Join Diana Henry as she creates a different array of diet ideas
- with less meat & heavy food, more vegetables, fish & grain-based
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Cressida Collins is the queen of makeovers. With a well-placed stitch, button or seam, she can transform any frock in The Vintage Dress Shop & give customers their Cinderella moment. Like her beautifully organised workroom under the eaves, Cress’s life away from the shop is just as orderly & mapped out. But when her boyfriend of fifteen years drops a bombshell, it explodes all the carefully laid plans Cress had for her future. It’s going to take more than needle & thread to put Cress’s own life back together. Will she ever be brave enough to say goodbye to her old dreams & start over? But after designing a dress for a customer & transforming her into the woman she always wanted to be, Cress realises that it can be fun not to follow a pattern. Then there’s her blossoming friendship with Miles, a very handsome & very sexy film director… Cress is about to discover that leaving a few loose threads might be the best way to mend her broken heart… A wonderfully uplifting, fun... ...

Bill Nighy stars as Charles Paris with Martine Mc Cutcheon as Jodie Ricks in this BBC Radio 4 comedy detective drama. Charles finds himself uncharacteristically employed in a film, having landed the part of Szabec, a middle management vampire in ' The Wreathing'. His co-star is swimwear model turned actress Jodie Ricks & before long, Jodie is using Charles as a confidant. Poor Jodie is in terrible trouble
- not only is she being blackmailed over some compromising photos, but she is also carrying the baby of the film's producer, Elliot Roth, who now wants nothing to do with her. Then things take an even nastier turn when it appears that someone is trying to kill Jodie. Always keen to help a damsel in distress, Charles sets about trying to solve the mystery... Starring Bill Nighy & Martine Mc Cutcheon & dramatised by Jeremy Front.
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The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of Treasure Island & Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit & the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, & introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched with a genuine & gentle pathos at times as they recall a world which seems so far away from us now. This edition, which

Includes:: Charles Robinson's charming illustrations & vignettes, is described as the definitive edition by The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.

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1939. All over Britain children are being evacuated, & Eve Armstrong is headed for Devon.

As the train pulls out of London

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Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three

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Classic / British English Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, & he doesn't like people. He really doesn't like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life now, & a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change? ...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children.

But at Christmas three ghosts come

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Books Classic Novels Discover Dickens's most influential book & one of the world’s favourite Christmas reads. Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men & is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths about his choices.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780099529736 •†Author:†  Charles Dickens  •†Publisher:†  Vintage Classics •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 352 •†Dimensions:†12.7 x 2.29 x 20.32 cm ...

Books Picture Books Follow Ebenezer Scrooge as he visits Christmases past, present & future in this beautifully illustrated adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story. A perfect picture book for families to share at Christmas! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781787003712 •  Author: Joshua George •  Publisher:  Little Hippo Books •  Format: Paperback •  Pages: 32   ...