I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories One morning in February 1952 a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk & set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born & would go on to become one of the most successful enduring & lucrative creations in literature. But Bonds world of glamour & romance gadgets & cocktails espionage & villainy wasnt entirely drawn from imagination: Flemings background & his experiences as an intelligence officer during the Second World War were all formative parts in the creation of the worlds most famous spy. Packed with astonishing detail & written in Macintyres inimitable style For Your Eyes Only is the most enlightening enlivening book on the creator of the spy who not only lived twice but proved to be immortal. ...

' Private armies private wars. How much energy they siphoned off from the common cause how much fire they directed away from the common enemy!' From A View to A Kill"; " For Your Eyes Only"; " Quantum of Solace"; " Risico"; The Hildebrand Rarity Five stories. Five missions. Five glimpses into the mind of a spy. From Jamaican estates to brooding French forests Bond is tested to his limits by the world's most dangerous men & the dark secrets they keep." ...

At any time in any place food is there for the taking
- if only we knew how & where to look. Miles Irving makes his living out
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In The Forager's Kitchen expert forager & cook Fiona Bird shares the knowledge she has gained from years of gathering food from the l&. Whether you live in a large city in open countryside or by the coast if you open your eyes & follow Fiona's advice you will find more ingredients growing in the wild than you could imagine. & once you have brought your bounty home there are more than 100 recipes for you to try. If you love baking try the carrot & clover cake wild hazelnut shortbread or sea lettuce madeleines. Make the most of a hedgerow glut by making honeysuckle jelly or quince & wild thyme sorbet. Try a food-for-free main course of chanterelle puffs or wild mussels steamed with dandelions or a quick snack of garlic mustard chickweed & tomato bruschetta. Or indulge your tastebuds with wild berry & herb marshmallows or a wild cherry panna cotta. The Forager's Kitchen will change the way you cook
- rather than shopping in the aisles of your grocery store head off to the great outdoors & you will be amazed by the sheer quantity of food that available for free.
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This is a practical guide to finding & preparing food from hedgerows parks fields woods rivers & seashore. Aimed at the beginner it also has a wealth of tips for the enthusiast & unlike other books on wild food covers foraging in the urban environment as well as the countryside. The book shows the reader Where How & When to find the best edible berries leaves flowers mushrooms seaweed shellfish & snails with clear & full instructions on what is safe to eat. Foraging" covers the 100 wild foods that are good to eat fun to find easy to identify
- & will make a healthy difference to your diet & your bank balance. The book is organised by environment so when taking a walk gardening or having a day out you know how to gather a hedgerow harvest a field feast a seaside salad. Each entry features one species & fully explains its looks exactly where in the habitat it will be found when it is ripe to eat its alternative names its history how to harvest it its culinary uses. There are full instructions too on preparation of each plant/fungi/animal along with recipes for its use. This title

Includes:: recipes such as: comfrey fritters hazelnut pate nettle beer sorrel soup dandelion coffee blackberry jam..."


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What do Bill Gates Henry Ford J. P. Morgan Mary Kay Ash & Walt Disney all have in common? Uncompromising vision a willingness to take risks & exceptional business acumen. Not only did these individuals amass great fortunes they revolutionized the business world & helped shape society as we know it. Theirs are just a few of the stories collected in this anthology of commercial ingenuity. Drawing on a wealth of sources this priceless collection brings to life extraordinary achievements many of them forgotten or little known: how Robert Morris the preeminent merchant of the eighteenth century financed the American Revolution with his personal credit; how Ray Kroc used a shrewd real estate strategy to turn a faltering hamburger franchise operation into the Mc Donalds fast food empire; & how Mary Kay Ash built a billion-dollar direct sales cosmetics company by preaching a message of economic empowerment to women. Enlightening & fascinating Forbes (r) Greatest Business Stories of All Time celebrates larger-than-life ambition inspired leadership wheeling & dealing & hard work. Forbes is a registered trademark of Forbes Inc. Its use is pursuant to a license agreement with Forbes Inc. ...

She is pretty & talented
- sweet sixteen & never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous & on the brink of a bright future. & now
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The world as we know it is unrecognisable. Almost 500 years have passed since civilization's brush with extinction. Perfect order reigns & humanity's gretaest threats have been silenced by the ruling totalitarian government. There is no disease. No passion. No hate. No war. There is only peace. Until one man discovers the truth hidden in a secret journal: the human heart has been stripped of all that makes it human & exists only in a kind of living death. But when Rom exposed himself to the vial of blood contained in the journal he was filled with uncontrollable emotions. Only Rom is now truly alive & only he has the knowledge that can reawaken humanity. But the way is dangerous & the cost staggering.. .the way is forbidden. ...

London April 1817 ' Dance with me ' her dark gentleman said. ' You were meant to dance with me.' Trial by Seduction From the moment Lord Henry Wardeaux heard that the missing heiress to the Templemore fortune was working as a lady's maid he travelled to London to verify Margery Mallon's true origins
- by seduction if necessary... Innocent Margery is shocked by the wicked passions Henry has roused within her. Unable to resist his sinner's eyes Margery finds herself tarnishing her virtuous reputation & falling for her mysterious seducer. Nevertheless Henry's secret must be revealed & when the maid becomes a countess how can the richest heiress in England forgive his deception?
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When ambitious Doctor Paul Clement takes a job at the mission hospital on Saint Sebastien he has dreams of discovering cures for tropical diseases. What he finds is a place where the black arts are just a way of life. After witnessing the ritualistic murder of a young man said to be one of the living dead he is forbidden to speak of what he has seen. On returning to Paris Clement's attention turns to studying the nervous system & resuscitation. He is told of patients who have apparently died been brought back to life & whilst suspended between life & death experience what they believe to be heaven. Clement attempts a daring experiment in order to confirm these extraordinary reports but the outcome is wholly unexpected. Could it be that when he is resuscitated he brings something back with him
- an ancient evil so powerful that it can never be destroyed? Is the good doctor slowly succumbing to madness or has he really passed through the gates of hell?
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