This title features 400 fail-safe recipes to transform everyday dishes into feasts shown step by step in 1400 photographs. You can add something special to every type of dish & every kind of occasion with recipes for a wonderful range of accompaniments from classic sauces to spiced mustards. It is a detailed introduction to the art of sauce-making & preserving from making stocks & marinades to setting jams & jellies. It

Includes:: quick easy recipes for creamy dips fiery salsas tasty relishes spicy marinades & simple dressings: try calvados & apple sauce for pork sweet pepper salsa for fish or basil & lemon mayonnaise for salads. You can try making some of the tempting preserves to stock up your pantry from green tomato chutney & spiced apple mincemeat to quince & coriander jelly & blueberry & lime jam. Make every meal memorable with this practical & accessible guide to the complementary sauces salsas & accompaniments that we love to add to our food. Over 400 original recipes add an inspirational touch to every conceivable kind of meal whether it's a rich gravy for a roasted leg of lamb a tangy orange sauce for duck a quick crunchy satay for shredded vegetables or a stunning series of party dips tangy dressings sweet chunky chutneys cooling raitas fresh fruit coulis or rich dessert creams. Many of these recipes will also make fantastic gifts such as Christmas chutney tarragon & champagne mustard rumtopf & spiced apple mincemeat. From much-loved standbys such as Bolognese sauce mango chutney & pickled onions to st&-alone sweet preserves such as apricots in amaretto this is an inspiring kitchen compendium.

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A superb sauce can transform the simplest dish into an impressive creation. This comprehensive collection of over 200 sauces ...

A well-made sauce can turn the simplest of ingredients into a culinary masterpiece. With a little know-how an understanding of basic techniques & a selection of ingredients you can transform ordinary meals into something special. Fresh bright & contemporary this beautiful new book is filled with 150 easy-to-make recipes from around the world. Illustrated throughout with stunning photographs of every finished dish this book offers helpful hints & tips on methods for thickening keeping sauces warm & recipes for basic stocks. You can also indulge with a variety of sweet sauces for desserts. Whether you are planning a special meal or want to liven up a simple supper at the last minute this colourful volume has all you need to know to make fabulous sauces. ...

The Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth & Co started producing 'saucy' postcards in 1910. These cheeky designs became synonymous with the English seaside resorts where they were sold but were exported all over the world. After WW2 Bamforth artists began to satirise the classic comic archetypes that still resonate today
- henpecked husbands naughty nurses & randy milkmen. Contemporary concerns ranging from the contraceptive pill to the Space Race also received the irreverent Bamforth treatment. Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection celebrates the golden age of these comic gems with a selection of more than 250 cards originally published from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The book's introduction reveals the story behind the company & the battles with the postcard censorship committees that resulted in almost 150 prosecutions.
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This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity & graphic work. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles he went on to transform the genre. His best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters & title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo & Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm & Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos & corporate identity campaigns of the century including those for major companies such as AT&T Quaker Oats United Airlines & Minolta. His wife & collaborator Elaine joined the Bass office in the late 1950s. Together they created an impressive series of award-winning short films including the Oscar-winning Why Man Creates as well as an equally impressive series of film titles ranging from Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus in the early 1960s to Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear & Casino in the 1990s. Designed by Saul Bass's daughter Jennifer & written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham who knew Saul Bass this book contains more than 1 400 illustrations many from the Bass archive & never published before providing an in-depth account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century. This definitive study is eagerly anticipated by design & film enthusiasts. ...

The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes &

Includes:: the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. In the first section of Sauron Defeated Christopher Tolkien completes his fascinating study of The Lord of the Rings. Beginning with Sams rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol & giving a very different account of the Scouring of the Shire this section ends with versions of the hitherto unpublished Epilogue in which years after the departure of Bilbo & Frodo from the Grey Havens Sam attempts to answer his childrens questions. The second section is an edition of The Notion Club Papers. These mysterious papers discovered in the early years of the twenty-first century report the discussions of an Oxford club in the years 1986-7 in which after a number of topics the centre of interest turns to the legend of Atlantis the strange communications recevied by other members of the club from the past & the violent irruption of the legend into the North-west of Europe. This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive & classic style of the black cover A-format paperbacks of The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings The Silmarillion & Unfinished Tales.

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Now in its 2nd Edition & with over 70 additional new sausage recipes this book is unashamedly about the good old British Banger. The Sausage Book" provides complete step-by-step instructions enabling the reader to make sausages with complete confidence whether for the supper table or for commercial purposes. Fully updated & with over 100 mouth-watering recipes from the traditional English Breakfast Sausage to more exotic ethnic varieties this is a comprehensive book that can be referred to again & again." ...

This is a uniquely presented touching tale of grief solace & hope from a master of contemporary storytelling & a visionary artist. Imagine you wrote a story & that story came true. This is exactly what happens to Blue Baker when he writes about a savage living alone in the woods near his home. After his dad's death Blue finds comfort in dreaming of a wild kid who survives on a diet of berries & the occasional hapless passerby. But when the savage pays a night-time visit to the local bully boundaries become blurred & Blue begins to wonder where he ends & the savage begins. Part novel part graphic novel this moving story features striking art from the award-winning Dave Mc Kean. This is Carnegie Whitbread & Smarties award-winner David Almond's second novel for Walker Books
- after My Dad's a Birdman" (9781406304862)."
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Imagine a world in which Rome never fell. Now the Empire stretches across the Atlantic slaves are constructing a giant bridge over the Persian Gulf & magnetic railways span the globe. But tensions within & without are about to change the face of the earth. Marcus Novius is caught in a massive explosion at the Coliseum which kills his uncle the emperor.. .making Marcus his heir the new leader of the Roman Empire. Marcus the healer Sulien & Una his sister
- & Marcus own love
- have been together through thick & thin fighting for freedom fighting for their lives fighting for justice & Marcus ascension to Roman throne was supposed to be the start of something magnificent.. . But Marcus is horribly wounded himself in the explosion & Sulien is having problems fighting his way through the terrible devastation to be at his friends
- his emperors
- side. & its not long before Sulien & Una realise life will never be the same again for the Roman Empire is about to face its most dangerous enemy.. .



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The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945 but in reality it rumbled on for another 10 years.. . Across Europe landscapes had been ravaged entire cities razed & more than 35 million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted
- such as the police the media transport local & national government
- were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates were soaring economies collapsing & the European population was hovering on the brink of starvation. In this epic book Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. He outlines the warped morality & the insatiable urge for vengeance that were the legacy of the conflict. He describes the ethnic cleansing & civil wars that tore apart the lives of ordinary people from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean & the establishment of a new world order that finally brought stability to a shattered generation.

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