Once people made country wines solely from the fruits of their gardens & local hedgerows but today there is a wide range of fascinating ingredients available
- grape juice concentrates grains dried fruit exotic fruit juices
- to allow winemakers to pursue their crafts all year round independent of fruiting seasons. Now in its third edition this book has already reprinted forty-one times & has sold over 500 000 copies. It contains (in alphabetical order from Almond Wine to Yarrow Wine) 130 tried & reliable recipes for country wines & real ales many of which are unique to this publication & which supplement those found in the author's primer First Steps in Winemaking. The book is illustrated by the well-known winemaking cartoonist Rex Royle.

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Go with God & Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero & the pursuit of a sword with mythical power
- this is the remarkable new
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Go with God & Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero & the pursuit of a sword with mythical power
- this is the remarkable new
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Go with God & Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero & the pursuit of a sword with mythical power
- this is the remarkable new
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Go with God & Fight Like the Devil. The remarkable new novel by Britain's master storyteller which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers. 1356: France stands alert to danger. The English army victorious at the battle of Crecy & led by the Black Prince is invading & the French are hunting them down. The bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years War are yet to be fought. Thomas of Hookton an English archer becomes trapped with his outnumbered army. & here near the town of Poitiers an extraordinary confrontation will ignite one of the greatest battles of all time. ...

14 000 Things To Be Happy About" is the mesmerizing bestseller that celebrates all the little things that make life worth living. Any random page is an instant pick-me-up & reading it is as irresistible as popcorn. It
Includes:: new babies; a well-crafted chair; having a sense of your own space; a real person answering the phone; peninsulas; leaves snuggled around the foundations of old country houses; & staying home on New Year's Eve. Now revised & updated with 1 500 new entries
- the feel of the fur in Ugg boots a favourite television program. "14 000 Things To Be Happy About" is a panacea for a new time & a new generation an antidote to the all-too-many things we might be unhappy about."

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This practical guide to effective revision & success in exams takes the reader through a fourteen-day program which ensures maximum results in the time available. With illustrations to enhance the text it shows the reader how to tackle common revision & exam challenges through exercises checklists & worked examples. It is a handy guide offering expert advice to help students maximize their chances of exam success in just two weeks. ...

Cleanse & boost your system in just two weeks. Lose weight the simple way with 90 step-by-step recipes. It helps you how to renew your body & mind with 500 photographs. It

Includes:: recipes range from soups smoothies & breakfast ideas to sustaining salads healthy fish & poultry dishes & tasty desserts each crammed with nutrients & cleansing properties. It

Includes:: a detailed introduction that explains what toxins are where they are found & how they can be avoided as well as checklists of foods that should be included & those that should be excluded during a detox. You can choose from an intense one-week regime or a more comprehensive two-week detox plan. It contains ideas for exercise complementary therapies & how to detox your home. An ancient therapy that has been used for centuries detoxing is believed to help the body's natural cleansing process & replenish vital nutrients. The introduction contains a list of symptoms to enable self-diagnosis guidance on when & when not to detox tips on how you can boost your organs advice on suitable exercises & complementary therapies & a directory of foods you should include & those you should avoid. Menu plans for either a one- or a two-week plan make selecting & combining recipes easy ensuring that you get the perfect balance of foods every day. Recipes include Lime & Watermelon Tonic Granola Fresh Cabbage Soup Citrus Fruit Salad with Avocado Pan-fried Chicken with Pesto & Summer Berry Frozen Yogurt. Crammed with invaluable advice information & recipes this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to detox safely in the home.



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Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt his piety & his rigorous application of justice he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But what was he really like? Does he deserve to be thought of as the greatest man who ever ruled England?. In this groundbreaking & ambitious book Ian Mortimer portrays Henry in the pivotal year of his reign. Recording the dramatic events of 1415 on a day-by-day basis he offers the fullest most precise & least romanticised view we have of Henry & what he did. In addition the kings story is told against the background of other important developments in Europe in particular the struggle for power within the Catholic Church & official attempts to eradicate any deviant religious beliefs. In so doing the reader encounters unexpected & eye-opening explanations for why Henry tried to unify the kingdoms of England & France
- & why he was prepared to burn men alive as heretics. The result is not only a fascinating reappraisal of Henry; it brings to the fore many unpalatable truths which biographers & military historians have largely ignored. While Henry retains the essential qualities of his greatness his legend is stripped of its Shakespearean rhetoric & compassion. At the centre of the book is the campaign which culminated in the battle of Agincourt: a slaughter ground designed not to advance Englands interests directly but to demonstrate Gods approval of Henrys royal authority on both sides of the Channel. 1415 was a year of religious persecution personal suffering & one horrendous battle. This is the story of that year as seen over the shoulder of its most cold-hearted most ambitious & most celebrated hero.
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On 8 March 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships some nearly five hundred feet long were under the command of Emperor Zhu Dis loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas & unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last for over two years & take them around the globe but by the time they returned home China was beginning its long self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. & so the great ships were left to rot & the records of their journey were destroyed. & with them the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan reached America seventy years before Columbus & Australia three hundred & fifty years before Cook... The result of fifteen years research 1421 is Gavin Menzies enthralling account of the voyage of the Chinese fleet the remarkable discoveries he made & the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps precise navigational knowledge astronomy & the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers & the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind
- from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed giving thanks to Shao Lin goddess of the sea. Already hailed as a classic this is the story of an extraordinary journey of discovery that not only radically alters our understanding of world exploration but also rewrites history itself.
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