Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The creativity of the Japanese their dedication & ingenuity not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm & octopus ice cream is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in the sushi-saturated West as are the remarkable health benefits of the traditional Japanese diet. Food & travel writer Michael Booth sets of to take the culinary pulse of contemporary Japan & he & his young family travel the length of the country
- from bear-infested beer-loving Hokkaido to snake-infested seaweed-loving Okinawa. What do the Japanese know about food? Perhaps more than anyone else on earth judging by this fascinating & funny journey through an extraordinary food-obsessed country. Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for the best book on food & travel.
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' Dammit' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown'. Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she's diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it? Ashling Kennedy Lisa's super-organized assistant worries about everything from her lack of waist to the lack of men in her life. She's even anxious about of a little bit of raw fish.. . Clodagh Kelly is Ashling's best friend & has her prince her beautiful kids & a lovely house
- everything in fact that Ashling ever wanted. She should be
- yet she's not
- happy.


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Have you ever wondered why Japanese women stay so slim? Research shows that the Japanese diet is one of the healthiest in the world: balanced slimming & packed with superfoods. Japanese girls learn about food from their mothers: what to eat to make your hair shine your skin glow to get rid of wrinkles to make your nails strong & healthy. But above all how to stay slim.. . Japanese women practise virtuous indulgence: they dont deny themselves foods that they love but they only eat them in very small quantities
- lots of little plates rather than one big one
- & only healthy snacks in between. They count calories obsessively & know which dishes will provide all their nutritional
- & beauty
- needs with the minimum of fuss. Now you too can benefit from their wisdom. In Sushi Slim using the latest scientific research Makiko shows how eating Japanese food can help you get slim & stay slim. Once you begin to eat this way youll feel the kilos drop away plus all the recipes are calorie counted to help you maintain your perfect weight. Sushi is light fun supremely tasty & extraordinarily healthy & with Makikos foolproof directions youll have no trouble putting together the pretty delicious dishes. Also included are soups & refreshing salads. Eat California Rolls for the hair-glossing benefits of black sesame or try the fabulously covetable Collagen Soup for a lunchhour facelift. & you dont have to give up your diet at work. Makikos tips will have you packing a bento box of healthy delights straight from your freezer which will be perfectly ready in time for lunch.



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During her sixty-five-year career Susie Cooper introduced more than 4 500 ceramic patterns & shapes making her one of the most prolific versatile & influential designers the industry has ever seen. Between the 1920s & 1980s she moved from the bold h&-painting of the ' Jazz Age' through delicate wash banding & aerograph techniques to sophisticated lithographic transfer printing on both earthenware & bone china. Cooper not only led the charge of gifted female designers in the male-dominated Potteries but also pioneered the role of women in factory management. Alan Marshall here charts her progress from the creation of patterns for Gray's Pottery in the 1920s to running her own Susie Cooper Productions from the 1930s to the 1950s & designing for Wedgwood from the 1960s to the 1980s. ...

Joseph OLoughlin appears to have the perfect life
- a beautiful wife a loving daughter & a successful career as a clinical psychologist.
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This is the brilliant new standalone thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Elvis Cole & Joe Pike novels. LAPD cop Scott James is not doing so well. Eight months ago a shocking late-night assault by unidentified men killed his partner Stephanie nearly killed him & left him enraged ashamed & ready to explode. He is unfit for duty
- until he meets his new partner. Maggie is not doing so well either. A German shepherd who survived three tours in Iraq & Afghanistan sniffing out explosives before losing her handler to an IED. They are each other's last chance. Shunned & shunted to the side they set out to investigate the one case that no one wants them to touch: the identity of the men who murdered Stephanie. What they begin to find is nothing like what Scott has been told & the journey will take them both through the darkest moments of their own personal hells. Whether they will make it out again no one can say. Suspect is the explosive new masterpiece from the Sunday Times bestselling author". (Lee Child & Harlan Coben)."
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It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road Wiltshire all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard the most celebrated detective of his day reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes
- scheming servants rebellious children insanity jealousy loneliness & loathing
- arouses fear & a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar & bewilderment. A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins Charles Dickens & Arthur Conan Doyle this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery
- a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets. In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case bringing it back to vivid extraordinary life.


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Think of Sussex Buses & almost automatically that means Southdown: think of locations & that means Brighton. Well you will find plenty of pictures of both within these pages but there is much more besides. Although Southdown was far & away the biggest cheese in Sussex three other BET concerns Aldershot & District Maidstone & District & East Kent worked into the county as did London Transport. Trams operated beside the seaside in Brighton & Hastings their systems & the little four-wheel cars which operated them being replaced by almost silent streamlined (well perhaps not the early Hastings ones) trolleybuses in the 1930s. Eastbourne was the worlds first municipality to operate motorbuses
- applause please. Brighton ah Brighton deserves a new chapter. Not only did Brighton Corporation operate trams then trolleybuses & motor buses but the town was also served by Thomas Tillings Brighton & Hove & District which was eventually swallowed up by Southdown. In NBC days the Corporation misguidedly adopted a pale blue livery which like the NBC green did not wear very well. Privatisation saw the emergence of the Brighton Hove Bus & Coach Company which would by the mid first decade of the 21st century become the jewel in the crown that Southdown had once assumed. With routes spreading far beyond the City of Brighton & Hove some of them once operated by Southdown notably to Lewes Tunbridge Wells & Eastbourne a livery of basically red & pale cream & thus recalling days gone by but designed by Ray Stennings Best Impressions & thus totally of the 21st century buses named after notable Brighton inhabitants ranging from world famous statesmen & stars of stage screen & radio to good men & women who have enhanced in various ways the lives of their fellow citizens all part of an imaginative publicity drive which has seen the graph of the growth of bus travel in the city climb steadily & reap a number of well deserved awards.
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Eleven Sussex CCC legends tell the stories behind their most memorable games for the county
- enabling fans of all ages to relive
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These lively & entertaining folk tales from one of Britain's most ancient counties are vividly retold by local storyteller Mike O' Leary. Their origins lost in the oral tradition these stories from Sussex reflect the wisdom (and eccentricities) of the county & its people. Sussex has a rich & diverse collection of tales from dragons lurking in bottomless pits & screaming demons hiding under hills to legends of witches wise women & ghosts. These stories illustrated with twenty-five line drawings bring alive the landscape of the county's rolling hills & dramatic coast. Mike O' Leary is a professional storyteller who has been travelling the country retelling traditional folk tales for almost twenty years. ...