In the UK we throw away 6.7 million tonnes of food a year
- that's a third of all the food we buy & a fifth of our total domestic
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Alys Fowler takes a fresh look at foraging encouraging you to look closer to home from the weeds in your garden to the trees in your street rather than the fields & hedgerows of the countryside. Alys showcases her favourite edibles with a plant directory packed with useful information
- photographic identification plant description & tips on how to grow & how to eat it (including recipes)
- that will give you the confidence to identify plants yourself. This is a fast-growing global phenomenon that is fun environmentally friendly & thrifty!

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Forget makeover culture; forget the garden centre & all your gardening preconceptions this is a witty wise & practical take on to how to create a stylish garden. The Thrifty Gardener" is about creating the garden of your dream regardless of resources or limited space. It will eliminate the intimidation factor & reveal the ins-&-outs of soil seeds sowing & growing. At the heart of this book is a DIY ethic that says you dont always have to buy what you need you can make it take it or swap it with friends. From making stylish window boxes out of champagne cases to creating your own stylish compost bin from bulking up perennials to finding plants for free this book is packed with offbeat projects for a new generation of gardeners." ...

This extraordinary book is based on the collective wisdom of the scores of contributors to the Money Saving Old-Style section of Money Saving Expert.com
- the award-winning trend-setting website which in less than four years has attracted over one million UK users a month. The Old-Style forum started when many of the older visitors to the site decided to share their accumulated knowledge with other younger users. It has swiftly developed into a discussion on living life cheaply healthily ethically & thriftily with all generations together searching for a path to Old-Style bliss. Edited by Martin Lewis who as well as being the founder of Money Saving Expert.com is a newspaper columnist TV & radio money guru & presenter & author of the bestselling The Money Diet this lively book cannot fail to appeal to anyone who is interested in living better for less. The book

Includes:: hints & tips on:
- How to budget
- Cooking from scratch
- Cleaning for pennies
- Gardening
- Making homemade gifts
- How to shop








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From chic New York & the exclusive Hamptons to the hungry heart of L.A. this high-suspense tale pulses with deadly obsessions & relentless desires in the seemingly perfect world of a gorgeous film actress. She could have any man
- but the one she can't resist is a mysterious lover with a shadowed past. As their jolting affair skyrockets with electric passion shocking secrets break through their hidden traps
- in a brilliantly twisting story that sparks with the explosive Jackie Collins touch

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This is an essential sourcebook bringing the historic papercraft of quilling into the 21st century with fun & funky designs broken down into illustrated bite-sized steps for quick & easy crafting. Packed with fresh ideas techniques & tips Thrilling Quilling" will inspire both those learning the craft for the first time & more experienced crafters looking for new avenues of creativity. " Thrilling Quilling" offers clear instructions on creating a diverse range of quilled items & explores papers & equipment & techniques such as coiling pinching fringing & husking. With a perfect balance of information & inspiration people of all skill levels & interests will be able to take the timeless techniques of quilling & produce sensational results with a modern twist!" ...

Theres still a part of us that thinks surviving cancer is a bit of freakish good fortune
- the medical equivalent of having a cannonball
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Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness. In the dark filthy salt mines of Endovier an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin the best of her kind but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament
- fighting the most gifted thieves & assassins in the l&. Live or die Celaena will be free. Win or lose she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin's heart be melted?
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Its almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a spirited & engaging series of conversations between Cecelia & her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life & prepares for her death she changes subtly in herself & in her relationships with her family. Jostein Gaarder is a profoundly optimistic writer who writes about death with wisdom compassion & an enquiring mind. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY will not only bring comfort to the bereaved. It will move & amaze everyone who reads it. ...

It is a luminous spring day in Venice as Commissario Brunetti & Inspettore Vianello come to the rescue of Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti who has been arrested while protesting against chemical pollution of the Venetian lagoon only to be faced by the fury of Marco's father-in-law owner of a glass factory on the island of Murano. But clearly there is another victim who has uncovered the guilty secret of the polluting glass foundries of the island of Murano & whose body is found dead in front of the furnaces which burn at 1400 degrees night & day. The victim has left clues in a copy of Dante & Brunetti must descend into an inferno to discover who is burning the land & fouling the waters of the lagoon. A man is dead
- but will politics & expedience prevent the killer from striking again?
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