Tana Ramsay shows how easy it is to cook up real family food to satisfy the entire family. Working with simple recipes & basic ingredients she shares her favourite family recipes for every occasion from school night suppers & weekend breakfasts to birthday surprises & Halloween bites. As a busy mother-of-four & the glamorous wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay Tana knows the challenges of pleasing everybody around the kitchen table -- especially if you want your family to eat real healthy food. With the help of her trademark easy-to-follow & mouth-watering recipes Tana shows how to transform mealtimes with minimum fuss & make real food something you all eat everyday -- without spending hours in the kitchen. Lavishly illustrated with over 100 recipes for every family occasion throughout the year including: / School-rush breakfasts lunchtime bites & quick-fix dinners / Lazy lunches birthday surprises & family parties / Summer picnics Easter feasts & Christmas treats ...

Opulence. Invasion. Terror. & forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore. They were the golden days when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy its future as assured as it was busy. & those days were made even better when as was inevitable I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong & against all unwritten canons of Singapore life we became lovers. ...

Half-African half-Indian & beautiful Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked & violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid & consumed by hatred for the white man Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind & extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own: Peekay an Oxford undergraduate who is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship
- & a white man. & in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences.
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The rightful High Druid of Shannara has been banished to the harsh world called the Forbidding by a treasonous fellow druid. Her only hope for rescue is her nephew Pen
- but Pen is under seige as well. Both he & his parents are sought by the druids who want to make sure that their magic will never help the real leader to return. Yet there is worse to come. For the dark magic that banished the High Druid into the Forbidding allowed the simultaneous transference of a fearsome denizen of the Forbidding back into the druids world. & now there is a terrible peril in the Four Lands
- a creature that can take on any shape can kill at will & is only the harbinger of a much greater devastating invasion to come.. .

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An edge city poised at the northernmost tip of Africa just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe & overlooking both the Mediterranean & the Atlantic Tangier is more than a destination it is an escape & the Interzone as William Burroughs called it has attracted spies outlaws outcasts & writers for centuries
- men & women working out at the edge of literary forms breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time. Particularly in the past century the results were some of the most incendiary & influential books of our time the most prominent being Burroughs' Naked Lunch & Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky. The list of edge" writers who were drawn to Tangier is long among them Ibn Battuta Samuel Pepys Alexandre Dumas Mark Twain Edith Wharton Walter Harris Jean Genet Paul & Jane Bowles Tennessee Williams William Burroughs Brion Gysin Patricia Highsmith Jack Kerouac Truman Capote Gore Vidal Allen Ginsberg Alfred Chester Joe Orton & Mohamed Choukri."
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After her antics in A Most Improper Magick Kat Stephenson is back to cause more chaos! Stepmama drags the family to Bath to find Kats sister a new suitor. But unknown to most of its gossipy visitors Bath is full of wild magic. When Kat uncovers a plot to harness this magic in the Roman Baths she finds her brother Charles is unwittingly involved. Kat must risk her newfound magical powers as she defies the Order of the Guardians to foil the plot & clear her brothers name ...

Adria wolf changeling & resilient soldier has made a break with the past. Now comes a new territory & a devastating new complication: Riaz a Snow Dancer lieutenant already sworn to someone else. For Riaz the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It consumes her. It terrifies her. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle. Their coming together is an inferno.. .and a melding of two wounded souls who promise each other no commitment no ties no bonds. Only pleasure. Too late they realise that they have more to lose than they ever imagined. Drawn into a cataclysmic Psy war that may alter the fate of the world itself they must make a decision that might just break them both. ...

Lizzie Delancey is happily married in her early 50s with three grown children. But Lizzie guards a dark secret. At age 18 she had a baby boy & gave him up for adoption. She still thinks of him every day. Then out of the blue she receives an official-looking letter from Kent Social Services. Her son Daniel wants to make contact. On one hand she is overjoyed
- she longs to meet him. On the other she has never told her children that they have another sibling. Tangled Lives follows the effect this revelation has on her family as with Daniel as the catalyst a few small tears in the family fabric suddenly gape wide.
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Annie Delancey is happily married with three grown children. But she guards a secret. Aged eighteen she had a baby boy & gave him up for adoption. Out of the blue she receives an official-looking letter from Social Services. Her son wants to make contact. As the son she has never known comes back into her life his presence begins to expose the cracks in the family that Annie now has to try desperately to hold together. ...

In my world the word hero is way over-used. In the real world its the absolute minimum requirement for PC David Rathb&. ALAN SHEARER This is PC David Rathbands own very personal account of his wounding by gunman Raoul Moat in the summer of 2010. PC Rathband police call sign Tango 190 was blinded when Moat shot him in the face at point blank range as he sat in his patrol car on 4th July 2010. Twenty-four hours earlier Moat had shot his ex-partner Samantha Stobbart 22 & killed her lover Chris Brown in Gateshead. The shootings sparked the largest police manhunt in British history dominated the headlines & became one of the biggest & most controversial news stories of 2010. It ended with a st&-off between Moat & armed police on a river bank in the small Northumberland town of Rothbury & the death of the former night club doorman. This book is Rathbands personal account of the attack & the events surrounding it including his attendance at the trials of Moats henchmen. It is also the story of his physical recuperation & the gradual & courageous rebuilding of his life with the help of his family in the wake of terrible injuries sustained in the line of duty. The story becomes even more poignant in the light of PC Rathband s death & his ultimate failure to recover mentally from what had happened to him despite his heroic efforts. Tragically he took his own life on 29 February 2012. ...