Sophie Dahl one of the most glorious women on the planet shares delicious secrets from her slinky kitchen funny stories & favourite recipes in a beautifully illustrated hardback. With delectable recipes for each season this luscious abundant take on food will delight women everywhere. In this beautifully colour illustrated cookbook Sophie shares 100 of her favourite recipes that show that healthy can be delicious & indulgent. Sophie lived out the latter part of her adolescence under the public spotlight as the first anti-waif model. Flirting with every food fad from Atkins to raw food she experienced both misadventures & victories in her quest to have a healthy relationship with food. Now she reveals the recipes that allowed her to eat what she wants while being sylphy as a sapling. Sophie cooks with gusto & passion & here she takes us on a delicious journey through a wonderful collection of her favourite recipes for every meal & every season
- from her Grandmother Gee-Gees ginger parkin to her dads amazing chicken curry to what she serves her boyfriend for breakfast. Try out her mamas baked acorn squash & the delicious student-days favourite Paris Mash plus childhood-fun puddings like Carnation milk jelly or decadent desserts like Chocolate chestnut souffle. Sophie reveals compassionate common sense about food & serves up a lashing of healthy recipes that celebrate the joy of eating so youll never want to diet again. Original funny intimate & quirky with a bit of whimsy this glorious book is full of wonderful anecdotes & delicious recipes scattered with Sophies own lovely Matisse-like line drawings that slope off the page.
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Sophie Dahl one of the most beautiful & stylish women on the planet shares delicious secrets from her slinky kitchen. With 100 delectable recipes for each season as well as funny & touching stories from her amazing life this luscious & beautifully illustrated book is set to become a cookery classic. Sophie Dahl has been both round as a Rubens & as sylphy as a sapling through trial error & an episode in India which needn't be discussed in detail with anyone. She lived out the latter part of her adolescence in public & so her puppy fat which should have been a tender family joke became fuel for national debate. At the time this was crippling to her & one of the reasons she moved to another country. Flirting with every food fad from Atkins to raw food she has had both misadventures & victories in her quest to have a sound healthy relationship with food. Now in her twenty-ninth year it is suddenly simpler: Sophie cooks & eats & does both with gusto. It can be lonely & confusing navigating food particularly with the standards of beauty & weight that are thrust upon us by advertisers. Sophie aims to debunk some of the horrible punishing diet myths & replace them with compassionate common sense anecdotal stories & a lashing of healthy recipes. This is a book that doesn't encourage guilt or monastic deprivation but celebrates the joy in food & eating. Original funny quirky with a bit of whimsy this glorious book is full of memoir anecdote & delicious recipes scattered with lovely Matisse-like line drawings that slope off the page. ...

Her Ladyship greets Miss Daisy with excitement. Shes due to retire & wants to have some fun. Lets drive round the world" she declares. Not with me thinks Miss Daisy & a love-hate relationship between two very different personalities begins. Each year Her Ladyship dreams up a so called training trip for them. " Its only a few hundred miles " she would say. But every time something would go wrong
- a wheel falls off Her Ladyships haemorrhoids are exacerbated by those damned speed bumps & then theres the Sat-Nav... Ah yes the Sat Nav. The journeys get longer & longer & Madams demands become ever more bizarre that is until a two-thousand mile trip round Spain exhausts them both. Then when the garage door closes Miss Daisy recalls her early years & the people who have touched her life. Surely now that shes living with her Ladyship shell eventually settle down? It seems though that it is not to be... Miss Daisys Diaries is a charming work of humorous fiction written by a 1934 Austin 7 motor car struggling to live with a new owner. It will be enjoyed by fans of comic tales the baby boomer generation & vintage & classic car enthusiasts."
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Daisy Dirts dad is a dustman on the dole but her mum has remarried a Duke so shes a filthy rich Duchess. Poor Daisy doesnt know whether shes coming or going whether shes rich or poor
- until everything changes. Based on the classic Happy Families card game this highly entertaining series is ideal for reading & sharing at home or at school. It is guided by the Education Adviser Brian Thompson & written by the award-winning author Allan Ahlberg. The best thing to happen to beginner readers since Dr Seuss
- Childrens Rights Workshop.

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Dora Dose is not just a doctors daughter shes a double doctors daughter
- her mum & dad are both doctors. Dora wishes she was a
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The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death Ibsen can sit serenely in his Dolls House Sean OCasey remarked while Strindberg is battling with his heaven & his hell. Strindberg was one of the most extreme & ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindbergs international reputation as a dramatist principally rests & this edition embraces his crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist The Father & Miss Julie to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898. Michael Robinsons highly performable translations are based on the authoritative texts of the new edition of Strindbergs collected works in Sweden & include the Preface to Miss Julie Strindbergs manifesto of theatrical naturalism. Introduction Textual Note Bibliography Chronology Explanatory Notes ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Miss Josie Jump the jockey can't wait to gallop in a race like her mum her brother & even her grandma but everyone says she's too young. But then grandma's horse gets a sore throat & Jimmy Jump gets a splinter in his bottom so she might get her chance at last. This charming title in the comic series based on the Happy Families card game will delight children between six & eight years old. ...

Miss Magenta Sweet Inventor" is book five of " Ladybirds" " Genie Street" fiction series. This exciting new book contains two short chapter stories for independent readers who are ready & want to read real fiction for the first time. In " Miss Magenta Sweet Inventor" Tom & Daisy are needed urgently in Lampland! Miss Magenta has been kidnapped by the evil Count Sourtooth. Tom & Daisy journey to Lampland & must try to help Miss Magenta escape but will they succeed before Count Sourtooth & his evil goblins see them? In the second story
- Mr Moley Robot Goalie
- Tom & Daisy find themselves at a football match in Lampland but the players are all robots! " Genie Street" is the next step up from " Ladybirds Read it yourself Level 4". With short chapters simple vocabulary & a clear layout these books will encourage & build confidence when reading. Other stories in this series include Mrs Kramer Dragon Tamer Mr Chan Rocket Man Mrs Greene Mermaid Queen & Dr Singh Pirate King."

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Natalie is a city girl & more interested in fresh sushi than fresh air so shes less than thrilled when shes packed off to Camp Lakeview. It doesnt take long for her to realize that there are some pretty cool girls there though & she starts to make friends. But will those friends stick around when they realize Natalies been keeping a huge secret? ...

A brand new omnibus of 55 short stories presented for the first time in chronological order. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as the typical old maid of fiction Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead. Yet by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature -- & used it to devasting effect. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering the ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard has been heard to say: Shes just the finest detective God ever made. -- & many Agatha Christie fans would agree. Appearing for the first time in The Murder at The Vicarage (1930) her crime-fighting career spanned over forty years when she solved her final case in 1977 in Sleeping Murder. With every tale flawlessly plotted by the Queen of Crime herself these short stories provide a feast for hardened Agatha Christie addicts as well as those who have grown to love the detective through her many film & television appearances. Here for the first time more than 50 of Agatha Christies mini masterpieces have been collected together in one volume perfectly illustrating the true breadth of her talent. As well as every story featuring Miss Marple the book

Includes:: additional st&-alone tales from macabre tales of the supernatural through suspense-ridden mysteries to heart-stopping cases of murder.

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