This is the ultimate guide to healthy home-cooked food that can be rustled up in a matter of minutes with 400 original recipes & even whole menus that can be prepared & cooked in less than half an hour. Carefully compiled for even the most hectic schedule this cookbook is the proof that convenience cooking need not mean compromising on taste. Meats can be glazed & griddled succulent seafood skewered sauces whipped up sushi rolled salads tossed & spices blended in the time it takes to heat up a supermarket ready-made dish in the oven. Beginning with excellent instant ideas for breakfast & brunch
- from real porridge with plums to Irish-style potato pancakes
- this book is also packed with ideas for speedy mid-morning snacks & working lunches whether the craving is for a banana smoothie spicy plantain chips griddled tomatoes on soda bread deli-style chicken salad or a range of easy-to-prepare soups. A classic range of fish chicken pork beef & lamb dishes prove that speed & taste can be perfect partners while the collection of vegetarian mains simply burst with flavour & texture. Feeding hungry family members is a nightly conundrum facing every busy parent & a special section on family dishes

Includes:: many favourites
- chilli-fried chicken pan-fried gammon & classic twists to spaghetti
- plus a few surprises to whet the palate. Entertaining at home is great fun for the guests & this inspired collection of quick dishes to impress proves that the host can join in too
- whether serving up a splendid dish of salmon whisky & cream at a candlelit winter gathering or grilling Greek-style swordfish al fresco in the garden. To finish gorgeous home-spun desserts such as hot chocolate rum souffles or coffee mascarpone creams will leave frozen supermarket desserts sitting on the shelf. With more than 1500 beautiful colour photographs step-by-step instructions & at-a-glance preparation & cooking times this book will keep stress mess & fuss to a minimum & allow you to spend more time eating & enjoying. Nutritional information detailing fats carbohydrates & calorific content will enable the reader to incorporate these quick-fix meals into a balanced & nutritional diet.






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In 1960s Nigeria a country blighted by civil war three lives intersect. Ugwu a boy from a poor village works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna a young woman has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover the professor. & Richard a shy English writer is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them they are thrown together & pulled apart in ways they had never imagined. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism ethnic allegiances class & race
- & about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team husband & wife Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl Wu Dunn take us on a journey through Africa & Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years precisely because they are girls than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first Kristof & Wu Dunn demonstrate it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce moral pragmatic full of amazing stories of courage & inspiration HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen. ...

The autobiography of international rugby referee Nigel Owens. Nigel is the first openly gay rugby personality. He came out in 2007 & has since won Sports Personality of the year by Stonewall was the only Welsh referee at the 2007 Rugby World Cup & is respected as one of the best refs in the world. His autobiography tells of his tormented life as a teenager in a Welsh village & his attempted suicide in his 20s. Nigel also became a heavy user of steroids & suffered with bulimia. But this is a story of triumph as he overcame everything & became o highly respected referee & is now a favorite personality in the rugby world rugby. Hes also a Welsh language t.v. personality & comedian ...

The definitive record of the Lightweight Land Rover. Many previously unpublished facts & figures.

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England 1937. In the village of Blacknowle on the Dorset coast fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild & lonely upbringing. Shunned by her neighbours the arrival of renowned artist Charles Aubrey along with his exotic mistress & their daughters is like a breath of fresh air. As Charless muse Mitzy develops a deep & abiding bond with the Aubrey household over the course of the following three summers. Gradually Mitzy begins to perceive a future she had never thought possible & a powerful love is kindled in her. A love that will grow as she does: from innocence to obsession; from childish infatuation to something far more complex. It will be almost seventy-five years before the consequences of this potent desire are fully played out as a young man in an art gallery looks at a hastily-drawn portrait & wonders at the intensity of it. The questions he asks will lead him back to Blacknowle & draw him to the truth about those fevered summers in the 1930s. Moving from the wilds of the Dorset coast to the intoxicating heat of a Moroccan summer A Half Forgotten Song explores the quixotic nature of memory
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1937. In a village on the Dorset coast fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild & lonely upbringing
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On the eve of Granny Hazels burial in the back garden a stranger in his time machine
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Second volume of the highly detailed illustrated history of the American Half-Track M2 This second volume opens with a description of the Half-Tracks incarnation as a weapons carrier with all variants & versions presented on 75 pages of drawings along with a collection of photographs. The next chapter discusses further development of the vehicles versions which were not mass produced illustrated with photographs & fabric drafts. Also included is a description of the usage of the Half-Track during World War II when it was utilised by the US Army & the USMC mainly for supplies of l&-lease. Polish Armed Forces also used these vehicles both in the West & in the East even after the war had ended. This monograph contains a chapter about camouflage & the different markings of the Half-Traks versions in 12 superb colour plates. For modellers there is a list of models & accessories & the book comes complete with 34 pages of 3D colour graphics colour photographs of museum exhibits & current riding restored vehicles. This book is bilingual with Polish & English text & captions. About Gun Power This series focuses on the armour armoured vehicles & artillery. Every book contains a chapter about the designs history drawings in modelling scales colour plates presenting camouflaging schemes & a modelling chapter. The part covering the designs development history is illustrated by a large number of photographs. The plans show different variants all non-standard versions & modifications of the vehicles or guns in several views & depict the details in the highest possible quality. Specifically for the modellers the included colour profiles are printed in the same scale. A separate comprehensive modelling chapter goes through the models & accessories sets available. ...

Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future from the bestselling author of the Logan Mc Rae series. There are worse things than the death penalty! They call them halfheads: convicted criminals surgically mutilated & lobotomized by the State then sent out to do menial jobs in the community so everyone will know what happens when you break the law. There are no appeals no reprieves & no one ever comes back. Until now. Dr Fiona Westfield one of the most prolific serial killers Glasgow has ever seen is waking up. Surrounded by blood & death & darkness. William Hunter has risen through the ranks since putting Westfield away; now hes Assistant Network Director in charge of police actions. But a routine murder investigation is about to embroil him in an appalling conspiracy. The vast connurb blocks on Glasgows deprived south side are ready to explode. Eleven years ago the VR riots killed millions -- now someone wants to start them all over again. & Will is being dragged back into a past he desperately wants to forget! ...