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If this were the only cookbook you owned, neither you nor those you cooked for would ever get bored.' Nigella Lawson Marcella Hazan is widely regarded as one of the greatest Italian cookery writers in the world and The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking is her masterpiece. Aimed at cooks of every level, be they beginners of accomplished chefs, it is an accessible and comprehensive guide to authentic Italian cuisine and should find a place...

In a brutal world, charismatic rebel miner Mack McAsh - a slave by birth - is a man with the courage to stand up for what is right, and the strength to stick by his beliefs. Independent, rebellious Lizzie Hallim, meanwhile, is engaged to Jay Jamisson, the ruthless landlord's son and heir to an exploitative business empire. Born into separate worlds, Mack and Lizzie are thrown together when Mack becomes an enemy of the state and is forced to fl...

A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians an...

From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the World has ever seen. Roy Jenkins faithfully presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. In depth analysis and brilliant historical research make this a magnificent one-volume biography of an extraordinary life. In some ways a companion p...

Life, the Universe and Everything: the unimssable The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Three.

Rod Campbell's preschool classic Dear Zoo has been a firm favourite with children and parents alike ever since it was first published in 1982. Even babies and young toddlers can enjoy the story with the Dear Zoo Animal Shapes Buggy Book.Use the handy strap and clip to attach this sturdy board book to your buggy and take it wherever you go! Even the very youngest Dear Zoo fans will love turning the shaped pages and discovering all their favouri...

One of America's greatest living writers, now eighty-eight, returns with a book - a pair of books, together a masterpiece - a decade in the making.

Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the globe as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Jac...

Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the globe as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Fal...

The international bestseller now in paperback. It is 1911, and the coronation day of King George V. Thirteen year old Billy Williams begins his first day in the filthy coal pits of a Welsh mine. The Williams are linked by romance to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson a...

A gripping and sophisticated modern thriller in the vein of Le Carre. Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business crushed. Now employed by a private London intelligence agency, a client asks him to expose the dealings of Russian oligarch Malin. Before long Webster finds himself fixated by Malin and by his front man Richard Boot. But how far is he willing to risk the wellbeing of his family? And t...

It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, architecture and landscape, Winder describes Germany's past afresh - a...

When Boston attorney Scott Finn agrees to defend Kevin, son of mobster Eaman McDougal, he knows he's putting his reputation on the line. In a city where mob crime once ruled, corruption lingers and there are those who stop at nothing to achieve what they want. BPD Detective Zachary Long is called to a murder scene, and when the victim is identified, it brings Finn to a place he thought he'd never have to visit. He has to find the truth. He unc...

Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he's unprepared for the challenge his new secret assignment brings: managing a government facility hidden in the countryside. Tom Clarke, a journalist, meets Julia Priestley who seeks his help in finding her estranged husband, arrested under new anti-terrorism legislation. The authorities admit to taking him but not where - or why. Discovering a trail that implicates the top of gov...

Murder can strike more than once . . .Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle. It's a community where strangers, while welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust.With the autumn storms raging, the island feels cut off from the rest of the world. Tension is high and tempers among the trapped islanders become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder?When a body is discovered,...