This witty collection of poems about school is full of typical classroom events that will be recognized & enjoyed by everyone: the candid revelations in a pupils newsbook the problem of copycats bickering making up swaps picking teams & forming gangs. Fritz Wegners line drawings beautifully complement the hilarious & poignant verses. Please Mrs Butler" was voted the most important twentieth-century childrens poetry book in a Books for Keeps poll." ...

A New Year at Ragley-on-the-Forest School... It's 1981 the time of Adam & the Ants Rubik's Cube the Sony Walkman & the Falklands War as head teacher Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest School for another rollercoaster year. Vera the ever-efficient chool secretary has to grapple with a new-fangled computer
- & enjoys a royal occasion
- while Ruby the caretaker rediscovers romance with a Butlin's Redcoat. & for Jack wedding bells are in the air. But the unexpected is just round the corner...

...

Award-winning neuroscientist David Linden shows how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level in our brains & why ecstatic activities can easily become addictive. On this trip into cutting-edge science he explores why nicotine & heroine are addictive while LSD is not; why the search for a safe appetitie suppressant has failed; if sex can be addicitve; & if we might someday control the part of the brain that makes us addicted in the first place. ...

Can the beast seduce a beauty & make her love him...? A promise of pleasure.. .from a brutal warrior determined to protect her. Never far from her bow Lucia the Huntress is as mysterious as she is beautiful. But the secrets she harbors could destroy her-and those she loves-and every day brings more danger. It isn't safe for her to be with Garreth Mac Rieve yet whenever she sees the fierce werewolf with his smoldering eyes she finds herself surrendering to his kiss. An uncontrollable need.. .that can only be sated with her touch. From the shadows Garreth prince of the Lykae has long watched over Lucia the lovely little Valkyrie who alternately maddens him & inflames his lust. He aches to claim the seductive creature as his own & keep her safe from harm but first he must convince her to accept him as her guardian. To do that he'll exploit Lucia's greatest weakness-her desire for him. ...

The first commercial paddle steamer was the Comet of 1812. Soon competitive steamer services developed resulting in bigger & more magnificent vessels & before long no seaside resort was complete without a pleasure steamer moored alongside the pier. By the 1970s however the ships had almost all disappeared & now only three remain in service
- Waverley Balmoral & Kingswear Castle
- delighting a new generation of daytrippers. Andrew Gladwell gives us a wonderful glimpse into the bygone age when a pleasure steamer trip was an essential part of countless seaside holidays & outlines the ongoing efforts to preserve what remains of pleasure steamer heritage in Britain.

...

The Pleasures of Summer is a steamy erotic story of romantic obsession & explosive sexual chemistry for fans of Fifty Shades of Grey The Pleasures of Winter & Sylvia Day's stories. Summer O' Sullivan is rich beautiful & in mortal danger. Her father has made powerful enemies who are targeting his precious daughter. Until the threat passes Summer needs a bodyguard
- someone to protect her & she expects to treat her with the reverence she's used to. Into Summer's gilded cage comes former ranger Flynn Grant. As far as Flynn is concerned this is the assignment from hell minding the spoilt daughter of a multi-millionaire. Summer & Flynn are poised to hate each other on sight. Even his devastating looks do not make up for how Flynn's rules cramp Summer's style. Unsurprisingly the sparks fly between them. But when Summer breaks the rules one time too often Flynn teaches her a lesson that leaves them shattered
- & bound together in a way that astonishes them both. In their remote hideout the two start a battle over who is the tamer & who is the tamed. It's a duel that stretches their minds & bodies beyond every limit. & in time their hearts begin to surrender too. But when the dark forces that have been stalking Summer finally track them down the battle is no longer a game but a matter of life & death.. .

...

There are sensuous pleasures that can only be tasted in the night... He comes to her in the twilight between sleep & consciousness to fulfill her secret desires. Lyssa Bates has never experienced such ecstasy brought to her by a man whose deep soul-penetrating blue eyes hold the promise of tempting intimacies & decadent pleasures. But this stranger this lover this immortal seducer is only a dream-a phantom of her nocturnal fantasies-until he appears inexplicably at her door in the flesh! Lyssa aches for the reality of him but there is grave danger in surrender. Because Captain Aidan Cross is on a mission & the passion that consumes them both body & soul could have dire consequences in a world of dreams.. .and in the waking one as well. ...

The Pleasures of Winter" is a steamy erotic story of romantic obsession & explosive sexual chemistry for fans of " Fifty Shades of Grey" & " Bared to You". When reporter Abbie Marshall needs to escape Honduras a private jet carrying a Hollywood A-lister is her only way out. She has a ride home with Irish actor Jack Winter
- notorious womanizer & all round bad boy. Abbie is shaken to the core by Winter's blazing beauty & provocative mind. After the plane's nose-dive into the remote rainforest forces them to fight for survival Abbie catches tantalizing glimpses of the complicated man behind the image. & the more she sees of him the more he touches some primal part of her that she is determined to suppress. But after a devastating encounter with Winter's shadow side Abbie's detachment is shattered. On returning to normal life Abbie cannot forget what happened nor ignore the shocking rumours about the star's private life. Her struggle to make sense of her torment leads straight back to Winter who is just as obsessed by her. But if they are to have a relationship Abbie knows she must embrace his hidden desires...and accept her own. No longer caring about anything but their intoxicating love affair Abbie is drawn deeper into the dark heart of Winter
- & the secret that threatens to destroy everything...' Evie Hunter' is actually two Irish authors who discovered a mutual love of erotic fiction when doing a creative writing workshop two years ago. They are delighted the rest of the world has caught up with them. Before writing " The Pleasures of Winter" their first full-length novel they co-wrote a number of BDSM-themed novellas."

...

Words are the most dangerous weapon of all... Seventeen-year-old Charlaina knows she has exceptional but perilous powers. In the far future in a land controlled by an aged & ruthless queen the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. Even acknowledging a member of the ruling class while they are speaking their native tongue is punishable by death. Charlie can understand all languages a secret she must protect to stay alive. When she meets the alluringly handsome Max who speaks in a language she hasn't heard before she is intensely attracted to him. Max believes that Charlie is the key to something bigger & he pledges to protect her. But as war descends can she trust him? ...

With his fabulous restaurants & bestselling Ottolenghi Cookbook Yotam Ottolenghi has established himself as one of the most exciting talents in the world of cookery & food writing. This exclusive collection of vegetarian recipes is drawn from his column ' The New Vegetarian' for the Guardian's Weekend magazine & features both br&-new recipes & dishes first devised for that column. Yotam's food inspiration comes from his strong Mediterranean background & his unapologetic love of ingredients. Not a vegetarian himself his approach to vegetable dishes is wholly original & innovative based on strong flavours & stunning fresh combinations. With sections devoted to cooking greens aubergines brassicas rice & cereals pasta & couscous pulses roots squashes onions fruit mushrooms & tomatoes the breadth of colours tastes & textures is extraordinary. Featuring vibrant evocative food photography from acclaimed photographer Jonathan Lovekin & with Yotam's voice & personality shining through Plenty is a must-have for meat-eaters & vegetarians alike. ...