Mince normally features in everyone's list of favourite dishes
- from Shepherd's Pie to Spag Bol & Kebabs to the home-made burger.
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This is Janet & Allan Ahlberg's hilarious picture book Burglar Bill". " Burglar Bill" is an entertaining picture book by the iconic British husband & wife picture book team Janet & Allan Ahlberg creators of " Peepo"! Perfect as a bedtime story & for children learning to read! Who's that creeping down the street? Who's that climbing up the wall? Who's that coming through the window? Who's that?... It's Burglar Bill. Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books & with his late wife Janet created many award-winning children's picture books including " Cops & Robbers" " It was a Dark & Stormy Night" " Each Peach Pear Plum" & the Kate Greenaway Medal winning " The Jolly Postman". Look out for these other classics by Allan Ahlberg: " The Baby's Catalogue"; " Cops & Robbers"; " Each Peach Pear Plum"; " The One & Only Two Heads"; " Son of a Gun"; " The Little Worm Book"; " Two Wheels Two Heads"; " Funny Bones"; "A Pair of Sinners"; " Happy Families"; " Peepo"!; " The Ha Ha Bonk Book"; " Help Your Child to Read"; " Ten in a Bed"; " Please mrs Butler"; " Daisy Chains"; " Yum Yum"; " Playmates"; " Foldaways"; " Woof"; " The Cinderella Show"; " The Jolly Postman"; " The Jolly Christmas Postman"; " The Jolly Pocket Postman"; " The Clothes Horse & Other Stories"; " The Mighty Slide"; " Starting School"; " Heard it in the Playground"; " The Bear Nobody Wanted"; " It was a Dark & Stormy Night"; " The Giant Baby"; " Baby Sleeps"; " Blue Buggy"; " Doll & Teddy"; " See the Rabbit"; " Please Mrs Butler"; " The Better Brown Stories"; " The Boyhood of Burglar Bill"." ...

Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004 The Burial at Thebes" is Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy " Antigone"
- whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized & compelling figures in western drama."
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Tim cant wait to go on holiday
- especially as he gets to bring his friend Biscuits along. But their trip unexpectedly becomes
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In the sleepy English village of Sanford Angelorum Professor Gervase Fen is taking a break from his books to run for Parliament. At first glance the village he's come to canvass appears perfectly peaceful but Fen soon discovers that appearances can be deceptive: someone in the village has discovered a dark secret & is using it for blackmail. Anyone who comes close to uncovering the blackmailer's identity is swiftly dispatched. As the joys of politics wear off Fen sets his mind to the mystery but finds himself caught up in a tangled tale of eccentric psychiatrists escaped lunatics beautiful women & lost heirs. ...

First Aid in English Reader A offers a diverse collection of fiction non-fcition & poetry from many different cultures. Texts are drawn from a range of different genres with attractive illsutrations to help engage the readers attention. Arranged thematically the texts are interspersed with comprehension questions & exercises designed to contribute to the readers own writing skills. Suitable for use in the whole class or by individuals pairs & groups. ...

A two-sided photographic tour of the world of modern American burlesque & fetish

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Located at the crossroads between China India & the nations of Southeast Asia Burma has long been a land that absorbed outside influences into its everyday life from the Buddhist religion to foodstuffs like the potato. In the process the people of the country now known as Myanmar have developed a rich complex cuisine that makes inventive use of easily available ingredients to create exciting flavour combinations. Salads are one of the best entry points into the glories of this cuisine with sparkling flavours
- crispy fried shallots a squeeze of fresh lime juice a dash of garlic oil a pinch of turmeric some crunchy roast peanuts
- balanced with a light h&. The salad tradition is flexible; Burmese cooks transform all kinds of foods into salads from chicken & roasted eggplant to spinach & tomato. Mohinga a delicious blend of rice noodles & fish broth adds up to comfort food at its best. Wherever you go in Burma you get a slightly different version because as Duguid explains each region layers its own touches into the dish. Tasty sauces chutneys & relishes
- essential elements of Burmese cuisine
- will become mainstays in your kitchen as will a chicken roasted with potatoes turmeric & lemongrass; a seafood noodle stir-fry with shrimp & mussels; Shan khaut swei an astonishing noodle dish made with pea tendrils & pork; a hearty chicken-rice soup seasoned with ginger & soy sauce; & a breathtakingly simple dessert composed of just sticky rice coconut & palm sugar. Interspersed throughout the 125 recipes are intriguing tales from the author's many trips to this fascinating but little-known l&. One such captivating essay shows how Burmese women adorn themselves with thanaka a white paste used to protect & decorate the skin.



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Often described as the forgotten war the Burma Campaign was one of the most punishing & protracted military adventures of World War Two. It has become notorious for the ingenious tactics used by Britain America & their allies on the one hand & the Japanese & their allies on the other as well as for the atrocious conditions that had to be endured by both sides. Seasonal monsoon rains
- which allowed effective campaigning for little more than half the year
- as well as famine disease snakes & crocodiles all bore heavily on the troops. Impenetrable jungle poor transport infrastructure & the Allied preoccupation with the war in Europe made this the longest single campaign fought by the British in the Second World War. It is against this epic backdrop that Frank Mc Lynn constructs the dramatic story of the four larger-than-life commanders directing the Allied effort: Louis Mountbatten Orde Wingate Joseph Stilwell & William Slim. Strikingly original in its approach the book explores the Campaign through the prism of these four men & their often stormy relationship. From 1942 & the greatest defeat for British arms in the history of the Empire through the crucial simultaneous battles of Imphal & Kohima
- the Stalingrad of the East
- & on to ultimate victory in 1945 this is a vivid brutal & enthralling account. By telling it through the interactions & antagonisms of its principal players we see how the plans designs & strategies of generals & politicians were translated into a hideous reality for the men on the ground.



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Orwell draws on his experience in the Indian Imperial Police for his first novel Burmese Days" a devastating indictment of British colonial rule (he resigned 'to escape not merely from imperialism but from every form of man's dominion over man' as he later wrote). John Flory cowardly & self-pitying makes an unlikely but all-too-human tragic hero as he defies convention & prejudice to befriend an Indian doctor then shoots himself when the girl who had seemed to promise escape from the stultifying 'lie' of colonial life refuses to marry him. While reporting on the dark side of the Raj Orwell nonetheless came under the spell of the landscape of the East & the exotic background of " Burmese Days" inspired his most lush descriptive writing... Back in England Orwell tackles capitalism nonconformity & compromise in " Keep The Aspidistra Flying". Youthful idealist & would-be author Gordon Comstock rebels against a life of middle-class respectability (symbolized by the aspidistra) abandoning his job with an advertising company to work part-time in a bookshop. But everything goes wrong: alternately proud & self-loathing he lets himself sink into poverty; he is unable to write; & he gets his long-suffering girlfriend pregnant. At the end respectably married
- & with an aspidistra of his own -he is back at his old firm writing copy for deodorant ads. Grimly comic
- & again written from Orwell's own experience this time of living in the London slums
- " Keep the Aspidistra Flying" is a still-relevant commentary on society's subservience to 'the Money God' & an affirmation of the power of human relationships to survive in spite of it. In " Coming Up for Air" George Bowling married mortgaged & middle aged deals with his mid-life crisis by forsaking dull suburbia for a rural idyll. But the fondly remembered village of his childhood has been transformed by the very ' Progress' he seeks to escape: the estate where he used to fish has been built over; the pond turned into a rubbish dump. An old girlfriend fails to recognize him & she herself is shockingly ravaged by time. Written in 1938-9 " Coming Up For Air" is permeated with nostalgia for the England of a more tranquil age
- before industrialization & capitalism had done their worst
- & overshadowed by premonitions of what is to come
- 'the war & the after-war Hitler Stalin bombs machine-guns food-queues rubber truncheons'. Above all it unsparingly confronts the failure of youthful dreams & the impossibility of ever reclaiming the past."





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