When Ian Gregg was just a boy he joined his father at work selling pies from his van to miners wives around Newcastle. Now retired he can look back on a business that began as a husb&-&-wife team in the 1930s & survived a world war & two major recessions to become our favourite bakery beloved by everyone from children to office workers to soldiers overseas. Ian Gregg led the family firm as it grew employing generations of families from around Newcastle & then becoming a public company with bakeries in Scotland & across the North & now with shops on every high street. This is a story of extraordinary success but it is also a triumphant tale of how doing right by your people makes for great business. Bucking every trend Greggs have always put their customers employees & local communities before quick profits for directors & shareholders. Their astounding record of charitable works

Includes:: hardship grants an environment fund sponsorship of the North East Childrens Cancer run & over GBP1 million raised annually for Children in Need. Ian Gregg will donate all of his royalties & Greggs plc will donate all its profits from the sale of this book to the Greggs Foundation to help fund more Breakfast Clubs for children.

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This treasury of instruction recipes & practical wisdom offers breads for every taste & temperament. You will find Thomson's wonderful original recipes for savoury & sweet yeasted breads as well as detailed instructions for breads that are traditional around the globe from French & Italian breads to challah & croissants from pizzas & focaccias to sopaipillas & pitas to sourdoughs & spongebreads buns rolls & bagels. With her new book Thomson reintroduces no-knead yeasted batter bread an old-time favourite that is sure to become popular with home cooks who would love to make bread but think they don't have time. Since recipes for this kind of bread are a rarity today. Thomson's batter breads offer a unique opportunity to try something delicious & just a little different. ...

With more than 150 recipes Breads & Baking" has simple step-by-step methods & illustrations with a wide variety of baked dishes breads & cakes. The book is broken into savoury baked dishes; breads scones & tea breads; baked puddings & sweet tarts & pies; biscuits cookies brownies & traybakes; cakes & buns; & celebration cream cakes & gateaux. Recipes range from soft dinner rolls & beef & red wine pie to rich devil's food cake. Uses clear step-by-step photography & easy-to-follow methods." ...

Featuring breads & muffins to make at home that we eat in restaurants this book

Includes:: recipes for Focaccias

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It is Afghanistan. Parvanas father is arrested & taken away by the Taliban soldiers. Under Taliban law women & girls are not allowed to leave the house on their own. Parvana her mother & sisters must stay inside. Four days later the food runs out. They face starvation. So Parvana must pretend to be a boy to save her family. It is a dangerous plan but their only chance. In fear she goes out
- & witnesses the horror of land mines & the brutality of the Taliban. She suffers beatings & the desperation of trying to survive. But even in despair lies hope.
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Family ties mean trouble chains & fatal obligations. & when steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding comes to the aid of his twin sister & her husband Bobby Allardeck even death threatens. A vicious newspaper campaign jeopardizes Bobbys career as a racehorse trainer. Putting behind him the age-old Allardeck-Fielding feud Kit tries to find out who is behind it all. Combining his investigations with riding winners for the Princess
- whose beautiful niece becomes more than a friend
- he makes some startling discoveries. Caught up in the intrigue are powerful people who think a jockey should mind his own business & are prepared to use violence to make sure he does...

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Dr Temperance Brennan & her students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on an island near Charleston South Carolina when a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach. The bone is fresh & the remains are still topped by wisps of hair
- its a recent burial & a case Tempe must take. Tempe determines that the deceased is a middle-aged white male
- but who was he? Why was he buried in a clandestine grave? & what does an unusual vertical fracture of one of the vertebrae signify? Before long another body is discovered
- & Tempe finds herself drawn deeper into a shocking investigation which will challenge her entire view of humanity.


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Each day brings a new beginning... Her mothers death in childbirth leaves Sophy Hutton at the mercy of her cruel aunt & uncle & her childhood is brutal. At sixteen Sophy learns the shocking truth behind her birth & escapes to London to pursue a career as an actress determined to put the past behind her. But life for women at the turn of the century is fraught with danger & Sophy soon discovers the darker side to Londons glamorous theatres. Young & innocent she doesnt recognise the man who really loves her when he appears; instead she is charmed into marrying handsome actor Toby Shawe a flawed & amoral individual. Then the heartache really begins... ...

Carmilla Queen of the Night is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery they stumble on an actual corpse a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families: the grandfather of one Chaim Salanter is one of the world's wealthiest men; the mother of another Sophy Durango is the Illinois Democratic candidate for Senate. For V.I. Warshawski the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Sophy Durango? Or to Chaim Salanter's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania? As V.I. struggles for answers she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human. ...

When she revisited always with astonishment what had happened to her it was the deliberate breaking of her fingers that remained indelibly printed on her memory.. . Twelve hours after a woman's broken body is washed up on a deserted shore her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles away wandering the streets of Poole. But why was Kate killed & her daughter a witness allowed to live? & why weren't they together? More curiously why had Kate willingly boarded a boat when she had a terror of drowning at sea? Police suspicion centres on both a young actor whose sailing boat is moored just yards from where the toddler is found & the murdered woman's husb&. Was he really in Liverpool the night she died? & why does their daughter scream in terror every time he tries to pick her up? ...