More & more people even those in cities are keeping chickens tempted by the appeal of eating fresh free-range eggs. This comprehensive guide covers everything from choosing a breed to ensuring they are happy healthy & productive. How do I make their house secure? What if I go on holiday? Will they get on with my children? All your questions & more are answered. Choosing & Keeping Chickens"

Includes:: a gallery of 60 of the most popular breeds from the Dorking to the Silkie."

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A new edition of Adam Zamoyski's definitive biography of Chopin first published in 1979 & unavailable in English for many years. Few composers elicit such strong emotions as Chopin. Few have been more revered & cherished. & few have had so much sentimental nonsense written about them. Published to coincide with the bicentenary of Chopin's birth Adam Zamoyski's compelling new biography cuts through the mass of anecdote & myth that has sprung up around the composer's life & the ebullient & striking personalities of Romantic Paris among whom he lived including Liszt Berlioz Victor Hugo & George Sand in search of the real Chopin. Zamoyski brings to the subject an unrivalled knowledge of the historical social & cultural background of the composer's native Poland as well as of the France in which he spent most of his creative life. He has scoured the archives of Warsaw Krakow Paris & London in his quest for the truth & has based his account exclusively on primary sources & contemporary accounts. The result is a biography of authority perception & wit. Chopin emerges from the sugary romantic mist in which he has been shrouded as a real palpable personality a man of intelligence & humour; in music an innovator of genius; in business a feckless spendthrift; in love hesitant & tender; in friendship passionately loyal but often intolerably exacting. Through a close reading of his letters & the use of everyday detail Zamoyski draws the reader into the private world of this most complicated & reticent of men
- 'a man made for intimacy' as the poet Heinrich Heine called him
- & reveals the real passions suffering & ultimate tragedy of his life.

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Bullied at school & growing up dreaming of revenge Mark ' Chopper' Read determined to be the toughest in any company. He became a crime commando who terrorised drug dealers pimps thieves & armed robbers on the streets & in jail
- but boasts never to have hurt an innocent member of the public. Streetfighter gunman & underworld executioner he has been earmarked for death a dozen times but has lived to tell the tale. This is his story.
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Mark Brandon Read known to his friends & enemies alike as Chopper" has spent more than 17 years in prison & has a reputation for violence earned in a blood-spattered career as a streetfighter standover man gunman & underworld executioner. He has been shot stabbed hit with a claw hammer & nearly kicked to death. In " Chopper 3" Read reveals more stories from the underworld bringing his humour & sharp eye to bear on prison life brutality corruption & the warped code of the values of the criminal fraternity." ...

Three single women in their fifties meet when they join a choir. Lucy recently widowed is a cook & food journalist; Joanna a successful business woman never married; Rebecca is a divorced interior decorator. Each of the women is at a crossroads & they quickly form a bond. The trio decide to combine their talents to restore a crumbling pile in Cornwall & turn it into a cookery school & spa. The project brings its own conflicts both professional & personal. The novels themes touch on the sustaining power of female friendship & how a woman copes with mid life & onwards. Prues narrative voice is warm witty wise very accessible. Her characters are sympathetic & engaging: very different women but each with demons to face as she gets older & confronts a future without
- perhaps
- a man in it. Her knowledge of food & business adds detail & zest enriching an already compelling tale.

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I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. & she hadn't tried to bite me which was a plus. Of course the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly disturbing.. ." Zoey's best friend Stevie Rae is undead
- in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way not in a cool vampire kind-of-way. She's struggling to retain her humanity & Zoey doesn't have a clue how to help. But she does know that anything they discover must be kept secret. Trust has become a rare commodity. Sinister forces are at work at the House of Night where the line between friend & enemy is becoming dangerously blurred.
- Not suitable for younger readers -"

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I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. & she hadn't tried to bite me which was a plus. Of course the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly disturbing.. ." Zoey's best friend Stevie Rae is undead
- in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way not in a cool vampire kind-of-way. She's struggling to retain her humanity & Zoey doesn't have a clue how to help. But she does know that anything they discover must be kept secret. Trust has become a rare commodity. Sinister forces are at work at the House of Night where the line between friend & enemy is becoming dangerously blurred.
- Not suitable for younger readers -"

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When Kylie Galen left Shadow Falls she thought it was the hardest decision of her life. Heartbroken & separated from everyone she loves she finally comes to terms with her abilities & what it means to be a chameleon. But as Kylie's journey comes to a close she must return to the camp that started it all...and she must finally choose between the two boys who love her. The werewolf who broke her heart when he chose his pack over her & the half-fae who ran from their intense attraction before they ever really had a chance. For Kylie everything will finally be revealed & nothing will ever be the same. ...

Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates.. . An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge she little suspects that it has any connection with the sudden death of a friend's thirteen year old daughter from a deadly strain of meningitis. But as Jenny pieces together the dead man's last days she's drawn into a mystery whose dark ripples stretch across continents & back through decades. In an investigation which will take her into the sinister realms of unbridled human ambition & corrupt scientific endeavour Jenny is soon forced to risk the love & lives of those closest to her as a deadly race to uncover the truth begins.. . ...