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Tying into a new six-part BBC2 television series, Tom elevates classic recipes with a Kerridge twist.





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Adventurous Tom Sawyer is always getting into mischief. He skips school & runs away to play with his friends & hunt for treasure. But when Tom witnesses a murder, he finds himself in big trouble. Will the wrong man be punished for the crime? & will Tom & his friends escape the real killer? ...

Tom Sawyer, an adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant & parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer. ...

In August, 2005, Toma Humar was trapped on a narrow ledge at 5900 metres on the formidable Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat. He had been attempting a new route, directly up the middle of the highest mountain face in the world
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My wife is a magician, yesterday she turned our car into a tree. A big white horse walks into a pub. The barman says, 'we have a drink named after you.' The horse says, 'what? Eric?' I said, 'waiter, what's that in my soup?' he said, 'I'd better call the boss, I can't tell one insect from another.' I'm reading a book called ' Sex Before 20'. Personally I don't like audiences. I said, 'it's serious, doctor, I've broken my arm in 20 places'. He said, 'well stop going to those places.' I call my car flattery. It gets me knowwhere. ...

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Tommy Gemmell is the only Scottish player
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Join one of Ireland's most acclaimed & passionate comedians. The irrepressible Tommy Tiernan on DVD for the very first time, playing to a packed house in his adopted home town of Galway. This is a truly sparkling & lively experience that will leave yo ...

Lance Corporal Henry Buckle's drawings & writings are a window onto the Western Front as one man saw it. His charming colour sketches are a rare & exquisite insight into trench life that cannot fail to amuse & move the observer. This book truly allo ...

Thursday, 13 August, 1914. Beautiful day. Very warm. We all went to Queen's park at night & heard the b&. Britain declares war on Austria. Germans getting slaughtered in Belgium. Brilliant Belgium victory. Britannia ruling the waves. In 1913, Thomas Cairns Livingstone begins keeping a diary. A Glaswegian shipping clerk, he spent his days working, visiting friends, complaining about the weather & worrying about the rent. He had no idea he would live through one of the most tumultuous periods in history: the First World War. But as the crisis in Europe worsened & new filtered back to an anxious home front, Livingstone's commentary on family life, Scottish weather & his culinary attempts were soon interwoven with accounts of soldiers wounded, prisoners taken & submarines sunk. Unique & utterly compelling, & illustrated throughout with Livingstone's wry, whimsical sketches, Tommy's War is beautiful written, touching & impossible to put down. ...

For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored & lonely & missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, & examines their relationship with a strange & unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs & cats to monkeys & birds
- even in one case a golden eagle. Animals became mascots
- some Welsh battalions had goats as mascots, some of the Scots had donkeys. & then there were the animals & insects that excited curiosity amongst men drawn into the army from the industrial heartlands of Britain, men who had little knowledge of, let alone daily contact with, wildlife. Civilians turned soldiers observed the natural world around them, from the smallest woodlouse to voles, mice & larger animals such as deer & rabbit. Richard van Emden explores his subject far more radically than previous attempts, revealing how, for example, a lemur was taken on combat missions in the air, a lion was allowed to pad down the front line trenches & how a monkey lost its leg during the fighting at Delville Wood on the Somme. Illustrated with more than sixty previously unseen or rarely published photographs, drawn mainly from the author's own extraordinary collection.

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