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Alex Dekker served as a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces 'Green Berets' for nearly 20 years, first with 5th Special Forces Group and then as a special operations team member assigned to the United States Army Special Operations Command. He has deployed multiple times to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations worldwide, and has attended multiple advanced tactical and technical schools within the U.S. Special Operations community and interagency. Alex has traveled to dozens of countries for work and personal adventures and has spent years living abroad. He is an avid student of history who has participated as a volunteer in numerous archaeological digs, is an Arabic speaker, and holds a Masters in Applied Intelligence from Georgetown University. When not traveling, Alex lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Savannah, a former CIA Operations Officer, their children, and their German Shepherd Donovan.

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Alex Dimitrov is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize and is the author of Begging For It (2013), Together And By Yourselves (2017), and Love and Other Poems (2021). His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, and more. Formerly, he was the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets where he edited the popular online series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine. From 2009-2013, he founded and ran Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York. Currently, he teaches creative writing at NYU where he is Writer in Residence.

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Alex Evans is Campaigns Director at Avaaz.org, a Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC), and has nearly twenty years’ experience in climate and development policy. Alex has worked as Special Adviser to two UK Secretaries of State for International Development (Hilary Benn and Valerie Amos), as an expert on climate change in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and with think tanks including Chatham House and the Brookings Institution. He has also worked as a consultant on futures and foreign policy for organizations from Oxfam to the US National Intelligence Council. 
Alex lives in North Yorkshire and is married with two children.

Alex Evans

Alex Ferguson was born and brought up in Govan, Glasgow. He has always been a controversial figure, never far from the limelight, from the time he led an apprentices’ strike before entering full-time football. As a player with a reputation as uncompromising centre-forward his clubs included Glasgow Rangers, Dunfermline and Falkirk, and he became a spokesman for the player’s union. His first appointment as manager was with East Stirling, from where he moved to Love Street, where St Mirren’s crowds under his dynamic leadership rose from 3,000 to 12,000. He joined the Pittodrie set-up as manager in 1978.

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Alex Garland was born in London in 1970. He is the author of two novels, The Beach, The Tesseract and an illustrated novella, The Coma, in collaboration with his father. He has also written screenplays for films including 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd. In 2015, Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina.

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Alex George

Dr Alex George was the UK’s Mental Health Ambassador for children and young people from 2021 until early 2025, and he currently hosts the Stompcast podcast. Dr Alex’s first children’s book A BETTER DAY was a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller, won a British Book Award and sold 42,000 copies through TCM. Dr Alex previously worked for the NHS as an A&amp;E doctor and is now passionate about helping to equip everyone – especially children and young people – with the tools needed to live a full, productive and meaningful life.

Alex Gordon

Alex Grecian worked for an ad agency before returning to writing fiction full-time and raising his son. Alex is the author of the long-running and critically acclaimed comic-book series Proof, and the bestselling Scotland Yard Murder Squad series. He lives in Topeka, Kansas, with his wife and son.

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Alex Gutteridge

Alex Halberstadt is the author of the award-winning Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ and The Paris Review. He is a two-time James Beard Award nominee and a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He works and lives in New York.

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Alex Haley

Dr Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and a former senior research scientist on Google's Ethical AI team. She is an outspoken critic of the tech industry and a proponent of community-based uses of technology.

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Professor Alex Hill is the co-founder and Director of The Centre for High Performance – a collaboration between the University of Kingston, Duke Corporate Education, London Business School and Green Templeton College, Oxford – which is dedicated to helping high-performing organizations develop a stronger and more robust economy, society and environment. The Centre has worked with organizations in sectors ranging from the arts and education to sport, technology and the military. 
 
He is also a Professor at Kingston University (UK), Educator at Duke Corporate Education (US), and Visiting Professor at Cass Business School (UK), Gordon Institute of Business Science (South Africa), The Academy of National Economy (Russia) and KEDGE Management School (France). 
 
He has written a number of books, published articles in leading academic journals such as the Harvard Business Review, advised the UK Government on educational policy, appeared on BBC Newsnight, presented at the Global Economics and Skills Forum and has written for The Times and Schools Week.

Alex Hill

Alex Hoffler and Stacey O’Gorman’s motto is ‘Follow your dream’. Just a couple of year ago Alex and Stacey quit their 9 to 5 jobs and began their Meringue Girls journey. Now they have a bakery HQ in Broadway Market with a staff of eight, which sells to Selfridges, Fortnum &amp; Mason, Recipease and Harvey Nicholls, as well as fashion events, weddings and their weekly market stall. They run masterclasses rated by the Evening Standard as one of the best in London. They have had a huge media and social media response including numerous TV appearance and over 80,000 Instagram followers. They are in talks to open a franchise in Dubai. 
 
They also do weekly food styling for various publications including the Guardian. They live in east London. Alex has a new baby, and Stacey recently got married.

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Alex Holt is the Global Head of the multi-billion-dollar Technology, Media and Telecoms practice at KPMG. He leads a large team who work with all the major organisations across the sector on everything from multi-billion M&amp;A deals through to tax, audit and management consulting. As well as leading the TMT sector globally, Alex is also the Global Lead Partner for some of the largest tech companies in the world. 
 
 Alex also serves on the Board of the anti-poverty charity JobTrain.

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Alex Hughes is an online recipe creator who is committed to making reaching your weight goals not only delicious but fun. All her recipes are comforting, low-calorie and will help you feel full. She can be found doing a little dance in her kitchen (the recipes taste that good) at @alexskitchenbangers on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

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Alex James is a writer, farmer, and the bass player with Blur. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and five children.

Alex James

Alex Kadis is half-British, half-Greek, and grew up in Leyton and Walthamstow, East London. She studied English Literature at Goldsmiths University before embarking on a music journalism career. She was Features Editor at Smash Hits in its heyday (RIP) and has also written for various newspapers and magazines, including Sunday Times Style and Q Magazine. She then went into artist management and now works as a consultant in the music industry. Alex suffers from delusions of grandeur and still believes she will, one day, headline Wembley Stadium.

Alex Kadis

Alex Kantrowitz is a senior technology reporter at BuzzFeed News and one of the ten most cited technology reporters in the world. His work has been referenced by dozens of major publications, from the New Yorker to the Wall Street Journal to Sports Illustrated. He is the founder of the tech publication and podcast Big Technology, which focuses on analysing tech giants. Kantrowitz is a graduate of Cornell University's College of Industrial and Labor Relations. This is his first book.

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Japanese curry is one of Japan’s most loved comfort foods — and in Japanese Curry (and Its Delicious Companions), Tim Anderson shows why it deserves a place at the heart of your kitchen.From rich, savoury curry rice and crisp katsu curry to slurpable curry udon, indulgent baked dishes and irresistible kare-pan, this book explores the many ways curry is cooked, eaten and enjoyed across Japan. Alongside the curries themselves, Tim brings in the essential companions that make every meal complete: golden cutlets, fluffy rice, sharp pickles, easy sides and craveable snacks.Packed with bold flavours, practical techniques and Tim’s trademark expertise, these recipes are designed for home cooks – comforting, flexible and deeply satisfying. Whether you’re cooking a quick weeknight dinner or building a full curry feast, you’ll find endless inspiration for mixing, matching and making each dish your own.Perfect for fans of Japanese food and curry lovers alike, this book proves that curry isn’t just a dish –it’s a way of eating.

Japanese Curry (and Its Delicious Companions)

From Katsu to Kare-Pan – Rice, Sides & More

Eve Hemingway

Richard Snapes

Grant Harrington

A glorious celebration of butter, with lashings of sweet and savoury recipes.Butter is regarded as an everyday staple – it is a reminder of the joy of real food; at its root it does not have to be complicated, after all, the best things in life are often the simplest. In this book, devoted experts celebrate the timeless craft of making butter from scratch, as well as nourishing, fulfilling and indispensable recipes using butter as the key ingredient.Beyond the secret history and culture of butter, delve into recipes for making your own cultured variations at home such as Wild Garlic or Smoked Butter. Or enjoy recipes with butter at their heart, from Poached Turbot, Steak and Toasted Danish Daal to Sourdough Treacle Tart, Brioche Butter Pudding and Buttermilk and Marmalade Gelato, there are endless tempting dishes to enjoy.A love letter to beloved butter – this is an ode to the simple pleasure of cooking with butter for your artisan kitchen. 
 
Text is extracted and updated from Bread & Butter, by Eve Hemingway, Richard Snapes and Grant Harrington

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Nourishing recipes from a farm kitchen

Bob Dickinson

The From Scratch Kitchen

Nostalgic recipes to rediscover the joy of home cooking

Dona Murad

From the Middle East to the East Village, Librae Bakery celebrates Bahraini flavours and Danish techniques in a city of unparalleled energy: New York. 
 
With its genre-bending methods, inspired flavour combinations – and so much butter – this debut cookbook from the cult New York bakery includes extraordinary recipes to make at home. Showcasing what makes the bakery so special, you’ll find chapters for Buns, Babkas, Breads, Croissants, Scones and Cakes, and Cookies. And the theme throughout is flavour. 
 
Sweet and savoury favourites include the likes of Feta and Hot Honey Scrolls; Roasted Apricot and Za’atar Sourdough; Shakshuka Focaccia; Loomi and Lemon Curd Babka; Rose and Pistachio Croissants; and Tahini Chocolate Cookies. 
 
From simple bakes to detailed step-by-steps for perfectly laminated layers, Librae shares a wide-ranging collection of delicious creations from Bahrain and beyond for every baker’s kitchen.

Librae

Third-culture Recipes from a Cult New York Bakery

Tim Hayward

It’s 6 o’clock: clear your mind of the cares of the day. Relax and fix yourself a drink. It’s The Cocktail Hour. 
 
The moment Tim Hayward started mixing himself an 'attitude adjuster' at the end of the day, his life changed. He realised he was falling in love – with the taste, the image, the ritual and legend, of the cocktail. 
 
The Cocktail Hour celebrates not just the recipes but the stories, feelings and nostalgia that a drink can evoke. You will learn how to make 50 classic and modern drinks carefully, with good ingredients and the right equipment. But more importantly, from Gimlet to Gibson, Manhattan to Margarita, you will be equipped to immerse yourself fully and appreciatively in the ritual. 
 
Achieve inner peace and equilibrium, take pleasure in the glorious moment of that first sip, and join the innumerable artists, writers, statesmen, actors and intellectual titans who, across the centuries, have discovered the profound joy of The Cocktail Hour.

The Cocktail Hour

A Drinker’s Companion

Katie Marshall

Discover 60 effortless recipes for the festive season with Foolproof Festive. 
 
Christmas is a time for feasting – whether it’s party food and nibbles on chilly December nights, cosy baking to get you in the holiday spirit or turkey and all the trimmings on the big day itself. Foolproof Festive takes the stress out of planning, cooking and dining, with straightforward recipes for all occasions – including veggie and vegan options, so everyone’s included. 
 
With tried and true recipes that won’t let you down, a photograph for every recipe and all the tips and tricks you need to get ahead, Foolproof Festive is the only Christmas cookbook you’ll need. 
 
The Foolproof series celebrates the simple ways to cook, eat and enjoy different dishes and techniques, and offers amazing new ways to elevate classics, as well revealing new sure-to-be favourites. The series includes titles such as: One-Pot, Freezer, Air Fryer, Traybakes.

Foolproof Festive

Jennifer Rinkoff

A comprehensive collection of recipes inspired by over 100 years – and five generations – of family baking. 
 
From Rinkoffs, a family-run Jewish bakery in London’s East End, comes The Jewish Bakery, an exciting selection of their tried-and-tested recipes, all of which bring the joy of the bakery into your kitchen. 
 
Ranging from simple bakes to more involved recipes, you’ll find traditional and celebratory Jewish bakes, with something for everyone. Try your hand at much-loved specialties, including challah and beigels, as well as more modern creations, like matcha babka and vegan chocolate banana bread. 
 
The Jewish Bakery is a cookbook that passes on the passion, experience and expertise of a family-run bakery that celebrates recipes with roots.

The Jewish Bakery

Over 100 Family Recipes from East London’s Oldest Jewish Bakery

Santiago Lastra

You don’t need Mexican ingredients to cook great Mexican food – just an open mind, a few simple tools and a little soul. 
 
In Mexican Soul, chef Santiago Lastra reimagines Mexican cooking using what’s local, seasonal and already in your cupboard. From pistachio guacamole to tortillas made with mashed potatoes, this book shows how Mexican flavour can be unlocked anywhere in the world. 
 
In the first pages, discover the foundations of Mexican cuisine using traditional ingredients, organised by the flavours that define it – sour, sweet, spicy, fat, smoky and masa together with traditional Mexican recipes. You can then learn how to apply those principles creatively with the ingredients you already have at home in the second section, cooking Mexican food with freedom and confidence. 
 
With more than 80 vibrant recipes and a philosophy rooted in creativity, Mexican Soul is more than a cookbook – it’s a new way to think about what Mexican food really is. 
 
Cook from it. Spill on it. Make it yours.

Mexican Soul

A New Style of Cooking

Claire Thomson

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