This journey has given me the exciting opportunity to bring my cooking life full circle, & to introduce you to the very best recipes from the North of Engl&. I've been able to delve deep into the diverse cultures, histories & traditions of the North &, of course, Northern food. The results of my travels, my many tastings, meals & experiments, are presented here, in a book that revels in its Northernness! SEAN WILSON Britain is a nation built on its food, & nowhere has a richer heritage than the North of Engl&. In The Great Northern Cookbook, Sean Wilson
- former Coronation Street actor now award-winning cheese-maker & chef
- is our guide to the culinary highlights of the North. A proud Lancastrian, Sean serves up timeless recipes & reveals the history behind the foods you love. In The Great Northern Cookbook you'll find homely hotpots & pies, alongside beef stew with melting dumplings, & a recipe for the soft, warm oven-bottom muffins. With soups to feed an army, traditional sweet treats, delicious Northern curries, & of course timeless Yorkshire puddings with mushy peas & gravy, Sean serves up the greats from Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria & Northumberl&. Embrace the Northern passion for simple food, made with good, authentic ingredients. Tying in to a new TV series, The Great Northern Cookbook is packed with delicious & affordable recipes you'll want to eat & share

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This beautifully illustrated book contrasts the Victorian world with our own, & looks at how our view of the world has changed in the intervening years. It chronicles the developments which have taken place in travel, architecture, culture & of course photography itself. ...

Suitable for 6- to 11-year-olds, this title lets you peek inside the 3D windows. It means that you can peer through the rigging, skulk outside the Captain's cabin, & watch at windows to discover how Katt Cutlass gets his piratical paws on buried treasure. ...

Great Poems is an inspiring selection of over 300 classic poems. Including works by well known poets such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson & Christina Rossetti, it offers poems to suit everyone, Each poem has an information box with biographical details about he poet providing historical & literary context, Great Poems is a timeless collection to be enjoyed by the whole family. ...

Details: This is an anthology of over fifty classic children's poems, read by some of our finest actors. Full of fun,
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Joe climbed out of the hole into the gray light of a stormy afternoon. Nothing was going as planned. He still hadn't enticed his girlfriend, the goddess, into bed. The aliens never arrived & Elvis hadn't returned. & Joe knew that it was up to him, the most famous man in the world, to save the day & bring forth the Great violet Hoo-Ha. ...

Joe had a drinking problem. The possible demise of his television talk show & the end of his career had tilted a very big bottle of Old Mystery into his guts. Now he was having trouble telling where the hallucinations ended & reality began. Were the sex-obsessed cultists he was investigating on the show really bringing on the End of the World? ...

If you like history & great"es, youll love this book which combines a brief biography of 32 world famous leaders with photographs & powerful"es.

You & your family will learn from this collection of wisdom-echoing the integrity, strength of character, & passion of extraordinary men & women. Makes the perfect, unique gift.

Some of the highlighted leaders include: Abraham Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Winston Churchill.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781492649618
• Author: Peggy Anderson
• Publisher: Simple Truths
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 351
• Dimensions: 17 x 17 x 2.5cm











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In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would enmesh the vast country in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations & magisterial termini, built & controlled the biggest corporations in America. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, as the automobile & the aeroplane came to dominate American journey-making, the historic importance of the railroads began to be erased from America's hearts & minds. In The Great Railway Revolution, Christian Wolmar tells us the extraordinary one-hundred-&-eighty-year story of the rise, fall & ultimate shattering of the greatest of all American endeavours, of technological triumph & human tragedy, of visionary pioneers & venal & rapacious railway barons. He also argues that while America has largely disowned this heritage, now is the time to celebrate, reclaim & reinstate it. The growth of the US railroads was much more than just a revolution in mode, speed & convenience. They united the far-flung components of a vast & disparate country & supercharged the economic development that fuelled its rise to world-power status. America was created by its railroads & the massive expansion of trade, industry & freedom of communication that they engendered came to be an integral part of the American dream itself. ...

We are living through a period of dramatic political change Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe & elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism & xenophobia & a concerted assault on the liberal values & ideals associated with cosmopolitanism & globalization. ...