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. ...

Antonys 100 one-pot dishes for the slow cooker the oven & the hob are wonderfully easy to make. Once you have put the ingredients into the casserole you just leave them to cook while you get on with something else. There are pot-roasts stews braises curries breads & puddings from all over the world
- from India through the Middle East & the Mediterranean to Eastern Europe & Russia. All the recipes for the slow cooker can be prepared in advance & left to cook during the day so when you get home from work there is a tasty supper waiting for you. Dishes for the oven & hob are also slow cooked taking a minimum of 1 hour to bubble away. Many of the recipes use inexpensive ingredients including beans lentils & cheap cuts of meat
- which are deliciously succulent after hours in the pot. Perfect for the family table! The book is packed with information on which ingredients are suited to slow cooking & hints & tips for getting the most out of your slow cooker. Antonys recipes are easy to follow so whether you have been using a slow cooker for years or have just bought one there are lots of recipes here for you.

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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. ...

' 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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It's not that you can't do it; you just don't want to do it! We all try & wriggle out of boring chores like washing up or taking the rubbish out but what about the bigger things like going to work & being a proper responsible grown-up? Indulge the big kid in you & arm yourself with this indispensible guide to shirking! ...

Any Human Heart" is William's Boyd's classic bestselling novel
- now a major Channel 4 drama. Every life is both ordinary & extraordinary
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Hey pretty lady havent we met? Yes beautiful thirty-something Autumn Haven has definitely met hockey-superstar Sam Le Claire before. Several years ago she had a passionate Vegas-inspired fling with him involving getting hitched in an Elvis-themed wedding chapel & ending with her waking up in a hotel room: alone heartbroken...and pregnant. So these days reminding her ex-husband that she even exists isnt high on Autumns to-do list. But they have a child Conner & suddenly Sam claims to have grown up wanting to be more involved with his son. & handsome drop-dead sexy Sam always gets what he wants. Being a good dad to Conner is one thing but to her horror Autumn realises she still finds it practically impossible to be around Sam without falling for his charms once again. & thats the last thing she wants...isnt it? Sexy funny unputdownable
- theres no one quite like Rachel Gibson.
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Sheila Malory has her reservations when she is asked to research the history of the village of Mere Barton as it brings her into close contact with miserly Annie Roberts a controlling woman whos much resented by her fellow villagers. Not even the local rector has a good word to say about her. When Annie suffers a fatal bout of self-inflicted food poisoning there is more relief than grief around the village. However as Sheila continues to work on the local history she begins to wonder if Annies death was as accidental as it first seemed? An intriguing mystery containing a tangled web of guilt & deceit Any Mans Death" will enthrall armchair detectives everywhere." ...