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Alex Urban

Alex Wheatle

Alex is an author and best-selling children’s book illustrator. Since he could first hold a pencil, Alex has been drawing characters, bringing each to life with a sense of mischief and fun. After studying Illustration for Children’s Publishing at the North Wales School of Art and Design, he went on to illustrate The Runaway Pea, which was selected for the BookTrust’s 2020 Time to Read Campaign. Alex has won the Inspiread 2023 Book Award for his picture book I Did See a Mammoth, the 2020 Shrewsbury Book Fest award and The FCBG 2020 award for his illustrations in The Runaway Pea, as well as being nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and was a finalist in the 2020 Oscar’s Book Prize. His books have been translated into multiple languages. A love of fun storytelling and growing up on 80’s cartoons lead Alex to write his own books, which combine captivating characters and quirky exploits, along with a positive moral message. Alex currently lives in his hometown of Northampton with his wife, two sons, and their chihuahua.

Alex Willmore

Alex Y. Ferguson

Alex de Campi's mostly-indie career stretches from her Eisner-nominated debut Smoke (Dark Horse) through recent Eisner nominees Bad Girls (Gallery 13) and Twisted Romance (Image). Plus company work: she's killed off most of Riverdale, twice, in Archie vs Predator I &amp; II. Her next projects are YA adventure The Backups (Imprint / MacMillan, 2020) and a thriller with director Duncan Jones. Catch her YA adventure Reversal on her Patreon, and action-thriller Bad Karma on Panel Syndicate. She also writes for TV and film (the Blade Runner anime &amp; more). She is on social media as @alexdecampi and lives in Manhattan.

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Alexa Chung

Alexander Aciman

Alexander Armstrong is one half of the comedy duo Armstrong &amp; Miller who had a regular series on Channel 4 from 1997 to 2001 and then returned with three series of the BAFTA winning Armstrong &amp; Miller Show on BBC1 in 2007. Alexander’s many straight acting roles have included Love Life, Life Begins, Mutual Friends and the sitcomHunderby. He frequently hosts Have I Got News For You?, is the voice of Danger Mouse and the narrator of CBeebies cult hit Hey Duggee. Alexander is also a presenter on Classic FM and has a number one bestselling classical album to his name, but is probably best known for presenting the highly successful daytime quiz show Pointless, now in its twelfth series.

Alexander Armstrong

Alexander Barabanov

Alexander Betts

Alexander Breeze

Alexander C. Karp is co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies Inc. The company, established in Palo Alto, California, in 2003, builds software and artificial intelligence capabilities that are used by defense and intelligence agencies in the United States and allied nations around the world, as well as companies across the commercial sector. Karp is a graduate of Haverford College and Stanford Law School. He earned his doctorate in social theory from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Alexander C.Karp

Alexander Chee won a Whiting Award for his first novel, Edinburgh, and is a recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House and Civitella Ranieri. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and NPR, among others, and he is a contributing editor at the New Republic. He has recently been selected as a prestigious LA Times critic-at-large. He lives in New York City.

Alexander Chee

Alexander Douglas was born in Canberra, Australia where he studied music and philosophy. He now teaches the history of philosophy and the philosophy of economics at the University of St Andrews. He has published two books on the philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza and one on the philosophy of debt. He has grown increasingly interested in combining ideas from Western and East Asian philosophy. He loves music, literature, history, and engineering. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh.

Alexander Douglas

Alexander Freed is the author of the Star Wars Alphabet Squadron trilogy, Star Wars: Battle­front: Twilight Company and Star Wars: Rogue One and has written many short stories, comic books, and videogames. Born near Philadelphia, he currently re­sides in San Francisco, California. He enjoys the city’s culture, history, and secrets, but he misses snow.

Alexander Freed

Alexander Garros

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Humboldt

Alexander Kent's great interest in the ships and men of the eighteenth century navy was aroused when he was still at school. Although he attended fleet reviews and explored modern warships and dockyards with his father, he found that the great days of square riggers and battles at close quarters captured his imagination. H.M.S. Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, was always high on his list of regular visits. 
 
He served in the Royal Navy as a young man, and saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and other major theatres of war, but his first love of the great days of sail remained unshaken. 
 
Now firmly established as a leading writer of authentic sea stories, he was the author of twenty-eight acclaimed books featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he wrote over thirty novels and two non-fiction books. He died in January 2017.

Alexander Kent

Alexander Lee

Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His books were included on the first Nazi blacklist and subsequently burned, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life.

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Cape Breton in Canada. His first collection, Light Lifting, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and won an Atlantic Book Award. In 2019, he won an O Henry Prize for his short story, 'Lagomorph', originally published in Granta, and the first story in Animal Person. MacLeod lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and teaches at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

Alexander MacLeod

Alexander Mackendrick

Alex Maskill was born in Watford, and grew up both there and in Eastbourne, East Sussex. He's has just completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Leicester and now has a degree in Politics. He hopes to follow this with an MSc in Computer Science. 
The Hive Construct is his first novel and won the 2013 Terry Pratchett Prize.

Alexander Maskill

Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world's most prolific and most popular authors. His career has been a varied one: for many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Then, after the publication of his highly successful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty million copies, he devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers through the world. These include the Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in The Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series, and the Corduroy Mansions series, novels which started life as a delightful (but challenging to write) cross-media serial, written on the website of the Telegraph Media Group. This series won two major cross-media awards - Association of Online Publishers Digital Publishing Award 2009 for a Cross Media Project and the New Media Age award. In addition to these series, Alexander writes stand-alone books, including The Forever Girl; Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party and Emma - a reworking of the classic Jane Austen novel. He is also the author of a book on Edinburgh, A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh, as well as several collections of short stories, academic works, and over thirty books for children. He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the British Book Awards Author of the Year Award in 2004 and a CBE for service to literature in 2007. He holds honorary doctorates from nine universities in Europe and North America. In March of 2011 he received an award from the President of Botswana for his services through literature to that country. Alexander McCall Smith lives in Edinburgh. He is married to a doctor and has two daughters.

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Alexander Monro

Alexander Norman has written a number of books with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and has known him personally for over 30 years. He regularly gives lectures on Tibetan history and culture and is fascinated by the country and its people. He lives in the UK.

Alexander Norman

Alexander Piatigorsky

Alexander Pope was born on 21st May 1688.He was brought up a Roman Catholic at a time where the laws of England were prejudicial towards Catholics. He suffered tuberculosis as a child and was crippled by it. He never grew taller than 4'6". He first published The Rape of the Lock when he was twenty-three years old in 1712. He later added to it in 1714 and 1717. It was written to reconcile two families who had fallen out over a similar incident where a young Lord Petre had cut off a lock of hair from Arabella Fermor's head. Pope went on to translate the works of Homer and produce The Dunciad and An Essay on Man. Pope died on 30th May 1744.

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Rosie Sykes

&#39;Rosie is one of the great cooks of our time &ndash; so humble, brilliant ideas, wonderful cooking and writing you want to read over and over again... Rosie cooks the food you want to eat all the time &ndash; unpretentious and delicious.&rsquo; &ndash; Angela HartnettMake Sunday night the best evening of the week, by perfecting the last, lazy meal of the weekend. Most of us want to forget that back-to-school feeling by kicking off our shoes and hunkering down with a soul-soaring supper &ndash; one that can be eaten with friends at the table, with book in hand by the fire, or in front of the TV.In less than half an hour of cheerful cooking, you can achieve Sunday night nirvana. Chef Rosie Sykes is an expert in the most comforting, nostalgic and heart-warming recipes, and here she gathers more than 50 of her greatest creations, most of them achievable in the time it takes to run a bath. Rosie makes Things on Toast that will make you weep with joy: Anchovy toasts with parsley and shallot salad, or Caerphilly with leeks and mustard; one-pot dishes to stop and savour, such as Stewed spiced butterbeans with tortillas and feta; easy egg dishes like Bacon and egg pie, or Bombay potatoes with a fried egg; delightful Remains of the Day, using leftovers from the roast &ndash; Chicken harira, Epic bubble and squeak; and if you just want a soothing cocktail and a snack, summon up your inner Sherlock with a &#39;Reichenbach Falls&#39; or clink glasses with the Bloomsbury set while sipping a &#39;Woolf&#39; and nibbling at Devils on horseback.All the recipes in The Sunday Night Book are simple and make clever use of store cupboard staples and leftovers. This is truly the best kind of cooking, the perfect way to extend the weekend and drift relaxed and contented into a new week.

The Sunday Night Book

52 Short Recipes to Make the Weekend Feel Longer

Luke Leitch

Ben Evans

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are the most successful design partnership in fashion history.Since they burst on to the scene in Milan in the eighties, their multi-million-dollar women&#39;s line, menswear, underwear, shoes jewellery and swimwear empire has become one of the dominating forces in Italian &ndash; and world &ndash; fashion. Every year, the opulent and dramatic presentations, in ever-more spectacular locations, of their successful 21st-century haute couture line Alta Moda are rapturously received by the fashion press.Their hot-blooded, theatrical style is inspired by the Sicily of Visconti&#39;s 1963 film&#160;The Leopard, by Catholic&#160;imagery and by the Italian screen sirens like Sophia Loren and Monica Bellucci who wear the designs captured here by Vogue&rsquo;s stable of photographers: curvaceous dresses, spectacularly colourful coats, Swarovski-crystal-embroidered corsets, tulle ball-gowns hand painted with beautiful floral images, baroque brocades and lashings of leopard-print.The Dolce and Gabbana woman &ndash; characterised, according to Vogue, as having &lsquo;a life that reaches beyond, complete with fantasy, turmoil and always a story&rsquo;&ndash; is sensual but proper: actress Isabella Rosselini describes &lsquo;The first piece of theirs I wore was a white shirt, very chaste, but cut to make my breasts look as if they were bursting out of it,&rsquo; while Madonna, more prosaically, simply says: &lsquo;I like their designs because they make clothes for a womanly body.&rsquo;

Vogue on: Dolce & Gabbana

Chloe Fox

Fashion&rsquo;s leading shoemaker, Manolo Blahnik is one of the handful of designers whose name is synonymous with their product.His success has lasted from setting up as a shoe designer in a Chelsea boutique in the 1970s to the present day, with American Vogue&rsquo;s Anna Wintour declaring &lsquo;The truth is, I wear no other shoes except his&rsquo;.Blahnik has collaborated with many leading fashion designers &ndash; from Ossie Clark at the start of his career and John Galliano at Dior at its height &ndash; but Blahnik&rsquo;s greatest achievement is to have made footwear, previously subservient to the overall concept of a look, the most important of all accessories.His many covers and features in the pages of Vogue reveal that wearing a pair of &lsquo;Manolos&rsquo; is to be utterly transformed; in Blahnik&rsquo;s dreamy, handmade creations, a woman can reinvent her personality. She is a Lolita in his Mary-Janes and a red carpet diva in his satin mules. Or as Madonna once put it, with characteristic bluntness: &lsquo;His shoes are wonderful, and they last longer than sex.&rsquo;

Vogue on: Manolo Blahnik

Yulia Van Doren

From choosing and using to programming, charging and cleansing, Crystals is a modern guide to enhancing your life with these enchanting stones.Often referred to as &lsquo;wisdom keepers&rsquo;, crystals hold millions of years of the Earth&rsquo;s history within them. Through emitting steady vibrations, they will help you to become more centered and balanced, creating spaces of Zen around you and your home.Featuring 60 of the most common and interesting crystals, this is a practical guide that will teach you about each stone&rsquo;s individual properties and how to harness their powers. Discover which crystals are right for you, where best to position them, the perfect pairings and learn how to look after your crystals on a daily basis to deflect any negativity in your life.Whether you use Fluorite&#160;to increase your productivity, Smoky Quartz to detoxify or Rose Quartz to create harmony in your relationships, this practical guide will equip you with all you need to harness the power of your crystals. Disconnect with the digital world and reconnect with your spiritual self as Crystals provides a fresh take on crystal healing that helps you to enhance your inner positivity.

Crystals

The Modern Guide to Crystal Healing

Trine Hahnemann

In Scandinavia the whole period of Christmas, from the first Sunday in Advent to New Year&#39;s Day, is marked by festivals and celebrated in traditional but beautifully contemporary style. Hygge, the Danish word for cosiness, is about being inside with candles, great comfort food and lots of cakes and sweets. The first week of December is baking week &ndash; enough has to be made to last the whole Christmas period. Jars of decorated cookies, gingerbread houses and clogs filled with little presents rub shoulders with simple wreaths, trees and tables decorated with white candles and fresh greenery. Brunches, cocktail and tea parties, lunches and dinners are celebrated with a mixture of traditional goodies and delicious modern recipes. Duck and pork rule on Christmas Eve, fish, ham and seasonal vegetables on Christmas Day. Sweets, biscuits, puddings and other treats abound &ndash; all washed down with gluwein and fruity cocktails. 
 
 In this glorious book, illustrated with evocative photographs, Trine Hahnemann provides a cornucopia of 70 Christmas recipes showing us how we, too, can decorate our homes and make delicious dishes to celebrate Christmas the Scandinavian way.

Scandinavian Christmas

Alison Davies

Embrace your inner cat with this light-hearted self-help book. From living in the moment, trusting your sixth-sense instincts, to taking cat naps and even going feral, this book will show you how to benefit by unleashing your innate cattitude.Cats&#39; ability to seize the day makes them excellent examples of how to make the most of every moment; whether it&#39;s playing an impromptu game of chase the sock, or an opportune swiping of a slice of roast chicken, our cats have it sorted. They&#39;re flexible but also prepared to tread their own path and they recognise the importance of play and rest in equal quantities.This book reveals the nine different traits that you can take on board to Be More Cat and live a happier, healthier and all-round &#39;feline fabulous&#39; existence. Packed with practical tips and exercises, interspersed with folklore and fun facts about our kitty gurus, there&#39;s something for everyone. So stretch out, relax and learn the art of being more cat.

Be More Cat

Life Lessons from Our Feline Friends

Nisha Patel

Nishma Chauhan

Grill My Cheese includes the 50 ultimate recipes for the world&#39;s most-loved comfort food. With easy-to-follow recipes, including delicious sauces and relishes that can be used with other dishes, this book breathes fresh ideas and a renewed sense of fun into an everyday classic.Brought to you by the London duo Grill My Cheese, whom Buzzfeed voted &#39;Top Street Food to Eat This Lifetime&#39;, the recipes include The GMC, a signature cheese blend with b&eacute;chamel sauce, Baby Got Mac, a heavenly marriage of pulled pork, mac &#39;n&#39; cheese and BBQ sauce, The PB&amp;J, a combination of homemade &#39;American&#39; cheese, peanut butter, chilli jam and crispy bacon, and Slumdog Grillionaire, an unusual mixture of Indian spiced potato, apple and peanut chutney, onion and of course cheese.Nisha and Nishma also offer ideas for dessert, including the decadent grilled cheese doughnut.

Grill My Cheese

From Slumdog Grillionaire to Justin Brieber: 50 of the Greatest Toasted Cheese Sandwiches Ever!

Jeremy Pang

Hong Kong Diner is inspired by an exciting, unconventional place, where&#160;western sensibilities and food tastes overlap with an ancient cuisine.&#160;The definitive &lsquo;commuter town&rsquo; where long-haul travellers break their flight&#160;for a night out, Hong Kong&rsquo;s cuisine draws on everything from classic Chinese&#160;to America&rsquo;s west coast, through French, Portuguese and British food. It&rsquo;s&#160;a fast-moving, cosmopolitan culture, a city with countless styles of&#160;dining and diverse ingredients.Chef Jeremy Pang grew up with Hong Kong as his second home. Hong Kong Diner&#160;represents comfort food at its finest: beef brisket noodle soup from&#160;one caf&eacute;, peanut butter French toast and milk tea from the next, claypot rice,&#160;savoury doughnuts, the list goes on. Jeremy expertly brings together in this&#160;book the very best dishes that the city has to offer.Featuring over 70 recipes including irresistible street food from dumplings,&#160;baos, and BBQ snacks, through to hotpots, rice pots, noodles, desserts and&#160;drinks, and with&#160;a personal insight into the real culinary treasures of the city,&#160;Hong Kong Diner is a unique cookbook, one that explores the east-meets-west&#160;diner food crossover of Hong Kong alongside its history and&#160;customs, bringing this vibrant food culture to life.

Hong Kong Diner

Recipes for Baos, Hotpots, Street Snacks and More

Quadrille

This pack&#160;includes 3 paperback journals entitled &#39;DO&#39;, &#39;BELIEVE&#39; and &#39;THANK&#39;. Each contains 80 pages with quotes, exercises and inspiring ideas as well as interactive&#160;scratch-off elements and space for your own thoughts and notes. 
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Scratch Off: 99 Ways Happy

Tricia Guild

So many people find choosing colours that work together to be the most challenging part of doing up their homes. The trick to putting together rooms that are good to look at as well as easy to live in is to start with a colour palette that suits you and your situation. Tricia Guild has spent her life working with colour, pattern and texture to create beautiful rooms and producing collections of paint, fabric and wallpapers &ndash; the colour palettes she uses to achieve them. 
 
 In this inspiring and practical book she&rsquo;s lifted the lid on her &lsquo;paint box&rsquo;, providing visual inspiration, expert advice and 45 bespoke palettes. Each story describes its inspiration and features a room showing how it can be used. Hints and tips &ndash; such as how to use plains, patterns and texture, or how to alter the balance of the colours &ndash; spell out how to create different effects. Mood boards demonstrate how to ensure your chosen palettes will work. With all these elements at your disposal all you need to do is open up the Paint Box and get creative! 
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Tricia Guild Paint Box

45 Palettes for Choosing Colour Texture and Pattern

Katie Kirby

Send solidarity to other frazzled parents with this beautiful box set of notecards from the bestselling author of Hurrah for Gin, Katie Kirby. There are 16 cards with matching envelopes, in 4 different hilarious designs, all featuring Katie&rsquo;s signature stick people drawings. 
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Hurrah For Gin: Notecard Set

James Martin

Slow Cooking is an irresistible collection of simple, delicious dishes to take your time over. James Martin shows how cooking slowly is the perfect way to draw out flavours and textures, enabling you to produce mouthwatering dishes with minimum effort. James&#39; tempting recipes make it easy to cook fabulous food for family and friends. Every recipe includes an hour or more of cooking or marinating time and no last minute preparation - so let your oven do the work while you get on with other things. 
 
 The recipes range from family favourites such as soups, roasts and one-pots, to more unexpected and adventurous dishes that embrace the slow philosophy, such as Fresh mackerel pickled with oil, vinegar and whole spices or Fillet of beef wrapped in clingfilm and slowly roasted until cooked perfectly to medium rare. 
 
Slow Cooking shows how, by preparing a few good-quality ingredients, and cooking or marinating them slowly for a least an hour, everyone can produce show-stopping dishes with very little fuss. 
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Slow Cooking

Mouthwatering Recipes with Minimum Effort

David Bez

In this, the third cookbook from king of salads, David Bez, there are 130 supper bowls for any season and every appetite.The options are endless and vary from light, raw and fresh, to hot, filling and wholesome. Every recipe in this stunning book is ultra simple and can be adapted to suit a different diet, such as vegan or vegetarian.The recipes are divided into two sections &ndash; soup bowls and filling grain bowls &ndash; and include Barley, Red Onion, Sun-Dried Tomato and Paprika Cream; Blue Cheese, Buckwheat and Aubergine in Beetroot Broth; and Tuna, Black Noodles, Avocado and Seaweed.As well as explaining the formula for the ideal supper bowl, David also provides advice and basic recipes for fermenting, dressings and sauces, broths and types of hummus. You&#39;ll find in these pages all the inspiration you need to fall in love with easy, effortlessly nourishing bowl food, for tasty, comforting suppers.

Supper Love

Comfort Bowls for Quick and Nourishing Suppers

Tom Frost

Enter the secret world of the butterfly with this handy pocket guide. Beautifully illustrated throughout, The Little Guide to Butterflies offers a modern reference to identifying these glorious insects.Featuring 40 of the most distinctive butterflies from around the world, this book is the perfect companion for anyone looking to reconnect with nature, whether that&rsquo;s when out walking or from the comfort of an armchair.Each butterfly has been exquisitely illustrated by printmaker Tom Frost and is accompanied by all-important information including their habitat, distribution and wingspan, plus an interesting fact or fable. There is also an interactive spotter&#39;s guide, where you can check off and note the date each time you spot a new butterfly.Reacquaint yourself with the familiar Orange Tip and Monarch, as well as discovering new species such as the Apollo, Spicebush Swallowtail and Crimson Rose.This informative, practical and beautiful guide is part of a new nature series designed&#160;to encourage creativity through exploring the outdoors.

The Little Guide to Butterflies

Discover the intriguing world of the leaf with this handy pocket guide. Beautifully illustrated throughout, The Little Guide to Leaves offers a fresh perspective on identifying the trees and plants around you.It features 40 of the most spectacular leaves from around the world, including the common British tree leaves we know and love, as well as exotic palms, ferns and houseplants.Each leaf has been delicately illustrated by printmaker Tom Frost to capture its individual characteristics, and is accompanied by information about the tree or plant to which it belongs and where it can be found, plus associated facts and fables. There is also an interactive spotter&#39;s guide at the back, where you can check off each leaf you find.This informative, practical and beautiful guide is part of a new nature series designed to encourage creativity through exploring the outdoors.

The Little Guide to Leaves

Tiffany Goodall

The essential and much-loved student cookbook, now in a new edition, From Pasta to Pancakes is filled with easy recipes for the budget-conscious student cook and aimed squarely at those who have never cooked before. 
 
 With step-by-step photography illustrating every recipe, it covers key basic skills such as how to cook pasta, pizza, pancakes, couscous, rice or bake a jacket potato, each with many variations. With over 90 recipes ranging from Minestrone Soup to perfect Roast Chicken, Spanish Omelette to Thai Green Curry, and from Chocolate Brownies to Vodka Watermelon, this book makes student cooking fun, fast, and affordable. 
 
 So, if you need to know what simmering water really looks like, whether your sauce is the right consistency, or how to check whether chicken is properly cooked, you&rsquo;ll find clear instructions next to some handy pictures. Designed as a comic strip, and with a photograph of every key step, From Pasta to Pancakes is packed with recipes, colour photographs and helpful tips. It is an ideal partner for those taking their first steps in the kitchen.

From Pasta to Pancakes

The Ultimate Student Cookbook

Leiths School of Food and Wine

This easy-to-use guidebook takes the reader through every aspect of preparation and cooking. Skills are comprehensively explained and clearly illustrated with step-by-step photographs throughout, enabling the reader to identify the correct texture at every stage of the recipe. There are over 70 recipes in this book, taking in contemporary dishes from cuisines worldwide as well as great classics with a modern twist. This authoritative guide makes bread-making easy. Comprehensive, illustrated step-by-step guides cover all the essential techniques, from the initial mixing stage, through kneading, rising and knocking back the dough, to shaping and proving. In addition, there is plenty of useful information on choosing and handling the basic ingredients. Classic loaves, sourdoughs, enriched breads, sweet yeast breads and layered doughs are all featured. Recipes for traditional white, farmhouse, wholemeal and granary breads - and classic sourdoughs - are all featured, as well as gluten-free options. In addition there are lots of tempting flavoured breads, such as Apple cider bread, Mediterranean Parmesan tearing bread, Smoked paprika corn bread, Cheesy soda farls and Spiced chickpea flatbreads. Original sweet recipes include Banana and date brioche buns, Chocolate focaccia and Cherry almond croissants.

How to Cook Bread

These easy-to-use guidebooks take the reader through every aspect of preparation and cooking. Skills are comprehensively explained and clearly illustrated with step-by-step photographs throughout, enabling the reader to identify the correct texture at every stage of the recipe. There are over 70 recipes in this book, taking in contemporary dishes from cuisines worldwide as well as great classics with a modern twist. This authoritative book provides detailed, illustrated step-by-step guides to making all kinds of cakes, from creamed cakes and whisked sponges, through teabreads and traybakes, to cupcakes, muffins and scones. In addition, there is a selection of gorgeous cookies and biscuits. Each chapter also presents a range of original, contemporary cakes as well as classics that have stood the test of time. This enticing collection includes such mouth-watering recipes as Chocolate caramel espresso cake, Mojito genoise, Raspberry and lime traybake, Muscat sponges with elderflower icing, White chocolate and strawberry muffins and Pine nut sables. &#160;

How to Cook Cakes

Cath Kidston

Anna Burges-Lumsden

Mug cakes are the hot baking trend for everyone who wants to whip up quick, delicious treats with minimum fuss.With simple and fast recipes from Anna Burges-Lumsden, all you need is a (Cath Kidston) mug and a microwave! For those who prefer to spend a bit more time in the kitchen, there are also recipes for easy cupcakes, delicious brownies, and one or two larger cakes.Sections include: Mug cakes, Cupcakes, Chocolate cakes, Kids&#39; cakes.You don&rsquo;t need to be an expert cook and you&rsquo;ll never again be short of a comforting snack to throw together for yourself or with the children. Each recipe suggestion is ideal for one person or two, or cook up a batch for the whole family. And tying in perfectly with all your Cath Kidston tableware, Cath Kidston Mug Cakes, Cupcakes and More! is a feast for the eyes as well as the taste buds.

Cath Kidston Mug Cakes, Cupcakes and More!

Dinara Mirtalipova

Small enough to fit into a handbag, this beautiful notebook has a luxurious cloth cover, pocket at the back, coloured edges to the book block and an elastic closure to keep everything secure.

Folk Art Cloth Bound Notebook

Fanny Zedenius

Fanny Zedenius gives this addictive craft a refreshing twist as she takes you through all the essentials, from everything you need to know to get started through to inspiration on how best to display your makes.The 21 projects in Macram&eacute; include impressive wall hangings, a beautiful table runner, a stunning curtain, whimsical dream catchers and pretty plant hangers.Beginning with the basics, the knot glossary in Macram&eacute; covers 30 of the most popular knots plus provides tips on how to create the 7 different patterns through various knot combinations. The book then takes the readers through dip-dyeing, fraying, where to buy materials and how to tackle larger projects, plus 21 projects to make for yourself. Each knot and project includes charts and step illustrations alongside beautiful, inspirational photography that clearly shows each design.Once you have mastered the basic macram&eacute; knots, you can begin to create the designs of your dreams... the possibilities are endless.And if you wish to take your crafting further, get Macram&eacute; 2 - the perfect follow-up to Macram&eacute;!

Macramé

The Craft of Creative Knotting

Fernando Peire

Gary Lee

The Ivy is the quintessential London restaurant, where people go to see and be seen, encapsulating everything that&rsquo;s glamorous and romantic about dining in the capital.The original Ivy was established in 1917 on the very site where it still stands, in the heart of London&#39;s Theatreland. The epitome of glamour, there can be few film stars, musicians, royals, writers, artists and raconteurs who have not passed through its hallowed front doors. There are now also nine Ivy brasseries in London and more opening nationwide.In 2017 this iconic landmark celebrates its centenary and, twenty years from the publication of the original Ivy cookbook, it&rsquo;s time for a new peek behind those famous stained-glass windows.The Ivy Now contains all the dishes, secrets and stories behind the restaurant&rsquo;s success. Charismatic Director and former ma&icirc;tre d&rsquo; Fernando Peire tells the story &ndash; the history, the theatre, the celebrities and the scandal &ndash; and with classic recipes from Executive Chef Gary Lee, including the Ivy&rsquo;s signature shepherd&#39;s pie, Asian-inspired salads, desserts and cocktails, this is the must-have book for a new generation of Ivy fans.

The Ivy Now

Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni

This book reveals how Calvin Klein created a fashion brand that made understated, all-American glamour his own &ndash; at the same time as building a vast billion-dollar empire that includes everything from pants and jeans to perfume and pillows.&#160;A master of minimalism, Klein&rsquo;s clothes have been beautifully documented in the pages of Vogue over the years by the world&rsquo;s starriest photographers, including Terry Donovan, Herb Ritts, Snowdon and Nick Knight. While Vogue also reflected the public&rsquo;s fascination with his film-star handsomeness, glamorous marriage and divorces, bi-sexuality, drama and stints in rehab, the magazine understood that Calvin Klein&rsquo;s success lay in the very opposite of excess: &lsquo;His clothes simply offered women practical elegance and cool, understated chic&rsquo;.In the early 1970s, he introduced his trademark jeans, which he elevated to designer status by cutting them tight and branding his name on the back pocket. Suggestive ads (with the nubile, 15-year-old Brooke Shields cooing &lsquo;You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.&rsquo;) created a designer jean frenzy among consumers. In 1993, he also made sexy male underwear mainstream with an equally seductive campaign featuring the beefcake charms of the young Mark Wahlberg.&#160;This is the ultimate handbook to an American icon.

Vogue on: Calvin Klein

Carolyn Asome

&#39;I like looking at things from a different angle and questioning what is expected.&#39; &ndash; Jean Paul GaultierThis book tracks the stellar career of maverick designer Jean Paul Gaultier from his first show in Paris in 1976, when he challenged the current ideals of beauty and promoted a style of fashion which embraced ethnic diversity and models of all shapes and sizes.Seen as an enfant terrible when he first burst on to the fashion scene, his titillating, provocative designs embrace corset dresses, conical bustiers, biker jackets paired with ballet tutus and skirts for men, along with classic fashion staples such as beautifully cut smoking jackets and trench coats. By the turn of this century he had put Madonna in corsets for her Blonde Ambition tour, dressed celebrities for the red carpet and moved seamlessly between mainstream popular culture (co-hosting the outr&eacute; British TV show Eurotrash and designing award-winning film costumes for Luc Besson and Pedro Almodovar) while also launching his own seriously successful haute couture label &ndash; an addition to a burgeoning empire of ready-to-wear, perfume and kidswear.With stunning images captured in the pages of Vogue by photographers like Mario Testino and Lord Snowdon, Vogue on: Jean Paul Gaultier shows how his avant-garde fashion creations and cutting-edge designs revealed Gaultier&rsquo;s unerring instinct for how women want to dress.

Vogue on: Jean Paul Gaultier

Sam Kalda

Of Cats and Men is a stylish illustrated gift book from an award-winning artist profiling notable cat-loving men throughout history in words and pictures. Sam Kalda presents a fresh approach to the cat book trend that is smart, sweet and driven by engaging and beautiful illustrations. Appealing to both men and women, Of Cats and Men is stereotype-breaking and charming, making for a highly giftable book. The 30 men profiled range from writers and artists such as Haruki Murakami, T.S. Eliot, Marlon Brando, Andy Warhol, Freddie Mercury and Ai Weiwei, to historical luminaries such as Sir Winston Churchill, Edward Lear and Sir Isaac Newton. In each of the profiles, readers uncover the men&rsquo;s devotion to their feline companions, surprising moments of fame for their beloved cats throughout history, and more. The book also features beautifully hand-lettered quotes, such as Twain&rsquo;s &ldquo;When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.&rdquo;

Of Cats and Men

Profiles of History's Great Cat-loving Artists, Writers, Thinkers and Statesmen

Rosie Reynolds

Put it on a stick and get stuck in!From the original Turkish doner to Indonesian satay, everyone loves a kebab. Featuring over 70 simple recipes for everything from brochette to shashlik to souvlaki, Posh Kebabs takes you on a global tour of flavours and ingredients.Prepare to char that chicken and roast your pineapples! Whether it&rsquo;s Blackened Cauliflower, Moroccan Lamb, Skewered Harissa Sardines, or Portuguese Beef Espetado, these succulent skewers, scintillating sauces and fabulous flatbreads reinvent the humble kebab for a new generation.

Posh Kebabs

Over 70 Recipes for Sensational Skewers and Chic Shawarmas

Lisa Sturge

Laughter is a physiological response that activates a plethora of beneficial reactions in the body. The elation you feel when you laugh and your body relaxes and releases endorphins is a great way of offsetting the physical effects of stress.The aim of the laughter healing techniques in this book is to help you to laugh more easily through a series of warm-up exercises that are then followed by a range of activities designed to get you giggling.Laughter does not come easily to everyone, but luckily the body cannot distinguish between real and &#8203;simulated laughter &ndash; pretend laughter has the same beneficial effect as real laughter. The practice of laughter is suitable for everyone, including elderly groups.There are many different types of laughs &ndash; light chuckles, hearty chortles, full-on belly laughs &ndash; and when starting with a fake laugh it often quickly becomes a genuine laugh. When we laugh, we are present in the moment. Paying attention to the here and now is much needed in today&#39;s frenetic society. It helps us to notice the small details as well as the bigger picture. By learning to pause in our daily swirl of activities and become fully present to whatever is happening at that moment, then we will be able to pause and laugh easily too. Laughter is mindfulness in motion.We all need to laugh more. This book shows you how.

Laugh

Everyday Laughter Healing for Greater Happiness and Wellbeing

Dan Toombs

Dan Toombs (aka The Curry Guy) has perfected the art of replicating British Indian Restaurant (BIR) cooking after travelling around the UK, sampling dishes, learning the curry house kitchen secrets and refining those recipes at home.In other words, Dan makes homemade curries that taste just like a takeaway from your favourite local but in less time and for less money. Dan has learnt through the comments left on his blog and social media feeds that people are terribly let down when they make a chicken korma or a prawn bhuna from other cookbooks and it taste nothing like the dish they experience when they visit a curry house... but they thank him for getting it right.The Curry Guy shows all BIR food lovers around the world how to make their favourite dishes at home. Each of the classic curry sauces are given, including tikka masala, korma, dopiazza, pasanda, madras, dhansak, rogan josh, vindaloo, karai, jalfrezi, bhuna and keema.Popular vegetable and sides dishes are there as accompaniments, aloo gobi, saag aloo and tarka dhal, plus samosas, pakoras, bhaji, and pickles, chutneys and raitas. Of course, no curry is complete without rice or naan. Dan shows you how to cook perfect pilau rice or soft pillowy naan every time.

The Curry Guy

Recreate Over 100 of the Best British Indian Restaurant Recipes at Home

Bill Granger

Bill&rsquo;s Everyday Asian celebrates the big, bold taste explosions of Asia and the fresh, lively combinations of ingredients that have had bestselling author Bill Granger hooked since childhood. Bill demystifies Asian food, unveiling the secrets behind balancing sweet, sour, salty and hot, and has simplified his favourite classics to create a collection of failsafe, quick and healthy recipes for everyday. From Summer Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce, Sticky Sesame Chicken Wings, to Rice Noodle Pho with Rare Beef, Bill serves up the tastes of Asia to tantalise the tastebuds and fit in with our fast-moving lives. A modern classic, packed with sumptuous and inspiring photography, Bill&rsquo;s Everyday Asian will have readers cooking their way through the recipes from cover to cover.

Bill's Everyday Asian

Nathan Outlaw

The fourth book from the 2 Michelin-starred chef, with over 100 amazing recipes for effortless home cooking.With two children and a busy professional life as a chef with restaurants in Cornwall, London and Dubai, Nathan knows how hard it is to juggle cooking for the family with a hectic work schedule. In his Home Kitchen, Nathan offers over 100 recipes, covering all kinds of food, to inspire and improve your cooking.From sustaining breakfasts and lovely lunches, such as crab and chilli omelette and satay quail salad, through the best ever Sunday roasts and accompaniments, to easy everyday dinners like chicken and leek pie and breaded hake with tartare sauce, everything is approachable and flavourful. For special occasions there are enticing ideas such as prawn and champagne risotto and barbecued butterflied leg of lamb, and to round off the dinner, how about sticky toffee pudding or elderflower custard tart with poached gooseberries?Nathan&rsquo;s approach to cooking is honest and straightforward &ndash; no messing about when it comes to good food for family and friends &ndash; and these are all the recipes you will ever need.

Nathan Outlaw’s Home Kitchen

100 Recipes to Cook for Family and Friends

Jane Smith

Japanese Classics

Meet the hilarious British dilettante Bertram 'Bertie' Wooster who can't seem to help finding himself in the middle of awkward social situations, calling upon his valet Jeeves to escape embarrassment.

Jeeves & Wooster

Jenny Q

Jess Tennant

Joe Rat Adventures

Joey Pigza

Johnny Maxwell

Jon Katz

Jonathon Payne & David Jones

Joseph Stark

Journey into Space

Jumpman

Post-graduation, Allyson Healey decided to embark on a three week tour of Europe. It all goes according to plan until she meets Willem. He is everything she is not; free spirited, a risk taker. She allows herself to be swept away by him for just 24 hours, and then returns home the next day. Willem, determined to find her, puts his trust in fate and travels the world hoping that somewhere he will come across her. This sweepingly romantic trio of novels is filled with emotion, romance and a life affirming belief in fate.

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