Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels we learn an enormous amount about the writers work family lovers thought processes health & obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important & shocking details about Geoffrey himself. ...

Ever wondered why one flavour works with another? Or lacked inspiration for what to do with a bundle of beetroot? The Flavour Thesaurus is the first book to examine what goes with what pair by pair. The book is divided into flavour themes including Meaty Cheesy Woodland & Floral Fruity. Within these sections it follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus listing 99 popular ingredients alphabetically & for each one suggesting flavour matchings that range from the classic to the bizarre. You can expect to find traditional pairings such as pork & apple lamb & apricot & cucumber & dill; contemporary favourites like chocolate & chilli & goat's cheese & beetroot; & interesting but unlikely-sounding couples including black pudding & chocolate lemon & beef blueberry & mushroom & watermelon & oyster. There are nearly a thousand entries in all with 200 recipes & suggestions embedded in the text. Beautifully packaged The Flavour Thesaurus is not only a highly useful & covetable reference book for cooking
- it might keep you up at night reading.
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In the exclusive town of Rosewood Pennsylvania where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets four pretty little liars
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Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Elif Shafaks The Flea Palace" is a moving & highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building & who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic & tragic " The Flea Palace" is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice. Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals & their families. Theres a womanizing hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a clean freak & her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; & a charmingly naive mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the rubbish at Bonbon Palace is stolen a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth. " Picaresque". (" Guardian"). " Hyperactive & hilarious". (" Independent"). Elif Shafak has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in both English & Turkish contemporary literature; her novels " The Bastard of Istanbul" " The Forty Rules of Love" " The Gaze" & " Honour" are consistently at the top of bestseller lists across the globe. Elif Shafaks examination of national identity " The Happiness of Blond People" is available as part of the " Penguin Specials" series
- a digital only series of shorts designed with commuters in mind."
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Merry meet fledgling. I trust this guide will serve you well... Every vampyre fledgling who arrives at the House of Night receives a copy of The Fledgling Handbook 101 & now fans can have one too with this gorgeous must-have edition. Inside you'll find original stories the complete vampyre history inside info into rituals vamp biology & the Change & much more. ...

Over the past decade some GBP3 trillion
- equivalent to GBP50 000 for every person in Britain
- has been taken from us by the

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This is the definitive history of one of the most successful bands of the 1970s & 80s from a UK author. After initial success as a hit British blues band Fleetwood Mac emerged as the most successful soft rock band of the 1970s & 1980s dominating the mainstream music market internationally. Their albums including the multi-million selling Rumours" are now considered classics of popular rock while singles such as " Rhiannon" " Dreams" " Dont Stop" & " Little Lies" have stood the test of time as landmark songs of an era. Covering the albums & tours the successes & the awards as well as the emotional ups & downs of their often volatile personal relationships this book will present a unique view of a band whose name has become synonymous with both the triumph & the heartache of rock & roll stardom." ...

Reeling from the devastation of Dust & Decay Benny Imura & his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny Nix Lilah & Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived.. .somewhere. Finding it is their best hope for having a future & a life worth living. But the Ruin is far more dangerous than any of them can imagine. Fierce animals hunt them. They come face to face with a death cult. & then there's the zombies-swarms of them coming from the east devouring everything in their paths. & these zoms are different. Faster smarter & infinitely more dangerous. Has the zombie plague mutated or is there something far more sinister behind this new invasion of the living dead? One thing Benny & his companions can't afford to forget: In the great Rot & Ruin everything wants to kill you. ...

When Alex Delaware first saw Lauren Teague she was a sullen teenager with the usual problems: bad grades at school moody uncommunicative with her parents
- which is why they thought she needed to see a psychologist. Years later Lauren has vanished Alex reluctantly agrees investigate & is drawn into the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation & LA's seedy sex industry. Sensing that Lauren's dark family secrets may hold the key to her disappearance Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis not to get involved. As his quest for the truth beomes an obsession he is prepared to risk his relationship with long-time lover Robin Castagna & even his own life...
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The 4th thriller in the Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart Mac Bride. Panic grips The Granite City as DS Logan Mc Rae heads up a manhunt for ' The Flesher'
- one of the UK's most notorious serial killers. The case was closed. Until the killer walked free... When an offshore container turns up at Aberdeen Harbour full of human meat it kicks off the largest manhunt in the Granite City's history. Twenty years ago ' The Flesher' was butchering people all over the UK
- turning victims into oven-ready joints
- until Grampian's finest put him away. But eleven years later he was out on appeal. Now he's missing & people are dying again. When members of the original investigation start to disappear Detective Sergeant Logan Mc Rae realizes the case might not be as clear cut as everyone thinks... Twenty years of secrets & lies are being dragged into the light. & the only thing that's certain is Aberdeen will never be the same again.


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