Richard Bertinet is renowned for his revolutionary & inspirational approach to breadmaking & his award-winning book Dough is an invaluable & beautiful guide to making simple contemporary bread with a 30-minute DVD giving additional guidance & step-by-step recipes. Richard brings fun to breadmaking & with his easy approach you will never want to buy a supermarket loaf again. Each of the five chapters begins with a slightly different dough
- White Olive Brown Rye & Sweet
- & from this 'parent' dough you can bake a vast variety of breads really easily. Try making Fougasse for lunch bake a Ciabatta to impress create Tomato Garlic & Basil Bread for a delicious canape or show off with home-made Doughnuts
- each recipe is a delight. Since it's publication in 2005 the book has been translated into 8 languages & sold over 100 000 copies. It won the Julia Child Award the IACP Best Cookbook of the Year Award a Guild of Food Writers' Award & a James Beard Foundation Award & was shortlisted for an Andre Simon Award & a Glenfiddich Food & Drink award.


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The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times perhaps. For Theo Bernstein however it is far far more. Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. & he doesn't have any money. Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own existence news arrives that his good friend Professor Pieter van Goyen renowned physicist & Nobel laureate has died. By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit to Theo however the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions. A journey that will rewrite the laws of physics. A battle to save humanity itself. This is the tale of a man who had nothing & gave it all up to find his destiny
- & a doughnut.
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Spectacular. Bathsheba is back
- & off to Dramarama Camp! Bathsheba can't wait to go to Dramarama camp with her best friend Keisha.
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The Douglas DC-3 Dakota revolutionised air transport in the 1930s & 1940s. Because of its lasting impact on the airline industry
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The lives of four sensuous bold & remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD in the desperate days of the siege of Masada when supplies are dwindling & the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers & all are keepers of secrets
- about who they are where they come from who fathered them & whom they love. There is Yael the assassins daughter whose heartbreak leads to her true path in the ruins of the desert; Revka the bakers wife who loses her dearest treasure on earth & yet finds the strength to protect her family; Aziza the warriors beloved who leads a secret life not even those closest to her could imagine; & Marit beautiful witch of Moab a woman as loyal as she is dangerous.
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Dover has been the gateway to England for over 3 000 years & each generation has left its mark on the town. From the Bronze Age boat to the Channel Tunnel from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War & from Henry VIIIs harbour to the immense Eastern Docks Dover is full of history. In this book the towns busy maritime centre seafront & architecture have been captured in a series of fascinating historical photographs each compared with a modern photograph of the same scene today. These photographs together with the authors well-researched captions will inform & entertain residents & visitors to Dover alike. ...

Making full use of archival sources studies by other scholars & information provided by family members Vincent Orange has completed the first biography of Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to cover his entire life. Soldier pilot wireless pioneer squadron commander spiritualist champion skier Stuffy Dowding is perhaps best known as the creator of the first radar-based air defence system & his no less remarkable management of such throughout the Battle of Britain. Dowding served in delightful & dangerous Iraq helped to pacify unrest in the Holy Land was involved in the R.101 airship disaster & oversaw the creation of Britains first eight-gun monoplanes the Hurricane & Spitfire. Controversially dismissed from Fighter Command & refused the RAFs highest rank he nevertheless became the first airman elevated to the peerage since Trenchard. Westminster Abbey was packed for his memorial service in March 1970 with more that 46 air marshals in attendance; & in 1988 HM the Queen Mother unveiled a statue in his honour. With his expert eye respected historian Orange has analysed & evaluated every episode of Dowdings exceptional career to produce what will be seen as the definitive biography. ...

Michelle Williams is young & attractive she has close family ties as well as a busy social life
- but she is far from usual. She
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' You have talked so often of going to the dogs
- & well here are the dogs & you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir
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This is Orwells record of a period in the late Twenties when he lived among the tramps dregs & plongeurs of London & Paris. It is the white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant compassionate young man to poverty injustice & the callousness of the rich.. . It offers insights rather than solutions; but always insights have to precede solutions.. . No one has ever claimed Down & Out" is its authors best book yet many of his admirers describe it as their favourite Orwell. Its flaws are numerous but oddly endearing." ...