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 scene of this little book is on a high mountain. Its naked peak stands nearly four thousand five hundred feet above the sea; its sides are fringed with forest; &, the soil, where it is bare, glows warm with cinnabar`. In 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson was living in San Francisco, recovering from a bout of bronchitis that plagued him all his life. Broke, his career floundering, he nevertheless fell in love with & married Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, a divorcee, in May of that year. Escaping the San Francisco fogs, the newly married couple travelled to the Napa Valley & the Mayacamas Mountains. Deep in the mountains, in an old mining town called Silverado, they spent their unconventional honeymoon in an abandoned millhouse that clung to the shoulder of Mount Saint Helena. For two months, they squatted amidst the detritus of the mines in `a sylvan solitude` where bears roamed & fierce winds blew down into the valley. Stevenson was free of sickness, inspired to write & utterly content. Taken from the diaries he kept during the time ” The Silverado Squatters” is punctuated with colourful portrayals of the quirky & eccentric people who inhabited Silverado & with fascinating descriptions of the daily trials of living simply in the wild. Sparkling with rich & vivid descriptions of the landscape that so captivated Stevenson, this is above all a remarkably personal & revealing memoir by this most loved writer. ...

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 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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Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man returns home to his small desert village, where he witnesses three unspeakable acts of violence committed by American soldiers. Consumed by a desire for revenge, the youth returns to the city where is he is taken in by a radical group. Before long, he finds himself part of a terrorist operation which will take him to London. But as the time to board the plane draws near, he struggles to reconcile himself to his mission. ...

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli & Charlies Sisters, ride
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