This book is a mixture of anecdotes covering Roald Dahls family his childhood & his happiness at home with Liccy his wife & their numerous children grandchildren & friends. For this extensive family there is no more enjoyable way of relaxing than sharing good food & wine. The meals they enjoy together round the old pine farmhouse table at Gipsey House are either fine examples of national dishes of their heritage
- Norwegian French British etc
- or favourite recipes that have delighted three generations of discerning eaters. Many recipes have acquired a particular significance for the Dahl family over the years & these are introduced with reminiscenses rich in nostalgia & humour. The recipes are for all occasions covering family birthday parties Christmas & Easter celebrations Roalds passion for chocolate onions & wine his enthusiasm for gambling & gardening & finally a Dahl-style chapter: Hangmans Suppers"
- contributed by Francis Bacon P.D. James John Le Carre Peter Ustinov & others."


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Five fantastic Roald Dahl favourites come together in this very special box set: James & the Giant Peach" " Fantastic Mr Fox" " The Giraffe & the Pelly & Me" " The Magic Finger" & " Esio Trot". Complete with fun & fascinating extra material offering a sneak peek into the wonderful world of Dahl this is a collection to treasure forever." ...

Six Roald Dahl favorites come together in this very special box set: Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" " Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator" " Danny the Champion of the World" " George's Marvellous Medicine" " The BFG" & " The Twits". Complete with fun & fascinating extra material offering a sneak peek into the wonderful world of Dahl this is a collection to treasure forever." ...

Bold lions love roar roar roaring While cubs play
- racing chasing.. . Young children will love meeting all the wild & wonderful
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After the memorial service for legendary England number 8 Andy Ripley where he saw so many friends from rugby Stewart Mc Kinney decided to compile a selection of stories from players who have been involved with the British & Irish Lions. The result is Roars from the Back of the Bus" an absorbing amusing & at times moving collection of tales that give a rare insight into the camaraderie that exists between players at the top of their game showing that relationships forged through experiences on a Lions tour last a lifetime. From the first Tour in 1888 it showcases characters with immense personality who fought together in wars or on rugby pitches in foreign lands & who shared a bond developed through touring as representatives of the home nations. Exclusive access to letters from Alexander Findlater Todd in 1896 & diaries from 1938 & 1955 show how today's Lions still follow links established years ago. Despite the changes to the game following the advent of professionalism the experiences of Jamie Heaslip Brian O' Driscoll & Joe Worsley can still be compared to those of earlier intrepid tourists like Blair Mayne Lewis Jones Sir Carl Aarvold or David Rollo. Containing defining memories & private insights from across the tours & the decades it shows that the Lions ethos remains strong at the heart of every team." ...

Nothing beats a Sunday roast but why save all the fun for Sunday? You can roast your ingredients & enjoy all those magnificent flavours that develop in the process any day of the week. This fabulous new title rounds up all the roasts from flavour-packed chicken tender lamb fortifying beef & gamey venison to sumptuous & healthy vegetables. Roasting is a healthy heartening & deliciously easy way to cook your food today. ...

When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious & scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his fathers business & his beloved Diana Vernon he turns in desperation to Rob Roy for help. Chieftain of the Mac Gregor clan Rob Roy is a brave & fearless man able & cunning. But he is also an outlaw with a price on his head & as he & Francis join forces to pursue Rashleigh he is constantly aware that he too is being pursued
- & could be captured at any moment. Set on the eve of the 1715 Jacobite uprising Rob Roy brilliantly evokes a Scotland on the verge of rebellion blending historical fact & a novelists imagination to create an incomparable portrait of intrigue rivalry & romance.
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Rob Roy Mac Gregor was mytholigised by Sir Walter Scott but was very much a fact in the Trossachs of Scotland in the late 17th & early 18th centuries. Scott's romantic image is however far from the rogue which Nigel Tranter portrays in this classic work. Mac Gregor was an arch blackmailer protection-racketeer & thorn in the flesh of the Hanoverian Government & their right hand men the Campbells. This factual narrative firmly debunks the legend of Rob Roy as a romantic Scottish folk hero & reveals the true nature of one of Scotland's most charismatic historical figures. ...

This long-distance walk from Drymen to Pitlochry was co-developed by Rucksack Readers in 2001 & is now widely recognised as a great trail. It runs for 77 miles (124 km) along some of Scotlands finest lochs & glens using historic footpaths a cycleway disused railway trackbed forest & moorland tracks & some minor road. Many places are linked with Scotlands most famous outlaw Rob Roy Mac Gregor (1671-1734). The Way offers superb Highland scenery & passes impressive aqueducts & viaducts castles & forts a stone circle & visitor centres. It is less crowded & less strenuous than the West Highland Way but passes through friendly villages with pubs & B& Bs. It was waymarked during 2012 but the guidebook has indispensable detailed directions & fascinating background. The guidebook was first published in 2002 & this third edition documents the many improvements made to the route over its first ten years. It contains all you need to plan & enjoy your holiday: altitude profile & route breakdown into 5-7 day stages; background on Rob Roy Mac Gregor other history heritage & wildlife; summary of each section showing distance terrain & food/drink stops; drop-down map showing the whole route in five panels (1:110 000); visitor attractions & hills to climb (Munros Corbetts & Grahams); travel by car train bus or plane; foreword by Lord Steel of Aikwood; in full colour with over 75 photographs; water-resistant paper throughout. ...

Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination & tragedy of South America the Magdalena. Considered by some the most dangerous place in the world travellers along the river
- for centuries the only route into the vast South American interior
- were at the mercy of tropical disease dangerous animals & precarious barges. A third of the victims of 'la violencia' Colombia's period of civil conflict which began in the 1950s ended up in its waters. Townships alongside it have experienced some of the worst massacres in South American history. In 2011 Michael Jacobs travelled its whole length to the river's source high up in Andean moorlands controlled by guerrillas. In spellbinding prose The Robber of Memories charts the dangers he negotiated
- including the claustrophobic snail-slow journey upriver by a vast tugboat & a terrifying three day encounter with the FARC
- while uncovering the river's history of pioneering explorations environmental decline & political violence. An extra dimension was added to his journey by a chance meeting with Gabriel Garcia Marquez whose memories are rapidly fading & increasingly concentrate on the enchanted Magdalena of his youth. As Jacobs delves into the history of destruction & decay along the river he also makes a deeply personal exploration into memory & its loss. Coincidentally not far from the river's banks lies a group of townships with the highest incidence of early onset Alzheimer's in the world. Jacobs reflects on the lives of his father & his mother
- sufferers respectively from Alzheimer's & dementia
- as he travels upstream towards what comes to seem like a heartland of mystery magic & darkness.





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