Wallace & Gromit are back! In their latest adventure A Matter of Loaf & Death" our two heroes start a new bakery business & Wallace finds a new love interest
- Piella Bakewell bread enthusiast. This official all-singing all-dancing book is timed to coincide with the film's release in late 2008. " Grand Adventures & Glorious Inventions" is set out as Wallace's secret invention scrapbook packed with snippets of information & personal memorabilia about his cracking contraptions & all his madcap capers with Gromit. It features all the main characters from the three previous films (" The Wrong Trousers" "A Close Shave & Curse of Were-Rabbit") & offers a taster of the new film. It uses actual stills from the films &

Includes:: an interactive element woven throughout the book in the form of fold-out blueprints pull-tabs & practical 'how to create' suggestions. Knitting patterns " Cheese Week" magazine world-class marrows...prepare to enter the chaotic world of an amateur inventor & his dog! This book is a delight for young & old & a must for every discerning Wallace & Gromit fan. 37.6 million BBC viewers watched Wallace & Gromit over the Christmas period!"


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Walled kitchen gardens were found in the grounds of most large country houses in Britain & Irel&. They were designed to provide a continual supply of fruit flowers & vegetables. With the aide of heated glasshouses there would be out-of-season delicacies such as strawberries for Christmas exotic tropical fruits figs & grapes. The remains of these gardens can still be seen some converted to other uses some simply abandoned; a few have been restored to their previous productiveness. This book examines the history of these old kitchen gardens in the light of what might be seen there today. ...

Two lovers. Two very different lives. One future together that will change history. When debutante Wallis Simpson is growing up she devotes her teenage daydreams to one man the future King of England Prince Edward. But it's Pamela Holtby Wallis's aristocratic best friend who mixes within the palace circle. Wallis's first marriage to a dashing young naval pilot is not what she dreamt of; he turns out to be a dominating bully of a man who punishes her relentlessly. But her fated marriage does open a suprising door to the world of Navy couriers
- where navy wives are being used to transport messages around the world. This interesting turn of fate takes Wallis from the exuberant social scene in Washington to a China that is just emerging from civil war. Edward in the meantime is busy fulfilling his royal duties
- & some extra-curricular ones involving married women. Until the day just before he ascends the throne as Edward VIII he is introduced to a very special married woman Wallis Simpson. Was Wallis Simpson really the monster the royal family perported her to be? Or was she an extraordinary woman who led an unimaginable life? A dramatic novel that crosses continents & provides a unique insight into one of history's most charismatic & multi-faceted women.

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Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise informative insiders checklist of all you need to know about the worlds most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days visiting for business or a vacation weve done the hard work for you from finding the best restaurants bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip however brief with a real taste of the citys landscape & the satisfaction youve seen all that you should. In short these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer. ...

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise informative insiders checklist of all you need to know about the worlds most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days visiting for business or a vacation weve done the hard work for you from finding the best restaurants bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip however brief with a real taste of the citys landscape & the satisfaction youve seen all that you should. In short these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer. ...

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise informative insiders checklist of all you need to know about the worlds most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days visiting for business or a vacation weve done the hard work for you from finding the best restaurants bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip however brief with a real taste of the citys landscape & the satisfaction youve seen all that you should. In short these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer. ...

The worlds walls are supposed to be coming down. We speak of globalization international markets & global villages; barriers to trade keep falling & it is now possible to communicate instantly from nearly anywhere in the world. But just as these virtual walls come down real walls rise. In this evocative blend of travel writing history & politics Marcello Di Cintio visits the worlds most disputed edges to meet those who live alongside the razor wire concrete & steel. Along the way he shares tea with refugees on the wrong side of Moroccos desert wall; he encounters illegal immigrants circumventing high-tech fencing around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta & Melilla; he walks Arizonas migrant trails visits fenced-in villages in India & stands with those who protest against Israels security barrier to understand what these structures say about those who build them & how they influence the cultures that they pen in. Venturing beyond politics he encounters the infiltrators who circumvent the walls the artists who transform them & the fenced-in ignored & forgotten people who live in their shadow. The walls discussed are: 1. The Wall of Shame in the Western Sahara built by the Morrocans in 1987 following their defeat by the Spanish. 2. A high-tech fence around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta & Meilla. 3. The Indo Bangladesh fence erected in 1947. 4. The West Bank Wall. 5. The green line that separates the Greek from the Turkish-Cypriot quarters in Nicosia the capital of Cypress & Lefkosa the capital of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. 6. The US-Mexico border. 7. The various barriers throughout Belfast. 8. The l Acadie fence in Montreal erected as a wall built of chains in 1960. ...

Here Wally Olins sets out the ground rules for branding success in the 21st century explaining why understanding the links between business brand & consumer has never been more vital for commercial success & reflecting the recent enormous changes in the branding world. It will be an essential purchase for everyone in advertising marketing & business who needs to understand why the most successful brands in the world triumph by making insiders believe in them & consumers buy into them. ...

A facsimile of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard Training Manual recently discovered in the attic of a house in the town. Found in a trunk amongst a pile of Hotspur comics it belonged to Private Pike & features his handwritten marginal notes on the text plus his personal jottings on matters of rather less importance than the defence of the realm such as films he has seen girls he has dated & the progress of Aston Villa FC. The book bears the official crest & stamp of the Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment to which the platoon belongs. Although aged & covered with stains boot prints tears & scorch marks it is in a reasonable condition for facsimile printing. The manual is Capt Mainwarings attempt to ready the platoon to face (and recognize) the enemy in the coming invasion of Britain. ...

Walter Smith is arguably the greatest Rangers manager of all time delivering an unparalleled level of success in two spells which covered just over 11 years. Using official photographs & a series of exclusive interviews this book takes you to the heart of the man who is revered by Rangers supporters all over the world. Smith talks extensively about joining Rangers under Graeme Souness his proudest moment when he was made boss & why he simply could not turn down the chance to return in 2007 to replace Paul Le Guen. He also gives revealing thoughts on star signings Brian Laudrup & Paul Gascoigne the amazing European runs of 1992/93 & 2007/08 & why he was thrilled to hand over the reins to Ally Mc Coist. Walter Smith
- The Illustrated Story of a Rangers Legend" written by Lindsay Herron is a must-have collectors item for all true blues."
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