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Following on from Seasonal Spanish Food Pizarro takes a closer look at the regions of Spain & the exceptional local ingredients that make each area so special. With these ingredients Pizarro uses his knowledge & flair to create alluring dishes that not only showcase Spanish flavours but are also simple & quick to prepare. No complicated techniques no ingredients that are difficult to find no tampering of flavours just simple stylish recipes for any occasion. Serve Chorizo with Juicy Grilled Peppers make Sauteed Artichokes with Cockles & Iberico ham grill squid to accompany Saffron Baby Potatoes & Toasted Almonds wow your guests with a Manchego Ice Cream with Quince or create little Pine Nut Biscuits for an after-dinner treat. This is no-fuss cooking that results in delicious dishes packed with flavour & texture. ...

On the face of it you wouldnt think there was any connection between the murder of a dead man & the events that changed my perceptions about my life... For Kinsey Millhone the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity
- the company that had fired her nine months previously. Fives hours later she was on a plane to Mexico hot on the trial of a suicide whod allegedly just come back to life. After a five year wait Wendell Jaffes widow had finally succeeded in having the real estate swindler declared dead collecting half a million dollars for her pains. Now it looks like a pseudocide
- & Kinseys ready to risk everything to get to the truth... Friendlishly clever...better than anything else thats currently on offer. Literary Review

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This new expanded edition of the widely praised biography of the Booker Prize-winning author JG Farrell is timely. His literary achievement is still in the ascendent as proved by the posthumous award in 2010 of the ' Lost' Booker for ' Troubles' decided by international e-vote. That made him a double Booker winner & the publicity given to his renowned Empire Trilogy novels has left the general reading public wanting to know more. Lavinia Greacen has uncovered fresh material & additional photographs since the publication of the first edition shedding further light on Farrell's short life & tragic death as well as the development of his writing career. The result is a fascinating & compelling story about the man described by the latest Estudios Irlandeses as 'one of the English language's most accomplished & enigmatic figures'. The life of the novelist J.G. Farrell (1935
- 1979) is almost stranger than fiction. He was a schoolboy sporting hero struck down by polio a dedicated writer living on a shoestring who was awarded the Booker Prize in 1973 & with his literary reputation secure & a newly-converted house on the scenic west Cork coastline he was drowned at the age of 44 while fishing from rocks nearby. This expanded biography interweaving letters & interviews from sources previously unknown tells the moving story of his peripatetic life. It ranges from his childhood in Ireland to public school & university in England; from his base in London where most of his novels took shape to extended stays in France & the United States & to periods spent in Mexico India Vietnam & Singapore. Readers will discover that Farrell's celebrated Empire Trilogy which

Includes:: Troubles The Siege of Krishnapur & The Singapore Grip reflects his own travels & personal experiences as well as his unique wit & imagination. This biography reveals the very private man behind the celebrated literary novelist. ' After reading it' wrote Gerald Dawe Senior Lecturer in English at Trinity College Dublin 'I felt not only that I knew J.G. Farrell but that I too mourned his loss as if he were a friend.'


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When Joey Rubin stumbles upon a group of elderly women swimming in a lake one freezing January morning she thinks they must be mad. But then they dare her to come in
- Joey an overworked New York architect has come to the Cotswolds to oversee the restoration of Stanway House
- the stately home that inspired J.M. Barrie to write Peter Pan. But it hasnt been easy. The local residents arent exactly welcoming & then theres the problem of the brooding caretaker a man who seems to take every opportunity to undermine her plans. She soon begins to feel that she cant do anything right. Until that is she begins to take a daily dip with the members of the J.M. Barrie Ladies Swimming Society in their private watery Neverl&. They will teach her that its not the house that needs restoring; its her -

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Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films J.R.R. Tolkiens creations imagination & characters had captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages & perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth? Tolkien had a difficult life for many years: orphaned & poor his guardian forbad him to communicate with the woman he had fallen in love with & he went through the horrors of the First World War. An intensely private & brilliant scholar he spent over fifty years working on the languages history peoples & geography of Middle-earth with a consistent mythology & body of legends inspired by a formidable knowledge of early northern European history & culture. J.R.R. Tolkien became a legend by creating an imaginary world that has enthralled & delighted generations. This delightful & accessible biography brings him to life. Colin Duriez has appeared as a commentator on DVDs of Peter Jacksons The Lord of the Rings & BBC televisions The Worlds of Fantasy. He is also the author of The Inklings Handbook (with the late David Porter) J. R. R. Tolkien & C. S. Lewis: The Story of Their Friendship & Tolkien & The Lord of the Rings & has contributed to definitive reference works The Tolkien Encyclopedia & a number of other tomes relating to Tolkien. ...

J. Samuel White & Company was the oldest firm on the Admiralty List & built 252 ships for the Royal Navy alone. The yards closure in 1966 ended 300 years of shipbuilding during which time the company had gained acclaim from mercantile & naval customers alike. Famed early on for fast Revenue cutters & naval brigs in its final years Royal Navy destroyers earned it great distinction. Highly innovative it developed & patented many pioneering products while other innovations included semi-diesel engines heat exchangers air conditioners & compressors besides a range of marine thruster units. Not only did the company build ships & boats but it also constructed a range of marine aircraft. During the First World War Whites production accounted for 100 ships including twenty-seven destroyers & 201 seaplanes. Production during the Second World War added up to 317 ships among them twenty-six destroyers & a large minelayer. Illustrated with photographs of these & many of the companys other products this book tells the story of J. Samuel White & its subsidiary concerns a business built on a reputation of quality which earned it the slogan: Whites-built
- well-built!"."
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Peter Williams approaches afresh the life & music of arguably the most studied of all composers interpreting both Bachs life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information & his music by evaluating his priorities & irrepressible creative energy. How even though belonging to musical families on both his parents sides did he come to possess so bewitching a sense of rhythm & melody & a mastery of harmony that established nothing less than a norm in Western culture? In considering that the works of a composer are his biography the books title A Life in Music means both a life spent making music & one revealed in the music as we know it. A distinguished scholar & performer Williams re-examines Bachs life as an orphan & family man as an extraordinarily gifted composer & player & as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly. ...