' Does cricket make money in order to exist, or does it exist in order to make money?' In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty 20, & a glamorous new competition, the Indian Premier League. How did India come to run world cricket? How did clubs owned by billionaires & Bollywood stars begin to shove international competition aside? How did money unite players & divide administrators, amid allegations of massive corruption? Gideon Haigh has followed cricket's biggest story since Kerry Packer's ' World Series' from the beginning: Sphere of Influence is the result. This insightful collection brings the struggle to save cricket's soul into sharp & disturbing focus. ...

Alexandria, Egypt, 1977, During a dive to an old shipwreck, archaeologist Isabella Warnock uncovers an artefact unlike anything she has ever seen: an astrarium, a mysterious device rumoured to have shaped the destinies of pharaohs & kings since the beginning of time. Bur her discovery comes at a terrible price, & it falls to her husband Oliver to keep the priceless object safe. Up against a shadowy enemy & a powerful cult prepared to do anything for the treasure, Oliver is catapulted into a breakneck race to protect an ancient secret in a dangerous world of conspiracy & Egyptology, where age-old sorcery & legends clash violently with modern-day ambitions. ...

Spices are celebrated the world over for the depth of flavour that they bring to dishes.

The alchemy of roasting & blending

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In this delicious collection of 100 recipes, Levi Roots plunders his spice cupboard to create some exciting new dishes using everyday ingredients. Levi dubs up all of our favourite classic recipes, adding a tamarind & orange glaze to lamb chops, making a lime jerk marinade for chicken, cooking salmon with chilli & dishing up a spiced tropical fruit pilaf. As you would expect from Levi, everything in this book is easy to prepare, & there are lots of ideas for quick suppers. With chapters packed with ideas for spicing up everything from chicken to chocolate, tropical fruit to tea, root vegetables to rum, this book is full of delicious & surprising recipes to add some spice to your life. ...

In this melting pot of different cuisines, Paul Merrett offers dishes inspired by his travels abroad, his home cooking & his experience in some of the UK's top restaurants. His personal collection of recipes in Spice Odyssey is united by a bold & inventive use of spice &

Includes:: such dishes such as Salt & Pepper Squid with a Papaya, Chilli & Coriander Salsa & Sri Lankan Chicken Kotu. Interspersed with anecdotal & amusing stories of his travels to African spice markets & Asian spice gardens (along with discoveries closer to home), it

Includes:: a wealth of tips on storage, buying, grinding, dry-frying, rubs & marinades, as well as fascinating facts on the history of spices. From Zanzibar Fish Curry & 25-minute Veggie Tagine to Coconut & Lemongrass Panna Cotta, the subtle aromas & fiery flavours on offer will inspire you to cook something new.



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Provides instructions on preparation & cooking techniques as well as information on containers & equipment. This book contains recipes for over 35 spice blends, from Apple Pie Spice to Kashmiri Masala. It shows how to make scented gifts & decorations, & features recipes for aromatic cooking oils, vinegars & a variety of drinks. ...

Spices are so familiar that much of the time we ignore their provenance, but this fascinating book opens the cupboard to reveal not just their culinary prowess, in the form of over 90 delicious recipes from all over the world, but also their stories
- for every spice has its own unique story, just as it has its own particular scent & magic.
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A wide-ranging, thorough account of the spider, a creature with a rich symbolic presence in the human imagination, this book analyses the spider in art, literature, horror stories, science fiction & film & also looks at arachnophobia, & the psychological association of the spider with dominant women or mothers. ...

Dr Temperance Brennan spends her life working amongst the decomposed & the skeletal. So the newly-dead body she is called to examine holds little to surprise her. Until she discovers it is the body of an ex-soldier apparently killed in Vietnam in 1968. So who is buried in his grave? ...

This cool Spider Man 30 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle features an image of Spiderman on the front!

The perfect companion to keep

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