality of life in the Home Guard was often very different. Here, for the first time, is the full inside story of the Home Guard, the ragtag volunteer army that defended the coast of Britain from German invasion during the Second World War. Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 & kept a diary every day
- a highly illegal act at the time
- & in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad's Army. Living directly beneath the Battle of Britain on the Kent coast, Foster commanded a company of men in the face of constant aerial bombardment & the ever-present threat of death from above
- the Home Guard were the first barrier to Hitler's crack parachutists. Writing from the village hall, abandoned barns, churches & makeshift officers' messes, he records with a unique wit & wisdom the everyday details of family life during the war: the domestic routine dogged by air raid warnings, the antics of soldiers stationed nearby taking every chance to improve their lot, the quiet strength of a small community faced with great adversity.


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This book offers a rousing & inclusive call to arms for anyone who would identify themselves as ” English” against the forces of globalisation. We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafes & mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; & the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. For the first time, here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated, incremental, local changes & the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded. As he travels around the country meeting farmers, fishermen, & the inhabitants of Chinatown, Paul Kingsnorth will refract the kind of conversations that are taking place in country pubs & corner shops across the land
- while reminding us that these quintessentially English institutions may soon cease to exist.
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Discover quick & tasty dishes from Nigel Slater in ” Real Fast Food”. Nigel Slater presents over 350 creative, delicious & nourishing recipes & suggestions for those who`d rather spend more of their time eating than cooking. From simple snacks to dinner-party desserts, all the dishes in Nigel Slater`s ” Real Fast Food” can be ready to eat in 30 minutes or under. ” Makes your stomach rumble.. . Easily my first choice for a simple, good, workable & readable cookery book”. (Nigella Lawson). ” Not just a cookery book for gourmets & foodies, but for real people too”. (Sophie Grigson). ” Nigel Slater offers us a decade`s worth of fresh, original cookery ideas with spoonfuls of wit”. (” Observer”). ” Designed to appeal to people who love food but don`t want to spend hours slaving away at the stove (i.e. nearly everybody in Britain)”. (” Independent on Sunday”). Nigel Slater is the ” Observer`s” food writer, writing a month column for ” Observer Food Monthly”. ” Real Fast Food” was shortlisted for the Andre Simon Award while ” The 30-Minute Cook” was nominated for both the Glenfiddich & Julia Child Awards. In 1995 he won the Glenfiddich Trophy & he has twice won the Cookery Writer of the Year Award as well as being named Media Personality of the Year in the 1996 Good Food Awards. His other bestselling books include ” Real Fast Puddings”, ” Real Food”, ” Appetite” & ” The Kitchen Diaries”. ...

Nigel Slater`s classic guide to comfort food ` Real food means big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.` Since its publication in 1998, which tied in with his first TV series, the innovative ` Real Food` has become the essential food book to have on the kitchen shelf. From Stickiest Ever Chicken Wings to Baked Goat`s Cheese & Pesto in Filo Pastry to the classic Bacon Butty, it covers Slater`s indispensable signature dishes
- the ones you wouldn`t be without for love or money. Based on Nigel Slater`s favourite foods, this classic helped to create a nation of food lovers. Nigel finds good things to make using all sorts of ingredients
- mass produced sliced white to fine Italian loaves, standard corner shop confectionery to real chocolate made from cocoa solids. These irresistible recipes are still up-to-the-minute & this gorgeous reissue edition proves that ` Real Food` is still a must-have for any cookery enthusiast.

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