Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he but she had a palace & he had one room in a street off Warwick Way. Still he liked the idea that she was his neighbour. Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of white-painted stucco Georgian houses inhabited by the rich & serviced by the not so rich. The hired help a motley assortment of au pairs drivers & cleaners decide to form the St Zita Society (Zita was the patron saint of domestic servants) as an excuse to meet at the local pub & air their grievances. When Dex is invited to attend one of these meetings the others find that he is a strange man seemingly ill at ease with human beings. These first impressions are compounded when they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother. Dexs most meaningful relationship seems to be with his mobile phone service provider Peach & he interprets the text notifications & messages he receives from the company as a reassuring sign that there is some kind of god who will protect him. & give him instructions about ridding the world of evil spirits... Accidental death & pathological madness cohabit above & below stairs in Hexam Place. ...

Every Catholic saint local & liturgical is honoured on a particular day of the year. In many cases an order of precedence has been worked out to determine which saints are most important. In Saints" Rosa Giorgi has chosen up to three saints for every day of the year along with representations of those saints ranging from world-famous works of art to more modern depictions. From a wide variety of sources Giorgi has composed a short explanation of each saint to accompany the illustration including etymology of names historical background occupations cities & countries of patronage. Although many well-known saints are depicted including Francis of Assisi Joan of Arc & Thomas Aquinas some relatively obscure saints are pictured as well." ...

In this wide-ranging book Professor Eamon Duffy explores the broad sweep of the English Reformation & the ways in which that Reformation has been written about. Tracing the fraught history of religious change in Tudor England & the retellings of that history to shape a protestant national identity once again he emphasizes the importance of the study of late medieval religion & material culture for our understanding of this most formative & fascinating of eras. Getting to grips with the misconceptions discontinuities & dilemmas which have dogged the history of Tudor religion he traces the lived experience of Catholicism in an age of upheaval: from what it meant to be a Catholic in early Tudor England; through the nature of militant Catholicism at the height of the conflict; to the after-life of Tudor Catholicism & the ways in which the old religion was remembered & spoken about in the England of Shakespeare. Duffy writes at all times with grace elegance & wit as he questions prejudices & myths about the Reformation to demonstrate that the truth about the past is never pure nor simple. ...

Eccentric ironic & fantastic series like The Avengers & Danger Man with their professional secret agents or The Saint & The Persuaders featuring flamboyant crime-fighters still inspire mainstream & cult followings. Saints & Avengers explores & celebrates this television genre for the first time. Saints & Avengers uses case studies to look for example at the adventure series representations of national identity & the world of the sixties & seventies. Chapman also proves his central thesis: that this particular type of thriller was a historically & culturally defined generic type with enduring appeal as the current vogue for remaking them as big budget films attests. ...

This title covers the history of the famous quartet of Harland & Wollf vessels built for Sealink. Each vessels career is covered in the book together with a detailed account of how the ships were designed. The book also contains an up-to-date overview of where the vessels are today. ...

Sakura is the granddaughter of a mysterious moon princess who slew demons with her Blood Cherry Blossom sword. All her life Sakura has been forbidden to look at the full moon without knowing why. Then one night unhappy over her impending marriage Sakura gazes up at the moon only to see a demon attacking her... ...

Salads have come a long way since the days of shredded iceberg lettuce with slices of cucumber & tomato. There seem to be no limits to the enticing combinations we can now produce with wonderful variety of leafy greens herbs vegetables meat & seafood at our fingertips year round. Salad Bible serves up a bountiful array of salad options from cold refreshing side dishes to warmly satisfying main meals. All the classics are here
- Caesar Nicoise tabouleh & Waldorf
- along with plenty of new ideas that offer tantalising juxtapositions of colour flavour & texture.

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Let's eat more salad! It's fresh colourful & healthy fast food. A far cry from the 'rabbit food' image of old salads are now rightfully top of the menu. In A Salad for All Seasons" Harry Eastwood shakes things up introducing us to over 100 delicious original & easy-to-make salads to see you through the year. Spring & Summer are packed with vibrant exciting recipes that can be knocked up in minutes such as Peach & Mozarella with Sweet Chilli & Tomato Glaze & Thai Beef & Basil with Noodles while Autumn & Winter offer warm hearty nourishing combinations such as Roasted Squash with Thyme & Taleggio & Spinach Lamb & Fig with Orange & Honey Dressing. From well-loved favourites to exotic delights inspired by Harry's travels & love of fresh ingredients "A Salad for All" Seasons is the ultimate proof that natural fresh & nutritious food can also be a feast
- the whole year round."
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The extraordinary character & career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin the fall of Jerusalem & the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands reconquered the bulk of Crusader states & faced the Richard the Lion Heart king of England in one of the most famous confrontations in medieval warfare. Geoffrey Hindley's sympathetic & highly readable study of the life & times of this remarkable many-sided man who dominated the Middle East in his day gives a fascinating insight into his achievements & into the Muslim world of his contemporaries. Geoffrey Hindley is a distinguished medieval historian who has written widely on many aspects of the period. He has made a special study of medieval warfare & of sieges in particular. His previous books include Castles of Europe Medieval Warfare England in the Age of Caxton Under Siege Tourists Travellers & Pilgrims The Book of Magna Carta & The Crusades. His most recent publications are is A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons & Medieval Siege & Siegecraft. ...

As Redwall slumbers in the summer sun it is unaware that the mountain stronghold of Salamandastron lies besieged by the weasel army of Ferahgo the Assassin & that the deadly Dryditch fever is creeping towards the Abbey. But the sword of Martin the Warrior sends Samkin & Arula from Redwall over forest swamp & great waters to try & save Salamandastron from being turned into a centre of evil power... ...