Heidi Perks is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Now You See Her, which was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Come Back for Me, Three Perfect Liars, The Whispers and The Other Guest. The Last Resort is her sixth novel. Heidi is a voracious reader of crime and thrillers and is fascinated by the darker side of our closest relationships. Heidi lives in Bournemouth with her husband and two children.

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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

Jeremy Pang

In Chinese Unchopped, acclaimed teacher, TV chef and School of Wok founder Jeremy Pang demystifies the secret traditions of Chinese cookery, revealing the core techniques that bring the authentic flavours of traditional Chinese cooking into your own home.Opening with the Chinese Kitchen essentials, Jeremy outlines everything you need to know to set up a workable Chinese kitchen. All the necessary equipment such as cleavers and woks is covered, along with a dazzling array of ingredients that make up the Chinese pantry, with tips on which to buy when starting out. Above all though, the focus is on preparation - the key to unlocking successful Chinese cooking with its often lightning-quick cooking processes. Jeremy's ingenious 'Wok Clock' sorts your prepared ingredients into the right order for rapid cooking with stir-frys and sautees.Once you've covered the essentials, Chinese Unchopped moves through six chapters outlining the fundamental techniques in Chinese cooking, including stir-frying, deep-frying, steaming, poaching and braising, roasting and double cooking. Recipes are taken from across China: from sweet Cantonese to spicy Szechuan. Jeremy even includes dishes influenced by the cuisines of Thailand and Malaysia. Authentic versions of take-away staples include Sweet and Sour Pork and Salt and Pepper Chilli Squid are included alongside more adventurous recipes like Grandma's 'Lionhead' Meatballs and Sea Bass with Crushed Soybeans and Chilli Sauce.Crammed full of information presented in an engaging, accessible way, with Chinese Unchopped you'll soon have the sizzling aromas of exceptional Chinese food filling your own kitchen - day in, day out.

Chinese Unchopped

An Introduction to Chinese Cooking

Mandy Yin

Shortlisted for the Fortnum &amp; Mason Food and Drink Awards (2022)Guild of Food Writer&rsquo;s Awards, Highly Commended in &lsquo;First Book&rsquo; category (2022)Andr&eacute; Simon Awards shortlisted (2022)"Beautiful, inspiring, but above all authoritative. Mandy Yin holds all the secrets to exquisite Malaysian cooking... It is a rare treat that she&#39;s chosen to share them." &ndash; Grace Dent, restaurant critic for the GuardianA soulful tribute to Malaysian cuisine, from snacks, soups and salads, to rice and noodle dishes, curries and sweet things.Sambal Shiok is a brilliant collection of over 90 accessible recipes that were handed down from Mandy Yin&rsquo;s mother as well as those that she has developed for her critically acclaimed, award-winning London restaurant. The recipes &ndash; such as her signature curry laksa, Penang assam laksa, Malaysian fried chicken, prawn fritters, spiral curry puffs, flaky roti canai, beef rendang, KL golden fragrant clams, sambal mapo tofu, and the perfect steamed rice &ndash; can be made for a weekday family meal, a dinner party or celebration. Malaysian food results from the unique merger over centuries of indigenous Malay ingredients with Indian spices and Chinese techniques. Every dish delicately balances sweet, sour, salty with chilli heat and a hint of bitter. With Mandy&rsquo;s evocative look at Malaysian food culture, her recipes, and the basics of a Malaysian pantry (shrimp paste, lemongrass, tamarind and coconut milk), you can easily enjoy the most delicious Malaysian meals at home.

Sambal Shiok

The Malaysian Cookbook

Tori Haschka

Do you want more energy? Do you want to lose weight and keep it off - without depriving yourself? Or do you simply want to be more adventurous in the kitchen and plan a meal that ISN'T based on either bread, potatoes, pasta or rice? Tori Haschka loves comfort foods more than anything but they don't always love her. She knows what it's like to use white carbs as a culinary crutch. Until she was a teenager, she would only eat things that were a pale hue. Rice. Bread. Potatoes. Noodles. Then, after an illness, she decided to try new ways to feed herself, her friends and her hungry husband. This book is a result of the many ways she discovered to happily and greedily avoid white carbs, taking inspiration from all over the world. Since eating like this, she has felt healthier and gained energy, her skin has improved and she has lost weight and kept it off. Tori's recipes will help you to stop being reliant on nutrient-poor carbs and to get more creative in your cooking. At the same time, you will inevitably feel better in body and mind. She inspires you to inject some new life into your dishes. Try Mexican Baked Eggs or Chai Bircher Muesli for breakfast; Spiced Chickpea Bombs and Courgette Frites as light snacks with drinks; sides such as Broccoli Steaks with Chimichurri and Brazil Nuts and 6 types of puree to banish mashed potatoes forever; Lamb Shank and Fig Tagine or Duck Breasts with Roast Beetroot, Radish and Cocoa for comfort food; and Peanut Butter and Jam Puddings.

Cut the Carbs

100 Recipes to Help You Ditch White Carbs and Feel Great

Naomi Shimada

Sarah Raphael

Social media has changed our aspirations and the way we see ourselves. It has created a new layer of perfectionist pressure in every aspect of our lives, but equally enabled us to share resources, opinions, help and information more quickly than ever before.We love it; we hate it; we can&rsquo;t get off it. We have mixed feelings.Naomi Shimada and Sarah Raphael have spent the last decade building successful careers on the internet. Sarah&rsquo;s work as a writer and editor brings her into contact with the outer reaches and inner workings of online content, graph upon graph revealing to her what women most want to read today. Naomi is a model, host and writer and talks to people all over the world through her sunny, colourful Instagram account which has helped girls struggling with body image and confidence issues.Having experienced extreme online highs and lows, both personally and professionally, in Mixed Feelings, Naomi and Sarah explore what social media is doing to our minds, bodies and hearts through wide-ranging essays and discussions featuring diverse perspectives and voices. A heartfelt resource for those who struggle to fit into a box, Mixed Feelings is a celebration of difference and a challenge to the status quo. It is a bulwark against the onslaught of perfectionist and aspirational images that we are bombarded with on a daily basis.

Mixed Feelings

Exploring the Emotional Impact of Our Digital Habits

Gemma Bowes

Extraordinary Escapes uncovers the hidden treasures that the UK has to offer, featuring unique and characterful holiday homes from the hit Channel 4 series, plus many more. These incredible getaways showcase England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, including some of the most stunning areas of Suffolk, Kent, the Cotswolds, Devon, Cornwall and Norfolk.Explore amazing homes around the country, with a guide to the landscape, history and architecture of each one. Whether you&#39;re seeking a rural idyll or a remote romantic retreat, the beautifully designed and lovingly restored properties in the book include a Scottish castle, a converted lighthouse, cosy treehouses and an artist&#39;s mill.With a foreword by Sandi Toksvig, Extraordinary Escapes will evoke memories of childhood holidays and reinforce the benefits of slow living, glorious natural surroundings and mindful travel, inspiring you to look closer to home for that truly special escape.

Extraordinary Escapes

Unique and Wild Getaways Across the UK

Nina Cosford

Venture forth &ndash; if you dare &ndash; into the hazardous territory that is the girl brain!&#160; 
 
 From the dreaded doom of bra-shopping to the countless hours spent trying to select the right emoji or why we analyse (absolutely) everything, this book offers a humorous, revealing and hugely-relatable exploration of what it means to be a girl in the twenty-first century.&#160; 
 
 Enter at your peril...&#160;

My Name is Girl

An Illustrated Guide to the Female Mind

Rosie Sykes

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

The Sunday Night Book

52 Short Recipes to Make the Weekend Feel Longer

Valerie Orsoni

Born and raised in Corsica, Valerie Orsoni was overweight as a young adult.Along with her father, a chef, who also suffered from weight issues, she developed a programme of healthy living and eating where food itself - in the form of delicious, balanced recipes and detailed menu plans - played a central role in reducing body fat. LeBootcamp.com was a runaway global success and her book La Methode Orsoni, became a bestseller in France.With a highly motivational coaching style, LeBootCamp Diet speaks to women - and men - who are short on time, disillusioned by &#39;toxic&#39; mono-diets, and unwilling to sign up to a life of tasteless meals and forbidden foods.Through three distinct phases (Detox, Attack and Maintenance), Valerie shows how to cleanse the body of toxins; attack stubborn body fat and cellulite; speed up the process of weight - loss when needed.

LeBootCamp Diet

Eat Well; Lose Weight Now; Keep it off Forever

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

Quadrille

"Get a cool paralegal alter ego." 
 
 "Get divorced. Sorry Wallis Simpson..." 
 
 "Perfect the art of gazing adoringly (into the camera/your prince&#39;s eyes)." 
 
 Meghan Markle has changed the rules. What was once an unattainable 7-year-old&rsquo;s dream has now become an achievable reality. With this book, step into Meghan&rsquo;s glass slippers, and find out all the little ways in which you can channel your inner modern princess. Simple yet profound, this humorous little book could change your life forever. 
 
 Read it, enjoy it, learn from it&hellip; and it&rsquo;s just possible that your fairy tale dreams could come true. 
 &#160;

How to be a Modern Princess

Su Scott

Pocha; short for pojangmacha, which literally translates as &lsquo;covered wagon&rsquo;; pocha is a tented or tarpaulin-covered stall, bar or market vendor serving up cheap and unfussy Korean comfort food, snacks and drinks. 
 
 In Pocha, Su Scott is going home to the streets where she grew up and the food that shaped her. From daybreak to sundown, 80 delicious and playful recipes take you on a journey through the narrow streets of Seoul and sheltered halls of tarpaulin-roofed markets where dust motes and steam glitter in the glow of orange tungsten lights. This is unfussy, easy, comforting food from a country that has perfected late night eating and drinking culture. From Corn Dogs and Fried Chicken to Kimchi Pancakes and Perilla Oil Noodles for slurping (and perhaps some ice-cold soju to wash it all down), Pocha invites you to bring the beating heart of Korea&#39;s food scene into your kitchen. 
 
 Filled with vibrant location photography from Seoul that weaves a tale of Su&#39;s touching return to her home country, Pocha is an electric and tender cookbook.

Pocha

Simple Korean Food from the Streets of Seoul

Anna Newton

Declutter every aspect of your life - from your wardrobe, exercise schedule and food budget to your phone, bookshelves and beauty regime - with this realistic guide to getting neat and keeping things that way.Anna Newton is just trying to balance work, her friends, her family, her husband Mark, a growing handbag habit and a love for takeaway pizza. Over the past 8 years of running the blog and corresponding YouTube Chanel &lsquo;The Anna Edit&rsquo;, she&rsquo;s grown a loyal viewership who tune in for her weekly videos on everything from house renovations to the best summer foundation.Anna is a typical Virgo &ndash; she loves being organised. She&rsquo;s Marie Kondo&rsquo;d her house, nearly throwing away her TV remote in the process. She&rsquo;s waved goodbye to her things with Fumio Sasaki. She&rsquo;s minimized and bullet-journalled her schedules down to the finest detail. Along the way, she&rsquo;s realised something key: there&rsquo;s no one prescription for an organized life, a tidy home and calm mind. Instead, it&rsquo;s all about editing.Learn how to edit your home, calendar, exercise regime, social life, me-time, wardrobe, household budget, digital detox, beauty routine and office space.&#160; It&#39;s about how to utilise your time and spend more of it doing what makes you happy.

An Edited Life

Simple Steps to Streamlining your Life, at Work and at Home

Itamar Srulovich

Sarit Packer

Honey & Co Daily is about food that looks good on the plate and tastes sensational, but hasn't taken all day to prepare. 
 
Based on the menu Itamar and Sarit serve at their cafe in Store Street, London, it’s the kind of relaxed, informal food we all want to eat every day – chapters include effortless recipes with Eggs, fragrant Soups, tasty ideas for In or On Bread, nourishing Salads, simple, wholesome dinner ideas in Daily Nightly, quick and easy Cookies and Cakes and even some ‘serve me in a glass’ speedy Cocktails and Desserts. From a summery Courgette & Broad Bean Shakshuka and a Crispy Za'atar Chicken Schnitzel Sandwich to Spicy Sausage, Tomato, Pepper & Goat’s Cheese Dirty Rice and Ginger & Chocolate Cookies – this is wholesome, seasonal food that will lift your spirits and improve your day.

Honey & Co Daily

Easy food for your everyday pleasure

Sue Quinn

One roasting tray, one complete meal &ndash; no fuss, and minimal washing up!Move over one-pot: one-tray is the quickest, easiest way to make fast, tasty meals in the oven. You can make entire family suppers just in a roasting tin or an oven tray &ndash; everything from breakfasts like baked apple porridge or Shakshuka, to handy snacks, lunches and warm salads including quick flatbreads and frittatas, through to warming gratins, risottos and roasts, and of course, delectable cakes and traybake puddings like peanut butter and caramel brownies.Sue Quinn is a wizard at simple, economical family cooking and her recipes cover every meal of the day &ndash; all in one tray. With straightforward instructions and no-nonsense tips for getting the most flavour out of your cooking, not only will you have everyday meal solutions but less hassle and mess in the kitchen.

Roasting Tray Magic

One Tin, One Meal, No Fuss!

Catherine Phipps

&#39;Who better as a guide to using them, whether stovetop or electric models, than the Queen of pressure cooking... Catherine Phipps. As someone who is in the wasteful habit of using mine just for pulses and stock, I&#39;m inordinately grateful to her.&#39; &ndash; Nigella Lawson&#39;Don&#39;t be put off using a pressure cooker: buy this book and learn the way to a quicker, healthy, taste-capturing way of cooking. Catherine takes away any doubts and will open your eyes to the way of the pressure cooker. Well, it certainly worked for me.&#39; &ndash; Dave Myers, The Hairy Bikers&#39;The Pressure Cooker Bible from the Pressure Cooker Queen&hellip; Wonderful!!!&#39; &ndash; Si King, The Hairy BikersWith over 200 recipes, Modern Pressure Cooking is the essential pressure cooker cookbook. Author Catherine Phipps gently guides readers through everything they need to know about cooking in a stovetop or electric pressure cooker, with foolproof, step-by-step instructions. Shakshouka with Feta, All in One Macaroni Cheese, Crispy Aromatic Duck, Squid and Chorizo with Black Rice &ndash; all the recipes included are delicious and will go down well with hungry friends and family. Pressure cooking is a wonder cooking method: you can make meals in minutes (on average, a third or less of the time of other cooking methods &ndash; risotto takes 7 minutes!), it&#39;s energy-efficient and food cooked in a pressure cooker retains more nutrients and more flavour. Cooking this way makes life easier!

Modern Pressure Cooking

The Comprehensive Guide to Stovetop and Electric Cookers, with Over 200 Recipes

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

Libby Silbermann

Foolproof Fish is the ultimate cookbook for anyone who wants to know how to make simple and delicious fish dishes at home.Bringing you 60 fuss-free recipes, with everything from Ultimate Fish Tacos, Spicy Salmon Burgers and Grilled Tuna Steaks, through to Clams in Cider, Crab and Cherry Tomato Linguine and Prawn Laksa &ndash; you&#39;ll have a mouth-watering variety of recipes to choose from every time you fancy fish for dinner. Beginning with clear instructions for basic preparation, including how to scale, de-bone, gut and fillet, followed by delicious and practical recipes for brunch and light bites, quick and easy dishes, or weekend feasts &ndash; there really is something for everyone! 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: BBQ, One-Pot, Freezer.

Foolproof Fish

60 Delicious Dishes to Make at Home

Rebecca Woods

Foolproof Slow Cooker features 60 exciting recipes – all mouth-watering and easily achievable.Beginning with clear instructions and top tips for how to get the most out of this humble appliance (like salting your meat ahead of time and pre-heating your slow cooker beforehand), followed by delicious and practical recipes that will transform the way you use your slow cooker; you’ll find everything from juicy Korean Barbecue Brisket to Maple Bacon Beans, and Butternut and Pomegranate Tagine to a comforting Seafood Chowder, or convenient Overnight Shakshuka. 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: One-Pot, BBQ, Freezer, Fish, Picnic.

Foolproof Slow Cooker

60 Essential Recipes that Make the Most of Your Slow Cooker

Sarah Beeny

Sarah Beeny's practical good sense and expert eye, combined with her natural warmth and energy, are familiar to fans of her hugely popular TV programmes. 
 
Her down-to-earth attitude and expert knowledge informs her approach to DIY and in 100 DIY Jobs, Sarah shows you exactly how to tackle the most common household tasks. 
 
Clear, step-by-step instructions for each job are accompanied by a comprehensive tool list and precise technical illustrations. From the smallest tweak – such as fixing a squeaky door or dealing with a dripping tap – to more advanced weekend projects like tiling a bathroom wall or fixing skirting board, Sarah's advice eliminates any uncertainty, meaning you can renovate with confidence. 
 
Every area of the home is covered, from Bathrooms and Kitchens to Floors, Walls and Ceilings to Doors and Windows. There’s advice on sanding down wooden floorboards to bring their natural beauty to the forefront, tackling tricky paint jobs and decorating your home to match your own unique style. 
 
With its wealth of practical information and clear illustrations, this guide provides a key reference for every homeowner and is an essential item for any Sarah Beeny fan.

Sarah Beeny's 100 DIY Jobs

The essentials made simple

Monica Galetti

In The Skills, Monica Galetti offers both amateur chefs and professionals basic cooking skills for cooking over 100 fabulous recipes.Building on her Masterchef: The Professionals reputation as the expert in the kitchen, Monica takes the reader through a series of essential techniques including: jointing a chicken, preparing a rack of lamb, filleting fish, making basics such as sauces, mayonnaise, pasta, meringues, caramel and souffl&eacute;s, and making breads and pastries.Once you&rsquo;ve mastered Monica&rsquo;s foolproof methods you can cook her fabulous recipes such as Braised artichoke with bacon and gin, Tartare of salmon, Roast lamb with peppers and olives, Salt caramel chocolate ganache and Apricot sabayon.With step-by-step photographs throughout, The Skills will give you all the secrets of success in the kitchen.

The Skills

How to Become an Expert Chef in Your Own Kitchen: 120 Recipes, Tips and Techniques

Bill Granger

Bill Granger, hugely popular Australian food writer, television chef and restaurateur has worked his particular magic on over 100 of his favourite classic dishes, bringing them effortlessly into the twenty-first century. 
 
Bill&#39;s Basics is a cheat&#39;s guide to making the recipes that every home cook wants to master. Bill has simplified techniques, minimised fussy ingredient lists and given these core dishes a modern twist that&#39;s in tune with our busy lives and passion for fresh and healthy flavours. 
 
 This is a one-stop manual of favourite dishes for every occasion, from lazy breakfasts to late-night suppers to lunch for a crowd. In choosing them, Bill has drawn on all his fondest food memories, including dishes from a variety of different countries. From Lamb Tagine to Prawn Laksa, Thai Beef Salad to Chocolate Brownies, Chicken Burritos to Cr&egrave;me Caramel, this is the repertoire that every home cook wants to master. Bill&#39;s Basics will quickly become the essential book that all home cooks turn to time and again. 
 
 A modern classic, packed with irresistible photography, written with Bill&#39;s trademark friendly yet reassuring authority, it will have readers cooking their way through it from cover to cover. 
 &#160;

Bill's Basics

Melanie Brown

Louise Gannon

&#39;Utterly absorbing and deeply affecting&#39;&#160;&ndash; The Guardian 
 
As a Spice Girl, TV talent show judge and Broadway star, Mel B a.k.a Scary Spice, has been a global icon since her twenties. But behind the glittering fa&ccedil;ade of fame, the struggles and pain of this working-class, mixed-race girl from Leeds are laid bare in her critically acclaimed best-selling memoir, Brutally Honest. With deep personal insight, remarkable frankness and trademark Yorkshire humour, the book tells how she went from Girl Power to girl powerless during her ten-year emotionally abusive marriage. Tracing a path through the key moments in her life, she reflects on her childhood, rise to fame and her chilling downward spiral before she finally broke free. In this expanded edition, written with Louise Gannon, Mel brings her story up to date. With her trademark honesty, she tells the unfiltered story of piecing herself back together, dealing with trauma and new heartbreak whilst becoming a champion for survivors of abuse, performing once more with the Spice Girls and receiving her MBE from Prince William.

Brutally Honest

Tiddy Rowan

The Little Book of Quiet takes a broad look at the need for, and the benefits of, achieving more quiet in your life. It takes a look at different personality types - those who are inherently more disposed to an introverted nature (people who are more comfortable in the inner world of thought and feeling) and those of an extroverted nature (people of action and clamour). It looks at some of the people in history who are heard despite their quiet voices and personalities, for example: Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Bill Gates, J.K. Rowling. In so doing it will show introverts how to harness their many positive qualities, and show extroverts how to allow more quiet into their lives. Now that everyone is constantly connected digitally 24/7, more emphasis is being placed on achieving higher emotional intelligence (EQ) to empathize and negotiate with others in a global economy - in other words enhancing &#39;people skills&#39;. To be a good listener is considered a key people skill, and a basic requirement of being a good listener is to be quiet when the other person is talking. The book shows how an understanding of left-brain and right-brain thinking can help achieve a better balance between the two and how to recognise these same attributes in others. It explores ways of achieving more quiet in our lives and less troubled minds, through tips and exercises and through mindfulness and understanding.

The Little Book of Quiet

Finding a Mindful Balance

Katie McCabe

How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, muse, or &lsquo;mistress&rsquo; of a man in the public eye?Throughout history, the achievements of women working across artistic disciplines &ndash; from visual artists to writers to filmmakers &ndash; have been largely undervalued, with the title of &lsquo;genius&rsquo; reserved mainly for men. More than a Muse unpacks the complex romantic relationships that left women overshadowed, anonymous or underestimated in their work. Katie McCabe shines a light on the stories of talents like photographer Dora Maar, pioneering film editor and Hitchcock-collaborator Alma Reville, jazz pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong and many more.Exploring a broad scope of art movements and moments from Surrealism to early British silent film, Katie reexamines the contributions of women that have too often been ignored. More than a Muse views our history through the lens of artistic partnership, and positions women solidly in the foreground.

More than a Muse

Creative Partnerships That Sold Talented Women Short

"Being an adult is like trying to fold a fitted sheet.""I&#39;m just a girl, standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a donut.""I was hot until my photoshop free-trial expired." From Instagram to Twitter, we all want to be a social media star these days. But behind your phone screen are those perfectly filtered lives all they&rsquo;re really cracked up to be? For millennials everywhere comes a book that says what we&rsquo;re all really thinking. Whether it&rsquo;s stuffing your face with pizza while scrolling through Gigi Hadid&rsquo;s feed or experiencing life at the speed of fifteen WTFs per hour, this is the real life struggle of getting that double tap and achieving #goals.

#GOALS

Life Behind the Instagram Filter

Kwoklyn Wan

One Wok, One Pot offers 80 effortless recipes that are cooked in just one pot &ndash; a slow cooker, rice cooker, traditional clay pot or, of course, the humble wok.From Veggie Satay Noodles and Pork Belly Hot Pot to Five Spice Wings and XO Fried Rice, Kwoklyn Wan shares a collection of much-loved, tasty and foolproof recipes to make at home. Influenced by the many delicious East and Southeast Asian cuisines and flavours &ndash; from Japan and Korea to Thailand and Malaysia &ndash; the recipes in this book are simple and delicious. Just prep a few ingredients, use your favourite pot and reduce the washing up, with this brilliant book that every kitchen needs.

One Wok, One Pot

Fuss-free and Delicious Dishes Using Only One Pot

Danie Couchman

Danie Couchman grew up on the move, her family never staying still long enough for her to say where she&rsquo;s from. At twenty-five, and living in her seventeenth home, she finds herself drowning in the rush of London life, and makes an impulsive decision: to buy a narrowboat and make it her home.Surrounded by an eclectic and itinerant community in the uncharted territory of the capital&rsquo;s urban wilderness, Danie becomes fully immersed in this hidden world. Each day onboard her boat Genesis is an adventure full of disaster and magic. Over five years of living off-grid, nomadic Danie learns to survive the many highs and lows of boat life alone, keeping herself, and her steel home, afloat.A captivating debut, Afloat is the story of a young woman&rsquo;s desire to escape an ever more isolated city existence and reconnect with nature, discovering what is important in life.

Afloat

A Memoir

Angellica Bell

This is the book for children aged 5 and upwards who are keen to get into the kitchen and start cooking but don&#39;t want boring grown-up cookbooks.Angellica Bell has not only spent years as a presenter on CBBC and BBC, she&#39;s a fantastic cook who won BBC TV&#39;s Celebrity Masterchef. Through 30 fun, step-by-step recipes that she makes with her own children, in Fantastic Eats! Angellica gets youngsters excited about creating tasty sweet and savoury dishes for everyone to share.Her recipes will bring the whole family together as you try your own home-made hamburgers, butternut squash and sweet potato fritters, Jamaican rock buns and icy watermelon lollies. Every recipe has photos and instructions to show you exactly what to do, so parents can put their feet up while the children cook! (Make sure you do the washing-up afterwards, guys!)An essential book for every household with young children, Angellica&#39;s recipe ideas, fun tips and inspiration will make a masterchef of even the youngest member of the household.

Fantastic Eats!

& How to Cook Them – Fabulous Recipes for Children to Make

Linda Watson

A provocateur, radical thinker and instigator of the most important sartorial statements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Vivienne Westwood is a fearless nonconformist with a relentless passion for tradition.From the mini crini, the liberty corset and the rocking-horse shoe to the stunning, sumptuous wedding dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City and Dita Von Teese&#39;s infamous purple wedding dress, Westwood has unleashed her imagination on the world for almost 40 years. Her Pirate and Edwardian looks were worldwide fashion trends, and her revolutionary designs include the co-creation of the punk style, the introduction of street style into high fashion, the reworking of the crinoline, the restyling of Harris tweed and the reintroduction of platforms and the hourglass figure.She has been described by Anna Wintour as &#39;an unbelievable influence&#39; and by Alexander McQueen as &#39;the Coco Chanel of our day&#39;.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.

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