Britain is home to the tastiest fruits & vegetables fish meat & honeys in the world but many of our original species & breeds are under threat by foreign invaders. British food needs us! From West Country apples rare breed bacon Baldwin blackcurrants & Scottish heather honey THE GREAT BRITISH FOOD REVIVAL is the nations definitive collection of British recipes. Combining traditional ingredients with modern flair these dishes provide every reason why we should be eating & cooking local produce from the British Isles. With big flavours & simple ingredients the food is the star. & to celebrate with true cooking magic the Hairy Bikers Clarissa Dickson-Wright James Martin & many other top chefs take the reader on a gastronomic journey & rediscover the jewels of our great food heritage. ...

Great British Food Revival is back to champion more of Britains unique produce & delicious ingredients. Essential varieties & breeds that have been here for centuries are in danger of disappearing forever. Under threat from tasteless foreign invaders market forces & food fashion produce that has been part of our national food heritage could die out within a generation. So together sixteen of our most celebrated & talented chefs have created delicious recipes to bring our native breeds & varieties back from the brink. Using only the best of ingredients this collection of recipes will inspire home cooks to buy British & support our unique food heritage. ...

Great British Pubs is a practical guide that takes you around the very best public houses in Britain & celebrates the pub as a national institution. Every kind of pub is represented in these pages with categorised listings featuring full-colour photography illustrating a host of excellent pubs from the seaside to the city & from the historic to the ultra-modern. Articles on beer brewing cider making classic pub food recipes & traditional pub games are included to help the reader fully understand what makes a pub Great. Tours around some of the pubs featured in the book are also provided to give you the opportunity to get out & visit plenty of Great British Pubs. ...

Please be upstanding ladies & gentlemen for the greatest puddings that this fair land has to offer! Celebrating the gooiest yummiest sweetest treats that made Britain great this new cookbook lets you in on the secrets of the best desserts in the country. From steamed sponges (chestnut & chocolate pudding) to classic crumbles (apple blackberry & cinnamon) forgotten creations such as Lord Randall's pudding & school dinner favourites like jam roly poly through chocoholic delights to perfect rice pudding & vintage Christmas pudding this book is a genuine pud-lover's delight. With 150 foolproof tried-&-tested dessert recipes plus easy instructions & colour photographs this is the essential pudding cookbook from the real experts. ...

The Sunday Times Bestseller A glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years
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For more than 30 years internationally acclaimed wreck diver & best-selling author Rod Macdonald has surveyed & researched shipwrecks around the world. His books such as Dive Scapa Flow & The Darkness Below are household names in the diving world. In Great British Shipwrecks Rod uses his encyclopaedic knowledge & an intimate understanding of shipwrecks gleaned from a lifetimes diving to provide a snapshot in time of some of the best known & most revered shipwrecks around the UK. For each of the 37 shipwrecks covered Rod provides a dramatic account of its time afloat & its eventual sinking
- with each wreck being beautifully illustrated by renowned marine artist Rob Ward. Rods journey around the UK starts with the classic recreational diving shipwrecks at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands from giants such as the German WWI battleships Markgraf Konig & Kronprinz Wilhelm to the legendary WWI British cruiser HMS Hampshire on which Lord Kitchener perished on a voyage to Russia in 1916. Rod then travels to the English Channel where he covers such famous ships as the P&O liners Moldavia & Salsette which were lost during WWI with many others such as the SS Kyarra & the British submarine HMS/M M2
- the first submarine to carry a seaplane for reconnaissance. The reader is then taken to the North Channel of the Irish Sea where the famous technical diving wrecks of the White Star liner Justicia HMS Audacious the first British battleship lost during WWI & the SS Empire Heritage which was lost with its deck cargo of Sherman tanks on a voyage from New York during WWII are beautifully illustrated. Returning to Scotland the famous West Coast shipwrecks such as the Thesis Hispania Rondo & Shuna in the Sound of Mull grace the pages in addition to the renowned wrecks of the SS Breda lost near Oban & the WWII minelayer HMS Port Napier off Skye. Lastly Rod covers some major North Sea shipwrecks revealing for the first time the haunting remains of HMS Pathfinder the first Royal Navy warship to be sunk by U-boat torpedo during WWI. This is a beautifully illustrated & definitive guide to the greatest shipwrecks around the UK & will be an enlightening & unmissable book for many.

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A collated edition of some of the best recipes from the popular series of storecupboard cookbooks featuring recipes made from a wonderful host of British condiments namely: Marmite HP Sauce Colmans Mustard Lyles Golden Syrup Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce & Bovril. A bumper edition featuring 60 full-colour photographs. ...

The ultimate book of sweetie nostalgia! A colourful witty & irreverent encyclopedia of all the sweets & crisps of your youth. From Mojos to Rainbow Drops Space Raiders to Trios Corona to Kia Ora & everything in between. Fully illustrated with hundreds of wrappers ads & specially recreated packshots this book will lead you down memory lane until you reach the corner shop load up a 10p mix up bag & rot your teeth on the contents. The authors have been given access to the archives factories & warehouses of some of the leading sweet & snack manufacturers in the country & have delivered a book that is packed full of fascinating historical research...and lots & lots of sweets. WITH A FOREWORD BY JONATHAN ROSS. ...

Theres nothing much left to feel good about these days if youre British but one of the few things where we all agree that were still a world leader is our defining sense of humour. Thematically covering every subject imaginable from God to dogs this collection will be the seminal gathering of our national wit & a picture of who we are as a nation
- a monument to our monumental silliness. An Englishman even if he is alone forms an orderly queue of one. This work

Includes:: George Mikes Jane Austen Pam Ayres Alan Bennett Jeffrey Bernard John Betjeman Jo Brand Craig Brown Winston Churchill Alan Clark Jeremy Clarkson Billy Connolly Peter Cook Tommy Cooper Noel Coward Quentin Crisp Les Dawson Stephen Fry A.A. Gill Stella Gibbons W.S. Gilbert Joyce Grenfell Tony Hancock Harry Hill Jerome K. Jerome Boris Johnson Samuel Johnson Maureen Lipman Spike Milligan Nancy Mitford Frank Muir Eric Morecambe Joe Orton David Renwick Brian Sewell William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw Edith Sitwell Frank Skinner Arthur Smith Sue Townsend Peter Ustinov Queen Victoria Oscar Wilde Kenneth Williams P.G. Wodehouse & Victoria Wood.


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Great Britain can be accused of many things; a proliferation of queuing a fondness of the demon drink; but its not without more than its fair share of important historical & modern people. Great Britons: A Very Peculiar History looks at a myriad brillliant Britons & their influence on the world. The book features a short potted history of each person detailing their acheivements personalities & lifestyles in a quirky & memorable way. From kings & queens pirates & politicians actors & directors to sportsmen explorers scientists & inventors Great Britons: A Very Peculiar History celebrates the men & women who have shaped Great Britain & made it what it is today. ...