Gary Rhodes is one of Britains best-loved television chefs & has written over ten best-selling books for the BBC including New British Classics & Rhodes Around Britain. Divided into 2 books Spring into Summer & Autumn into Winter The Cookery Year shows us how to make the most of seasonal ingredients to produce delicious recipes bursting with flavour all year round. In Spring into Summer now available in paperback Gary guides us through the range of vegetables salads meat fish & dairy products that are coming into season & uses the very best of these in over 120 original recipes. Both a reference book & a source of inspiration Spring into Summer is essential reading for experienced & novice cooks alike & will help you rediscover the joy of cooking & eating the very best food. ...

Gary Speed Remembered" is a fascinating & moving tribute to one of the greats of British football. It is the story of a player who enjoyed two decades at the top of his profession. Few men have earned more solid reputations in football than Gary Speed & the football world mourned his passing when he died in November 2011. Regarded as one of the greatest players in Premier League history Speed broke into the Leeds United team as a teenager & spent 20 years as a professional winning a Football League champions medal & 85 caps for Wales. In a career that saw him play for Leeds Everton Newcastle United Bolton Wanderers & Sheffield United Speed was always a fan favourite & highly regarded for his skilful yet combative style. After injuries forced him to stop playing Speed concentrated on coaching & following three months in charge of Sheffield United was appointed manger of the Welsh national team. There were some early disappointments but Wales enhanced dramatically & won FIFAs 2011 annual award for the team showing the greatest improvement in the year. This heralded the belief that he was leading Wales into a new golden era which made the news of his tragic death all the more saddening. Written by a celebrated journalist who followed his career from its earliest days " Gary Speed Remembered" details his life in football & contains interviews with many former friends teammates & managers. Gary Speed was one of footballs "good guys" & this book is a fitting tribute to a Welsh legend." ...

The second edition of Gas Installation Technology will be of interest to all concerned with gas installation work whether plumbers heating engineers or dedicated gas fitters. It continues to provide a definitive text for students taking NVQ gas installation & plumbing courses & a useful reference for operatives renewing their gas competences. Brought fully up to date to comply with the latest regulations & best practices it covers domestic commercial & LPG installations & provides essential information in a concise readable colourful & highly illustrated format. The new edition features enhanced diagrams & photographs to aid understanding. The second edition of Gas Installation Technology continues to be a companion to the author's highly successful textbook Plumbing & together both books offer plumbers heating engineers & gas fitters or students of these disciplines unrivalled coverage of their subject. * Fully revised to cover the latest legislation best practices & current installation procedures it covers domestic commercial & LPG installations * Still the only textbook devoted to domestic gas commercial gas & LPG installation * Concise & readable heavily illustrated with colour diagrams & photographs to aid understanding & recall ...

Harry Bowling was a much-loved author & has legions of fans
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Anthony ' Gaspipe' Casso former head of the Lucchese family is currently serving 13 life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado. Now he has given bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. Casso concocted ingenious schemes to hijack trucks rob banks & traffic vast quantities of marijuana & heroin
- shattering the myth that the Mafia didn't handle drugs. He also worked with the other Mafia families & forged strong ties with the Russian mob. He was bringing in so much cash that he had dozens of large safety-deposit boxes filled with bricks of hundred-dollar bills. But there was tragedy too & it ate away at the seemingly bulletproof Casso who loved his family but ultimately questioned his choices in life. The law finally caught up with him in his New Jersey safe house in 1993 & rather than stoically face the music like the old-time mafiosi he revered Casso became the thing he hated
- a rat. Detailing Casso's feud with John Gotti the ' Windows Case' that led to the beginning of the end for the mob in New York & Casso's dealings with the NYPD Mafia cops Gaspipe is a chilling & illuminating roller-coaster ride into a netherworld few outsiders have ever dared to enter.

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Enjoy a wonderful meal for two at a great British dining pub. Many modern pubs across the nation offer delicious dishes that have won them a level of praise that is more commonly associated with high-end restaurants. In conjunction with The Good Pub Guide we have gathered together a selection of the finest gastro pubs to offer something to suit everyone’s taste from traditional inns serving classic dishes to contemporary pub restaurants at the cutting edge of gastronomy. As well as enjoying a two course meal you’re also entitled to one half price copy of The Good Pub Guide which provides invaluable advice & information on the UK’s best pubs inns & taverns. ...

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin a half-Jewish farmers daughter from the plains of the Midwest has come to university
- escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture & politics. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious & glamorous Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child & increasingly complicated household. As her past becomes increasingly alien to her
- her parents seem older when she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military
- Tassie finds herself becoming a stranger to herself. As the year unfolds love leads her to new & formative experiences
- but it is then that the past & the future burst forth in dramatic & shocking ways. Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator A Gate at the Stairs" is a lyrical beguiling & wise novel of our times."



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Fleur is beautiful unscrupulous & has a large wardrobe of black designer suits. With the help of The Times" announcements page she gatecrashes the funerals & memorial services of the wealthy preying on rich vulnerable men. She charms her way into their lives & onto their platinum credit cards takes what she can & then moves swiftly on. When Richard a dull but wealthy businessman meets Fleur at his wifes memorial service hes bowled over. Gradually Fleur works her spell on Richards family
- transforming their lives while she moves in on their wealth. But she finds herself lingering longer than she meant to.. ."
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A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson & his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys dont mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. & there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out.. . Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it? ...

Go tell the Spartans stranger passing by that here obedient to their laws we lie. Nearly 2 500 years ago in 480BC at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of Xerxes of Persia a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. Their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as long as possible while the main Greek armies mobilized. For six days the Spartans held the invaders at bay. In the final hours
- their shields broken swords & spears shattered
- they fought with their bare hands before being overwhelmed. It was battle that would become synonymous with extraordinary courage heroism & self-sacrifice: it was Thermopylae. In Gates of Fire Steven Pressfield tells the epic story of those legendary Spartans: the men & women who helped shaped our history & have themselves become as immortal as their gods.

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