With over 2, 000 restaurants awarded Rosettes by the AA`s professional inspectors, this is the food lover`s guide to enjoying the best cuisine in Britain. Rosetted restaurants feature purely on merit with no charge for inclusion. There are three national AA Wine Awards, with over 100 notable wine list symbols awarded to the runners up. Other features include the AA Restaurant of the Year Awards for London, Engl&, Scotland & Wales, & the Chef`s Chef Award. ...

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, & under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions & trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife & mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, & this time Eva can`t do it alone: she needs her daughter`s help. ...

1969, Bristol. Bajan ex-cop & reluctant private detective, Joseph `JT` Tremaine Ellington is still trading in cash & favours, lending a helping hand to those too scared to go to the police or anyone trying to stay one step ahead of them. Life is tough for JT, who is broke. It is about to get a lot tougher when he receives a telegram informing him of a tragedy that has unfolded thousands of miles away. Ellington`s sister, Bernice has been murdered. Ellington wants to make the long journey back to his home on the island of Barbados to pay his final respects & to settle his late sister`s affairs. To do so, he must accept a ticket from his shady cousin, Vic, on condition he travels to New York first, where Vic is building himself a criminal empire in Harlem. Vic appoints the beguiling Evagelina Laveau to mind his cousin, along with his henchmen, Clefus Horton & a hot-headed Bajun, Pigfoot, a man always quick with his knife. JT soon discovers that Vic is the American end of an operation that stretches back to Barbados, & that Vic`s business partner is Conrad Monroe, the man responsible for the death of JT`s wife & daughter. & as JT finds himself embroiled in the world of drugs, bent law, voodoo & the bitter legacy of slavery, he must return to the island of his birth & face the demons of his past. ...

Over the past 250 years of momentous change & dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. Tracing China's course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People's Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country's worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness & resistance to outside influence & presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda. Within two decades China is likely to depose the United States as the world's largest economy. By then the country expects to have eradicated poverty among its population of more than one & a half billion, & established itself as the world's technological powerhouse. Meanwhile, some
- especially its neighbours
- are afraid that China will strengthen its military might in order to bend others to its will. A new form of Chinese nationalism is rising. Many Chinese are angry about perceived past injustices & fear a loss of identity to commercial forces & foreign influences. So, will China's attraction to world society dwindle, or will China continue to engage? Will it attempt to recreate a Sino-centric international order in Eastern Asia, or pursue a more harmonious diplomatic route? & can it overcome its lack of democracy & transparency, or are these characteristics hard-wired into the Chinese system? Whatever the case, we ignore China's international history at our peril. Restless Empire is a magisterial & indispensible history of the most important state in world affairs today.

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Over the past 250 years of momentous change & dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. Tracing China`s course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today`s People`s Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country`s worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness & resistance to outside influence & presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda. Within two decades China is likely to depose the United States as the world`s largest economy. By then the country expects to have eradicated poverty among its population of more than one & a half billion, & established itself as the world`s technological powerhouse. Meanwhile, some
- especially its neighbours
- are afraid that China will strengthen its military might in order to bend others to its will. A new form of Chinese nationalism is rising. Many Chinese are angry about perceived past injustices & fear a loss of identity to commercial forces & foreign influences. So, will China`s attraction to world society dwindle, or will China continue to engage? Will it attempt to recreate a Sino-centric international order in Eastern Asia, or pursue a more harmonious diplomatic route? & can it overcome its lack of democracy & transparency, or are these characteristics hard-wired into the Chinese system? Whatever the case, we ignore China`s international history at our peril. Restless Empire is a magisterial & indispensible history of the most important state in world affairs today. It is the winner of the 2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award.

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR. Robert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women & wine of the vibrant royal court, until he is called upon to serve his monarch in an unusual role. However, when he fails at the one thing the King demands of him he is cast out from his new found paradise. Determined to be restored to the King`s favour, Merivel begins a journey to self-knowledge that takes him to the depths of seventeenth-century society. ...

` From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women`s rights` A glorious portrait of life in London from 1660-1670 by the bestselling author of ELIZABETH`S LONDON. Making use of every possible contemporary source
- diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents
- Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses & streets, gardens & parks, cooking, clothes & jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry & shopping, medicine & dentistry, sex, education, hobbies, etiquette, law & crime, religion & popular beliefs.

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In an England inhabited by Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Hobbes & the young Isaac Newton, Charles II is king, & the nation is beginning to relax a little after the tough, joyless years of Cromwell`s Protectorate. In RESTORATION, Alex Larman paints a fascinating portrait of a country in the throes of social, political & cultural change following the convulsions of the Interregnum. Exploring every level of English society, from innkeepers & upholsterers to lawyers & courtiers, & examining themes as diverse as marriage, sexuality & religion, he creates a pointilliste & multi-faceted portrait of Restoration Engl&. By looking at the year 1666 through the eyes of the people of the time, by revealing what they ate & drank, how they loved, lived & died & how they interacted, Alex Larman brings alive the England of 300 years ago as you have never seen it before: exciting, tangible, & fully comprehensible. ...

The book that all SHATTER ME fans have been waiting for is finally here. The fourth incredible instalment of Tahereh Mafi`s New York Times bestselling YA fantasy series perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard`s The Red Queen, Stranger Things & Leigh Bardugo`s Six of Crows The girl with the power to kill with a single touch now has the world in the palm of her h&. Juliette Ferrars thought she`d won. She took over Sector 45, was named Supreme Commander, & now has Warner by her side. But when tragedy strikes, she must confront the darkness that dwells both around & inside her. Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series which has been published in over 30 languages around the world. She was born in a small city somewhere in Connecticut & currently resides in Santa Monica, California, with her husb&, Ransom Riggs, fellow bestselling author of Miss Peregrine`s Home For Peculiar Children, & their young daughter. She can usually be found overcaffeinated & stuck in a book. Follow her on Instagram & Twitter @ Tahereh Mafi PRAISE FOR THE SHATTER ME SERIES:” Dangerous, sexy, romantic, & intense. I dare you to stop reading.”
- Kami Garcia, 1 New York Times bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series” Addictive, intense, & oozing with romance. I`m envious. I couldn`t put it down.”
- Lauren Kate, 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series” Tahereh Mafi`s bold, inventive prose crackles with raw emotion. A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery & forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young adult literature
- or any literature!” -Ransom Riggs, 1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine`s Home for Peculiar Children”IGNITE ME really does ignite all five of your senses. It blows your mind & makes you hungry for more of its amazing characters. It will completely blow your expectations; Tahereh Mafi truly knows how to deliver!”
- Teenreads.com



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