The Great British Bake Off is a glorious celebration of Britain's favourite pastime. As the series has shown us, baking is the perfect way to mark an occasion
- to celebrate, to congratulate & reward, & to lift spirits.

This new book is inspired by the wonderful creations from The Great British Bake Off ' Showstopper Challenge'. Covering a wide range of bakes from large & small cakes, biscuits & cookies, sweet & savoury pastry, puddings, breads & patisserie, this book will show you how to bake beautiful, enticing recipes to wow at every occasion.

There are dainty cupcakes for afternoon tea, quick bakes perfect for bake sales, school fairs or coffee with friends, mouthwatering desserts, breads & pastry recipes for lunches & dinner parties, & some really special bakes for birthdays & festive celebrations throughout the year.

This recipe book will show you how to make your bake extra special, from exciting finishes using chocolate curls & ribbons & spun sugar to simple ideas for icing, shaping & decorating, so you can bring a touch of magic to any bake.

Great British Bake Off also

Includes:: the ' Best of the Bake-off'
- the finest recipes from the new set of Great British Bake Off amateur bakers, & all of Mary Berry & Paul Hollywood's Technical Challenges from the series.

If you learned How to Bake from last year's cook book, Showstoppers will take you to the next level of skill, & combined with a dazzling new design & superb photography, this will be an irresistible gift for yourself or someone else.















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" Dont just celebrate
- bake!"

Every year the popular BBC One series The Great British Bake Off celebrates


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Books Baking Books A Bake for All Seasons is The Great British Bake Off's ode to Nature, packed with timely bakes lovingly created to showcase seasonal ingredients & draw inspiration from the changing moods & events of the year. Whether you're looking to make the best of asparagus in spring, your prize strawberries in summer, pumpkin in autumn or blood oranges in winter, these recipes
- from Prue Leith, Paul Hollywood, the Bake Off team & the 2021 bakers themselves
- offer insight & inspiration throughout the year. From celebration cakes to traybakes, loaf cakes, & breads to pies, tarts & pastries, this book shows you how to make the very best of what each season has to offer. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780751584400 • Author: The Bake Off Team • Publisher: Sphere • Format: Hardback • Pages: 288 • Dimensions: 25 x 19.4 x 2.4 cm

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Tuck into your all-time favourite flavours & a good sprinkling of Bake Off magic with our easy-to-follow recipes.  A feast for both the eyes & the taste buds, these flavourful bakes will leave you inspired to mix & match different combinations, or to indulge yourself with some classic tastes & textures. Whether you're looking for a tart blackcurrant millefeuille, a fresh passion fruit trifle, a sticky ginger treacle tart or a rich chocolate & speculoos cake
- Paul, Prue, the Bake Off team & the 2022 bakers are here to show you how to get the perfect result. From earthy to spicy, & from tangy to creamy, this book showcases how to bring out the very best flavours in whatever you create.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781408726983 •†Author:   The Bake Off Team •†Publisher:   Sphere •†Format:   Hardback •†Pages:† 288 •†Dimensions:† 25.5 x 19.7 x 2.5 cm
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Books Baking Books The Great British Bake Off: Kitchen Classics showcases 80 sumptuous bakes inspired by the show's most popular signature themes
- Cake, Biscuits, Bread, Pastry, Patisserie, Dessert, Chocolate & Free-from
- taking the best classic recipes & reinventing them to create the most gorgeous, flavourful & indulgent bakes. Throughout the book, Paul, Prue & the 2023 bakers themselves show you how to turn a signature into something truly special. Among the many transformations, Victoria sponge becomes a four-tier, zesty extravaganza; a brioche-style babka turns savoury with kale pesto & red peppers; & the cherry Bakewell is reimagined as an irresistible fondant fancy. Page after page, this book is packed with 'new' classics that will draw family & friends to your own kitchen table time & again. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781408727003 •†Author: The Bake Off Team •†Publisher:   Sphere •†Format:†  Hardback •†Pages:† 256 •†Dimensions:†19.2 x 2.2 x 25.2 cm

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The Victorians called him ' Bobby' after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829. The generations that followed came to regard the force in which he served as 'the best police in the world'. If twenty-first century observers sometimes take a more jaundiced view of his efforts, the blue-helmeted, unarmed policeman remains an icon of Britishness, & a symbol of the relatively peaceful nature of our social evolution. In The Great British Bobby, Clive Emsley traces the development of Britain's forces of law & order from the earliest watchmen & constables of the pre-modern period to the police service of today. He examines in detail such milestones in police history as the establishment of the Bow Street Runners in the 1740s, the Police Acts of 1839, the introduction of women police officers during the First World War, & the Macpherson Report of 1999 into the death of Stephen Lawrence. Threaded through his narrative are case-studies of real-life Bobbies, drawn from police archives, evoking the day-to-day reality of the policeman's lot over two & a half centuries: the boredom of patrolling on foot in all weathers, the threats to life & limb of policing rough areas, & the diverse historical challenges of industrial unrest, the growth of cities, the arrival of the motor car & the ethnic diversification of society. From Robert Grubb, patrolling the mean streets of Georgian London with rattle & cudgel, to Norwell Roberts, the first black officer to be appointed to the Metropolitan Police, The Great British Bobby presents a cast of mostly honest coppers performing a testing role to the best of their ability. A distinguished historian & criminologist, Clive Emsley is ideally placed to tell
- candidly but affectionately
- the fascinating story of Britain's police force. The Great British Bobby is nothing less than a social history of Britain over the last 250 years, viewed through the prism of one of its most remarkable & distinctive institutions. This book has 337 pages & is 19.3 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm

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Test your brain power with The Great British  Quiz Book!

With more than 120 quizzes about Britain's great people, places

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This book is crammed full of questions to test your general knowledge of Engl&, Scotl&, Northern Ireland & Wales. Inside you'll find hundreds of pot-luck & themed multiple-choice quizzes on a wide variety of subjects ranging from geography, politics & theatre to music, sport & the royal family. You can even pick your favourite subject, with specialist quizzes about food, soap operas, the Beatles, kids TV, football & more. Whether you live in the UK or not, there is plenty to discover inside
- this book is a rich source of information on all aspects of culture, history, geography & politics in the UK.
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The Great British Sewing Bee is the official tie-in to the highly successful BBC TWO series. The TV series looks for the nations best amateur sewer, watched over by Savile Row tailor Patrick Grant & doyenne of the Womens Institute May Martin.

Capturing the creative energy of the series, the book provides an irresistible collection of over 25 projects covering garments & homewares that will delight sewing enthusiasts everywhere. As in the series, the projects offer something for both sexes & all ages. Garments include a flattering tea dress, pencil skirt, unisex pyjama bottoms & a waistcoat. The homewares & accessories include aprons, a stylish tote bag, laundry bag, a selection of cushion designs & three different window dressings. All are complete with instructions & patterns for sizes 8 to 16.

Including a number of designs from the TV series, technical know-how & insider sewing tips from the judges, this book will help the beginner achieve professional results.



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For burgeoning dressmakers the vast array of fabrics is what both entices the would-be sewer to dress handmade, but it is also what intimidates the first-time sewist when stepping into the haberdashery.

Reflecting the episode themes of the third series of The Great British Sewing Bee, each chapter focuses on a type of fabric & demystifies its properties, suitability & uses as well as providing all the instructions & pattern pieces needed to make a collection of universally appealing garments from that fabric type.

With womenswear sizes ranging from 8
- 20 & menswear sizes ranging from S
- XL, as well as the core garment instructions, this book

Includes:: all the information you need to get started with your sewing machine & understand both your equipment & the pattern pieces.

Claire-Louise's ultimate guide to fitting your own clothes & expert sewing tips from judges May Martin & Patrick Grant will ensure a perfect fit & stunning results.

Measures: 26 x 20.8 x 3.5cm











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