What's the best thing to snack on while you watch a movie? Popcorn! The world's favourite snack has been with us for thousands of years but now it has just got interesting. Popcorn! is packed with more than 100 original mouth-watering recipes from Dark Chocolate & Whisky Popcorn Balls to Popcorn-breaded Southern-fried chicken from sticky marshmallow popcorn to classic toffee. The perfect book to make this quick easy & fun snack food for yourself or for friends. Each recipe is accompanied by a recommended film (such as the Molly Ringwald film Pretty in Pink for our Pink Mallow Popcorn recipe) & stunning bright photography. Popcorn is a healthy sugar-free wheat-free dairy-free snack that is an ever-present in every food trends survey in 2011. Why buy gourmet popcorn packs when you can make your own a-maize-ing food in minutes at home? ...

From his first appearance on a Vatican balcony Pope Francis proved himself a Pope of Surprises. With a series of potent gestures history's first Jesuit pope declared a mission to restore authenticity & integrity to a Catholic Church bedevilled by sex abuse & secrecy intrigue & in-fighting ambition & arrogance. He declared it should be 'a poor Church for the poor'. But there is a hidden past to this modest man with the winning smile. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was previously a bitterly divisive figure. His decade as leader of Argentina's Jesuits left the religious order deeply split. & his behaviour during Argentina's Dirty War when military death squads snatched innocent people from the streets raised serious questions
- on which this book casts new light. Yet something dramatic then happened to Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He underwent an extraordinary transformation. After a time of exile he re-emerged having turned from a conservative authoritarian into a humble friend of the poor
- & became Bishop of the Slums making enemies among Argentina's political classes in the process. For Pope Francis
- Untying the Knots Paul Vallely travelled to Argentina & Rome to meet Bergoglio's intimates over the last four decades. His book charts a remarkable journey. It reveals what changed the man who was to become Pope Francis
- from a reactionary into the revolutionary who is unnerving Rome's clerical careerists with the extent of his behind-the-scenes changes. In this perceptive portrait Paul Vallely offers both new evidence & penetrating insights into the kind of pope Francis could become.



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John Julius Norwich examines the oldest continuing institution in the world tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter (traditionally
- but by no means historically
- the first Pope) to the present. Of the 280-odd holders of the supreme office some have unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in unspeakable iniquity. One was said to have been a woman her sex being revealed only when she improvidently gave birth to a baby during a papal procession. Almost as shocking was Formosus whose murdered corpse was exhumed clothed in pontifical vestments propped up on a throne & subjected to trial. From the glories of Byzantium to the decay of Rome from the Albigensian Heresy to controversy within the Church today The Popes is superbly written witty & revealing.

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The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria AJ a senior psychiatric nurse is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking for the corpse of a missing woman. He knows all too well how it feels to fail to find a loved ones body. When AJ seeks Cafferys help in investigating the trouble at Beechway each man must face a bitter truth in his own life. Before staring pure evil in the eye. ...

Poppy & Max dont always agree. Sometimes they even argue. But theres one thing they know for sure
- they are the best of friends!
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Chug chug! Set sail with Poppy Cat as she sets off out to sea in a boat. Try not to get wet as she splashes over the waves bobs along the shore & zooms back home in time for lunch. With a chug chug soundchip to press on every page these books encourage lots of noisy fun. Young readers will love getting the chance to join in the story. ...

Ever since hairdresser Poppy Day married her childhood sweetheart Mart she's been deliriously happy. Now Mart is fighting in Afghanistan & Poppy is counting the days until he returns. It takes one knock at the door to rip Poppy's world apart. Mart has been taken hostage & it's too dangerous for the army to rescue him. Poppy is determined to bring him home herself. But her journey will lead her to a heartbreaking dilemma. What price will she pay to save the man she loves? This is a gripping story of loss & courage from an author who knows what it is like to be the one left behind. ...

Jessica Hart's beloved mother has died in childbirth & her stepmother & father are forcing her to marry the dull local blacksmith. She runs away from her country home to Birmingham arriving late one night on the doorstep of her poverty-stricken aunt's tiny terraced house already home to her four cousins. Ned a family friend comes calling one day & he & Jessica fall for each other immediately. But Ned is married & his young wife is expecting a baby... Annie Murray's uplifting saga set during the Great War is a moving story of love remembrance & ultimately of healing. Full of warmth & domestic detail which inspires the reader. Annie Murray brings her characters vividly to life."
- Denise Robertson."
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Who is mad? Who is sane? Who decides? Welcome to the Dorothy Fish a hospital in North London. N has been a patient for thirteen years. Day after day she sits smoking in the common room & swapping medication. Like the other patients Ns ambition is never to be discharged. Then in walks Poppy Shakespeare in a short skirt & snakeskin heels. Poppy is certain she isnt mentally ill & desperate to return to her life outside & though baffled N agrees to help her. But in a world where everythings upside down are they crazy enough to upset the system? ...

The Music Fairies desperately need Rachel's & Kirsty's help! Jack Frost & his naughty goblins have stolen the fairies' Magical Musical Instruments which means that music is being ruined for everyone! Jack Frost plans to use the instruments to help him win a national talent competition in the human world & with the help of the enchanted instruments he's bound to win. If this happens humans will find out about Fairyland & then all the fairies will be in danger! Poppy the Piano Fairy needs Rachel's & Kirsty's help to find her Magic Piano. But how will they outwit Jack Frost & his goblin henchmen...? ...