Great British Pubs is a practical guide that takes you around the very best public houses in Britain & celebrates the pub as a national institution. Every kind of pub is represented in these pages with categorised listings featuring full-colour photography illustrating a host of excellent pubs from the seaside to the city & from the historic to the ultra-modern. Articles on beer brewing cider making classic pub food recipes & traditional pub games are included to help the reader fully understand what makes a pub Great. Tours around some of the pubs featured in the book are also provided to give you the opportunity to get out & visit plenty of Great British Pubs. ...

Please be upstanding ladies & gentlemen for the greatest puddings that this fair land has to offer! Celebrating the gooiest yummiest sweetest treats that made Britain great this new cookbook lets you in on the secrets of the best desserts in the country. From steamed sponges (chestnut & chocolate pudding) to classic crumbles (apple blackberry & cinnamon) forgotten creations such as Lord Randall's pudding & school dinner favourites like jam roly poly through chocoholic delights to perfect rice pudding & vintage Christmas pudding this book is a genuine pud-lover's delight. With 150 foolproof tried-&-tested dessert recipes plus easy instructions & colour photographs this is the essential pudding cookbook from the real experts. ...

The Sunday Times Bestseller A glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years
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The Great British Sewing Book will do for sewing what The Great British Bake Off has done for baking. Brought to you by the same production company the TV series will be looking for the nation's best amateur sewer. The Great British Sewing Book will provide amateur sewers everywhere with all the technical knowhow & inspiring projects they need to produce a core collection of 25 fabulous garments & homewares. From a child's sundress & a swinging circular skirt to unisex pyjama trousers a tea dress & a waistcoat the garments offer something for both sexes & all ages. The homewares & accessories include aprons bags cushions & window dressings. In addition to this core collection 4 winning designs from the series are also included: a simple daytime dress a child's party dress a jacket & an evening dress
- all with complete instructions & full-size patterns. Capturing the creative energy of the series the book will also celebrate the rich heritage of sewing & give timely advice on recycling & customising existing pieces. Lavishly illustrated throughout the photography reflects the atmosphere of the series shows all the finished garments &

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For more than 30 years internationally acclaimed wreck diver & best-selling author Rod Macdonald has surveyed & researched shipwrecks around the world. His books such as Dive Scapa Flow & The Darkness Below are household names in the diving world. In Great British Shipwrecks Rod uses his encyclopaedic knowledge & an intimate understanding of shipwrecks gleaned from a lifetimes diving to provide a snapshot in time of some of the best known & most revered shipwrecks around the UK. For each of the 37 shipwrecks covered Rod provides a dramatic account of its time afloat & its eventual sinking
- with each wreck being beautifully illustrated by renowned marine artist Rob Ward. Rods journey around the UK starts with the classic recreational diving shipwrecks at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands from giants such as the German WWI battleships Markgraf Konig & Kronprinz Wilhelm to the legendary WWI British cruiser HMS Hampshire on which Lord Kitchener perished on a voyage to Russia in 1916. Rod then travels to the English Channel where he covers such famous ships as the P&O liners Moldavia & Salsette which were lost during WWI with many others such as the SS Kyarra & the British submarine HMS/M M2
- the first submarine to carry a seaplane for reconnaissance. The reader is then taken to the North Channel of the Irish Sea where the famous technical diving wrecks of the White Star liner Justicia HMS Audacious the first British battleship lost during WWI & the SS Empire Heritage which was lost with its deck cargo of Sherman tanks on a voyage from New York during WWII are beautifully illustrated. Returning to Scotland the famous West Coast shipwrecks such as the Thesis Hispania Rondo & Shuna in the Sound of Mull grace the pages in addition to the renowned wrecks of the SS Breda lost near Oban & the WWII minelayer HMS Port Napier off Skye. Lastly Rod covers some major North Sea shipwrecks revealing for the first time the haunting remains of HMS Pathfinder the first Royal Navy warship to be sunk by U-boat torpedo during WWI. This is a beautifully illustrated & definitive guide to the greatest shipwrecks around the UK & will be an enlightening & unmissable book for many.

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The ultimate book of sweetie nostalgia! A colourful witty & irreverent encyclopedia of all the sweets & crisps of your youth. From Mojos to Rainbow Drops Space Raiders to Trios Corona to Kia Ora & everything in between. Fully illustrated with hundreds of wrappers ads & specially recreated packshots this book will lead you down memory lane until you reach the corner shop load up a 10p mix up bag & rot your teeth on the contents. The authors have been given access to the archives factories & warehouses of some of the leading sweet & snack manufacturers in the country & have delivered a book that is packed full of fascinating historical research...and lots & lots of sweets. WITH A FOREWORD BY JONATHAN ROSS. ...

Theres nothing much left to feel good about these days if youre British but one of the few things where we all agree that were still a world leader is our defining sense of humour. Thematically covering every subject imaginable from God to dogs this collection will be the seminal gathering of our national wit & a picture of who we are as a nation
- a monument to our monumental silliness. An Englishman even if he is alone forms an orderly queue of one. This work

Includes:: George Mikes Jane Austen Pam Ayres Alan Bennett Jeffrey Bernard John Betjeman Jo Brand Craig Brown Winston Churchill Alan Clark Jeremy Clarkson Billy Connolly Peter Cook Tommy Cooper Noel Coward Quentin Crisp Les Dawson Stephen Fry A.A. Gill Stella Gibbons W.S. Gilbert Joyce Grenfell Tony Hancock Harry Hill Jerome K. Jerome Boris Johnson Samuel Johnson Maureen Lipman Spike Milligan Nancy Mitford Frank Muir Eric Morecambe Joe Orton David Renwick Brian Sewell William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw Edith Sitwell Frank Skinner Arthur Smith Sue Townsend Peter Ustinov Queen Victoria Oscar Wilde Kenneth Williams P.G. Wodehouse & Victoria Wood.


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Great Britain can be accused of many things; a proliferation of queuing a fondness of the demon drink; but its not without more than its fair share of important historical & modern people. Great Britons: A Very Peculiar History looks at a myriad brillliant Britons & their influence on the world. The book features a short potted history of each person detailing their acheivements personalities & lifestyles in a quirky & memorable way. From kings & queens pirates & politicians actors & directors to sportsmen explorers scientists & inventors Great Britons: A Very Peculiar History celebrates the men & women who have shaped Great Britain & made it what it is today. ...

A spectacular visual tour of the worlds greatest buildings Great Buildings" takes you to an amazing tour of 50 of the worlds architectural masterpieces from the Houses of Parliament to the Sydney Opera House. Discover how to "read" a building identify key characteristics of architecture & get underneath the bricks & mortar with stunning 3-D cutaways. Come face-to-face with some of the greatest architects to have lived & find out how the styles techniques & materials they used helped create these iconic buildings. " Great Buildings" is an excellent introduction to architecture as well as being a great read for the connoisseur
- it really is like being taken on a personal tour by a knowledgeable guide."
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THE NEW QUESTION Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty even chaos & others do not? Based on nine years of research buttressed by rigorous analysis & infused with engaging stories Collins & his colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable tumultuous & fast-moving times. THE NEW STUDY Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins's prior work by its focus not just on performance but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. With a team of more than twenty researchers Collins & Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness
- beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years
- in environments characterized by big forces & rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these 10X companies" to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments. THE NEW FINDINGS The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as: * The best leaders were not more risk taking more visionary & more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined more empirical & more paranoid. * Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic & uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation to blend creativity with discipline. * Following the belief that leading in a "fast world" always requires "fast decisions" & "fast action" is a good way to get killed. * The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies. The authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking sticky & supremely practical concepts. They include 10 Xers; the 20 Mile March; Fire Bullets then Cannonballs; Leading above the Death Line; Zoom Out Then Zoom In; & the SMa C Recipe. Finally in the last chapter Collins & Hansen present their most provocative & original analysis: defining quantifying & studying the role of luck. The great companies & the leaders who built them were not luckier than the comparisons but they did get a higher Return on Luck. This book is classic Collins: contrarian data driven & uplifting. He & Hansen show convincingly that even in a chaotic & uncertain world greatness happens by choice not by chance."

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