Scarlett O' Brien utterly addicted to romantic films has found her leading man. She's convinced Sean is Mr Right but the day-to-day reality of a relationship isn't quite like the movies. With Sean constantly away on business Scarlett & her new best friend Oscar decide to head to New York for the holiday of a lifetime. From one famous landmark to the next Scarlett & Oscar make many new friends during their adventure
- including sailors in town for Fleet Week a famous film star & Jamie & Max a TV reporter & cameraman. Scarlett finds herself strangely drawn to Jamie they appear to have much in common: a love of films & Jamie's search for a parent he never knew. But Scarlett has to ask herself why she is reacting like this to another man when she's so in love with Sean.. .
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She was just a girl standing in front of a boy.. .wishing he looked more like Hugh Grant. Scarlett loves the movies. But does she love sensible fiance David just as much? With a big white wedding on the horizon Scarlett really should have decided by now.. . When she has the chance to house-sit in Notting Hill
- the setting of one of her favourite movies
- Scarlett jumps at the chance. But living life like a movie is trickier than it seems especially when her new neighbour Sean is so irritating. & so irritatingly handsome too. Scarlett soon finds herself starring in a romantic comedy of her very own: but who will end up as the leading man?

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The Kerr family say goodbye to their orange farm in Mallorca & put it up for sale after three years of hard work. The Mallorcan experience comes to an end with a farewell fiesta for neighbours & friends full of comic shenanigans but tinged with sadness. But now begins the return-to-Scotland adventure & what a cultural shock is in store. Welcomed back by family the Kerrs make plans to start a deer farm on a remote hillside the beginning of a period of challenges & change of buying & restoring houses in the lovely Scottish countryside. Meanwhile Peter explores Scotland with fresh eyes visiting such places as the Biarritz of the North where Robert Louis Stevenson used to holiday & giving us an insiders view of the world-famous Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Theres never a dull moment in the Kerr household. ...

As a new generation of school-leavers leaves home either to university or to seek their fortunes in the outside world many face the daunting prospect of cooking for themselves for the first time. Rather than resort to a diet of expensive takeaways or anything-on-toast this great book by 22-year old newcomer Tiffany Goodall shows first-timers how to cook everything they might want to eat. Whilst at university last year Tiffany wrote From Pasta to Pancakes with a student budget firmly in mind. It covers key basic skills such as how to cook pasta pizza pancakes couscous rice or bake a jacket potato each with many variations & moves on to explain how to whip up delicious breakfasts filling lunches proper dinners & delicious treats. With recipes ranging from Minestrone Soup to perfect Roast Chicken from Spanish Omelette to Thai Green Curry & from Chocolate Brownies to Vodka Watermelon this book will set young adults up for a lifetime of enjoyable cooking. With its brilliant cartoon-strip design more than 750 photographs & over 90 recipes From Pasta to Pancakes makes it easy to learn to cook. It explains the things other books assume you know & crucially

Includes:: photographs to illustrate every step. So if you need to know what simmering water really looks like whether your sauce is the right consistency or how to check whether chicken is properly cooked youll find clear instructions next to some handy pictures. Designed with a comic strip twist & with a photograph of every key step From Pasta to Pancakes is packed with recipes colour & helpful tips. It is an ideal partner for those taking their first steps in the kitchen.

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As a new generation of school-leavers leaves home either to university or to seek their fortunes in the outside world many face the daunting prospect of cooking for themselves for the first time. Rather than resort to a diet of expensive takeaways or anything-on-toast this great book by Tiffany Goodall shows first-timers how to cook everything they might want to eat. Tiffany wrote From Pasta to Pancakes with a student budget firmly in mind. It covers key basic skills such as how to cook pasta pizza pancakes couscous rice or bake a jacket potato each with many variations & moves on to explain how to whip up delicious breakfasts filling lunches proper dinners & delicious treats. With recipes ranging from Minestrone Soup to perfect Roast Chicken from Spanish Omelette to Thai Green Curry & from Chocolate Brownies to Vodka Watermelon this book will set young adults up for a lifetime of enjoyable cooking. With its brilliant cartoon-strip design more than 750 photographs & over 90 recipes From Pasta to Pancakes makes it easy to learn to cook. It explains the things other books assume you know & crucially

Includes:: photographs to illustrate every step. So if you need to know what simmering water really looks like whether your sauce is the right consistency or how to check whether chicken is properly cooked youll find clear instructions next to some handy pictures. Designed with a comic strip twist & with a photograph of every key step From Pasta to Pancakes is packed with recipes colour & helpful tips. It is an ideal partner for those taking their first steps in the kitchen.

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Christmas had never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; & that usually means more work for Scarpetta Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner I. The body was naked female & found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the head the sections of skin excised from the body the displayed corpse
- all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault Scarpetta's nemesis is back at work. Calling on all her reserves of courage & skill & the able assistance of colleagues Marino & Wesley Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival as well as justice
- heading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark menacing labyrinths of the New York subway. For more about Patricia Cornwell & her books visit her website at www.patricia-cornwell.com

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Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire using outside lavatories & not having a television? Did you grow up in the 1950s & were you a teenager in the swinging sixties? If the Festival of Britain food rationing & the Queen's coronation are among your earliest memories then you belong to the post-war baby boomer generation. How did we end up here in the second decade of the twenty-first century when it all just seems like yesterday? In this fascinating new trip down memory lane Paul Feeney remembers what it has been like to live through the eventful second half of the twentieth century. This nostalgic journey through an era of change will resonate with anyone who began their innocent childhood years in austerity & has lived through a lifetime of ground-breaking events to the much changed Britain of today. There are also some wonderful pictures to help jog our memories of bygone days. ...

For this edition of her classic study of the feminine role in film Molly Haskell has written a new chapter addressing recent developments in the appearance & perception of women in the movies. An incisive exceedingly thoughtful look at the distorted lens through which Hollywood has historically viewed women. It is a valuable contribution not just of film criticism but to a society in which the vital role of women is just beginning to emerge."--" Christian Science Monitor" " Haskell is interested in women--how they are used in movies how they use movies & how the parts they play function as projections & verifications of our myths about women's lot & woman's psyche & even lately women's lib."--Jane Kramer " Village Voice" " In examining the goddesses worshipped by an entire nation Molly Haskell reveals a good deal about our national character & our most cherished sexual myths.... Concerned with the deeply ingrained belief of women's inferiority she analyzes movies as a social product as well as a social arbiter & she effectively demonstrates how women are encouraged to impose limitations on themselves by fashioning those selves after flickering shadows in a darkened auditorium--sexual creatures who possess neither ability nor ambition beyond their bodies.... Both as an examination of film & as sociology " From Reverence to Rape" is excellent."--Harriet Kriegel " The Nation"" ...

' We are here to find a target who will fulfil our requirements. Someone who is admired & whose ignominious destruction would cause dismay' A beautiful Soviet spy. A br&-new Spektor cipher machine. Smersh has set an irresistible trap that threatens the entire Secret Service. In Fleming's fifth 007" novel Bond finds himself enmeshed in a deadly game of cross & double cross." ...

SMERSH the Russian intelligence unit is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would deal a hammer blow to the heart of The British Secret Service. The lure? The chance for 007 to bring the Spektor decoding machine from Istanbul to London & for the British to take the upper hand in a chilling new front of the Cold War. So begins a deadly game of bluff & double bluff with Bond a marked man as he enters the murky world of Balkan espionage. ...