If you've ever been to a restaurant with friends & ordered a few starters or a large platter to share, you'll know how sociable & appealing it is to be able to try several dishes at once. This a popular way of eating in many parts of the world
- the Spanish have tapas, the Chinese have dim sum & many regions of the Mediterranean & Middle East enjoy meze. Grazing plates & small bowls of shareable food make entertaining fuss-free & fun, & encourage guests to get stuck in. In Small Plates, Annie Rigg serves up an irresistible selection of plates to share from all around the world. From chorizo with red wine & olives to garlic & white bean dip, there's plenty for friends to tuck into. There are also bites & fingerfood to choose from, like fish goujons, honey & soy glazed baby ribs, & Vietnamese prawn rolls with chilli dipping sauce.
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Cute & cuddly Puffin plush soft toy with excellent detailing. Swing tag

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Cute & cuddly Sitting Fox plush soft toy with excellent detailing. Swing tag

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This is a print of the original boroughs of London map produced by Stanfords in November 1888 showing the County of London According to the Local Government Act. of the same year, & indicating the Urban Sanitary Districts, Area of District Council or Urban Authority as established in 1875. The different London boroughs are identified with a light colour overlaid on a street map showing most streets & naming the major ones. The different railway lines & stations are indicated & named. Shadings reproduce the topography of the city & hills, parks & woodland are distinguishable & most of them are named. The map covers the city from Kew in the west to Plumstead in the east, & from Crouch End & Stamford Hill in the north to Lower Streatham & Upper Norwood in the south. Surprisingly or not most of London as we know it today seems to be already present. Its area attests to a booming city with a population of about four millions, at the time. The boundaries of its boroughs will transform to accommodate the changes & pace of a leading capital. ...

The clouds disappeared & gave us a clear day. No more excuses. No more newspapers, radio, beds, hot water, china mugs... Meet Barnie, 11 months old, dangerously learning to walk... Tess the dog, who likes rolling in smelly things... Ben the cart horse, who barely fits through a stile... Spud, a young mother recovering from cancer treatment, who wants to share with her motley family the joys of following old drovers` trails around the Cairngorm Mountains...and Rob, who abandons his stethoscope for an OS map to accompany her. Lively, funny & contemplative, ” Small Steps” will inspire you to hit the road. ...

Tim Bradford is growing up in a small town in Lincolnshire in the 1970s. Market Rasen is not the most exciting place, but to his teenage mind it was the centre of the universe. Tim is at that in-between phase between childhood & adolescence, where you are trying to be grown up & get your first snogs whilst at the same time still playing with airfix models & making dens. Tim takes us through his first crushes, falling in love with the local beauty queen & an elusive Gallic beauty on a French exchange. His first attempts at getting drunk & trying to impress girls, forming bands which churned out endless numbers of rubbish songs & trying to avoid deckings by the local hards. Tim & his equally hapless friends are gradually working towards breaking free of their childhoods & moving away from their roots. Life in this small town was a rollercoaster of mundane happenings. ” Small Town” paints a portrait of the energy & melancholy at the heart of our generation, the inability to live for now & the feeling that something better is just around the corner. Too young (just) to be baby boomers & too English & uncool to call itself Generation X. It`s a universal tale about dreams, ambitions, brass bands, cubs, rugby songs, football stickers, tractors, young love, & valve amplifiers connected up to cheap distortion pedals, set at a time of political change & pudding basin hair. ...

Think ` Woodstock` & the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs & rock `n` roll. But Woodstock itself was over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. So why the misnomer? Quite simply, Woodstock was already a key location in the Sixties rock landscape, the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan had holed up after his 1966 motorcycle accident. In Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns recreates Woodstock`s community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, opportunistic hippie capitalists & scheming dealers drawn to the area by Dylan & his sidekicks The B&. Central to the book`s narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, The B&, Janis Joplin & Todd Rundgren
- & Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants & his own record label. Intertwined in the story are the Woodstock experiences of artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Butterfield, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton & Bobby Charles. Drawing on first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene, & on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s, Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling LA Canyon classic Hotel California
- a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time & place.

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Small Wars sees soldier Hal Treherne on the brink of a brilliant military career, when he & his family are posted to an emergency gripped Cyprus. Hal & the British must defend the colony against Cypriot guerrillas, some no more than school boys, who are fighting for unification with Greece. In Sadie Jones’s novel, Hal’s wife Clara shares her husband’s sense of duty & knows that, despite the harsh circumstances, she must knuckle down & make the very best of things. But the action Hal sees on Cyprus changes him, & the atrocities he is drawn into take him not only further away from Clara, but from himself too. ...

‘ Small Wars Permitting’ is a collection of Christina Lamb’s best reportage, following the principal events of the last two decades everywhere from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. But Lamb’s main interest has always been in the untold stories, the people & places others don’t visit. Undaunted by danger, disease or despots, she has travelled by canoe through the Amazon rainforest in search of un-contacted Indians, joined a Rio samba school to infiltrate crime rackets behind Carnival & survived a terrifying ambush by Taliban. No less remarkable are the characters that Lamb meets along the way, from Marsh Arabs who covet Play Stations instead of buffaloes to an Armenian compère for performing dolphins with whom she travelled during the war in Iraq. Since leaving England aged 21 with an invitation to a Karachi wedding & a yearning for adventure, Christina Lamb has spent 20 years living out of suitcases, reporting from around the world & becoming one of Britain’s most highly regarded journalists. She has won numerous awards, including being named Foreign Correspondent of the Year a remarkable four times. Lamb’s writing is passionate, powerful & poetic, transforming reportage into literature. Through the stories she tells
- & her own development from a self-confessed ‘war junkie’ to a devoted mother
- Lamb attempts to comprehend the human consequences of conflict in the countries she has come to know.

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