This is a trip down memory lane u a beautifully designed book with pages from old cookbooks showing what we used to eat, old advertisements showing what we used to buy & wonderful modern recipes alongside their beautiful modern photographs. These recipes are for finger food & sandwiches, snacks, afternoon teas, family dinners, the Sunday roast, & puddings. They contrast the way we eat now & the way things used to be. ...

Everyone knows the story of the prodigal son
- or do they? In this fascinating book, skilled communicators J. John & Chris Walley
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A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man & a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house-sitter who opens the wrong doors; a pair of star-crossed travellers pick up each other's bags, & then learn when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life. This book has 294 pages & is 19.6 x 13.1 x 2.6 cms ...

In this extraordinary collection of stories, the world-wide bestselling author of Evening Class once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart. In The Return Journey, Maeve Binchy creates powerful compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, & reconciliation. A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man & a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house-sitter who opens the wrong doors; a pair of star-crossed travelers pick up each other's bags, & then learn when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life. These & many more poignant, ironic, often humorous stories
- unforgettable slices of life -make up The Return Journey, a spellbinding trip into the human heart. This audiobook has 6 CDs & has a runtime of 395 mins
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1920. The Great War has been over for two years, & it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife & baby & his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death & the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime Engl&, & when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit the darkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connections between Captain Emmett's suicide, a group of war poets, a bitter regimental feud & a hidden love affair, more disquieting deaths are exposed. Even at the moment Laurence begins to live again, it dawns on him that nothing is as it seems, & that even those closest to him have their secrets.. . ...

Ex-Marshal Mc Cloud is now senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environmental law. His enemy is Maitl&, an unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after Mc Cloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes a bomb explosion in his car & a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, is killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were made by Maitl&. He pays him a visit in Britain to make his own investigation. ...

Once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.' Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In the first story, ' The Empty House', Holmes returns to Baker Street & his good friend Watson, explaining how he escaped from his watery grave. In creating this collection of tales, Doyle had lost none of his cunning or panache, providing Holmes with a sparkling set of mysteries to solve & a challenging set of adversaries to defeat. The potent mixture

Includes:: murder, abduction, baffling cryptograms & robbery. We are also introduced to the one of the cruellest villains in the Holmes canon, the despicable Charles Augustus Milverton. As before, Watson is the superb narrator & the magic remains unchanged & undimmed.

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Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back!

Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach

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Written by his trusted friend & companion, Dr John Watson, The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Notes chronicles nine of the most fascinating cases solved by the worlds most famous detective.

Based on the many notes & evidence gathered during the course of Sherlock Holmess investigations, this fantastic collection is painstakingly presented as a scrapbook by Dr Watson.

In these pages, youll discover newspaper articles, sketches & maps that were crucial to solving the cases, with each item reproduced as a historical artefact, complete with tears, stains, foldmarks & insightful annotations written by Watson.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780233004747
• Author: Joel Jessup
• Publisher: Andre Deutsch
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 63
• Dimensions: 29.5 x 22.5 x 2.5cm











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Venice in 1576 is a city ravaged by plague. Most have fled but the beautiful & formidable Tullia Buffo, once the most desired courtesan of the age, has returned home. Facing ruin, Tullia must now fight for her life & protect her secrets.

The gondolier Sebastiano, a keeper of secrets, has plied his trade on the canals of Venice his whole life, soaking up gossip & scandal & saving his family from destitution after what happened to his father.

After all these years, his lifelong grudge against the famous painter Titians son is as strong as ever.

Now, with Titian dead, his son has returned to Venice to claim his fathers paintings & Sebastiano has a plan for revenge.

In the present day, events from centuries earlier suddenly engulf the lives of ordinary people as far distant as London & New York as they are touched by the enduring legacy of Tullia, a lost Titian masterpiece & the secrets of old Venice...

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781785301254
• Format: Paperback
• Author: Victoria Blake
• Publisher: Black & White
• Pages: 372
• Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.8 x 2.8cm

















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