Scotlands hottest chef takes us into his home kitchen to show just how accessible inexpensive & uncomplicated gourmet food can be. Tom draws on his experience of home cooking to provide a superb collection of recipes for time-pressured cooks that makes the most of fresh seasonal food. From one-pan wonders & meals that can be put together in half-an-hour to intensely flavoured braises that can be assembled in next to no time & left alone to cook there are brilliant ideas for easy midweek meals. These are recipes that have been created specifically for the home kitchen not dishes adapted & compromised from a chefs restaurant. Shopping for them is easy techniques are straightforward & they are fun to cook. Tom also offers readers his Kitchin Secrets covering a host of topics including sourcing the best ingredients preparing ahead getting the timing right & balancing the flavours in a dish. This beautifully illustrated contemporary cookbook will appeal to a wide audience not least Toms many fans from his engaging television appearances. ...

Princess Cinnamon Stitch is a tomboy who has no interest in courtly life. To her parents dismay she cartwheels through puddles & dances with flea-ridden cats. Discover how she succeeds in teaching the king & queen that there are more important things in life than decorum & show. Laura-Kate Chapmans eye
- popping artwork makes this fun rhyming text soar. Comes with storytime CD featuring narration of text by much-loved actress Imelda Staunton. about this title: Encourages children to express themselves in their own way & reminds parents of the benefits of individuality. Features easy-to-remember rhyming couplets that build memory skills.

Includes:: a kite-making activity at the end of the story.


...

Haoyou knows that his fathers spirit lives among the clouds above Ancient China. He also knows that to save his mother from being forced into a new marriage he must now follow in his fathers footsteps & take to the skies riding a kite through the clouds & the spirits of the dead. Then the Jade Circus offers him a chance to escape his enemies & travel throughout the empire & maybe even perform before Kublai Khan himself. But is going with the circus really the best option? It could be that the circus master is leading him into even greater danger. This outstanding story is like nothing else youve ever read
- packed with action adventure & emotion.
...

Afghanistan 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament & his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade & the family is forced to flee to America Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. ...

This is the remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini. Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba one of the richest & most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite & bring it home triumphantly to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen & he promises to help him
- for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim & this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted & jeered at by Amir's school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives & define their futures. When Russia invades Afghanistan Amir & Baba escape to San Francisco where Baba fades but Amir feels that at last he can succeed. But he is still haunted by guilt & he knows that his past will not let him go. The destructive rule of the Northern Alliance followed by the even more terrifying & oppressive Taliban have destroyed the country that Amir knows but the hearts of men cannot be suppressed. Amir must return to Afghanistan to search for salvation & perhaps his life-altering mistakes can be redeemed. This is a moving courageous story of love loyalty secrets & vengeance & of a country & a boy whose footsteps cannot be retraced as the events & decisions resonate & alter them for ever.
...

Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father & resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him
- for he always helps Amir
- but this is 1970s Afghanistan & Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage & the place he holds in his father's heart. But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament which was to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade & the family is forced to flee to America Amir realises that one day he must return to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

...

A story of fathers & sons friendship & betrayal & the casualties of fate 1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament & his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade & the family is forced to flee to America Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. ...

Afghanistan 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament & his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade & the family is forced to flee to America Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. ...

This is a most moving tale celebrating the bright light of humanity surviving even in the darkest conflict. Travelling to the West Bank to witness first hand what life is like for Palestinians & Jews living in the shadow of a dividing wall journalist Max strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic Palestinian boy Said. Together the two sit under an ancient olive tree while Said makes another of his kites. When Said takes Max home the reporter learns of the terrible events in the familys past & begins to understand why Said does not speak. Told from both Maxs & Saids points of view Morpurgo has created a beautiful tale of tragedy & hope with an ending that rings with joy. With an afterword by BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen. ...

Leap for your life & discover the trills of kitesurfing! Written by three--time world champion & packed with over 500 photographs this book covers first attempts at getting afloat to snapping a 360. It is the definitive guide to kitesurfing covering both mental & physical preparation with fabulous photography showing every stage of each manoevure. Like all watersports safety & preparation come first. The opening chapters cover weather location preparation of equipment physical & mental warm--ups & signals in the water. The main body of the book introduces the reader to the basics of getting into the water & the principles of surfing on the wind: getting up steering turning controlling the kite & what to do when you inevitably wipe out. Once the rider has mastered surfing at high speed its time to start having some fun with more than 50 tricks covered in full step--by--step detail from the basic chop hop to how to ride huge waves & advanced moves like the back to blind surface pass & the unhooked downloop s--bend! The final sections of the book introduce fitness & flexibility ideas for kitesurfers & cover maintenance & repair of equipment. ...