Were a nation of drinkers but what do we drink? Following their previous highly amusing journeys around France & California Oz & James embark on a summer road trip around their homeland on a quest to find the drink that defines modern Britain. This is an account of their thinly disguised drinking holiday through Britain & Ireland & what they found out about British booze en route. The pair start out in a barley field in Yorkshire with Oz showing James what goes into beer & why. As they travel round Britain they explore the best & worst of British beers & move on to other drinks that might define modern Britain: wine & whisky of course & gin vodka cider & perry. Oz & Jamess hunting grounds are great British pubs maltsters small breweries & distilleries sparkling wine makers hop growers & many more all set against the beautiful backdrop of the British countryside. This odd couple squabble & revel in their differences in an irreverent & highly amusing tribute to British drink in its many forms. ...

Oz Clarke Britains favourite wine writer & broadcaster is absolutely in tune with what wine drinkers want today
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Refreshingly witty & readable guide to the worlds most famous wine region. Every producer in the world with ambitions to make great red wine still looks to Bordeaux for inspiration & the region is brought to life by Oz with his evocative descriptions & personal anecdotes accompanied by stunning photographs & maps. Oz turns his spotlight on each of the famous Bordeaux wine areas (including St-Emilion Pomerol Margaux & Pauillac). He also recommends hundreds of affordable modern Bordeaux wines for drinking today. Returning to his wine roots Oz shows how whatever crises may be affecting the French wine industry in general & the lower end of the market in particular Bordeaux is on the whole in optimistic mode. However much we now appreciate wine from all over the world there is still nothing quite as magical as the best bottles from the best producers in this historic wine region. There is no better introduction to the worlds most dazzling wine region. Decanter A well-planned well-executed approachable book packed with information & illustrations. The Sunday Times ...

Oz Clarke Britains favourite wine writer & broadcaster is absolutely in tune with what wine drinkers want today
- flavour individuality
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Approaching wine through grapes is in tune with the way consumers now think & learn about wine. This is the definitive up to date guide to the worlds greatest grapes & the wines they make
- the history the places the people the wine styles & the flavours. Highly acclaimed winner of the Lanson Wine Book of the Year award Grapes & Wines has been updated to make it once again a helpful thorough & very readable guide to the worlds most interesting wines & grapes.
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Ray Mears' Outdoor Survival Handbook is a book of discovery explaining the everyday skills you need to live in & enjoy the natural world. Season by season this unique fully illustrated guide describes the resources & materials available in the wild & how to use them. Whether you want to spend a day a week or a month out of doors Ray Mears' Outdoor Survival Handbook will help you enjoy it to the full. Packed with practical tips insights into nature & respect for traditional knowledge this is a book for families groups & individual hikers & climbers
- for everyone who enjoys outdoor life.
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Film edition of One Shot Lee Child's 9th Reacher thriller to tie in with the release of the movie Jack Reacher starring Tom Cruise on Boxing Day 2012. Six shots. Five dead. A heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Apart from one thing. The accused gunman refuses to talk except for a single phrase: Get Jack Reacher for me. Reacher lives off the grid. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for him. What could connect the ex-military cop to this psychopathic killer? ...

After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita" & " The Magnetic North" Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of trouble in nineteenth-century England & went to the United States to reinvent themselves. Her travel companions include Fanny Trollope mother of Anthony & author of the biting " Domestic Manners of the Americans"; the actress Fanny Kemble who shocked the nation with her passionate first-hand indictment of slavery; the prolifically pamphleteering economist Harriet Martineau; the homesteader Rebecca Burlend who had never been more than twelve miles from her Yorkshire village before she sailed to the New World; the traveller Isabella Bird whose many ailments remained in check as long as she was scaling the Rockies; & the novelist Catherine Hubback niece of Jane Austen who deposited her husband in a madhouse & rode the br&-new rails to San Francisco. Tough-minded outsiders these women's truest qualities emerged in a country as incomplete & tentative as their native land was staid & settled. & they discovered second acts for themselves at a time when the world expected them to disappear politely. From the swampy heat of Georgia's Sea Islands to the icy purity of the Cascades Sara Wheeler finds their path & her own." ...

' First there was a phone call from a stranger then a letter showed up fourteen years after it was sent. That's how I learned I'd made a serious error in judgement & ended up risking my life.. .' The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last weekend he bought a stack. They had stuff in them -- Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks he'll sell her the lot. Kinsey's never been one for personal possessions but curiosity wins out & she hands over a twenty (she may be curious but she loves a bargain). What she finds amid childhood memorabilia is an old undelivered letter. It will force her to re-examine her beliefs about the break-up of her first marriage about the honour of her first husband about an old unsolved murder. & it will put her life in the gravest peril. ' Grafton's fans will be thrilled with this knockout Kinsey Millhone mystery.. . One of the very best entries in a long-lived & much-loved series' Publishers Weekly ...

1918. Forced to flee England Sherlock Holmes & his young apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes's enigmatic brother Mycroft. Their arrival coincides with a rash of unsolved murders that has baffled the authorities yet no one is too pleased at Holmes's insistence on reconstructing the most recent homicide in the desert where it occurred. What they unexpectedly uncover will lead Russell & Holmes through an exotic gauntlet of labyrinthine bazaars verminous hovels cliff-hung monasteries
- & into mortal danger. In the jewel-like city of Jerusalem they will at last meet their adversary whose lust for power could ignite a tinderbox of hostilities just waiting for a spark...
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