As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession. His experience is extensive, & is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair. ...

Miss Marple, Agatha Christie s deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated to a few days holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram s Hotel, a dignified, unostentatious establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. Here is a place where sedate upper class ladies, retired military gentlemen & the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age. But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer. Why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel or somehow implicate eminently respectable people staying there? June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of a classic brain-teaser from the Queen of Crime. Audio BOOKS, 2 CD, 140 minutes. ...

Introduces a dreary post-war Britain to the sun-drenched culinary delights of the Mediterranean; to foods like olive oil & pasta, artichokes & fresh herbs
- foods that have become the staples of our diets today. This title offers twelve chapters that guide the readers from tasty soups & starters, through to meat, fish & desserts.
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What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business
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Recently, Elizabeth Gilbert unpacked some boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother's attic for decades. Among the old, dusty hardbacks was a book called At Home on the Range, written by her great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. As Gilbert writes in her Foreword: 'I jumped up & dashed through the house to find my husb&, so I could read parts of it to him: Listen to this! The humor! The insight! The sophistication! Then I followed him around the kitchen while he was making our dinner (lamb shanks), & I continued reading aloud as we ate... By the end of the night there were three of us sitting at that table. Gima had come to join us, & she was wonderful, & I was in love.' The cookbook was far ahead of its time. In it, Potter espouses the importance of farmer's markets & ethnic food (Italian, Jewish & German), derides preservatives & culinary shortcuts & generally celebrates a devotion to epicurean adventures. Potter takes car trips out to Pennsylvania Dutch country to eat pickled pork products, & to the eastern shore of Maryl&, where she learns to catch & prepare eels so delicious, she says, they must be 'devoured in a silence almost devout'. Part scholar & part crusader for a more open food conversation than currently existed, it's not hard to see where Elizabeth Gilbert inherited both her love of food & her warm, infectious prose. At Home on the Range is a fascinating, humorous & useful cookbook from the past that is essential for the present day. ...

Help your child practice at home with this Key Stage 1 English workbook which is written by teachers. It is full of easy to read instructions to simple tasks which will encourage your child to learn & have fun. The size of this book is 27.4cm in height & 20.8cm wide with 32 pages. ...

Build your child's confidence at school with this helpful key stage 1 Maths workbook written by teachers with the aim of encouraging your child to learn independently & have fun at the same time. The easy to read instructions & simple tasks are aided by easy step by step activities that support & improve math skills. ...

The At Home With workbooks provide step-by-step activities for your child to do at home. Each workbook follows curriculum requirements &, through fun activities, encourages your child to practise their key skills. Easy-to-read instructions to simple tasks Colour illustrations make learning fun Hours of activities to engross you child Boost your childï ½s confidence at school by learning through practice. ...

This Key Stage 1 Phonics workbook is perfect for building your child's confidence at school with step by step activities that support & improve phonics skills. The easy-to-read instructions to simple tasks encourage your child to work independently while learning & having fun! ...

Get creative this Christmas & make gorgeous crafts with this At Home with Santa themed Clear Stamp Set.

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