The food you put on your table is at the heart of the house, as a matter of survival & joy. Everything we eat sustains family, friends & self, & The Good Table shows that it is best when sourced & cooked with love & care. Whether making comforting favourites such as Toad in the Hole or Paella, classic dishes such as Beef Suet Pudding or a Brandy Snap with Berries, or recipes from far-flung shores such as Lapland Fish Soup & a Spanish dish of Chorizo in Cider, Valentine's omnivorous curiosity & attention to detail set his recipes apart. In this timely book, Valentine pays homage to the slow cooking of cheaper cuts of beef, pork & lamb, whilst encouraging us to enjoy less widely-used meat such as rabbit & venison. His ingredients are local, mostly inexpensive & easy to find, yet his dishes are often surprising, based on forgotten classics or hailing from distant countries such as Mexico & Morocco. For Valentine, The Good Table starts with good shopping, & he encourages us to not be afraid of buying new ingredients, especially when they are affordable & plentiful. He seeks out sustainable fish, creates luxuries from everyday ingredients such as bread & eggs, & cooks fruit & vegetables when they are in season. ...

Using the credit card & identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels & above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially, exponentially & pretend to be someone really important & successful: God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being, results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers & sorting out (as almighty as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle, dying & coming back to life... ...

Good food, good drink, good company
- that`s the recipe for a good time. Good Together sees Mr Lyan call on his many friends
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Behind the island paradises, panoramic views & historical sites there often lies a different story. Using her twenty-year experience in the field of human rights, personal anecdotes & the testimonies of survivors, Lucy Popescu explores the various abuses that often go unnoticed or are carefully hidden from the tourist. From torture in the Maldives, the labour camps of China, seeking asylum in Australia to execution in Iran. Inspired by the ethical flying drive & the rise in investment of projects to offset carbon emissions, ” The Good Tourist”, rather than deterring tourists from their chosen destination, serves as a practical guide to what you can do after your holiday to help a cause or support a people. ...

I`d been itching to ride a Harley-Davidson across America for years. Now it was the High Plains or bust. Inconveniently, my wife Roz had never even sat on a bike. I didn`t fancy a passenger for 12, 000 miles, so Roz borrowed an ancient 100cc Suzuki & made it to the Driving Test centre. The following morning we flew to Baltimore & she bought a yellow 883 ` Sportster`, all leather tassels, sexy buckhorn bars & straight-through pipes. It met my Soft-tail off the ship from Southampton & we were away. The ride of a lifetime was soon transformed into a pilgrimage in search of the American people who the Harleys dragged from under stones, off mountainsides, out of the swamps & the prairie dust. The scenery was phenomenal, but it is the folks I`ll remember
- & riding Death Valley with an engine air-cooled by wind 35 degrees hotter than my blood.
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” Goodbye Buenos Aires” is a vivid & earthy celebration of Argentina, which chronicles the rise & fall of the British colony in the 20`s & 30`s through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives
- a hard-drinking, womanising, emigre Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars & brothels of the city whilst trading with farmers upcountry. It is also the biographical portrait of an errant father by a son & a moving description of Argentina by one of its leading writers & journalists. Andrew Graham-Yooll chronicles his now lost tribe, the Anglos
- the British of Argentina
- through this, at times, harrowing memoir of separation, unpredictable politics, personal loss & love rediscovered.


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This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, & what makes us European. Spend time with some of your favourite writers & artists in this truly unique collection spanning everything from art, language, food, music & movies, to war, literature, driving, nudity, geography, smoking & nature. Featuring pieces of exceptional quality from some of our most treasured novelists, historians, journalists, poets & artists, including: Jessie Burton, Richard Herring, Alain de Botton, Tom Bradby, Val Mc Dermid, Matt Haig, Afua Hirsch, Lionel Shriver, Sarah Perry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ian Rankin, Owen Jones, Mark Kermode, Robert Macfarlane, Chris Riddell, Former Prime Minister Jim Hacker & many more.A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the times we live in, our relationship with the continent, & ourselves.* * * * *
Includes: PIECES BY: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Tom Bradby, Jessie Burton, Ben Collins (aka The Stig), Colonel Tim Collins, Robert Crampton, Adam Dant, Alain de Botton, Kate Eberlen, Matt Frei, Nicci French, Simon Garfield, Jonathan Lynn writing as Former Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Matt Haig, Richard Herring, Jennifer Higgie, Afua Hirsch, Owen Jones, Oliver Kamm, Alex Kapranos, Mark Kermode, Hari Kunzru, Olivia Laing, Marie Le Conte, Amy Liptrot, Robert Macfarlane, Henry Marsh, Val Mc Dermid, Ian Mc Ewan, Hollie Mc Nish, Kate Mosse, Jenni Murray, Sarah Perry, Ian Rankin, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Chris Riddell, Andrew Roberts, Will Self, David Shrigley, Lionel Shriver, Sunny Singh, Ece Temelkuran, Rob Temple, Bee Wilson, Sarah Winman
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In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war...and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is Deighton`s fourteenth novel & a vivid evocation of wartime Engl&, the story of a group of American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in the winter of 1943-4. At the centre of the novel are two young men: the deeply reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother, estranged son of a deskbound colonel, & the cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse, well on his way to becoming America`s Number One Flying Ace. Alike only in their courage, they forge a bond of friendship in battle with far-reaching consequences for themselves, & for the future of those they love. ...

Mog was tired. She was dead tired... Mog thought, `I want to sleep for ever.` & so she did. But a little bit of her stayed awake to see what would happen next. Mog keeps watch over the upset Thomas family, who miss her terribly, & she wonders how they will ever manage without her. Nothing happens for some time...then suddenly, one day, Mog sees a little kitten in the house. The kitten is frightened of everything
- noise, newspapers, bags & being picked up. Mog thinks the kitten is very stupid. But then Mog realises that the nervous kitten doesn`t know how to play & just needs `a little bit of help`. & so, Mog pushes the surprised kitten into Debbie`s lap, where it finds it actually likes being tickled & stroked. The new family pet is settled in at last. But Debbie says she will always remember Mog. ` So I should hope, ` thinks Mog. & she flies up & up & up right into the sun.
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The First World War changed London & Londoners forever. For the drivers who took their buses to the Western Front & for their families & friends left behind it meant facing new challenges at work & a new way of life. This book illustrates how London reacted & dealt with that change looks through its transport system. It`s a long way to Tipperary, It`s a long way to go, It`s a long way to Tipperary, To the sweetest girl i know, Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, It`s a long, long way to Tipperary, But my heart`s right there. ...