Sophie Dahl one of the most beautiful & stylish women on the planet shares delicious secrets from her slinky kitchen. With 100 delectable recipes for each season as well as funny & touching stories from her amazing life this luscious & beautifully illustrated book is set to become a cookery classic. Sophie Dahl has been both round as a Rubens & as sylphy as a sapling through trial error & an episode in India which needn't be discussed in detail with anyone. She lived out the latter part of her adolescence in public & so her puppy fat which should have been a tender family joke became fuel for national debate. At the time this was crippling to her & one of the reasons she moved to another country. Flirting with every food fad from Atkins to raw food she has had both misadventures & victories in her quest to have a sound healthy relationship with food. Now in her twenty-ninth year it is suddenly simpler: Sophie cooks & eats & does both with gusto. It can be lonely & confusing navigating food particularly with the standards of beauty & weight that are thrust upon us by advertisers. Sophie aims to debunk some of the horrible punishing diet myths & replace them with compassionate common sense anecdotal stories & a lashing of healthy recipes. This is a book that doesn't encourage guilt or monastic deprivation but celebrates the joy in food & eating. Original funny quirky with a bit of whimsy this glorious book is full of memoir anecdote & delicious recipes scattered with lovely Matisse-like line drawings that slope off the page. ...

Her Ladyship greets Miss Daisy with excitement. Shes due to retire & wants to have some fun. Lets drive round the world" she declares. Not with me thinks Miss Daisy & a love-hate relationship between two very different personalities begins. Each year Her Ladyship dreams up a so called training trip for them. " Its only a few hundred miles " she would say. But every time something would go wrong
- a wheel falls off Her Ladyships haemorrhoids are exacerbated by those damned speed bumps & then theres the Sat-Nav... Ah yes the Sat Nav. The journeys get longer & longer & Madams demands become ever more bizarre that is until a two-thousand mile trip round Spain exhausts them both. Then when the garage door closes Miss Daisy recalls her early years & the people who have touched her life. Surely now that shes living with her Ladyship shell eventually settle down? It seems though that it is not to be... Miss Daisys Diaries is a charming work of humorous fiction written by a 1934 Austin 7 motor car struggling to live with a new owner. It will be enjoyed by fans of comic tales the baby boomer generation & vintage & classic car enthusiasts."
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Daisy Dirts dad is a dustman on the dole but her mum has remarried a Duke so shes a filthy rich Duchess. Poor Daisy doesnt know whether shes coming or going whether shes rich or poor
- until everything changes. Based on the classic Happy Families card game this highly entertaining series is ideal for reading & sharing at home or at school. It is guided by the Education Adviser Brian Thompson & written by the award-winning author Allan Ahlberg. The best thing to happen to beginner readers since Dr Seuss
- Childrens Rights Workshop.

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Dora Dose is not just a doctors daughter shes a double doctors daughter
- her mum & dad are both doctors. Dora wishes she was a
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Salley Vicker's sensational debut novel ' Miss Garnet's Angel' is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time. Julia Garnet is a teacher. Just retired she is left a legacy which she uses by leaving her orderly life & going to live
- in winter
- in an apartment in Venice. Its beauty its secret corners & treasures & its people overwhelm a lifetime of reserve & caution. Above all she's touched by the all-prevalent spirit of the Angel Raphael. The ancient tale of Tobias who travels to Media unaware he is accompanied by the Archangel Raphael unfolds alongside Julia Garnet's contemporary journey. The two stories interweave with parents & landladies restorers & priests American tourists & ancient travellers abounding. The result is an enormously satisfying journey of the spirit
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Miss Josie Jump the jockey can't wait to gallop in a race like her mum her brother & even her grandma but everyone says she's too young. But then grandma's horse gets a sore throat & Jimmy Jump gets a splinter in his bottom so she might get her chance at last. This charming title in the comic series based on the Happy Families card game will delight children between six & eight years old. ...

Miss Magenta Sweet Inventor" is book five of " Ladybirds" " Genie Street" fiction series. This exciting new book contains two short chapter stories for independent readers who are ready & want to read real fiction for the first time. In " Miss Magenta Sweet Inventor" Tom & Daisy are needed urgently in Lampland! Miss Magenta has been kidnapped by the evil Count Sourtooth. Tom & Daisy journey to Lampland & must try to help Miss Magenta escape but will they succeed before Count Sourtooth & his evil goblins see them? In the second story
- Mr Moley Robot Goalie
- Tom & Daisy find themselves at a football match in Lampland but the players are all robots! " Genie Street" is the next step up from " Ladybirds Read it yourself Level 4". With short chapters simple vocabulary & a clear layout these books will encourage & build confidence when reading. Other stories in this series include Mrs Kramer Dragon Tamer Mr Chan Rocket Man Mrs Greene Mermaid Queen & Dr Singh Pirate King."

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Natalie is a city girl & more interested in fresh sushi than fresh air so shes less than thrilled when shes packed off to Camp Lakeview. It doesnt take long for her to realize that there are some pretty cool girls there though & she starts to make friends. But will those friends stick around when they realize Natalies been keeping a huge secret? ...

A brand new omnibus of 55 short stories presented for the first time in chronological order. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as the typical old maid of fiction Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead. Yet by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature -- & used it to devasting effect. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering the ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard has been heard to say: Shes just the finest detective God ever made. -- & many Agatha Christie fans would agree. Appearing for the first time in The Murder at The Vicarage (1930) her crime-fighting career spanned over forty years when she solved her final case in 1977 in Sleeping Murder. With every tale flawlessly plotted by the Queen of Crime herself these short stories provide a feast for hardened Agatha Christie addicts as well as those who have grown to love the detective through her many film & television appearances. Here for the first time more than 50 of Agatha Christies mini masterpieces have been collected together in one volume perfectly illustrating the true breadth of her talent. As well as every story featuring Miss Marple the book

Includes:: additional st&-alone tales from macabre tales of the supernatural through suspense-ridden mysteries to heart-stopping cases of murder.

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Another four of Agatha Christies twelve celebrated Miss Marple novels in a single volume bound in the stylish livery of the new series. A Caribbean Mystery As Miss Marple dozes in the West Indian sun an old soldier talks of elephant shooting & scandals. Then he dies
- shortly after offering to show her a picture of a murderer. Its not long before the deceptively frail detective finds herself investigating a most exotic murder...A Pocket Full of Rye Rex Fortescue king of a financial empire was in his counting house; his queen was in the parlour...and thats exactly where they were when they died. There are baffling similarities between the rhyme & the crime & it takes all Miss Marples ingenuity to find them... The Mirror Crackd from Side to Side Marina Gregg the famous actress witnesses a murder in her country home. But what gave her the expression of frozen terror that only Dolly Bantry saw? Dolly of course knows just who can find out: her old friend Miss Marple... They Do It With Mirrors To fulfil a promise to an old schoolfriend Miss Marple stays in a country house
- with 200 juvenile delinquents & seven heirs to an old ladys fortune. One of them is a murderer
- with it seems a talent for being in two places at once...


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