Katrien loves chocolate & uses it in cake decorating because it not only tastes delicious but is so versatile. In this book she shows you how to create beautifully decorated cakes: fresh contemporary fun & irresistible. It is filled with techniques & ideas for everyone whether you just want to decorate a ready-made cake or use one of the scrumptious recipes in the book to bake it from scratch whether you only bake occasionally or do it for a living. Whether you buy a ready-made cake or take the time to lovingly bake your own cake from the luscious recipes at the end of this book whether you only bake occasionally or bake for profit I would like to teach you a few techniques which once mastered will give you the ability to decorate your cake quickly & easily to be a show-stopper on any occasion. ...

Forget perfection
- Decorating with Style gives you the confidence to take risks with interior design embrace what you love &
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Near the village of Helmthorpe Swainsdale the body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a drystone wall. Harry Steadman has been brutally murdered. But who would want to kill such a thoughtful dedicated man? Chief Inspector Alan Banks is called in to investigate & soon discovers that disturbing secrets lie behind the apparently bucolic facade. It is clear that young Sally Lumb locked in her lover's arms on the night of the murder knows more than she is letting on. & her knowledge could lead to danger.. .' The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling evocative deeply nuanced works of art' Dennis Lehane ' Inspector Banks
- a man for all seasons he knows that often the answers to the clues are hidden in his own heart' Michael Connelly ' If you haven't encountered Chief Inspector Alan Banks before prepare for a crash course in taut clean writing & subtle psychology. & watch for those twists
- they'll get you every time' Ian Rankin

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'I hate it when my mother brags about me & my sister. Deenie's the beauty & Helen's the brain."' Mrs Fenner has very fixed ambitions for her daughters. Deenie is thirteen years old & gorgeous. Her mother wants her to be a model -- but Deenie's not so sure. So when she's diagnosed with scoliosis -- curvature of the spine -- Deenie's almost relieved. No more traipsing round modelling agencies no more living up to her mother's expectations. But she has to wear an ugly uncomfortable back brace for the next four years. & she's convinced that it will put an end to normal teenage life -- including her blossoming relationship with Buddy Brader.. ." ...

Nick Stones future looks bleak. The only person hes ever loved is dead. The only people who might save him have turned their backs. Until a chance encounter reunited him with a man whose life he saved ten years ago. What seems a simple quest in Baghdad takes Stone into the heart of a chilling conspiracy from violent Bosnia through lightening-paced action in Iraq. But too late he realizes that he is being used as bait to lure into the open a man he believes can offer some salvation. A man whom the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing to destroy... ...

Deep Country is Neil Ansells account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales. I lived alone in this cottage for five years summer & winter with no transport no phone. This is the story of those five years where I lived & how I lived. It is the story of what it means to live in a place so remote that you may not see another soul for weeks on end. & it is the story of the hidden places that I came to call my own & the wild creatures that became my society. A beautiful translucent portrayal of mid-Wales". (Jay Griffiths). " Touching. Through Ansells charming & thoroughly detailed stories of run-ins with red kites curlews sparrowhawks jays & ravens we see him lose himself.. .in the rhythms & rituals of life in the British wilderness". (Financial Times). " Remarkable fascinating". (Time Out). "A gem of a book an extraordinary tale. Ansells rich prose will transport you to a real life Narnian world that CS Lewis would have envied. Find your deepest most-comfortable armchair & get away from it all". (Countryfile). Neil Ansell spent five years living on a remote hillside in Wales & wrote his first book Deep Country about the experience. Since that time he has become an award-winning television journalist with the BBC. He has travelled in over fifty countries & has written for the Guardian the New Statesman & the Big Issue." ...

Jakes sister Lisa has a chance at Olympic glory in the swimming pool
- or she did until the council decide to close the local
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This is an epic tale of a final battle between good & evil. The Strega-Borgias are in deep fear for their lives! The forces of evil are converging on Strega Schloss
- demons the Mafia a changeling with a nasty bite
- & the wild & weird Strega-Borgias must gather together their allies to fight back. But there are just a few too many distractions with Damp the toddler-witch missing in action & a house full of wolves & bickering teenagers getting in the way. Can the family keep it together
- even when theyre scattered over time & place? This is a deliciously inventive & hilarious finale to the Pure Dead".. .series."


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Recovering in hospital from an appendix operation Ali Harris whiles away her time by entering magazine competitions. A few weeks later shes delighted to discover that shes won first prize in Complete Woman" magazines Most Romantic Couple of the Year competition. Theres just one problem. Ali has been dumped by her fiance & theres no way she can claim her prize
- a romantic holiday for two in Antigua
- on her own. Help is at hand in the unlikely form of Jeremy Boily Baxter the spotty boy next door. But Alis troubles have only just begun."

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A brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time.. . Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela the Ice Maiden--the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart beat for the first time in three hundred years. Yet the exquisite Danii is part ice fey & her freezing skin cant be touched by anyone but her own kind without inflicting pain beyond measure. Soon desperate for closeness in an agony of frustration Murdoch & Danii will do anything to have each other. Together can they find the key that will finally allow them to slake the overwhelming desire burning between them? Aleaha Love can be anyone
- literally. With only skin to skin contact she can change her appearance assume any identity. Her newest identity switch has made her an AIR (alien investigation & removal) agent & sends her on a mission to capture a group of otherworldly warriors. Only she becomes the captured. Breean a golden-skinned commander known for his iron-will who is dangerous & soul-shatteringly seductive threatens her new life. Because for once she only wants to be herself...
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