Here is the ultimate recipe book for those who love to bake. It contains 165 recipes for a wide range of treats including classic recipes such as light & airy Victoria Sponge sweet moist & lightly spiced Carrot Cake & dense & sticky Gingerbread. There are simple cakes to rustle up quickly & more complex ingredient combinations that need time to mature as well as celebration cakes on which to lavish attention. Fat-free flour-free & sugar-free cakes are included too. Whether you're a complete beginner about to make a first cake or a seasoned professional this beautiful book is packed with inspiring recipes as well as practical information. Each recipe is illustrated with step-by-step instructions & photographs to describe how each cake should look at every stage of preparation. ...

This title helps you in making the most of fresh herbs in your cooking with 85 delicious recipes & 150 photographs. It features over 85 delicious & flavourful recipes for soups salads appetizers fish meat poultry vegetarian dishes bread biscuits cakes desserts & ice creams all made with generous handfuls of fragrant fresh herbs. It

Includes:: classic dishes such as lamb with mint & roasted tomato & mozzarella salad with basil dressing as well as unusual combinations such as chicken with thyme & lavender. It

Includes:: a useful herb directory that identifies some of the best-known & most useful culinary herbs as well as delicious flowers fruits & spices that will pep up a plain meal. Herbs make an everyday meal more interesting adding refreshing hints of a single flavour & aromatic & subtle depth when added in combinations in generous handfuls. This volume shows you how to make the most of these versatile plants with over 85 delicious & enticing recipes to try. Herbs need not be confined to the savoury course; here are delicious ideas for incorporating herbs into flavourful breads bakes desserts & even ice creams as well as the more usual soups salads fish meat & vegetable dishes. Whatever your choice here are recipes guaranteed to pep up an everyday meal & add interest to your cooking
- all inspired by the abundance of fresh flavours in the herb garden.




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Nothing equals the satisfaction of home baking. No commercial cake mix or shop-bought biscuit can match one that is made from the best fresh ingredients with all the added enjoyment that baking at home provides. This beautiful book is filled with familiar favourites as well as many other less known but equally tasty recipes. Explore a wealth of biscuits muffins tea breads yeast breads pies tarts & cakes in an enticing collection of baked treats. Even if you are a novice baker the easy-to-follow & clear step-by-step photographs will help you achieve good results. For the more experienced baker there are new recipes to add to your repertoire. This book is sure to inspire you to start sifting flour breaking eggs & stirring up all sorts of delectable homemade goodies. ...

This title features stories from long long ago part of an ancient oral tradition handed down from generation to generation & written down by the Christian monks of medieval Irel&. The favourite legends from ancient Ireland include: The Salmon of Knowledge"; " How Cu Chulainn Got His Name"; " The Children of Lir"; " The King with Donkeys Ears"; " Fionn & the Giant"; " The White Wolfhound"; & " Oisin"." ...

This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-&-nonsense & are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood & Youth; Poems of Love & Marriage; Poems of Life; Poems of Loss & Comfort; Poems of War & Peace; Poems to Read Aloud; Poems to Read Quietly; Poems of Animals & Nature & Poems of Magic & Mystery. The anthology

Includes:: works by William Blake Dylan Thomas Seamus Heaney Robert Burns T S Eliot Rudyard Kipling W B Yeats & many many more. The poems have all been chosen & arranged by Neil Philip & the volume is illustrated throughout with watercolour borders & decorative motifs by Isabelle Brent glowing with her trademark gold leaf.

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When Flora Fox's parents send their daughter off to boarding school they have no idea that the train will take her back to 1935. On the journey Flora has a strange dream. She wakes up without her laptop or her phone wearing a hideous uniform with ridiculous bloomers underneath. She is a new girl at St Winifred's where the rules are mad the food horrible & the hairiness of theeachers unbelievable. Her 21st century manners will not be tolerated at strict St Win's
- how will she ever survive & find her way back to her own time? But there is a special reason why Flora has been summoned to the past. It involves the tempestuous girl who becomes her best friend...BESWITCHED is a wonderfully funny classic story from a popular & very talented children's author.
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The story of how Beth Chatto created her gravel garden on possibly the driest & the most windswept piece of soil in England has a message of hope for gardeners everywhere. At the outset she promised herself: This garden was not to be irrigated in times of drought. Once established the plants must fend for themselves or die. The results beautifully portrayed in Steven Woosters specially commissioned photographs taken through the seasons testify to the triumphant outcome of the adventure. ...

John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landscape & architecture. As Poet Laureate he became a national icon but behind the public man were doubts & demons. For much of his fifty year marriage to Penelope Chetwode the daughter of a Field Marshal Betjeman had a relationship with Elizabeth Cavendish the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire & Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret. Betjeman a devout Anglican was tormented by guilt about the storms this emotional triangle caused. This book is the first to use fully the vast archive of personal material relating to Betjemans private life including literally hundreds of letters written by his wife about their life together & apart. It is a celebration of a much-loved poet a brave campaigner for architecture at risk & a highly popular public performer. ...

For more than half a century Betjemans writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places
- from the smell of gaslight
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Cape Colony is proving a tiresome assignment for Captain Kydd's daring commander-in-chief Commodore Popham. Rumours that South America's Spanish colonies are in a ferment of popular unrest & of a treasure hoard of silver spur him to assemble a makeshift invasion fleet & launch a bold attack on the capital of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate Buenos Aires. Navigating the treacherous bars & mud flats of the river the British invasion force lands & wins a battle against improbable odds taking the capital & the silver. But nothing is as simple as it seems in this region of the world: the uprising that will see the end of Spanish rule never arrives & the locals begin to see dark conspiracies behind the invader's actions. Soon the tiny British force finds itself surrounded by an ever more hostile population. The city begins to revolt against its liberators. Now Kydd's men must face fierce resistance & the betrayal of their closest allies. Can they save themselves & their prize? ...