Inviting you to junk the science, ditch the diet & instead rediscover the joys of eating well, this title features a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table
- a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!) that means that you can enrich your life & your palate, & enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy & happy.
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In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of his craft. At a time of deep scepticism about our ability to learn anything from the past, even to recapture any serious sense of past cultures & ways of life, Evans shows us why history is possible & necessary. ...

Suitable for the Drake scholar & the armchair traveller alike, this pictorial, topographical text is laced with research techniques, discoveries & adventures in reaching all the Drake places. It is written on location by an intrepid adventurer with a Drake's-eye view. ...

The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. This book offers an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports & memoirs, & the voices of prominent figures & unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno in Pol&, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. ...

** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **` It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, & that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.' Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled & rackety personal life. ...

After a London pub brawl, in which her beloved father is injured, thirteen-year-old Sally Stangate & her family must flee to begin a new life in the Essex village where he was born. But when they arrive, Sally has an uncanny feeling that her future in Wyford will be ill-starred. Her premonition proves to be well-founded; six years later, just after the outbreak of World War I, an old family secret destroys her hopes of marriage to Tim, the man she loves, & estranges her from her family. Determined to put the past behind her, Sally goes to work in her Aunt Becca's antiques shop. When she falls in love with a young shipwright, Sam Bridges, she believes the chance of happiness is hers once more
- but Sam's mother opposes the match & Sally is forced to watch her lover go off to war at the very moment when she needs him most. After a London pub brawl, in which her beloved father is injured, thirteen-year-old Sally Stangate & her family must flee to begin a new life in the Essex village where he was born. But when they arrive, Sally has an uncanny feeling that her future in Wyford will be ill-starred. Her premonition proves to be well-founded; six years later, just after the outbreak of World War I, an old family secret destroys her hopes of marriage to Tim, the man she loves, & estranges her from her family. Determined to put the past behind her, Sally goes to work in her Aunt Becca's antiques shop. When she falls in love with a young shipwright, Sam Bridges, she believes the chance of happiness is hers once more
- but Sam's mother opposes the match & Sally is forced to watch her lover go off to war at the very moment when she needs him most. 17.6 x 11 x 2.7 cm, pages 409

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What makes a great portrait? Featuring 280 photographs, this book attempts to answer this question. It traces the evolving roles & goals of photographers themselves, & offers insights on how photographers' work both reflects & influences how we see ourselves & the world. ...

A madman is stalking women in the city. By the time his victims are found, theyve been dismembered with careful precision, their limbs stacked into a gruesome pyramid & completely cleansed of every last drop of blood.

Accustomed to working on the most grisly homicides, detective Frank Quinns nerves dont rattle easily but with this killer the veteran cop feels a chill run down his spine. This time, he realises, he is up against a psychopath who will test him like never before...

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781780331850
• Author: John Lutz
• Publisher: C & R Crime
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 480
• Dimensions: 19 x 12cm









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Denounced by the Vatican as 'fanciful & absurd', this title presents an investigation into Pope John Paul I's death just 33 days after his election. It is a tale of intrigue, murder & corruption. It reveals the dark heart of the Vatican via a trail of ...

Delve into this extraordinary addition to the primary-source records of the First World War & the later archives of the Haig family.

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