Antonio Carluccio is a larger-than-life character who over his 50-year career has inspired thousands of people with his no-fuss Italian cooking & passion for good food & wine. But behind the famous name is a man whose life has been full of unexpected twists & turns joy & sadness love & loss. Born on the Amalfi Coast in the South of Italy in 1937 Antonio's taste buds were first awakened by his Mamma's delicious home cooking. In this book he recounts the early years including his first experience cooking simple suppers on a two-ring stove to his unplanned meteoric rise to fame as the founder of one of the UK's most prominent restaurant brands prolific author & successful television presenter. Despite his success Antonio has never forgotten is humble beginnings or the women who next to food have been the biggest influence on his life. Throughout the text will be the recipes that have formed the touchstones of his life. This is a story of commitment drive & the ingredients needed to succeed. ...

Antonio Carluccios Simple Cooking is a coming together of all the secrets that Antonio has learned over his many years of cooking. Packed with easy reliable & delicious dishes it is the perfect cookbook for the novice & enthusiast alike. All the mouthwatering recipes featured are very easy to cook perfect for those with little experience or who are short of time. Throughout Antonio has also included clever suggestions for how to upgrade the basic recipe by adding a luxury ingredient or an extra component
- an anchovy or two perhaps some chilli & capers or an accompanying sauce. There are also ingenious recipes for using up leftovers with Antonio always remaining budget-conscious. & of course all the dishes are completely delicious for they are Antonios favourites employing the basic tenets of the finest Italian cooking: finest top quality ingredients prepared simply & served without fuss. The recipes are illustrated with fabulous photography by Alistair Hendy including several step-by-step sequences. Antonio Carluccios Simple Cooking is a distillation of a lifetime of passion full of Antonios firm belief that cooking whether for oneself or for family & friends is one of the most loving of human skills.
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The Godfather of Italian food Antonio Carluccio is an internationally acclaimed cook whose worldwide book sales number in the millions & whose television series have screened in over 20 countries. Now for the first time he has brought together over 300 of his best recipes to form this ultimate compilation. Capturing Antonio's simple joyful & no-fuss approach to cooking this exceptional book provides a unique culinary journey covering every aspect of the Italian meal from antipasti to dolci & featuring mouthwatering dishes from each of Italy's distinct culinary regions. It is packed with stunning photographs & infused with Antonio's characteristic voice & style. Antonio's recipes are always beautifully simple & bursting with flavour & now that they're collected into one stunning volume you won't need to scramble between your cookbooks for your favourite recipes ever again. With only the very best recipes drawn from seven of his best-selling cookbooks Antonio Carluccio: The Collection is bound to become the most significant Italian cookbook of its generation. ...

The first edition of Antony & Cleopatra" developed by & for the RSC with unique material including a new introduction from Jonathan Bate & interviews with important RSC directors. This is the first edition of " Antony & Cleopatra" to be developed by & for the RSC the worlds leading Shakespeare theater company & it

Includes:: unique material to help the reader understand & enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page. It is illustrated with photographs of classic & unusual performances. It features outstanding on-page notes which explain words & phrases unfamiliar to a modern audience including the slang political references & bawdy humor often ignored or censored in competing editions. It

Includes:: scene-by-scene summary offering an easily understandable way into the play. This book

Features: completely new introduction by Jonathan Bate exploring the text & critical debates around it; summary of the plays performance history at the RSC & elsewhere; & interviews with important Shakespearean directors Adrian Noble Gregory Doran & Braham Murray discussing key productions at the RSC. This new edition of Shakespeares classic love story developed by & for the RSC

Includes:: new interviews with acclaimed directors Adrian Noble Gregory Doran & Braham Murray looks at specific productions in the plays history & a completely new introduction by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate."







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A battle-hardened soldier Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for the exotic & tempestuous queen of Egypt. & when their life of pleasure together is threatened by the encroaching politics of Rome the conflict between love & duty has devastating consequences. ...

Take a perilous journey to distant lands & strange magics aboard the wondrous airship known as the Jerle Shannara... Following the events in ILSE WITCH Walker Boh finds himself alone caught in a dark maze beneath the ruined city of Castledown stalked by a hungry unseen enemy. Inhuman & old beyond reckoning it commands ancient technologies & covets the magic of the living races. It is Antrax & it traps the souls of men... Above Castledown the crew of the airship Jerle Shannara find themselves besieged by evil forces & the Ilse Witch confronts the druids protege Bek Rowe who claims to be the brother she last saw as an infant
- now a young man who carries the Sword of Shannara & wields the magic of the wishsong. But the time is fast approaching when Bek Rowe must choose between betrayal & redemption. Such is the burden carried by the true heir to the ancient magic of Shannara.
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Leopard is having a party but he hasn't invited Aardvark. When naughty ants start biting bottoms at the birthday bash it isn't long before all the guests are throwing their pants in the air to get rid of them! Only Aardvark can eat the ants & save the day but will he make it to the party? The award-winning & bestselling author of Big Red Bath joins the bestselling author of Giraffes Can't Dance to create this hilarious yet sweet book. ...

Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns organised beggar societies insane homunculi & magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies & consequently misses his return trip to 1983 the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man escape artist & swordsman in order to survive in the dark & treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets black magic murderous beggars freezing waters imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons poisoning & even a plunge back to 1684. Coleridge himself & poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters & a werewolf that inhabits others bodies when his latest becomes too hairy. ...

Dr. Robert L. Leahys techniques to treat negativity & improve mental health have been proven easy effective & popular by many people worldwide while his books have been translated into eleven languages & are a valuable source used throughout the world in training other behavioural therapists. His latest book Anxiety Free" presents his simple & powerful techniques for coping with anxiety & worry in a straightforward & engaging manner & can help you overcome your fear & doubt
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' Tis the season to be jolly except single Dubliner Jenny Breslin is feeling something a little closer to gloomy. Everything about her life
- her boring job at the bank the complete lack of romance
- has been untouched by holiday magic & she dreads the thought of spending yet another festive season with her larger-than-life mother & her new boyfriend. Thank God for Twitter a place where there are always people ready & waiting to have a chat. She's even managed to make a couple of genuine friends there even though she's never met them IRL (that's ' In Real Life' by the way). ' So who's on for a few days in Dublin? Would love to meet you all in person. I have a spare room in my house'
- this drunken tweet to her Twitter pals changes Jenny's life forever. Before she knows it she's counting down to a Christmas visit from London-native Zahra Burns make-up artist to the stars; Fiona Lee a stay-at-home mum from Galway & nurse Kerry (the Twitter buddy Jenny feels closest to). Suddenly Jenny becomes aware of how her life will appear to these strangers. In a word: Boring. It's easy enough to pretend that you're an exciting & sophisticated person when nobody can see you but now Jenny's worried about being caught out in the occasional lies that she's told. All the more incentive to change her life for the better! But once her pals arrive Jenny finds herself pining for the past & wondering if people are ever who they claim to be.


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