This powerful novel from the award-winning author of Richard & Judy pick ` Eve Green` is a tale of love & the lore of the sea. The islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss, & a man
- un-named, unclothed
- is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea
- potent, kind & beautiful; others suspect him. For the bereft Maggie, this stranger brings love back to the isle. But as the days pass he changes every one of them
- & the time comes for his story to be told... Tender, lyrical & redemptive, ` The Silver Dark Sea` is the dazzling new novel from the author of ` Eve Green` (winner of Whitbred First Novel award). It is a story about what life can give & take from us, when we least expect it
- & how love, in all its forms, is the greatest gift of all.




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The Pyramid Texts were carved onto the walls of burial chambers in royal pyramids 4, 000 years ago. They have intrigued scholars, mystics & historians ever since they were discovered in 1881. They have usually been misconstrued as a garbled collection of primitive myths & incantations, relegating their radiant fusion of philosophy, scientific inquiry, & religion to obscurity. Translations of the texts often reduce them to gibberish. Yet these writings are in fact among the world`s oldest poetry, cosmological speculations & reflections on nature. Susan Brind Morrow has recast The Pyramid Texts as a coherent work of art, arguing that they should be recognized as a formative event in the evolution of human thought. The result is a work of beautiful & intelligent literature, alongside a persuasive argument for The Pyramid Texts` central importance to the history of language. ...

When Anna Lavinia`s father put a hole in the garden wall, it was only to give her another point of view. He had no thought that the point of view would stretch all the way to an entirely new land on the other side of Dew Pond. But that`s exactly what Anna Lavinia discovers one very dull, very dry day, after tossing acorns into the pond & finding them tossed right back up to her. They are being thrown by a boy named Toby, who invites Anna to join him in his looking-glass world. Here there is no such thing as gravity, only a much weaker force that feels like ”the tickle that comes before a sneeze, or the thrill that comes when the knot in a ribbon just begins to loosen, ” & allows for floating & spectacular feats of tree-climbing (but mind your household goods don`t drift away!). Toby introduces Anna Lavinia to an uncanny fortuneteller & to his aunt Cornelia, who has never gotten over the disappearance of her beloved into Anna Lavinia`s own world. The Silver Nutmeg continues the adventures begun in Beyond the Pawpaw Trees, & features loads of sense, a little nonsense, & more delightful verses from Anna Lavinia`s beloved Songs from Nowhere. Best of all, fans of Palmer Brown`s intricate drawings will find every page a delight for the eyes. ...

This book presents a selection of 40 recipes adapted from ” The Silver Spoon” by a specially commissioned expert on children`s food. The recipes have been chosen for their simple instructions, fresh & healthy ingredients & delicious flavour, & are guaranteed to appeal to the fussiest of children. Each recipe is presented with a short introduction about the origins of the dish, fascinating facts about the ingredients & the Italian culinary culture. There is also information on seasons, ingredients & basic cooking techniques to foster a lifetime love of good food. A specialist in the field of children`s food & nutrition has selected the recipes to ensure they are well balanced, safe & perfect for children to use. The book is fully illustrated throughout, using specially commissioned illustrations to add a lively & charming feel & finished photographs of the finished dish. ” The Silver Spoon for Children” makes cooking fun, clear & accessible for children aged 10 & up. ...

100 recipes that can be cooked in under 30 minutes from the world`s most trusted & bestselling Italian cookbook. This is the latest title in Phaidon`s bestselling Silver Spoon series presenting over 100 recipes all of which can be made in 30 minutes or less. The recipes have been collected from the bestselling book on authentic Italian cooking, The Silver Spoon which has sold over 1 million copies. Each recipe has been thoroughly tested & is aimed at home cooks of all experience levels. Cooks of all levels can master such classics as spaghetti alle vongole, risotto Milanese, fritto misto & tiramisu. Its flexi-bound format packages its iconic recipes into a practical, easy to use package that will become a staple of any kitchen.

Features:
- Simple, fast recipes from the bestselling Italian cookbook of all time
- Over 100 recipes from the world`s most popular cuisine
- Every recipe can be made in 30 minutes or less & is suitable for cooks of all levels
- Each recipe has been thoroughly tested & is accompanied by a beautiful photograph
- This is the cookbook to make the daily family meal easy & delicious in less than half an hour






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The year is 1792 & it`s winter in Berkeley Square. As the city sleeps, the night-watchman keeps a cautious eye over the streets & another eye in the back doors of the great & the good. Then one fateful night he comes across the body of Pierre Renard, the eponymous silversmith, lying dead, his throat cut & his valuables missing. It could be common theft, committed by one of the many villains who stalk the square, but as news of the murder spreads, it soon becomes clear that Renard had more than a few enemies, all with their own secrets to hide. At the centre of this web is Mary, the silversmith`s wife. Ostensibly theirs was an excellent pairing, but behind closed doors their relationship was a dark & at times sadistic one & when we meet her, Mary is withdrawn & weak, haunted by her past & near-mad with guilt. Will she attain the redemption she seeks & what, exactly, does she need redemption for…? Rich, intricate & beautifully told, this is a story of murder, love & buried secrets. ...

The story of the man who strung the telegraph across Australia, & the woman who gave her name to Alice Springs. In 1855 an impoverished young scientist from Greenwich told his guardian that he was off to chance his luck in Australia
- as Government Astronomer & Superintendent of Telegraphs for the small colony of South Australia. With him went his young wife Alice
- after whom Alice Springs would be named. For Charles Todd was following a dream
- the near impossible task of stringing a telegraph wire across one of the last uncrossed colonial wilderness, & finally connecting Australia with Britain. In 1997, their great-great-granddaughter Alice followed in their footsteps. Her plan was to track the telegraph & her ancestors, from Adelaide over the thousands of miles of desert, outback, swamp & mountain that Charles Todd had crossed in the 1860s with his 400 men.


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THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth
- the universal solvent that brings clarity to almost all the mysteries of the world we live in. Scientists are trained to know ever more about even less but here Steve Jones sets out deliberately to explore subjects in which he is emphatically not an expert (although his favourite snail, the single Helix of his title, does poke in a tentacle here & there). His insatiable curiosity & enthusiasm as he sheds light on unexpected corners of knowledge combine to produce science writing at its very best. From chaos in the heavens to the fight against creationism, from optical illusions in tartan to the mathematics of elections & what rules the sex lives of cats THE SINGLE HELIX is a scientist`s look at sciences other than his own
- & as a result its author has been forced to make the complicated simple enough for even a biologist to underst&.

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New from the author of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: it`s a match made in hell. How far would you go to reach the top...? When Charlotte ` Charlie` Silver makes a pact with the devil, infamously brutal tennis coach Todd Feltner, she finds herself catapulted into a world of stylists, private parties & secret dates with Hollywood royalty. Under Todd it`s no more good-girl attitude: he wants warrior princess Charlie all the way. After all, no-one ever won by being nice. Celebrity mags & gossip blogs go wild for Charlie, chasing scandal as she jets around the globe. But as the warrior princess`s star rises, both on & off the court, it comes at a high price. Is the real Charlie Silver still inside? Sweeping from Wimbledon to the Caribbean, from LA to mega yachts in the Med, The Singles Game is a brilliantly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high
- & no-one plays by the rules.
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The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club`s collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral. ` The Admiral` is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, The Admiral Byng. ` The Admiral` is also the nickname of its landlord, Geoffrey Horatio Fitzsimmons, as well as the name of the landlord`s dinghy. None of them are as buoyant as they should be, for the pub is threatened with closure due to falling takings. Tempers are already frayed due to the arrival of a television documentary team when Fitzsimmons is found dead in his tethered boat. The villagers assume a simple case of suicide & fear that their debt-ridden pub will now sink without trace. The journalists seem determined to finish the job by raking up old skeletons, but they weren`t banking on the fact that this story has been written by 14 extremely competitive crime writers
- arch bamboozlers who will stop at nothing to save a good pub. The Sinking Admiral, edited by the Detection Club`s outgoing President
- author & broadcaster Simon Brett, OBE
- continues a tradition established by the Detection Club`s founders in 1931 when Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts & eleven other esteemed authors wrote The Floating Admiral, a `collaborative novel` to challenge themselves, fox their readers & help to pay for the Club`s running costs. Now, 85 years later, 14 of today`s leading crime writers have repeated this unique game of literary consequences, producing an original, ebullient & archetypal whodunit that will keep readers guessing right up to what crime lovers insist on calling the denouement... The contributors to The Sinking Admiral are: SIMON BRETT KATE CHARLES NATASHA COOPER STELLA DUFFY MARTIN EDWARDS RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS TIM HEALD MICHAEL JECKS JANET LAURENCE PETER LOVESEY MICHAEL RIDPATH DAVID ROBERTS L.C. TYLER LAURA WILSON all members of The Detection Club.


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