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A A Gill

Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

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A E Langsford

A G Hopkins

A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

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A J P Taylor

Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

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A J Rochester

A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

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A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

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Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

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A P Wavell

A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

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A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

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A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

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Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
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A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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Alex Renton

Vital stories for hungry minds. 
 
In the first official book from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Food Programme, award-winning writer Alex Renton tells the stories of 13 key staples such as spice, oil, cocoa, bread and tomatoes, exploring their history, evolution and how our ever-growing hunger for them continues to alter our world. Look at food in a new light - as a weapon, an art form, a tool of revolution, but also a bringer of pure happiness. 
 
Discover a kaleidoscope of fascinating facts and curiosities, including the forgotten joys of lard, the secret to perfect chips and how our love of pepper led to piracy.

The Food Programme: 13 Foods that Shape Our World

How Our Hunger has Changed the Past, Present and Future

Jo Scarratt-Jones

Tuck into 80 easy and effortlessly healthy meals from the hit BBC series Eat Well for Less. 
 
Cooking doesn't have to add to the pressures of daily life - make your kitchen a happy place with Eat Well for Less: Happy &amp; Healthy. Packed full of light lunches, simple suppers and weekend feasts that you can whip up for the whole family in a flash, this book will leave you full and feeling good without breaking the bank. Recipes include Jamaican Chicken Tacos, Spiced Feta &amp; Chickpea Sweet Jacket Potatoes, BBQ Veggie Chilli, One-pan Spicy Eggs and Peanut Butter &amp; Date Flapjacks. 
 
Featuring a foreword from new presenters Chris Bavin and Jordan Banjo, budget-friendly meal planners and top tips, Happy &amp; Healthy will help you stress less in the kitchen and teach you how to make quick and nutritious dishes.

Eat Well for Less: Happy & Healthy

80 quick & easy recipes from the hit BBC series

Brand new recipes from the 2019 series to help you eat healthily day in and day out. 
 
Discover how to make healthy and affordable food for everyday life, without falling back into the ready meal rut. 
 
Eat Well for Less: Every Day features 80 effortlessly delicious recipes from the new series that don’t pull at your purse strings. Whether it’s lunch on the go or dinner for the whole family, you can cut down your food bill and kitchen time without sacrificing flavour and, more importantly, your health. 
 
With a foreword from presenters Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin, Eat Well for Less: Every Day will help you make easy and nutritious food not just an occasion, but an achievable lifestyle. In no time at all, you’ll be whipping up fresh, cost-saving meals every day.

Eat Well For Less: Every Day

Rick Stein

Rick (and Chalky his trusty dog) discover great seafood dishes and small delicacies amongst the tidal estuaries, shingle banks and rocky shores of Britain. Rick travels from the bleak Suffolk coast where fishermen scrape a living catching cod to the wild, clear waters of Scotland's lochs bringing back an abundance of stories and imaginative, colourful recipes. 
 
The book is organised geographically with each chapter covering one of the regions featured in the BBC series. Rick describes the fish-catching and fish-eating traditions of each area as well as details of the local life, legends and literature. He singles out local delicacies and includes six to eight fish and seafood recipes per chapter. Each chapter is illustrated with stunning food and landscape photography and ends with an area map and a guide to a small selection of the best hotels, restaurants, pubs and specialist suppliers (including information on extra locations, not featured in the series). 
 
'Just as I do in the restaurant to keep ahead of the game, I look for the best suppliers, the freshest fish and who catches them. In a way, this is what this series is about, the fish I love, for all sorts of reasons, not just taste or fashion, where they come from and the people who catch them and the best way to cook them. As a result of looking around the country for the best seafood, it's turned out to be a love affair with the changing coastline of Great Britain and Ireland and the business of going to sea in small boats to catch the freshest prime fish we have.' Rick Stein

Rick Stein's Seafood Lovers' Guide

Rick Stein, one of the UKs most popular and respected chefs, opens your eyes to the wealth of produce available on your doorstep with his book, Rick Stein's Food Heroes. 
 
 Now available for the first time in paperback as well as hardback, this book is both an inspirational collection of recipes and a delightful celebration of British ingredients and those who create them. 
 
 Rick has always encouraged us to think carefully about the food we eat, to seek out the best-quality ingredients and to cook them simply. In his accompanying TV series he travelled around Britain, searching out the best of all British produce, from bread to beer and lamb to cheese. 
 
 The book contains over 100 recipes, including all those broadcast on BBC2. 
 
 In addition to a host of brand new recipes (including Smoked Duck Breast Salad with New Potatoes and Fresh Raspberry Tart with Hazelnut and Coconut Pastry), Rick adds his own variations on traditional dishes, such as The Definitive Welsh Rarebit.

Rick Stein's Food Heroes

Jordan Bourke

Keo Films

Fantastic, easy recipes from the new BBC One series. 
 
Treat yourself to some of the dishes from the incredible final show such as Dipa’s mouth-watering Spiced Cumin Carrots, Pippa’s delicious Grilled Prawns and Dip or her Chicken Ballotine. If that doesn’t tempt you, try Dipa’s lovely Pan-fried Chicken, and Phillip’s delectable Beef Wellington. Then there’s all the wonderful desserts to choose from like Dipa’s indulgent Carrot Cake and the Sticky Toffee Pudding. Finally, you can try your hand at the Scotch Egg from the tricky elimination challenge. 
 
Britain’s Best Home Cook is the ultimate collection of delicious, achievable recipes from Britain’s most talented everyday home cooks – those who make great food for their family and friends day in, day out. 
 
This fully photographed official companion to the hit series features all the very best dishes from the show’s contestants – the recipes that the judges Chris Bavin, Mary Berry and Dan Doherty consider wonderful home cooking – and step-by-step advice on achieving the same perfect results for classic dishes and the nation’s favourite meals. 
 
Alongside the show’s brilliant recipes, award-winning food writer Jordan Bourke offers easy-to-follow and fuss-free good food that will bring new, tasty ideas to your kitchen table: quick suppers, great weekend lunches, healthy meals and flavoursome sides and veg dishes. 
 
Here you’ll find recipes that define brilliant modern British home cooking, from the most sublime roast potatoes, an ingenious twist on roast chicken or irresistible yet utterly simple chocolate pudding.

Britain’s Best Home Cook

Great Food Every Day: Simple, delicious recipes from the new BBC series

Good Food Guides

Getting a nutritious, tasty meal on the table every night isn't always easy, but for those of us with busy lifestyles and little time to spare, using a freezer can be a lifeline. 
 
Whether it's batch cooking on a Sunday, for easy reheating throughout the week, or meals which can be made swiftly on a Monday, with the leftovers frozen for another time, Freezable Family Meals makes dinnertime low-stress and high on flavour. From lasagne and casseroles to veggie shepherds pie and fishcakes, there's something for even the fussiest of eaters. 
 
Accompanied throughout with full-colour photographs and a nutritional breakdown of every recipe, this collection of Good Food's go-to family recipes will work first time, every time. With advice on defrosting and reheating from the experts at Good Food, mealtimes have never been easier.

Good Food: Family Freezer Meals

BBC Books

Get your family cooking and eating together with 120 delicious and inspiring recipes from The Big Family Cooking Showdown. 
 
Tuck into crispy smoked chilli pork tacos with apple and avocado salsa, sweet and spicy chilli chicken, succulent chicken cacciatore with white bean mash and garlic green beans, mouth-watering fish curry, fabulously rich Irish cream ice cream and indulgent espresso martini tiramisu, all simplified for the home cook. 
 
From familiar favourites like Homemade Fish and Chips, Vegetable Lasagne and Steak and Kidney Pie, to fresh ideas like Red Prawn Curry and Ginger Roast Chicken with Spiced Squash, plus plenty of straightforward oven bakes, there's inspiration galore for family suppers and delicious desserts. Each dish from the show has been simplified with clever shortcuts and advice to make every recipe fuss-free. 
 
With original recipes from Rosemary Shrager and helpful tips from the competing families, The Big Family Cooking Showdown is the ultimate recipe book for anyone who wants to bring their family together around the kitchen table.

The Big Family Cooking Showdown

All the Best Recipes from the BBC Series

With Eat Well for Less: Family Feasts on a Budget, feeding your family tasty and nutritious meals has never been easier. 
 
From the quick and healthy Breakfast Burrito to simple but hearty dinners like Ratatouille Lasagne and Southern Style Chicken, all 80 recipes are easy to follow and use only widely available ingredients. Get confident in the kitchen with advice on batch cooking, stocking up on store-cupboard ingredients and using up leftovers. Use the handy shopping lists to help plan your weekly menus and learn how to create healthy meat-free options or cater for fussy eaters without spending hours in the kitchen. 
 
Featuring a foreword from Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin, Eat Well for Less: Family Feasts on a Budget makes it simpler than ever to cook great food for all the family without breaking the bank.

Eat Well for Less: Family Feasts on a Budget

We’ve all heard of super-foods but it’s hard to know where to start and to work out which foods are the most beneficial for health and well-being. 
 
Good Food Eat Well: Simple super-food recipes is a comprehensive collection of 150 fresh and reasonably priced recipes which make eating healthily straightforward and achievable. All of our recipes have been chosen for their health-giving ingredients, whether that’s memory-boosting turmeric or stamina-enhancing beetroot. So whether you’re looking to improve your health, lose a few pounds or just want to feel lighter and brighter, our super-food recipes will help you achieve your goal. 
 
All the recipes are short and simple with easy-to-follow steps, and all are accompanied by a full-colour photograph of the finished dish.

Good Food Eat Well: Superfood Recipes

Gincarlo Caldesi

Giancarlo and Katie Caldesi, the husband-and-wife team behind two Italian restaurants and a cookery school in London, are passionate about food and about Italy. Their eagerness to share this with others inspired them to relocate to Tuscany for a few months, to rediscover Giancarlos culinary roots and run a series of courses in traditional Tuscan cooking. 
 
Return to Tuscany is the result of their successful sojourn in Tuscany. Each chapter starts with a lesson, reflecting the different stages of their cookery course, guiding you through the basic techniques of pasta-making, choosing the best ingredients for an antipasti platter, cooking meat on an open fire, and many other aspects of Tuscan cooking. 
 
In 80 delicious regional recipes, Giancarlo and Katie pass on methods used by generations of the Caldesi family, with tips supplied by their Italian friends and neighbours. They describe how to make well-known Tuscan dishes, such Tomato Bruschetta, the classic Ribollita soup and the traditional Plum Crostata, as well as personal favourite that were popular with their students, including Mussel and Clam Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Salsa and Chicken with Cinnamon and Lemon. 
 
Illustrated with a wealth of stunning location shots and food photography, Return to Tuscany is both an easy-to-follow cookery book and an inspirational introduction to the culture and traditions of this beautiful part of Italy.

Return to Tuscany

Ainsley Harriott

Following the success of his most recent Friends and Family Cookbook, Ainsley is turning his culinary attention to feel-good cookery food that makes you feel great. 
 
Capturing Ainsley's enthusiasm for making cooking fun, The Feel-Good Cookbook brings us food that is good for the body and the soul: healthy, tasty and easy to prepare. 
 
150 brand-new recipes make up a bible of deliciously simple recipes, essential for time-pressed cooks wanting fresh, flavoursome and nutritious food. 
 
Chapters range from Light Bites and Quick and Easy Suppers to Mid-week Meals and Substantial Salads, and features include handy menu spreads, store-cupboard essentials and a guide to sourcing ingredients.

The Feel-Good Cookbook

For most of us, fish is something to be eaten in restaurants. The occasional prawn might sneak into our stir-fries or the odd sardine pop up on the barbecue but, for the most part, preparing and cooking fish at home on a regular basis is seen as difficult and time-consuming. Rick Stein would have us change all that. In this cookery book, he takes us to the briny world of his Cornish fishing village, Padstow, and gives us tips on the preparation of many fish types as well as showing how to make the most of each fish's unique character and flavour. 
 
This collection of 150 stylish and delicious recipes demonstrates the huge versatility of food from the sea - which is also, of course, quick to cook and healthy too! From the classic delights of Skate in Black Butter and Herrings in Oatmeal to Rick's own inventions like Chargrilled Tuna with Olives, Lemon and Sorrel, Mackerel Escabeche and Spicy Deep-fried Red Mullet, these recipes bring fish cookery to the centre of the culinary stage where it truly belongs.

Rick Stein's Taste Of The Sea

Mary Cadogan

The Good Food team and their favourite celebrity chefs have been planning and cooking Christmas for their readers for years. This Christmas cookbook, which represents amazingly good value at 7.99 for the paperback, is the culmination of all that experience and the definitive guide to seasonal cooking and entertaining over this most important time of the year. 
 
 Full of tips and secrets to ensure that every Christmas dish is a rip-roaring success, the cook will be relaxed in the knowledge that all the recipes are practical and easy to follow. 
 
 Time is in short supply during the festive season so the recipe book shows the reader which dishes can be made ahead, what can be frozen and how to cheat successfully when the chips are down. 
 
 Readers will find over 80 festive recipes, all photographed, and features also include the complete Christmas day feast – turkey with all the trimmings, and more – with an essential timeplan, and guest contributions from all the top chefs.

Good Food: Christmas Made Easy

Ken Hom

In Simple Thai Cookery (published in hardback as Foolproof Thai Cookery), Ken Hom demystifies this delicious and popular cuisine. He describes the basic techniques needed to recreate authentic Thai food and demonstrates 40 of the most well-known dishes with step-by-step instructions and photographs to accompany every stage from start to finish. 
 
Ken's recipes will appeal to the experienced cook and the novice alike as all are quick and easy to prepare and use readily available ingredients such as lemon grass, ginger and, of course, small Thai chillies. Foolproof instructions will guarantee excellent results every time, from healthy 'Spicy noodle salad' or the comforting 'Coconut chicken soup' to sweet and sour 'Pad thai' or hot and spicy 'Green curry prawns'. 
 
 With tried-and-tested recipes that include appetizing soups and starters, quick and easy fish, meat and vegetarian main courses and a variety of delicious accompaniments, this is an essential cookbook for anyone who loves Thai food.

Ken Hom's Simple Thai Cookery

Nick Knowles

In 2015 Nick Knowles felt overweight, unhealthy and was feeling every one of his 53 years. He travelled to Thailand for a retreat and after fasting for a week, and then adopting a purely vegan diet, Nick returned a changed man. 
 
Now slimmer, healthier, and eating a vegan or vegetarian diet (with the odd day off), Nick wants to share what he has learned with everyone else who wants to look and feel better, but isn't sure if the vegan/vegetarian lifestyle is for them. As Nick says: I'm 6' 2" and 16 stone - I need hearty meals not thin weedy plates and I often work outside in cold and wet conditions - a salad won't cut it - so here's a vegan and vegetarian cookbook for meat eaters full of hearty filling healthy recipes. 
 
Why feel bad about the cake you have with your coffee at elevenses when you can have a healthy raw chocolate cake with your coffee? There's posh meals to impress, puds to make your loved one swoon and surprisingly yummy options that are easy to throw together with ingredients we can all get hold of. Why skimp in winter when you can have a thick hearty chestnut and vegetable stew and dumplings. Or Vegan shepherds pie, a proper chunky vegan burger and lots of veggie options too. And if I can do it - then you can do it.

Proper Healthy Food

Hearty vegan and vegetarian recipes for meat lovers

Glowing skin, better sleep, loads more energy and improved overall health.... These are things we all want for our bodies. 
 
Good Food have combined the expertise of their nutritionists and the imagination of their test kitchen to create three diet plans. Each one targets a different area - from making you look and feel your best to boosting immunity and improved digestion, as well as an entirely vegetarian option. The plans are structured for you, supplying under 1,500 calories each day, and providing you with more than your 5 a day. The book also includes optional healthy snacks and treats if your goal isn't weight loss. 
 
All the recipes are short and simple, with easy-to-follow steps, and all are accompanied by a full-colour photograph of the finished dish.

Good Food Eat Well: Healthy Diet Plans

Soups come in many varieties: smooth and velvety, chunky and creamy or clear and packed with flavour. Whether a starter for entertaining friends, a quick mid-week meal, light lunch or to heal a cold and warm your insides, a soup can start a meal perfectly or even be a meal in itself. 
 
Now Good Food bring you our collection of our favourite healthier soup and broth recipes for all occasions – some of these are low in fat, some low in calories, but one thing is for sure, they are all healthy and packed full of nutrients. 
 
100 triple-tested recipes from the Good Food experts - guaranteed quality with simple step-by-step instruction.

Good Food: Eat Well Soups and Broths

Rose Elliot

Ahead of its time, the hardback of this book (titled Fast, Fresh and Fabulous) was much more than a collection of recipes from Britain's most respected vegetarian author. It offered inspiring, mouth-watering dishes that also had a low GI rating. 
 
Now available in an updated paperback format, Rose shares the secrets of healthy vegetarian and low-GI living. She gives essential information on living as a healthy vegetarian or vegan, whether you want to lose weight, feed your baby or start eating well to look younger and live longer. 
 
Inspired in particular by Mediterranean and Far Eastern cuisine, she combines an abundance of organic vegetables with fresh herbs, exotic spices, beans and grains to produce simple, delicious, energizing dishes. Rose also gives ideas for menu-planning, whether it's for fast, afterwork meals, or celebratory dinner parties. 
 
Beautifully illustrated with over 50 stunning recipe shots, this cookbook will inspire and delight vegetarians, non-vegetarians, and those wanting to follow a low-GI diet.

Low-GI Vegetarian Cookbook

Nick Nairn

Whether you are looking for a quick after-work supper idea or suggestions for a leisurely Sunday lunch, Nick Nairns Top 100 Chicken Recipes is sure to contain something to whet your appetite. Endlessly versatile and good for you too, chicken is the perfect standby food.    In Top 100 Chicken Recipes, Nick Nairn, renowned for his enthusiasm for fresh ingredients and wonderfully inventive cooking, gives us his favourite chicken recipes. His dishes range from classics such as Casserole of Chicken, Onion and Bacon, and Lemon and Garlic Roast Chicken, to the more unusual, including Chicken with Spicy Lentils and Herbs and Chicken Wontons with Chilli Dipping Sauce. Written with foolproof step-by-step instructions, the recipes are all simple to prepare and use readily available ingredients.    The perfect book to dip into whenever you need inspiration, Nick Nairns Top 100 Chicken Recipes contains every chicken dish youll ever need.

Nick Nairn's Top 100 Chicken Recipes

Chinese Cookery is Ken Hom's timeless collection of over 150 recipes. These classic dishes have been passed down from generation to generation and follow the Chinese rules of balance to ensure a harmony of colour, texture, aroma and flavour. 
 
Recipes include old favourites such as Cashew Chicken, and Sichuan Prawns in Chilli Sauce as well as new recipes from the kitchens of Hong Kong and Taiwan such as Steamed Salmon with Black Beans and Mango Chicken. Although Ken emphasises the need for authentic ingredients and good cooking technique, these are everyday recipes - simply written and easy-to-follow, and they are all infused with Ken Hom's infectious enthusiasm for the cuisine plus helpful tips for the home cook. 
 
Packed with indispensable information on ingredients, equipment and preparation techniques, Chinese Cookery is beautiful, authentic and clear, and remains one of the most popular and inspirational Chinese cookbooks ever published. 
 
Ken Hom is the world's greatest authority on Oriental cuisine and Chinese Cookery has sold over 1 million copies since it was first published.

Chinese Cookery

Ainsley Harriott is a best-selling BBC author and has sold over a million copies of his books to date. 
 
As fans of his Meals in Minutes titles already know, Ainsley is the chef who really understands the sort of food most of us want to make at home. Now he's back with his Friends and Family Cookbook, the ultimate reference book to reflect the way we cook and eat today. 
 
The book covers everything from planning what to eat for the week ahead and shopping, to timing a Sunday lunch and organising a supper party. 
 
Ainsley's Friends and Family Cookbook also contains step-by-step sequences to make particular techniques even more straightforward, lots of alternatives for everyday recipes like pizza and pasta and plenty of low-fat dishes if you are watching what you eat. 
 
The book contains over 230 brand new delicious recipes all using readily available ingredients, and with each one illustrated to encourage you to have a go, it is an essential addition to any kitchen shelf.

Ainsley Harriott's Friends & Family Cookbook

Ceri Thomas

There's nothing better than the taste of home-grown fruit and veg. It has flavour and freshness that no supermarket produce could ever hope to beat. Whether you've grown your own all your life or are just getting into gardening, Gardeners' World 101 Grow to Eat Ideas is packed with inspiration. There are ideas for growing salads, fruit, herbs and vegetables. You don't even need a garden to enjoy our planting recipes for pots that taste as good as they look as they'll do equally well on a windowsill as a patio. 
 
You'll never eat tasteless fruit and veg again with Gardeners' World 101 Grow to Eat Ideas. 
 
Gardeners' World Magazine is Britain's biggest selling gardening magazine, providing fresh ideas and clear advice every month. From plants and flowers to gardens and design, allotments and kitchen gardens to shopping guides and tried and tested reviews, Gardeners' World Magazine features the top names in BBC gardening, such as Monty Don, Alan Titchmarsh, Carol Klein and the Gardeners' Question Time team. Find out more at www.gardenersworld.com

Gardeners' World 101 - Grow to Eat Ideas

Planting recipes that taste as good as they look

Complete with mouth-watering recipes, stunning photography, sample shopping lists and practical tips, Eat Well for Less can help you create nutritious and delicious family meals without breaking the bank. 
 
'I needed this book in my life' -- ***** Reader review 
'A gem of a book' -- ***** Reader review 
'Of all the cookery books we own, this is the one we actually use' -- ***** Reader review 
'Brilliant! Every home should have one' -- ***** Reader review 
'Top notch cook book' -- ***** Reader review 
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 Do you find it difficult to budget for your weekly shop? Are you tempted by impulse buys and special deals? Do you make the same meals week in, week out? Eat Well for Less can help. 
 
 As well as 80 delicious recipes, you will find a meal-planning guide, help on freezing and storing food, a family budget planner and lots of ideas to get kids cooking. 
 
Learn how to use your leftovers, make savvy swaps and add more fruit and veg to your diet without spending extra time in the kitchen. 
 
With tasty food, sample shopping lists and practical tips from Gregg, Chris and the experts from the hit BBC show, this is your essential guide to eating well for less.

Eat Well for Less

80 recipes for cost-effective and healthy family meals

Aldo Zilli

In Simple Italian Cookery, Aldo Zilli proves just how easy it is to bring a taste of Italy to your kitchen. The book includes Soups and Starters; Rice Dishes and Pasta Sauces; Fish; Meat; Chicken and, of course, a selection of delicious desserts. 
 
Aldo demonstrates 40 delicious Italian recipes, each with simple step-by-step instructions. From the ever popular Spaghetti with a Quick Tomato Sauce to Tagliatelle Carbonara and a truly foolproof Tiramisu, Aldo includes all the most popular Italian dishes. For a taste of something a little more exotic, why not try Seared Tuna Sicilian-style, or Rump Steak Paillard grilled with Raddichio, Olive Oil and Lemon Dressing? 
 
With colour photographs to accompany each stage of the recipe, Aldo's foolproof instructions will guarantee even the novice excellent results every time.

Simple Italian Cookery

Quick to prepare and endlessly versatile, salmon is now more available and affordable than ever before. No longer a luxury to be saved for special occasions, it's the perfect ingredient for an informal supper or a relaxed weekend lunch, and a great standby for a quick family meal. This 'king of fish' is truly second to none.    In Top 100 Salmon Recipes, Nick Nairn, renowned for his enthusiasm for fresh ingredients and wonderfully inventive cooking, gives us his favourite salmon dishes. His recipes range from classics, such as Poached Salmon with Garden Salad and Salmon and Goats Cheese Tart to the more unusual, including Orange and Coriander Marinated Salmon and Salmon Teriyaki Sticks. Written with foolproof step-by-step instructions, the recipes are all simple to prepare and use readily available ingredients.    Nick also gives information on how to buy the best salmon, advice on preparation techniques and suggestions of wines to serve with salmon. The perfect book to dip into whenever you need culinary inspiration, Nick Nairns Top 100 Salmon Recipes contains every salmon dish youll ever need.

Nick Nairn's Top 100 Salmon Recipes

Raymond Blanc

Bring a bit of France into your kitchen thanks to legendary, Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc. In this straightforward, easy-to-follow recipe book with specially commissioned photography, Raymond shows how simple, delicious and rewarding cooking the French classics can be! 
 
'Fabulous' -- ***** Reader review 
'Simple French Cookery. It does what is says on the cover!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Best cookery book I own' -- ***** Reader review 
'Very delicious and so very easy to follow - perfect' -- ***** Reader review 
'A masterpiece' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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In Simple French Cookery, Raymond Blanc demystifies French cuisine and demonstrates how enjoyable the simple, creative act of cookery can be. 
 
He describes the basic techniques needed to create traditional French food, details key ingredients and demonstrates 40 simple-to-follow versions of the most well-known French dishes. With step-by-step instructions, specially commissioned colour photographs to accompany every stage from start to finish, and menu planners, all 40 recipes - covering meat and vegetarian dishes as well as sweet treats - are quick and easy to prepare and use readily available ingredients. 
 
You are in safe hands with Raymond - his foolproof instructions guarantee excellent results every time, whether you've chosen to cook a French onion soup or a Chicken fricassée... 
 
Why not choose: 
Moules marinière 
Poached asparagus with mustard 
Pan-fried fillet of sea bream with ratatouille and tomato coulis 
Coq au vin 
Provençal rack of lamb with crushed peas 
Pot-au-feu with braised pork belly 
Gratin dauphinois 
Stuffed tomatoes 
Crème caramel 
Tarte Tatin

Simple French Cookery

simple recipes for classic French dishes by the legendary Raymond Blanc

Stefan Gates

Gastronaut is an irreverent journey through the crazy, twisted, mixed-up world of food. Its full of extraordinary, extravagant and bizarre culinary experiences, arcane information and practical recipes for spectacular food. 
 
 Each of us will spend 16 per cent of our waking lives cooking and eating. That time is far too precious to waste on chores, so why not turn cooking into an adventure? This book of strange and wonderful gastronomic quests will help you do just that. 
 
 If you've ever wondered how to stage a Bacchanalian orgy in the comfort of your own home, how to make a bum sandwich, how to cook a whole pig underground, smoke salmon in a biscuit-tin, cook with gold, woodlice, reindeer, guinea pig, aftershave or breastmilk, or whether its true that you cant teach a grandmother to suck eggs the answers are here. 
 
 This isnt a work of fiction or hyperbole. Gastronaut is thoroughly researched, tested and illustrated throughout. It also includes a survey that lifts the lid, Kinsey-style, on the real eating habits of the nation. If cannibalism were legal, which famous person would most people like to eat? What foods make us fart? Do people genuinely like their pasta al dente? Can men lactate? Gastronaut is perfect for people who are fascinated by food, who love the wilder side of cooking, who yearn for adventure or who, frankly, just like showing off.

Gastronaut

Oz Clarke

James May

An inspiring introduction to French wine with a unique travel angle, tied in to a primetime 6-part BBC2 series, Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure brings us French wine made simple. 
 
Oz Clarke - award-winning writer, critic and committed Francophile - is one of the world's leading authorities on French wine. James May - overgrown boy racer , Top Gear presenter and journalist - knows nothing about wine and loathes what he calls 'wine ponces'. In Sideways style, they travel through the regions of France for 6 weeks. Oz teaches James about wine with the aim of turning him into a top sommelier, while the pair eat together, get drunk together and sometimes have to sleep together for a few nights under canvas. 
 
 Divided by region, Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure cuts through the fear and snobbery that surround French wine, providing an informative, entertaining and accessible guide to the French regions and their wines. 
Beautifully illustrated with over 80 landscape photographs and location shots, it is full of useful information on wine-making, wine culture, regions and tips on how to seek out the best the French vineyards have to offer.

Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure

In the culinary world, Scotland is renowned for the quality of its ingredients. Whether its wild salmon, organically reared beef, raspberries, shellfish or even whisky, Scottish produce is full of depth and flavour. Combine these ingredients with Scotlands top chef Nick Nairn and the results are outstanding. A self-taught cook, Nick has been a long-time champion of fresh Scottish produce, but his cooking also takes its influences from all over the world. In New Scottish Cookery, Nick combines the very best fresh Scottish ingredients with a myriad of international flavours, to create a mouth-watering collection of recipes destined to become the Scottish classics of the future. Containing the signature dishes that have made Nicks reputation from his bestselling Wild Harvest books, as well as over 80 new recipes, the book is a celebration of good quality, great-tasting food. Beautifully illustrated with 100 colour photos and including a useful guide to where to buy the best Scottish ingredients, Nick Nairns New Scottish Cookery will delight food lovers everywhere.

Nick Nairn's New Scottish Cookery

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. Discover the 1Q84 Trilogy by Haruki Murakami.

1Q84

365 Days of Art

A BBC Christmas

A Black Book Thriller

A Box Full of Murders

A Cal Leandros Novel

A Christmas Mystery

The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice.

A Commissario Brunetti Mystery

A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series

A Daisy Story

Chronicling the lives of over three hundred characters, unrivalled for its scope and humour, this is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.

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