Adam Smith

P. D. Smith

Andrew Fox

About Bella Smith: Dr Bella Smith is an NHS GP with over 20 years' experience, a women's health advocate and an ambassador for The Eve Appeal. Under her moniker 'The Digital GP', Bella is a long time media consultant, adding insight and opinions on women's medical issues, the entrenched and harmful taboos in women's health discourse, and reproductive health and wellbeing.

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Betty Smith

Emily Smith

About Delia Smith: Delia Smith is Britain's bestselling cookery writer, whose books have sold over 21.5 million to date. She began her writing career 50 years ago on the Daily Mirror and since then has presented very many cookery series on television and published numerous bestselling cookery books including Delia Smith's Cookery Course, Summer and Winter Collections, The Vegetarian Collection, Delia's How to Cook and Delia's Happy Christmas among others. 
 
After a five-year break in 2003 to concentrate on Norwich City Football Club (where she is a director) and Canary Catering, Delia returned in 2008 with a new BBC TV series and the fastest-selling cookery book of all time, How to Cheat at Cooking. Her Complete How to Cook was released in 2009 to celebrate 40 years of writing recipes and was voted the Most Useful Cookery Book of All Time. In 2013 she released Delia's Book of Cakes and free online Cookery School on her website deliaonline.com. The same year she was presented with a BAFTA Special Award in honour of her outstanding contribution to television cookery and services to broadcasting. 
 
Delia was awarded an OBE in 1995 and CBE in 2009 for her services to the food industry. In 2017 Delia received the prestigious Order of the Companions of Honour, there are only ever 65 members at one time, for her contribution to cooking and cookery education in this country. 
 
Delia is married to the writer and editor, Michael Wynn Jones. They live in Suffolk.

Delia Smith

Dodie Smith

About Dodie Smith: Dorothy Gladys 'Dodie' Smith was born in 1896 in Lancashire and she was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, was written when she lived in America during the 1940's and marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced as a play in 1954. She has written numerous other novels but is best known today for The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a story for younger readers. The Hundred and One Dalmatians became the basis of two Disney Films.

David Smith

About Danez Smith: Danez Smith is the author of Homie (2020) and Don’t Call Us Dead (2018), which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Four Quartets Prize awarded by the Poetry Society of America and was a finalist for the National Book Award. They live in Minneapolis.

Danez Smith

About Chris Smith: GREG JAMES AND CHRIS SMITH are the multi-award-wining and bestselling authors of The Great Dream Robbery, Super Ghost and the Kid Normal series. They have been translated into over 20 languages and been shortlisted for both the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Laugh Out Loud Award. Greg and Chris have championed children’s books widely, were judges for the Blue Peter Book Award in 2017 and were official World Book Day authors in 2020. They are also committed advocates for children’s literacy and are founding members of the Primary School Library Alliance – a campaign launched by Penguin Random House and the National Literacy Trust to address the lack of investment in UK primary school libraries – and were awarded in 2024 the Ruth Rendell Literacy Award, presented to those who have had the most significant influence on literacy in the UK over the past year, for their work promoting reading in schools. Outside of their writing partnership, Greg James is a radio and television broadcaster and Chris Smith a solo author of acclaimed children’s books Frankie Best Hates Quests and Clarity Jones and the Magical Detective Agency.

Chris Smith

About Colin Smith: Colin Smith is a historian, novelist and former war correspondent. In 1972, at the age of twenty-three, he became the Observer's chief roving reporter and spent the next thirty years covering the world's trouble spots for the Observer and the Sunday Times - from Phnom Penh to the Golan Heights, from Saigon to Sarajevo, from Nikosia to Port-au-Prince. He was named International Reporter of the Year in the 1974 and 1984 British Press Awards. 
 
Today he is best known for his military histories of Britain's campaigns against the Vichy French, the 1942 surrender of Singapore and The Battle of Alamein, which was recently reissued in condensed form as part of Penguin's e-Book Shorts series. 
 
Smith lives in Nicosia with his wife Sylvia and several cats. Readers wishing to contact him or find out more about his work should visit www.colin-smith.info

Colin Smith

About Helen Smith: Helen Smith lives in Norfolk and teaches non-fiction and modern literature at the University of East Anglia. The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett is her first book; it received a RSL-Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011.

Helen Smith

About Holly Smith: Bargain-hunter mum Holly Smith cuts thousands of pounds off her shopping and bills every year. She is the founder of Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group - the largest money-saving group in the world - helping members save millions of pounds each year. 
 
Holly is an award-winning and trusted blogger also on Instagram, YouTube and Tik Tok. She regularly makes national headlines with her money-saving tips and was the star of BBC documentary The Asperger's Moneysaver.

Holly Smith

About Julie Smith: DR JULIE SMITH is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author and content creator. After working in the NHS and private practice, Julie made it her mission to make good-quality mental health education freely accessible across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. Her audience grew astronomically as users related to the bite-sized self-help videos she was sharing. Today she has over 10 million followers across the social media platforms and her content has had over 1 billion views. 
 
Julie’s first book, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, was an instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller, clocked up over 140 weeks in the UK Top Ten, sold over 1 million copies in the English language and was translated into more than 45 languages. 
 
Julie is a regular expert on ITV’s This Morning and has been featured widely across the media and further afield. Julie is a proud ambassador for BBC’s Children in Need and has appeared as a guest on many of the most-listened-to podcasts, including The Diary of a CEO and The Mel Robbins Podcast. Julie lives in Dorset, England, with her husband, three children, ten chickens, three goats, two dogs and a cat.

Julie Smith

About Larry Smith: Larry Smith is an adjunct associate professor of economics at the University of Waterloo, and a recipient of its Distinguished Teacher Award. During his long-standing tenure, he has taught more than 23,000 students, representing more than 10 per cent of UW’s alumni. An expert on professional development, his provocative TEDx talk, ‘Why You Will Fail to Have a Great Career’, has been viewed over eight million times. He also advises UW students who start their own ventures, and has advised over 450 teams of student entrepreneurs – many of whom have gone on to start successful enterprises around the world.

Larry Smith

Linda Smith

About Robin Smith: Robin Smith was born in apartheid South Africa, but qualified to play for England on account of his British parents. Smith made his Test debut against West Indies in 1988 and looked instantly at home on the big stage. He played 62 Tests, scoring over 4000 runs at an average of 43.67, and is remembered as one of England’s greatest ever players of fast bowling. He also made the then highest score by an England batsman in a one-day international, hitting a spectacular 167 not out against Australia in 1993 and setting a record that stood for 23 years. 
 
In retirement, he has settled in Perth, Western Australia, but he remains a club hero at his career-long county, Hampshire.

Robin Smith

Scott Smith

Tommy Smith

About Zadie Smith: Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.

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Nikki Smith

Nigel Smith

About Peter Smith: Peter Smith has over 35 years' experience in procurement and supply chain as a manager, procurement director, consultant, analyst and writer. Peter is the Managing Director of Procurement Excellence Ltd, a leading specialist consulting firm. He is recognised as one of the UK's leading experts in public and private sector procurement performance improvement. Peter has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University. His first book, Buying Professional Services, was published by Profile in 2010.

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Kelly Smith

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Drusilla Beyfus

&#39;Valentissimo! Viva Valentino!&#39; exclaimed Vogue, lauding the achievements of the first Italian dress designer to take on the Paris fashion world and achieve haute couture status.Drawing on Vogue&#39;s archive of imagery and text, as well as the author&#39;s exclusive interview with the designer, this book analyses Valentino&#39;s exceptional fusion of Latinate sensuality and Parisian precision. It shows how his inventive colour sense and use of opulent fabrics derived from Italian classical painting, and how his trust in and promotion of Italy&#39;s craftsmen and women is evident in his use of featherweight materials, handmade embroidery, beading and pleating.Valentino&#39;s early love of costumes worn by stars of the Italian and American film industry influenced his designs, and he attracted a superstar clientele, including Hollywood celebrities from Elizabeth Taylor to Gwyneth Paltrow, European royalty, and society figures such as Jaqueline Kennedy - who wore him in mourning, and in remarriage, at her wedding to Aristotle Onassis.Valentino is unique: the exquisite quality of his dressmaking and the femininity, glamour and allure of his seasonal collections are matchless; exceptionally in his field, he is known by his first name only; and he holds a record as the founder of a house who remained in creative control of it for 45 years.

Vogue on: Valentino Garavani

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

Quadrille

What Liam and Noel Say&#160;is a collection of the legendary Gallagher brothers&#39; most iconic quotes. 
 
 Superstar siblings Liam and Noel Gallagher are renowned for their musical status, headstrong personalities, infamous feuds and of course, their unforgettable one-liners. Featuring words of wisdom on self-belief, sibling rivalry and the art of rock&#39;n&#39;roll, this book celebrates all things Oasis.&#160; 
 
 "You&#39;ll need to get your pillow out when that c*** starts talking..." 
 
 "I see myself as one of the f**king true great rock&#39;n&#39;roll singers on the planet." 
 
 &ldquo;If I wasn&#39;t a musician, I don&#39;t know. God, maybe? That would be a good job." 
 
 &#160;

What Liam and Noel Say

The Unofficial Collection

Josceline Dimbleby

Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for Work on Food and Travel 2011  Celebrated cookery writer Josceline Dimbleby is widely credited with introducing new ways of using spices to the domestic kitchen. This enchanting memoir explores the food influences of her rich and varied life and provides an outstanding collection of exciting recipes. As an itinerant child with a diplomat stepfather, Josceline spent much of her time in the kitchen - in a succession of different countries - watching cooks transform food with spices and herbs. As a consequence, she acquired not only a taste for food but also a passion for discovering other lands and different cuisines. From Syria to Morocco, from North America to Burma and Laos, her adult life built on and broadened her early gastronomic experiences. She found that her astonishing memory of tastes - together with her natural ability to combine flavours and textures harmoniously - enabled her to create very personal interpretations of dishes she had eaten around the world. Orchards in the Oasis is Josceline's absorbing account of her lifelong love affair with food and flavourings. It is interspersed with 75 inspiring but accessible recipes from the diverse cuisines she has experienced on her travels: Rose petal tart from Syria, Peruvian potatoes, Bosphorus mussel stew, Marrakesh meatballs and Chicken noodle hotpot from Vietnam. Evocatively illustrated with mouth-watering food photography and the author's personal photographs of her travels, it is, indeed, an irresistible memoir.

Orchards in the Oasis

Travels, Food and Memories

James Martin

James Martin is back travelling and exploring local cuisines, this time in Spain, a country rich in culinary history and culture. James travels across the breadth of Spain, from Extremadura to San Sebastian, discovering the country&#39;s diverse regions through food. James Martin&#39;s Spanish Adventure is inspired by the fine dining, rustic eateries, fresh ingredients and traditional recipes of Spain with James cooking his own take on local dishes to create stunning recipes for the home cook. From padron peppers and pulpo to olives and oranges, this book is a celebration of Spain&#39;s top-quality produce and showcases the best recipes from James&#39;s culinary adventure.

James Martin's Spanish Adventure

80 Fantastic Recipes From Around Spain

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

Nathan Outlaw

Boasting 3 Michelin stars across two restaurants in Port Isaac, Cornwall, Nathan Outlaw is passionate about seafood. He is renowned for his unique style of cooking, which encourages the individual flavours of the fish and shellfish to shine through. Sourcing sustainable fish and local produce in season, Nathan uses his considerable flair to take simple fish cooking to new heights.&#160; 
 
 In this impressive cookbook&#160;Nathan offers advice on sourcing and buying fish and shellfish, then guides you through the various cooking techniques. The core of the book takes you through the individual fish and shellfish &ndash; &shy; brill, bream, sea bass, salmon, scallops, squid and more &ndash; suggesting the best cooking techniques and how to match the fish with sauces and accompaniments. He then offers recipes ranging from everyday quick dishes to signature dishes from his restaurant.&#160;Also included&#160;is a detailed photographic guide to preparing the different types of fish and shellfish. 
 
 Photographed on location in Cornwall, this superb book has a real sense of place and shows how easy it is to replicate Nathan&sup1;s beautiful food at home.

Nathan Outlaw's British Seafood

Complete Home Comforts contains over 150 of James Martin&rsquo;s favourite recipes from his hit TV show. This is James in his comfort zone, cooking the food he loves best.This irresistible collection of recipes ranges from fancy dinners to impress friends, to those times when you just need to make a satisfying lunch for two. The chapters reflect this and are divided into Little Lunches, Family Favourites, Weekends, Spice Suppers, Food with Friends, Summer Nights, Sunday Night Bites, Sweet Treats and Posh Puds.Much-loved for his trademark wholesome, hearty British food, James&rsquo;s recipes are all accessible and easy to follow. The mouth-watering temptations include childhood comforts such as Fish pie or Classic chicken kiev, as well as comforts to share, such as Lamb belly with bbq sauce and pickled red onions, Dahl chicken, chilli paneer and naan, and Keralan prawns.James is famous for his fabulous puddings and this book does not disappoint. Try the mouth-watering Steamed chocolate and clementine sponge with orange sauce, or bake Lavender shortbread to eat with Lavender cr&egrave;me caramel.Beautifully shot in James&rsquo;s own home, this is a book of favourite recipes to use every day for years to come.

Complete Home Comforts

Over 150 Delicious Comfort-Food Classics

Following on from his triumphant TV shows and books James Martin&#39;s American Adventure and James Martin&#39;s French Adventure, our food hero comes home and brings us what he does best in James Martin&#39;s Great British Adventure.The book sees James travel from coast to coast, cooking and eating everywhere from Whitby to Snowdonia, Bristol to Belfast, and Orkney to Padstow. On the way he cooks classic British dishes alongside some more surprising recipes, all with the best ingredients this small island has to offer.<It&#39;s the culinary journey that&#39;s right on your doorstep and here are recipes from the series, along with exclusive photography from behind the scenes on James&#39;s extraordinary food trip.

James Martin's Great British Adventure

A Celebration of Great British Food, with 80 Fabulous Recipes

Peggy Porschen

Peggy Porschen is one of the most prominent and pioneering names in contemporary cake design. Renowned for her exquisite craftsmanship combined with a love of baking, her passion is for creating delectable works of art that taste as good as they look. This new book captures the essence of Peggy's technical skill and inspired use of colour while also ensuring that each cake is both achievable and delicious to eat. Boutique Baking has an unrivalled range of recipes that combines traditional baking with chic, simple finishing touches. The first chapter, Sweet Treats, features all-time favourites such as Meringue kisses and Macaroons as well as Peggy's take on Cake pops. In Beautiful Biscuits there are recipes inspired by her German origins including Gingerbread Men and Mulled Wine Stars. The third chapter focuses on the most desirable cake phenomenon of the decade  -  the cup cake, and Peggy gives away the secret of her incredibly scrumptious repertoire of gourmet cup cakes. The Luscious Layer Cake chapter provides stunning ideas for sophisticated occasions while Classic Cakes & Bakes shows how to revive traditional recipes, creating gorgeous looking and delicious cakes, such as Neapolitan marble cake and Chocolate Battenberg. Last but certainly not least the book closes with a chapter on fabulous finishing touches, basic recipes for frostings and fillings, and delicious ideas for home-made drinks that perfectly accompany the cakes. Seductive and indulgent, this is Peggy's most accessible book to date.

Boutique Baking

Delectable Cakes, Cookies and Teatime Treats

James Veitch

"Dear valued recipient, My late father was Gold and Diamond merchant and he has merchandise (250kgs Gold Dust) for safe keep. I am here seeking an assistance of a reliable and trustworthy person to take these goods out for investment."We&#39;ve all had those blatant scamming emails: un-claimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safety deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. Standard procedure is to delete on sight.Dot Con is the story of what happened when comedian James Veitch decided to play the scammers at their own game. Packed full of Nigerian princes, can&#39;t-miss investment opportunities and eligible Russian brides, his correspondence leads to surprising, bizarre and hilarious results.

Dot Con

The Art of Scamming a Scammer

Kim-Joy

A non-judgemental guide to finding your own kind of joy 
 
Kim-Joy rose to fame in 2018 following her appearance on The Great British Bake Off, where she was best-known for her cute, quirky bakes and radiant positivity. Before her appearance on the show, Kim-Joy worked in the NHS as a qualified Wellbeing Practitioner, supporting and treating patients with anxiety and depression, while facing mental health difficulties of her own. 
 
Filled with funny, relatable moments from Kim-Joy’s life, along with a practical toolkit to navigate being ‘different’, Ordinary Joy is a moving and inclusive guide to finding joy, sometimes in the unlikeliest of places. Kim-Joy shares stories, reflections, questions and prompts to help you get to know yourself better, to help you live more authentically. 
 
From how to set boundaries and say no, to saying yes to the right things and people, along with simple ways to celebrate your differences, Ordinary Joy reminds you that you belong.

Ordinary Joy

A Realistic Guide to Being Yourself

Winner of the Fortnum & Mason 2021 Personality of the Year AwardButter is the essential book for anyone who loves to cook with this glorious, versatile ingredient.Through over 130 original recipes, James Martin presents some of his favourite new dishes and classics &ndash; everything from savoury delights like Butter-poached lobster, French onion soup, Chicken with &rsquo;nduja butter and Dover sole meuni&egrave;re, to sweet treats including Cinnamon bread with caramel butter dip, Shortbread and Baklava.Butter can bring so much to a plate of food and James showcases this comforting superstar of cooking to its very best.

Butter

Comforting, Delicious, Versatile - Over 130 Recipes Celebrating Butter

Alison Wright

Tim Hayward

In 2011 @stephenfry, actor, comedian, writer and famed alumnus of Cambridge University, tweeted:&lsquo;No! No! Say it ain&rsquo;t so &ndash; not Fitzbillies? Why I tweeted a pic of one of their peerless&#160;Chelsea buns but a sixmonth ago.&rsquo;Recession had driven the legendary Cambridge bakery into bankruptcy and it had shut its doors. Alison Wright and Tim Hayward read Stephen&#39;s tweet:Alison: &lsquo;Did you see the tweet?&rsquo; Tim: &lsquo;I did. Terribly sad. Awful how places like that are going...&rsquo; Alison: &lsquo;I&rsquo;ve called the agents. We&rsquo;re going to view it on Monday.&rsquo;And so a single Twitter post prompted Tim and Alison to abandon a life in London and to embark on rebuilding this beloved institution in the university city of Cambridge. Over the past 100 years Fitzbillies has welcomed students, dons and residents of the city, who flock to the caf&eacute; to tuck into their celebrated Chelsea buns, fancy cakes and afternoon teas.Featuring over 50 recipes, Fitzbillies celebrates a centenary of the shop, staff and cakes that have fed generations of writers, philosophers, Nobel prize-winning scientists, comedians, internationally renowned historians, musicians and film stars alike.

Fitzbillies

Stories & Recipes from a 100-Year-Old Cambridge Bakery

A tortured genius and one of most influential designers of the twentieth century, Yves Saint Laurent was responsible for revolutionising the way women dressed and viewed themselves.During a wildly creative career stretching from 1958 to 2002 Saint Laurent established a reputation for accessible, flawlessly cut clothes. He became an overnight sensation in 1958, aged 21, when he showed his &#39;Trapeze&#39; collection, his first for the House of Christian Dior, following the master&#39;s death.Four years later, Saint Laurent opened his own couture house and within a few seasons was hailed by Vogue&#39;s Diana Vreeland as &#39;the pied piper of fashion&#39;. Viewed as a master colourist and admired for his choice of sultry fabrics, his great gift was creating lasting styles - described by Vogue as &#39;stockpiles of essentials in times of famine&#39; - that flattered all shapes and sizes. As well as designing wardrobe classics like the &#39;Le Smoking&#39; tuxedo for women, the Safari jacket, the trench and the pea coat, and introducing trousers into haute couture, he also dressed international style icons such as Catherine Deneuve, Marella Agnelli and Lauren Bacall.With his nose for the zeitgeist, Saint Laurent recognised the global power of street fashion and launched Rive Gauche, his ready-to-wear boutique line in 1966. Christened &#39;The Saint&#39; by Vogue, every element of his fashion empire, which included exhilarating couture collections, exquisite accessories and sought-after perfumes, was captured by Vogue&#39;s writers and leading photographers like Richard Avedon, David Bailey and Norman Parkinson.

Vogue on: Yves Saint Laurent

Kim-Joy&#39;s baked creations have charmed fans since she was in the final of the Great British Bake Off 2018. Following on from her bestselling debut book, Baking with Kim-Joy, she&#39;s turning to everyone&#39;s favourite time of year &ndash; Christmas!Sharing her simple decorating techniques and her delicious flavour combinations, Kim-Joy delights novice and seasoned bakers with &ndash; amongst many others &ndash; her melted snowman cake pops, white chocolate igloos with marshmallow seals, penguin bao buns and incredible inspiration for designing your own magical gingerbread village.Whether you&#39;re after ideas for edible Christmas gifts or bigger bakes to feed friends and family, you&#39;ll find a treasure trove of adorable recipes here that will melt everyone&#39;s heart.Make Christmas the sweetest holiday of the year with Kim-Joy!

Christmas with Kim-Joy

A Festive Collection of Edible Cuteness

Banjo Beale

Living on the remote island of Mull has inspired Banjo to be resourceful and inventive in his design outlook. With sustainability and budget in mind, he combines vintage finds with clever design and re-purposes the old, re-imagining it into something new. From contemporary to classic, his spaces are characterful, curated and eco-conscious. In Wild Isle Style, Banjo encourages people to give design a go and create their own signature style. No matter your look, from budget bougie to boho, nouveau or deco, this book will uncover universal ideas that you can easily implement into your home interiors. It’s an accessible roadmap to creating authentic and sustainable design that doesn’t cost the earth. Including interviews with collectors, sellers and makers, Wild Isle Style gives you permission to have fun with your interiors, to turn shopping into an adventure and help you reclaim your home and your budget.

Wild Isle Style

Resourceful And Sustainable Interior Design Ideas

A Place in Scotland is a collation of interior spaces that represent a rejuvenated Scottish vernacular that has emerged over the past twenty years. 
 
 Something is happening in Scotland &ndash; a new confidence &ndash; and inspirational voices are redefining what &#39;Scottish style&#39; really is. Banjo and Alexander see this manifesting in homes and public spaces alike. Spanning the breadth of Scotland, they have picked places that tell a story, highlight sustainable design and represent a considered style that can be recreated at home. 
 
 Including thirty different spaces, from a masterfully restored Scottish castle and the Gleneagles hotel to a World War 2 control tower in the Scottish Highlands and a brightly coloured tenement apartment in Glasgow, A Place in Scotland is a celebration of clever and contemporary design. All these beautifully photographed places will not only give you interiors inspiration, but take you on a stunning journey through Scotland.

A Place In Scotland

Beautiful Scottish Interiors

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

Alan Rosenthal

One-pot cooking cuts down on washing up, requires minimal kitchen space and tends not to be overly complicated. What&rsquo;s not to love about that?The first book of the Foolproof series, Foolproof One-Pot celebrates throwing ingredients into a single dish and letting the oven do the work. Alan Rosenthal offers amazing new ways to elevate classics, as well as revealing new sure-to-be favourites.From weekend slow cooks to easy-going tray bakes, this mouth-watering collection of 60 useful, vibrant recipes are all cooked with minimal fuss and maximum flavour!

Foolproof One-Pot

60 Simple and Satisfying Recipes

Charlotte Sinclair

In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection; his &#39;New Look&#39; featured designs that transformed the way women dressed.Dior continued to send shockwaves with his later shows, significantly altering the fashion landscape during the ten years of his career as a couturier. This book recounts Dior&#39;s search for the perfect line and how his unique vision of women&#39;s ideal silhouette developed. More than any designer before him, Dior embraced the dual aspects of creativity and commerce, becoming the first couturier to license his products in 1949.He became one of the most famous designers of the twentieth century, and his name still fronts one of the most successful haute couture fashion houses. As portrayed in the pages of Vogue by photographers such as Horst and Irving Penn and artists like Christian Berard, the book offers a unique insight into Dior&#39;s contribution to design, his dramatic impact on the landscape of 40s and 50s fashion and his personal legacy.Vogue, the international fashion bible, has charted the careers of designers through the decades. Its unique archive of photographs, taken by the leading photographers of the day from Cecil Beaton to Mario Testino, and original illustrations, together with its stable of highly respected fashion writers, make Vogue the most authoritative and prestigious source of reference on fashion. With a circulation of over 160,000 and a readership of over 1,400,000, no brand is better positioned to present a library on the great fashion designers of the modern age.

Vogue on: Christian Dior

Anna Hedworth

"A considered use of fresh, bright flavours and produce is a constant delight throughout this lovely book. It is a beauty, and reflects Anna&rsquo;s soul in each dish." &ndash; Jeremy Lee 
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 "A peek behind the doors of a vibrant restaurant kitchen - its highs and lows - and a glorious collection of recipes. Anna Hedworth is brilliant with flavour." &ndash; Diana Henry 
 
 In&#160;Service, chef Anna Hedworth takes the reader through a day in her restaurant, the soothing rhythms of prep and mealtimes, and the ups and downs of service. It&rsquo;s an all-day operation, from breakfast through to dinner and post service, and the recipes reflect those times of day and the menus Anna creates for her restaurants.&#160; 
 
 Recipes are characterised by their simplicity and seasonality, including&#160;Spiced Pancakes with Poached Rhubarb &amp; Raspberry for breakfast, BBQ Bavette &amp; Courgettes with Sriracha Aioli for lunch, Braised Squid in Red wine with Fennel &amp; Samphire for Dinner, Blood Orange, Cardamom &amp; Olive Oil Cake for dessert and an array of drinks and seasonal preserves &ndash; this is an inspirational collection of stunning dishes.&#160; 
 &#160; 
 In the best traditions of chefs like Alice Waters, Stephanie Alexander, and Judy Rodgers, Anna&rsquo;s passion for food, ingredients and the place she calls home shine through in her writing. Based in the northeast of England, Anna&rsquo;s restaurants, and her food, are thoughtful, unique and compelling. As well as celebrating the joys and challenges of restaurant life,&#160;Service&#160;perfectly captures a key moment in modern British cooking and eating.

Service

One Day in a Restaurant, Over 150 Recipes to Cook at Home

Kate Taylor

Successful sexpert Kate Taylor spent her early career writing sex manuals with tips on getting a better sex life, then she got married - and then she had two children.Suddenly, the books she had previously written bore no relation to her own sex life. Where were the tips on having amazing sex in complete silence during 10 minutes of privacy whilst the kids are watching cartoons? Where was the advice on how to still fancy your partner when you've just spent 10 minutes picking his socks up off the bedroom floor? Where was the section on the most-childproof locks for bedroom doors, or how to laugh it off when your toddler gatecrashes a dinner party waving your vibrator? Knowing that she wasn't the only wife and mother struggling with these issues, Kate decided to write the book that would solve these problems forever.Domestic Sex Goddess is a sex book for couples in long-term relationships, with or without children. It's for couples who adore each other, but would like new ideas to take to bed that bring back the initial excitement and who want real-life sex tips they can fit in around a busy day and eight hours' sleep at night.Domestic Sex Goddess divulges the secret to achieving a thrilling long-term sex life - it's organisation. In each chapter of this book Kate takes a different area of the home and discusses practical lifestyle changes that you can implement in order to give yourself both the time and energy for sex. From sizzling sex tips for the kitchen, lusty lovemaking positions for the living room and bed-busting moves for the bedroom through to ideas to make the bathroom hot and steamy and even some outrageous outdoor activities, Kate presents all the naughty know-how you'll need to keep the passionate home fires burning.

Domestic Sex Goddess

Stevie Parle

Stevie Parle is a new and erudite young talent who started cooking at 16 and has already worked at three of the UK&#39;s most fashionable restaurants: the River Cafe with Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, the renowned Petersham Nurseries for Skye Gyngell and the landmark Moro with Sam and Sam Clark.He has also travelled and worked all around the world, including Tokyo and New York, picking up recipes, magpie-like, wherever he goes. Since setting up his pop-up Moveable Restaurant in spring 09, food lovers have clamoured to join Stevie&#39;s twice-monthly word-of-mouth supper club events, one of which was hosted by Nigella Lawson.My Kitchen is the greatest hits collection of his life so far in food, gleaned from his travels and his intimate knowledge of ingredients. This eclectic, quirky book is a charming mixture of anecdote, tales from his Hammersmith houseboat and Stevie&#39;s wonderful recipes as well as occasions from his life such as &#39;A Ligurian supper for friends, who would prefer to be on holiday but have to work&#39; and &#39;A foggy breakfast wrapped up on the deck&#39;.Divided into 12 chapters for the months of the year, the dishes are based around seasonal bounty and Stevie&#39;s global inspirations. Though his influences are incredibly wide, Stevie understands the rules of food and doesn&#39;t mess with the classics, instead finding new ways to approach old recipes, using his vast creativity and impeccably trained craftsmanship. Within each chapter, he also gives a masterclass about a single foodstuff, with the aim of teaching readers how to cook better by watching subtle changes in the pan and paying attention to the life cycles of fresh produce. It all makes for a unique cook book from a stunning young talent.

My Kitchen

Real Food from Near and Far

Dixe Wills

Tiny Histories is a fond, fun and informative look at the seemingly insignificant coincidences, decisions and tiny moments that triggered major events and changed the course of British history.It might be difficult to believe when watching the news but the world we live in is often shaped not by the whim of governments and the decisions of world leaders but by tiny, apparently trivial events. In many cases, they can have enormous repercussions that mould both the society we live in today and the people we are.From the innocent wrong turn by a chauffeur driving Archduke Ferdinand in June 1914 that led to World War I, to the Saxon leader, Byrhtnoth&rsquo;s act of chivalry in 991 that paved the way for British comedy as we know it today, this brilliant new addition to Dixe Will&#39;s bestselling books Tiny Churches, Tiny Islands and Tiny Stations &shy;looks behind the scenes of wars, politics, the arts, food, science, and even health and safety.Perfect for history buffs and pub-quiz fans, this brilliant book also serves to make us all more aware that in an age of so many dramatic changes, challenges and unknowns, it is not always what makes the headlines that shapes the future for generations to come.

Tiny Histories

Trivial Events and Trifling Decisions that Changed British History

Gaz Oakley

&lsquo;What I really like about Gaz is his combination of great cooking skills and an inspiring love of the vegetables he grows.&rsquo; &ndash; Rick Stein&#160;A few years ago, at his rural&#160;home in the Welsh countryside, Gaz Oakley planted a kitchen garden with the aim of utilising plants to their full potential. Inspired by his thriving veg and fruit plot, the 100 vibrant and versatile recipes within this book celebrate the bountiful produce nature has to offer.&#160; Focusing on accessible ingredients like carrots, beetroot, cabbage, onions, tomatoes, apples and pears, Gaz has created a medley of seasonal, delicious dishes that showcase these crops at their best.&#160;With recipes including Strawberry and Lavender Welsh Cakes for a spin on a classic, savoury Stuffed Harissa Onions, and gorgeous Tomato, Thyme and Almond Upside Down Cake, there is something for every season and every taste. Revealing the beauty of the passing seasons and the magic feeling that comes alongside harvesting and cooking your own food,&#160;Plant to Plate&#160;will inspire you to make the most of fresh produce and perhaps take inspiration for your very own veg patch.

Plant to Plate

Delicious and Versatile Plant-Forward Recipes

Nud Dudhia

Chris Whitney

Derivative of brethren: Archaic plural of brother 
 Derivative of bredrin: A very good friend; a best friend or someone with whom you go back very farEnter the world of breddos Tacos and discover the ultimate in edible plates with this inspired, innovative taco cookbook. The brainchild of Nud Dudhia and Chris Whitney, the undisputed kings of street food, the duo offer over 75 recipes for tacos, tostadas and small plates and over 70 condiments. Their awesome dishes include Barbacoa beef cheeks, Yucat&aacute;n chicken with mango habanero sauce, Green chorizo &amp; duck egg, Baja fish tacos and Octopus &lsquo;al pastor&rsquo; with roasted pineapple.In the book, the guys also share their ascent to taco-dom fame; detailing their meat-fuelled Fear &amp; Loathing-esque road trip around the Americas, where they discovered the greatest ever flavour combinations - on a taco.breddos Tacos: The Cookbook is guaranteed to excite even the most discerning of tastebuds whilst revolutionising what it takes to make truly epic tacos.

Breddos Tacos

The Cookbook

Mark Diacono

‘A joy from cover to cover.’ – Nigella Lawson. 
 
‘His best book yet. Abundance is an absolute delight.' – Diana Henry. 
 
'This book is extremely special. Sublime writing, sublime recipes, sublime photography - it is a triumph. I'm buying it for myself and for everyone I love.’ – India Knight. 
 
Abundance is a record of one man’s year living on the south-west coast of England as he quietly contemplates life, nature and his next meal. 
 
With his days distracted by the ping of communication and the tug of commitments, Mark Diacono wondered how he might better savour this one precious life. He started to write and photograph each week, hoping that this simple commitment might sharpen his appreciation of the magic in the everyday and his time spent in the kitchen. It reminds us that abundance comes in many forms – the passing of the seasons, our connection to the world around us, and the wealth that a garden, a town and its surrounding landscapes offers. 
 
With over 80 recipes like Early summer shakshuka, Salsify and radicchio gratin, Onion seed and oregano flower focaccia, Fig leaf and olive oil ice cream, and a Mulberry martini, there are dishes to inspire and satisfy every week as the year unfolds before you.

Abundance

Eating and living with the seasons

Joanna Gray

&ldquo;Love is an ice cream sundae with all the marvellous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.&rdquo; 
 Jimmy Dean 
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 Succumb to your primal desires with&#160;The Little Book of Sex. From the first signs of attraction to the post-coital glow, explore the wonderful world of sex through raunchy quotes, tales of history&rsquo;s most insatiable lovers and sensual tips to get you in the mood for lurve. With forays into foreplay, a romp through the&#160;Karma Sutra&#160;and even an explanation of the science behind the sizzle, you&rsquo;re in for titillating treat. 
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 Perfect for couples who want to add a bit of spice to their love life or as a cheeky present for a friend soon to be hitched,&#160;The Little Book of Sex&#160;is the ideal book to get you feeling frisky (and probably provide a bit of a giggle at the same time!). 
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The Little Book of Sex

Hot | Hot | Hot

Kathy Phillips

Armani&#39;s style is elegance and sensual simplicity incarnate. &#39;Few names in fashion conjure so distinctive a look,&#39; said British Vogue.For Armani, design has always been about an easy, timeless grace, not constantly changing trends; clothes meant to compliment the body, not merely cover it. With his careful removal of extraneous internal structure, emphasis on the human form and the use of soft textiles and a muted colour palette, Armani changed the face of fashion from haute couture to the high street. He revolutionised the way both men and women looked and dressed, taking away formality and fuss as surely as he ripped out linings and interlinings.With his principles of style, simplicity and practicality, Armani deconstructed the fashion world. From inauspicious beginnings as a department store window-dresser, he funded his first company by selling his car. 40 years on, he oversees a multi-billion dollar empire with over 250 stores in 33 countries worldwide.One of the first designers to truly utilise the appeal of Hollywood, his seminal wardrobe for Richard Gere in the 1980 film American Gigolo helped cement his as the look of the late 20th century. His frequent collaborations with luminaries such as Martin Scorsese, Leonardo Di Caprio, Cate Blanchett and Lady Gaga have all contributed to making the shy, reserved but dedicated Armani the first superstar designer of the modern age. Vogue on: Giorgio Armani charts the rise of a small town boy to a fashion monolith.

Vogue on: Giorgio Armani

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