Pierre Koffmanns Memories of Gascony is the story of how one of the most influential chefs of our time first learned to love food. With recipes & reminiscences from his grandparents home in rural Gascony this is an intimate account of school holidays spent on the farm helping his grandfather to harvest & hunt & learning to treasure seasonality simplicity & the best ingredients at his grandmothers side. The finest of Gascony produce is here with a focus on simplicity. The recipes stand the test of time & speak to the food tastes & trends of today. While you read the charming stories of everyday life on the farm youll devour the cuisine as you go along
- dandelion salad with bacon & poached egg grilled chicken with shallots & vinaigrette & greengages in armagnac in Spring; chicken liver pate with capers Bayonne ham tart with garlic oeufs a la neige in Summer; roast hare with mustard & beetroot salt cod cassoulet & quince jelly in Autumn; & fried eggs with foie gras potato & bacon pie & tarte aux pruneaux in Winter. This is a book to learn love & live from.
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The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood it seethes across the land devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet the Pannion Seer. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm's Host & the Bridgeburners & each now outlawed by the Empress & alongside their enemies of old including the grim forces of Warlord Caladan Brood Anomander Rake Son of Darkness & his Tiste Andii & the Rhivi people of the Plains. But more ancient clans too are gathering. As if in answer to some primal summons the massed ranks of the undead T'lan Imass have risen. For it would seem something altogether darker & more malign threatens the very substance of this world. The Warrens are poisoned & rumours abound of the Crippled God now unchained & intent on a terrible revenge... Marking the return of many favourite characters from GARDENS OF THE MOON & introducing a host of remarkable new players MEMORIES OF ICE is a thrilling new chapter in Erikson's magnificent epic fantasy & another triumph of storytelling. ...

This is the intimate portrait of James Hunt put together from responses to the question: what is your strongest memory of him? This new edition will be published ahead of the release of the movie Rush the feature film that tells the story of the 1976 World Championship battle between James Hunt & Niki Lauda. Hunt
- public school hell-raiser loved & feared broadcaster an enigma even to his friends
- was one of the very few people who lived life as he wanted to. In this book of reminiscences from those who knew him & worked with him all sorts of surprising material emerges forming a rounded picture of this colourful character.

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The internationally best-selling The Other Side of Midnight was dominated by the man who is Sheldons most magnificent creation... Constantin Demiris Billionaire art lover womaniser...and killer. To Noelle the woman who betrayed him & Larry the man who stole her Demiris brought a chilling retribution. But Demiris terrible revenge is far from complete... Ioannina Greece In the seclusion of a remote convent a young woman emerges from the trauma of memory loss... Catherine Alexander Larrys widow sees Demiris as a benefactor the man who restores her faith in the future. How can she know the fate he has in store or that her life is bound up with other victims of his mighty ego? From the exotic shores of the Mediterranean to post-war London Memories of Midnight is a passionate unforgettable story of an innocent womans fight against a terrifying destiny ...

This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives & histories the relics of modernities past but toward the phenomena in themselves of haunting" & the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association repetition & reappearance as well as forms of "active" forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s onward ranging from reperformances such as Marina Abramovic's Seven Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed performance pieces by her contemporaries) to the inanimate trace of "memory" Robert Morris assigns to his free-form felt pieces which "forget" in their present configurations their previous slides & falls. Contextualizing memory's role in visual theory & aesthetic politics
- from Marcel Proust's optics to Bernard Stiegler's analysis of memory's "industrialization"
- this collection also surveys the diversity of situations & registers in which contemporary artists explore memory. Art that engages with memory embodied in material & spatial conditions is examined beside works that reflect upon memory's effects through time & yet others that enlist the agency of remembrance or forgetting to work through aspects of the numerous pasts by which the present is always haunted. Artists surveyed include: Marina Abramovic Eija-Liisa Ahtila Kutlug Ataman Uta Barth Tom Burr Sophie Calle Joseph Cornell Tacita Dean Stan Douglas Cheryl Dunye Kota Ezawa Hans-Peter Feldmann Felix Gonzalez-Torres Rodney Graham Richard Hamilton Sharon Hayes Susan Hiller Roni Horn Pierre Huyghe Amar Kanwar William Kentridge Idris Khan Zoe Leonard Ilan Lieberman Glenn Ligon Elizabeth Manchester Robert Morris Rabih Mroue Uriel Orlow Walid Raad Anri Sala Fazal Sheikh Lorna Simpson Vivan Sundaram Jane & Louise Wilson. Writers include Gaston Bachelard Daniel Birnbaum Andre Breton Nicolas Bourriaud Victor Burgin Johanna Burton Tom Burr Helene Cixous Joseph Cornell T.J. Demos Gilles Deleuze Ollivier Dyens Okwui Enwezor Briony Fer Hal Foster Maurice Halbwachs Richard Hamilton Margaret Iversen Martin Jay Siegfried Kracauer Abigail Levine Tom Mc Donough Roger Malbert Robert Morris Rabih Mroue Michael Newman Pierre Nora Georges Perec Peggy Phelan Pil & Galia Kollectiv Megan Ratner Hans Rudolf Reust Paul Ricoeur Lisa Saltzman Lauren Sedofsky Roger Shattuck Michael Sheringham Bernard Stiegler Peter Suchin Margaret Sundell & Jan Verwoert."

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Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. Or so she thought. But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her filled with objects seemingly without meaning
- three feathers an exotic seashell a painting a mirror two prints an address book a map a hat a rucksack & a necklace. & while she's busy playing detective trying to find out who her mother was she finds out more about herself than she ever really wanted to know. Secrets are discovered truths uncovered & Catherine realises that maybe there was something more to her mother something that her familiy has kept from her. How long a shadow can a dead woman cast?
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Alexs beloved grandfather is sick. His memory is failing & Alexs parents want to put him in a home. Alex has promised Grandad that he wont let that happen But Alex has broken promises before. When he was growing up in the Bosnian War he swore that he would protect his brother. It was a promise that he couldnt keep Alex cant fail again. ...

A pulse-pounding race-against-time thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett. Forensic psychiatrist Jo Becketts speciality is the psychological autopsy
- an investigation into a persons life to determine whether a death was natural accidental suicide or homicide. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person
- one with a suspect memory who cant be trusted to participate in his own medical care
- she knows all her skills will be put to the test. Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that Ian Kanan has got anterograde amnesia & cant form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk & talk & yet cant help Jo figure out just what happened to him. Suddenly a string of clues arises something to do with a super deadly biological agent code-named Slick" a kidnapping & a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realises Kanans addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco. With time running out she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city
- & herself."



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The Memory Game is a haunting psychological thriller from the Top Ten bestselling author Nicci French You remember an idyllic childhood. But your memory is deceitful. & possibly deadly... When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden Jane Martello is shocked to learn it's that of her childhood friend Natalie who went missing twenty-five years ago. Encouraged by a therapist to recover lost memories Jane hopes to find out what really took place when she was a child
- & what happened to Natalie. But in learning the truth about hers & Natalie's past is Jane putting her own future at terrible risk? Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk & have written thirteen other bestselling novels all published by Penguin: Complicit What to Do When Someone Dies Until It's Over Losing You Catch Me When I Fall Beneath the Skin The Safe House The Red Room Land of the Living Killing Me Softly Secret Smile & most recently Blue Monday & Tuesday's Gone in the brilliant new Frieda Klein series.
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Lamorna Cove
- a tiny bay in Cornwall picturesque unspoilt. A hundred years ago it was the haunt of a colony of artists. Today
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