Meet Mr & Mrs Grunt. Oh go on. They're not that bad. No actually they ARE. Maybe worse even. But Sunny their sort-of son is okay. They stole him from a washing line as a baby. He was hanging by his ears which probably explains why they're so wonky (but not why he has sticky-up hair that NEVER lies flat even if you pour glue into it or try taping it in place). Sticky around & you'll also meet Lord Bigg of Bigg Manor Bigg-hater Larry Smalls Mimi the Bigg Manor boot boy (yup she's a girl) &... Well you'll have to READ the book to find that out. But I should mention the bees. Did I warn you about the bees?! ...

Mr & Mrs Grunt who are neither clean nor clever live with their adopted
- in fact abducted
- son Sunny in a donkey-drawn caravan

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Chocolate lovers everywhere can give in to happiness with Gu's irresistible collection of decadently delightful & joyfully simple desserts puds cakes savoury meals & nibbles. The Gu team will show you how easy it is to create delicious chocolaty goodies at home. They'll divulge the secrets if a perfect chilli chocolate mousse amazing brownies & cakes tortes chocolate tiramigus cheesecakes & many tips to glam up easy homemade puds. From teatime treats & desserts to savoury dishes & midnight feasts the Gu Chocolate Cookbook

Includes:: many easy recipes
- all with a gu-ey twist
- plus basic tips down-to-earth advice & cheeky shortcuts for steps you can prep ahead or ready-to-use ingredients. This mouth-watering varied cookbook offers 100 recipes & plenty of inspiring pictures for everything from milk chocolate truffles to a white chocolate & wasabi version triple chocolate cookies & Viennese chocolate biscuits to baked white chocolate cheesecake with sweet chutney Fred the chef's irresistible chocolate tart delicious Gulash with a pinch of chocolate to traditional mole. & for those whose chocolate cravings know no bounds an extremist chapter will show you how to roast a chicken in a chocolate crust for a perfect result treat you friends to a melting chocolate bomb or even make poppingly good chocolate bubble wrap. Recipes in the Gu Chocolate Cookbook include: Chocolate & pecan muffins Chocolate praline spread Chewy double chocolate cookies Chocolate eclairs Jaffa cake lollipops Chocolate marmalade mango & pine nut tart Viennese biscuits Raspberry chocolate mousse pots Millionaire's flapjacks White chocolate & coffee creme brulee Melt in the middle Pot au chocolate Boozy cherry chocolate clafoutis Sticky chocolatey toffee pud White chocolate cheesecake Gu-lash Easy chocolate mousse cake Melting chocolate bombe



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Felicitys earliest memories are of pain & confusion of being beaten daily by her nan & watching her mum being beaten too. She ran away from home at fifteen. At thirty-six she was a single mother of three sons who was broke & lost. Remarkably she turned her life around becoming a teacher. But it wasnt quite enough.. . Felicity needed to understand why her nan abused her
- & in researching her family history uncovered a corrosive secret that had scarred succeeding generations. In 1903 her great-grandmother Emily Swann was hung for the murder of her violent husb&. The Wombwell Murder was a notorious case & it brought shame on Emilys orphaned children. Discovering the povery & hardships of Emilys life in Barnsley & the traumas her nan suffered as a girl Felicity came to see the destructive patterns that had been repeated in her family for nearly 100 years & was finally free to walk away into her own future.
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Swept off your feet & into a nightmare.. .A powerful blend of love story betrayal & obsession The Guardian is written with electrifying intensity playing with your emotions at every turn. Widowed at a young age Julie understands the pain that comes with love & has avoided romance for a long time. As she eases herself back into the dating scene her eye is caught by the darkly sophisticated Richard as he begins a passionate pursuit of her affections. But she is still confused by her feelings for best friend Mike: funny loyal but definitely not sophisticated. A seemingly innocent choice sets off a deadly chain of events that leaves Julie fighting for her life as jealousy simmers into murderous desire. ...

When a CIA informant from Kandahar is gunned down in a suburban area of Virginia outside D.C. special Agent Jack Saunders is tasked with uncovering a plot that could alter the fate of Afghanistan & unsettle a tepid peace in the Middle East. But when a raid on a radical safe house goes horribly wrong Jack finds himself without support within his own government. Determined to find answers on his own Jack enlists the aid of Cianna Phelan a disgraced former war hero trying to put her life back together. When Cianna's brother Charlie returns to South Boston from active duty in Afghanistan & immediately goes missing Cianna & Jack find themselves in a race against time not only to save his life but to prevent an international conspiracy at the highest levels of the US intelligence community. As lives are lost in the warrens of Boston's clannish underworld Jack & Cianna realize they are on the trail of one of the most sacred artefacts in all of Islam. & when the bullets start to fly they realize they can never know whom to trust & nothing is what it seems. Praise for David Hosp ' Red-hot fiction rooted in stone-cold fact -- a legal thriller to rival the best from Grisham or Turow' Lee Child ' It is the detail & subplots that make Hosp such a gripping writer. He creates real dilemmas for his characters & saves the most touching resolution to the very end... Hosp is growing & developing with each new book' Daily Express ...

As a Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred & dangerous of missions. She's to descend into the Nether Realm & find the missing god of dreams before he betrays secrets that could kill all of them. What she never expects is to be taken prisoner by the Realm's most vicious guardian. Seth's time is running out. If he can't hand over the entrance to Olympus then his own life & those of his people will be forfeit. No matter the torture he hasn't been able to break the god in his custody. But when a rescuer appears he decides to try a new tactic. If he can win her to their cause then he can save all their lives. When these two lock wills one of them must give. Lydia isn't just guarding the gates of Olympus she's holding back the darkest of powers from the earth itself. If she fails an ancient evil will roam the earth once more & no one will be safe. But evil is always seductive.. . ...

Guardian Angel is the second book in a br&-new CHERUB series from Robert Muchamore. Ryan has saved Ethans life more than once. Ethan thinks he must be a guardian angel. But Ryan works for CHERUB a secret organisation with one key advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them. Ethans family runs a billion-dollar criminal empire & Ryans job is to destroy it. Can Ryan complete his mission without destroying Ethan as well? For official purposes these children do not exist. ...

Ryan has saved Ethan's life more than once. Ethan thinks he must be a guardian angel. But Ryan works for CHERUB a secret organisation with one key advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them. Ethan's family runs a billion-dollar criminal empire & Ryan's job is to destroy it. Can Ryan complete his mission without destroying Ethan as well? For official purposes these children do not exist. ...

When the Guardian relaunched their new Berliner sized paper this autumn they chose Kakuro as one of their launch vehicles. Kakuro (called Kakro in Japan & Cross Sums in the USA) has become the new number puzzle phenomenon gathering millions of fans worldwide. Older than puzzle favourite Sudoku & played for many years in Japan Kakuro is best described as a kind of mathematical crossword. Like Sudoku Kakuro is played on grids of varying sizes. Each grid consists of blank & filled squares similar to a crossword puzzle & the object of Kakuro is to fill in each of the white squares with the numbers 1-9 so that each set of blanks adds up to the total to the left or above. The same number cannot be used more than once in each set. Some filled in squares have a diagonal slash across them with two numbers
- one above & one below the diagonal. These are the clues
- the number in the top right corner relates to a horizontal clue & the one in the bottom left corner relates to a vertical one. The Guardian Book of Kakuro features over 100 different number puzzles graduating from 40 simple number games to 20 puzzles of medium difficulty & then finally featuring some really tough puzzle games for those who have mastered the skill. Each puzzle has been hand crafted by a Japanese inventor & is wholly original. The Guardian Book of Kakuro

Includes:: four pages of How To explaining the rules & featuring example puzzles plus a page of unique number combinations.



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