Alice Hart is an exciting authoritative new young voice on food who loves to share her culinary knowledge with friends. For her food is about fun. In this her first book she aims to encourage her generation of 20- & 30-somethings to cook the original modern food they enjoy to fit the lifestyles they lead. With chapters based around occasions
- breakfast & brunches suppers & shared lunches laid-back parties outdoor camping & picnic food
- Alice is acutely aware of seasonal cooking dividing the recipes into Frost & Fireside or Sunshine & Strawberries. Whenever you dip into the book
- whether it be in January to find a New Year brunch during August for a faded summer kitchen supper for friends or in winter for ideas for a chic drinks party
- you will find a selection of inspiring & memorable menus. Recipes are eclectic & varied ranging from Boursin Omelette Baguettes (Portable Breakfast for a Crowd) Campfire charred mackerel with red chicory & pomegranate (Summer Camping) Lemongrass pork bun bowls (Autumn Supper) to Toffee Pears with Flaked Almonds (Winter Film Night). Alice shows how to make cooking for a crowd easier & cheaper & her practical hints on timing a meal making your storecupboard work for you & scaling quantities up or down will make life more easy for people who love to cook & eat. This book is above all cook-friendly with quick ideas for packed lunches & recipes to get you out of a fix when time is really tight. As Alice says its not just about cooking its about enjoying life to the full.



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Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics. ' Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank & of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it & what is the use of a book " thought Alice "without pictures or conversations?"' So begins the tale of Alice following a curious White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole & falling into Wonderl&. A fantastical place where nothing is quite as it seems: animals talk nonsensical characters confuse Mad Hatter's throw tea parties & the Queen plays croquet. Alice's attempts to find her way home become increasingly bizarre infuriating & amazing in turn. A beloved classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has continued to delight readers young & old for over a century." ...

Part of Penguin's" beautiful hardback " Clothbound Classics" series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards ' wrote Dodgson describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland & the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; & a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen." ...

On an ordinary summer's afternoon Alice tumbles down a hole & an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party & plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land Alice finds herself growing more & more curious by the minute.. . Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" read by Susan Jameson & James Saxon is one of the seven wonderful classic stories being relaunched in CD-format in March 2007." ...

Young Alice dozes on a warm afternoon on the riverbank only to see a white rabbit with a pocket watch rushing down a rabbit hole. Alice follows & enters the magical world of Wonderland where anything & everything can happen. Each spread of this title

Includes:: additional features such as poems songs letters lists & notes that enrich the story adding background & atmosphere to draw the reader along.

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The Collector's Colour Library" takes the favourite illustrated titles of " The Collector's Library" & presents them in full colour. Original colour illustrations are faithfully reproduced & where illustrations & decorations were originally black & white they have been sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith one of Britain's most accomplished colourists. When Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit she finds herself in Wonderl&. Wonderland is no ordinary place & the characters that populate it are quite unlike anybody young Alice has ever met. " Through the Looking-Glass" continues her bizarre adventures & she meets more outlandish creations including the Red & the White Queens Humpty Dumpty & the White Knight. Sir John Tenniel's magical illustrations have been delicately coloured by Barbara Frith." ...

Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright & inquisitive child one boring summer afternoon she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom she finds herself in a bizarre world full of strange creatures & attends a very strange tea party & croquet match. This immensely witty & unique story mixes satire & puzzles comedy & anxiety to provide an astute depiction of the experience of childhood. ...

The Second World War is drawing to a close in Europe. For three years the land girls at Post Stone Farm have worked together defying Hitler in their own way. They have witnessed love & loss found their independence & made lifetime friends. Now in the final months of conflict Alice Todd prepares for life at the farm to change forever. Her years as warden of a Land Army hostel have transformed Alice's life. From damaged deserted wife she has emerged self-confident & ambitious. With peacetime approaching she must now decide on a future for her young son & herself. But what of Roger Bayliss the enigmatic farm owner to whom she is increasingly drawn? What is this strange cloud which hangs over him & threatens to destroy their relationship? In this moving finale to the popular land girls trilogy Alice & her girls come to terms with life after the war. ...

Alice-Miranda is set for a luxurious cruise aboard the royal yacht Octavia where the wedding of Aunt Charlotte & the famous ...

Alice-Miranda is thrilled to be back at school where the girls are preparing a play with the neighbouring boys' school. But it's not all glitter & stage lights: there are rumours of a witch in the woods & Jacinta & Millie are clashing with a rude new student Sloane & her pushy mother September who's plotting to steal the fortune she's always dreamed of. It's up to Alice-Miranda to set things right! ...