Features poems from Chaucer, Shakespeare & Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson & Thoreau; from Keats, Blake & Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes & Amy Clampitt. This work engages with the seasons &, through them, with the ways in which we understand & engage with the world outside ourselves. ...

From glittering palazzos to humble seaside bars, from the derelict & forgotten islands to thriving vineyards, Manuela Darling-Gansser s journey across Italy reveals authentic recipes & long-held food traditions. Like its landscape, Italy s food is one of contrasts rich spices, fresh herbs, exquisite cheeses, hearty pastas, decadent desserts, & plenty of oranges, lemons & pistachios. & all Italians would agree, the best food is cooked at home. Drawn from the best of Italian cuisine, Manuela s recipes are always tempting & make it easy to introduce the flavours of Italy into your home. Divided into four chapters: Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter, this collection of Manuela s favourite recipes is sure to become a kitchen favourite. ...

A brilliant way to introduce toddlers to the changing seasons of the year. 

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Transform chance into strategy in this riveting board game that stretches your intellect & challenges your ability to think strategically. With versions for both junior & adult players, Foursite pushes you to juggle the payoff between risk-taking & caution, in your quest for victory. FOURSITE is a game that stretches the intellect, tests your ability to multi-strategise & provides a different set of challenges every time you play it. Quick & easy to set up, it relies on a small degree of chance & a high degree of strategic thinking & ingenuity to outwit the opposition. Consisting of 74 wooden tiles, each containing four symbols, FOURSITE allows point scoring based on your ability to match symbols, capture territory, & create formations around a fifth symbol. With versions included for both junior & adult players, Foursite pushes you to juggle the payoff between risk-taking & caution, in your quest for victory.
- Develops concentration skills & mathematical patterning abilities
- Provides plenty of challenge for experienced strategy game enthusiasts
- Attractive wooden design makes it a perfect coffee table gift
- 2 games in one for 2-4 players Product

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The problem with being a bounty hunter is it's all on-the-job training. & Stephanie Plum is still learning the ways to get yourself killed. Take the case of Maxine Norwicki... When Maxine failed to turn up for her day in court, Stephanie was given the task of bringing her in. Simple. Except Maxine's boyfriend has now begun receiving mysterious, coded notes from the runaway that hint at buried treasure. In fact the notes are so indecipherable that Stephanie has to call on the help of Sally Sweet, giant drag queen & code-breaker extraordinaire. & Steph's knight errant, cop Joe Morelli. is also proving useful
- although he can't decide what he wants most: Maxine's bounty or Stephanie's body. Meanwhile a friend loses a finger, a mother is scalped, an apartment is firebombed & a store clerk is murdered. & out in the street, the crazy treasure hunt game goes on...' Stephanie Plum is ass-kicking form...utterly delightful.' Cosmopolitan ' As smart & sassy as high-gloss wet paint.' Time Out ' Among the great joys of contemporary crime fiction.' GQ ' All the easy class & wit that you expect to find in the best American TV Comedy, but too rarely find in modern fiction.' GQ
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Sometimes being the grim reaper really is, well, grim. & since Charley's last case went so awry, she has taken a couple of months off to wallow in the wonders of self-pity. But when a woman shows up on her doorstep, convinced someone is trying to kill her, Charley has to pull herself together. In the meantime, the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, is out of prison & out of Charley's life, as per her wishes & several perfectly timed death threats. But his absence has put a serious crimp in her sex life. While there are other things to consider, like the fact that the city of Albuquerque has been taken hostage by an arsonist, Charley is having a difficult time staying away. Especially when it looks like Reyes may be involved. Just when life was returning to normal, Charley is thrust back into the world of crime, punishment & the devil in blue jeans in this hilarious fourth instalment in the New York Times bestselling series. ...

Books Fantasy Fiction Books Welcome to the brutal & elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, & every night could be your last... Twenty-year-old violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books & history. Now, the commanding general
- also known as her tough-as-talons mother
- has ordered violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else & your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter
- like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful & ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, & the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. Alliances will be forged. Lives will be lost. Traitors will become allies... or even lovers. But sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780349436999 •†Author:   Rebecca Yarros •†Publisher:†  Piatkus •†Format:†  Hardback •†Pages:† 512 •†Dimensions:† 16.4 x 4.8 x 23.6 cm


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Welcome to the brutal & elite world of Basgiath War College... Twenty-year-old violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books & history. Now, the commanding general
- also known as her tough-as-talons mother
- has ordered violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else & your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter
- like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful & ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, & t...


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Two young women living during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. There exists a complex relationship between a German countess & a married Scottish soldier. A wounded prisoner of war has a disturbing influence on an Englishwoman. These three novels deal with human relationships & the devastating results of war. ...

At the end of the nineteenth century European pimps & 'white slavers' established a hugely successful global market for commercial sex, & Joseph Silver was central to this hidden world of betrayal, intrigue, lust & sexual slavery. This book exposes the most infamous serial killer of all time
- Jack the Ripper.
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