How to be a Domestic Goddess is not about being a goddess but about feeling like one. What this deliciously reassuring & mouthwatering cookbook shows is that it's not hard to bake a tray of muffins or a sponge layer cake
- but the rewards are high. Here is the book that feeds our fantasies understands our anxieties & puts cakes pies pastries preserves puddings bread & biscuits back into our own kitchens. With a writer's flair & a cook's passion Nigella brings you everything from brownies to bagels from gooseberry-cream crumble to double apple pie from pizza to pistachio macaroons from festive bake to Barbie cake.
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How to be a Gardener Book Two available in long last in paperback is the hugely successful follow up to the fastest-selling gardening title of all time. Having set out the basic principles of gardening in Book One this second volume takes an in depth look at all areas of designing & planting your garden. Alan's love of gardening & years of experience really come to the fore as he demonstrates how to create a garden to be proud of. Covering both design & plants the chapters include boundaries & climbers patios & containers borders & perennials & water & wildlife gardens. Released to coincide with How to be a Gardener Revisited a reversioned series of HTBAG 1 & 2 featuring new footage with Alan Titchmarsh in January 2005. With its perfect balance of practical advice & inspirational ideas How to be a Gardener Book Two gets to the very heart of gardening & together with How to be a Gardener Book One provides a complete reference manual for any garden owner. ...

The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings it contains advice by turns delightfully arcane & timelessly true for example: Don't squeeze the tube of toothpaste from the top instead of from the bottom. This is one of the small things of life that always irritates a careful wife. Don't think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the rooms as ornaments. Don't tell your wife terminological inexactitudes which are in plain English lies. A woman has wonderful intuition for spotting even minor departures from the truth. Do cultivate the habit of coming down to breakfast with a smile. Remember that as the head of the house it is your duty to see that everyone starts the day in an atmosphere of happiness. Don't criticise the food at your own table when you are entertaining & especially refrain from doing so before the servants. ...

The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings it contains advice by turns delightfully arcane & timelessly true for example: It is a wife's duty to look her best. If you don't tidy yourself up when you have done the bulk of the day's work don't be surprised if your husband begins to compare you unfavourably with the typist at the office. Don't forget that a wife can always set the standard of behaviour for the home. If she allows laxities of dress or conversation at the table she will soon find that they become a fixed procedure. Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may catch a man baking powder is the stuff to hold him. Don't criticise the food at your own table when you are entertaining & especially refrain from doing so before the servants. After all is said & done husbands are not terribly difficult to manage. ...

Marta & Hector have been married for a long time -- so long that she finds it difficult to remember her life before him. He has always taken care of her & she has always done everything she can to be a good wife. But when Hector comes home with a secret their ordered domestic life begins to unravel. In the shadows there is a blonde girl that only Marta can see. & she is trying to tell her something.. . ...

Much has been written about what to expect of your child in the first year of its life how to tame toddlers & raise children. In an age prone to overparenting the time is right for the UKs largest online parenting organisation to put the emphasis back on a mothers needs. Often the pressure to be the perfect mother can add to a mothers worries
- especially first time around. Forget the Yummy Mummy phenomenon that says its possible to look after a newborn baby keep your house spic & span cook gourmet family dinners & still manage to put your lipstick & heels on. Life isnt really like that. This practical handbook looks at the elements of parenting that can make a mother unhappy & offers information & advice on how to cope. Most importantly this is real advice for real women from real women
- the 250 000 members of netmums.com together with advice from the experts.

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THE STORY CONTINUES in the second volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs.. . Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter a dragon-whisperer & the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy & finding it very hard to be a Hero. Can Hiccup find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure before Alvin the Treacherous gets his sneaky hands on it? & if Hiccup opens a box that says DO NOT OPEN will he live to tell the tale? How to Train Your Dragon is a Dream Works film starring Gerrard Butler America Ferrera & Jonah Hill out on DVD in October 2010 adapted from the best selling How to Train Your Dragonseries by Cressida Cowell. Read the rest of Hiccup's exploits in the How to Train Your Dragon series in How to Train Your Dragon How to Speak Dragonese How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse How to Twist a Dragon's Tale A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons How to Ride a Dragon's Storm & How to Break a Dragon's Heart. Check out the all-new Hiccup website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com It's the place to go for games downloads activities & sneak peeks! Read all about Hiccup & all of your favourite characters learn to speak Dragonese & train your own Dragon to do tricks! ...

In the first Surviving High School novel freshman Emily Kessler overcame her first-day fears broke national records on her swim team secured her place in the high school hierarchy & even started dating the cutest boy in school. Tired of playing Emily's sidekick it's time for best-friend Kimi Chen to step into the spotlight & snag her own place at the coveted centre table of the cafeteria. But when a low-budget music video she made hits the web & goes viral forget just being popular
- Kimi is famous! Boys want to date her girls want to be her & she's even been asked to perform on her favourite television show. Things are finally looking up; what could possibly go wrong? But when fame starts to get in the way of her friendships Kimi chokes on national television. It turns out that being a star may be more than she bargained for.
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How To Be a Victorian
- travel back in time with the BBC's Ruth Goodman Step into the skin of your ancestors... We know what life
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It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote & the Pill & we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However a few nagging questions do remain... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? & why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir part rant Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking. ...