This title features stunning watercolour paintings by one of Swedens best-loved artists. It offers fascinating insight into ...

Take control of your home accounting! Accounting from home can be a difficult task--but not an impossible one with the right tools. Home Accountz For Dummies shows you exactly how to use the UKs number one home finance software to look after household expenditures & effectively budget for a positive future. Author Quentin Pain shows you the ins & outs of managing your money with Home Accountz & this easy-to-understand book provides you with the tools you need to predict future financial capabilities. Explains installation setup creating accounts & connecting to banks Teaches you how to effectively understand accounts import data from other software & set up budgets Explores importing data from software such as Microsoft Money Quicken or spreadsheets Covers dealing with transactions in foreign currencies Addresses setting up automatic transactions Shows how to watch where your money goes with customizable reports Home Accountz For Dummies is a fun easy to use guide that takes the chore out of home accounting & puts you in control of your money. ...

Dallas Mac Gregor is living the Hollywood dream. At thirtysomething she's an award-winning actress beloved by the public & bound for even bigger success. But when her soon-to-be-ex-husband producer Emilio Baird is caught in a sex scandal Dallas's charmed life turns tabloid nightmare. Determined to shield her young son Cody from the ugly uproar Dallas seeks refuge in sleepy St Dennis Maryland
- the Chesapeake Bay town where her happiest childhood days were spent. Reunited with her boisterous beloved great-aunt Dallas wants nothing more than to leave her Hollywood days behind. & when she crosses paths with local veterinarian Grant Wyler her high school summer love she finds he's everything she remembers & more
- & that the spark is still there. But Dallas's promising new life takes a troubling turn when the unimaginable happens & she finds herself living a mother's worst nightmare & Emilio storms into St Dennis to save the day
- along with his damaged career. Trapped in the unwanted glare of the limelight once again Dallas discovers that it's coolheaded Grant who is willing to risk everything for her & her son & to secure the future they were always meant to share.


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In this hilarious collection of cautionary tales & anecdotes George East discusses all the delights & drawbacks of finding buying & restoring French property. HOME & DRY IN FRANCE follows the early adventures of George & Donella East as they make every mistake in the (not-then-written) book about how & how not to buy a second home across the Channel. Tellingly subtitled A YEAR IN PURGATORY the book is much more than a listing of all the awful pitfalls awaiting the innocent abroad: it is the hilarious & always entertaining account of how a couple set out with a dream
- & came close to turning it in to a nightmare.
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This trenchant & illuminating book by one of Africa's most influential & celebrated writers is a major statement on the importance & dangers of stories one in which Achebe makes telling use of his personal experiences to examine the political nature of culture & specifically literature. It is the weaving of the personal into the bigger picture that makes Home & Exile so remarkable & affecting. It's the closest we are likely to get by way of Achebe's autobiography but it is also a brilliantly argued critique of imperialism. Achebe challenges the way the West has appropriated Africa with a particular emphasis on how 'imperialist' literature has been used to justify its dispossession & degradation. Above all this is a book that articulates persuasively why literature matters. Stories are a real source of power in the world Achebe concludes & to imitate the literature of another culture is to give that power away. ...

This work is a continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworths Journal" & a selection of her brothers poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her journal because I shall give William pleasure by it. In doing so she never dreamt that she was giving future readers not only the chance to enjoy her fresh & sensitive delight in the beauties that surrounded her at Grasmere but also a rare opportunity to observe the progress of a poets mind. Colette Clarks skilful & perceptive arrangement of Dorothys entries alongside Williams poems throws a unique light on his creative process & shows how the interdependence of brother & sister was a vital part in the writing of many of his great poems. By reading these poems in relation to the journal it is possible to trace the processes by which they were committed to paper & so achieve a fuller understanding of them. A writer in her own right Dorothy kept her journal sparse in personal & emotional detail. Yet there is nevertheless a deep emotional undercurrent running beneath the surface which only falters when William marries Mary Hutchinson. Never again was Dorothy to achieve the freedom spontaneity & the limpidly beautiful prose with which she infused & irradiated the Grasmere journals." ...

Nothing lifts the heart like the smell of a cake baking the first slice of a warm homemade tart a hot muffin with your coffee in the morning or a steamed pudding on a cold night. There are a few simple secrets to making home baking wonderful. Whether youre cooking cakes meringues pastries biscuits or puddings you will discover in Home Bake" how to make them the best. The books simple cakes include classics such as Genoise Sponge & Light Fruit Cake alongside more surprising recipes such as Apple & Honey Crumble Sponge. There are flour-free cakes muffins & cupcakes too
- from the Marshmallow Muffin to the Chai-tea Cupcake. Delicious puddings are also made easy. Discover how to make the perfect Baked Lemon Cheesecake or a simple Blueberry Cheesecake. Create a gorgeous Steamed Sticky Toffee Pudding or a glamorous Hot Ginger Bread Souffle. Or learn the simple tricks behind a great Tarte Tatin or a delicious Bakewell Tart. Delicious recipes simple tricks...this book contains everything you need to know to make gorgeous homemade bakes."
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The growing movement of Nordic cuisine centres on its devotion to high-quality regional produce the creativity of the chef & a sound awareness of the workings of nature-a set of principles that guides author Hanne Risgaard in Home Baked. With enticing full-colour photographs throughout Home Baked offers recipes & techniques for baking artisan bread & pastry using organic nutrient-rich grain & stone-milled flour grown & milled on Skortoft Molle the Risgaards' farm on Als an idyllic island in the southeast of Denmark. Copenhagen's celebrated restaurant NOMA recently accorded a ' World's Best Restaurant' award uses Skortoft Molle products. Risgaard's recipes include unique ingredients like foraged herbs & greens-such as the Cocotte with Ramsons elderflower muffins & ' Green Knots' made with stinging nettle-that emphasize the distinct Nordic approach to bread baking that is worlds away from most conventional baking books. The book

Includes:: a guide to basic equipment & kitchen set-up ingredients & the history of Skortoft Molle & their philosophy.

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* Make your own wine beer ale cider or cordials at home * Information on ingredients techniques & the all-essential brewing kit * Over 90 recipes suitable for any ability Ever wondered how to make your own beer cider or fruit wine? Home Brew provides the recipes techniques & essential information to get you started as well as the low-down on the kit needed. Handy tips & guidance will ensure that before long you are enjoying your own brew. Brewing 'your own' is the perfect way to make the most of seasonal fruits & gluts & there are recipes for every taste
- from scrumptious blackberry wine to sparkling cider fruity cherry beer or non-alcoholic ginger beer.
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There can be little more satisfying than taking your first sip of delicious home-brewed beer. In this step-by-step guide beer & brewing expert Ted Bruning shows how easy it can be to make your own beer wine & cider with just basic equipment & a few key skills. Made without the unnecessary chemicals & additives added to shop-bought drinks the beverages featured in this book will appeal to anyone seeking a more self-sufficient lifestyle. With guidelines for each step of the way from what equipment you'll need & advice on different malts & ingredients how to mash & boil through to how to bottle your finished product. Accompanied by colour illustrations of the equipment & ingredients & a detailed guide to suppliers shops & home brewing societies. Home Brewing provides clear instructions & handy hints for beginners & delicious recipes for those already adept; this guide is the perfect way to enjoy the fruits vegetables & grains of the season in the most delicious way! ...