Next to the hustle & bustle of London`s St Pancras station, The Gilbert Scott, Marcus Wareing`s latest venture, is one of the hottest restaurants in town. Situated in the recently restored architectural gem that is the Renaissance Hotel, critics & food lovers alike have flocked to this stunning new brasserie & bar. The aim of the menu is simple: to pay tribute to the historic charm of the building with rediscovered & re-imagined traditional British classics. Yorkshire fishcakes, Dorset jugged steak, cock-a-leekie pie, Mrs Beeton`s barbecue chicken, London Pride battered cod, gingerbread pudding, Kendal mint cake choc ices & the best lemon drizzle cake you`ll ever taste are just some of the 130 recipes in the book. With stunning photography throughout, ” The Gilbert Scott Book of British Food” means that you can celebrate these recipes at home, be it for brunch, lunch, a weekend feast, an afternoon baking or a terrific cocktail to ease you into your meal. Above all, it is a glorious tribute to some of Britain`s greatest traditional dishes. ...

` With a sharp eye for detail & a historian`s capacious knowledge, Padraig Rooney has written a superbly amusing guide to all the writers who`ve been drawn to or emerged from Switzerl&. This is a book that should be stuffed into every stocking
- the perfect Christmas gift!` --Edmund White, author of THE FLANEUR In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on the goings on of poets Byron & Shelley
- & their womenfolk
- across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat & wrote FRANKENSTEIN. Byron dieted & penned THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. His doctor, Polidori, was dreaming up THE VAMPYRE. Together they put Switzerland on the map. Switzerland has always provided a refuge for writers attracted to it as an escape from world wars, oppression, tuberculosis
- or marriage. While often for Swiss writers from Rousseau to Bouvier the country was like a gilded prison or sanatorium. The Romantics, the utopians (Wells, D. H. Lawrence) & other spiritual seekers (Hesse), viewed Switzerland as a land of milk & honey, as nature`s paradise. In the twentieth century, spying in neutral Switzerl&, spawned espionage & detective fiction from Conan Doyle to Maugham, Fleming, & Le Carre. Padraig Rooney peers through the chalet windows & finds the rooms crammed with curios: lederhosen & Lepidoptera, spas & spies, fool`s gold & numbered accounts. Literary detective work & treasure chest, history & scandal, THE GILDED CHALET will make you strap on your skis & come off-piste to find out the real Swiss story.



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In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on Byron & the Shelleys across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat & wrote Frankenstein. Byron dieted & penned The Prisoner of Chillon. His doctor, Polidori, was dreaming up The Vampyre. Together they put Switzerland on the map. From Rousseau to Nabokov, le Carre to Conan Doyle, Hemingway to Hesse to Highsmith, Switzerland has always provided a refuge for writers as an escape from world wars, oppression, tuberculosis... or marriage. For Swiss writers from the country was like a gilded prison. The Romantics, the utopians & other spiritual seekers viewed Switzerland as a land of milk & honey, as nature`s paradise. In the twentieth century, spying in neutral Switzerland spawned the finest espionage & crime fiction. Part detective work, part treasure chest, The Gilded Chalet takes you on a grand tour of the birthplace of our best-loved stories, revealing how Switzerland became the landscape of our imagination. ...

London 1965, & Vince Treadwell investigates the seemingly unrelated murders of a playboy aristocrat from Belgravia & a young black nurse from the wrong side of town. It takes the detective to the illegal drinking dens of Notting Hill run by the self-styled Black Power leader, Michael X; the nightclubs of Soho owned by the legendary gangster, Billy Hill; & the exclusive gaming tables of the Montcler Club in Berkeley Square, where the blue bloods & power players of England gamble thousands on the turn of a card. But as Vince Treadwell digs deeper he finds himself not only embroiled with a beautiful society girl, Isabel Saxmore-Blaine, but a world of espionage & corruption where the underworld mixes easily with the aristocracy, & no one is innocent. Praise for Kiss Me Quick: A thrilling read. (Buzz Magazine). Dark & involved. (Daily Express). Unmissable. (Best). This unusual & atmospheric crime novel suggests that Danny Miller is a writer to watch. (Good Book Guide)... .one of those books that literally grabs you from page one. (The Week). ...

What if Heat magazine had been around in Georgian England? Many of us think of the ill-behaved celebrity & the tabloid splash as inventions of the modern world, but the antics of Premiership footballers & C-list soap stars are as nothing when set alongside the peccadilloes & hell-raising of 18th-century celebs. The first flowering of the great age of newspapers & caricature gave us boozy Prime Ministers & party leaders who settled their political differences with duels in Hyde Park (when they weren`t gambling, or writing essays about farting); peers of the realm who sat the unburied corpses of their cherished mistresses at their dinner tables; entertainers who rode horses standing upright in the saddle, while wearing a mask of bees; & celebrity courtesans who ate 1, 000-guinea banknotes stuffed into sandwiches, simply to make a point. Before it was dashed from their lips by the Victorian party-poopers, our Georgian forebears drank deep from the cup of life. The Gin Lane Gazette is a compendium of illustrated `best bits` from a fictional newspaper of the latter 1700s. It contains some of the most sensational headlines & true stories of the period. Presided over by inky-fingered hack Mr. Nathaniel Crowquill, the editor & proprietor, its premises are located in Hogarth`s chaotic Gin Lane. Mr Crowquill has devoted fifty years to sniffing out scandal & intrigue. His drunken acolyte, Mr. Jakes, supplies merciless caricatures & engravings for every page. Sports reports, obituaries, fashion news, courtesans of the month, book reviews, & advertisements for bizarre
- & often alarming
- goods, services & entertainments also feature in a riotous melange of metropolitan mayhem.

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From the same Swedish editorial team & publisher as Stieg Larsson`s Millennium Trilogy comes a sensational new crime writing talent. Ingrid Olsson returns home from a Stockholm hospital to discover a man in her kitchen. She`s never seen the intruder before. But he`s no threat
- he`s dead. Criminal Investigator Conny Sjoberg takes the call, abandoning his wife Asa & their five children for the night. His team identify the body as that of a middle-aged family man. But why was he there? & who bludgeoned him to death? Lacking suspect & motive, Sjoberg`s team struggle until they link the case to another
- apparently random
- killing. & discover they face a serial killer on a terrible vendetta... The Gingerbread House is the first title in The Hammarby Series, novels following Detective Inspector Conny Sjoberg & his murder investigation team
- a gripping feast for all fans of Jo Nesbo, Camilla Lackberg & Henning Mankell. ” Carin Gerhardsen writes so vividly, like she is painting with words, gripping your heart & soul in an ever-tightening tourniquet”. (Peter James).” Gerhardsen brings a timely perspective to the serial killer genre, as her characters are engulfed by the worst possible consequences of their childhood cruelties. The pages turn themselves, right up the final startling twist”. (John Verdon). Carin Gerhardsen was born in 1962 in Katrineholm, Sweden. Originally a mathematician, she enjoyed a successful career as an IT consultant before turning her hand to writing crime fiction. Carin now lives in Stockholm with her husband & their two children. She is currently working on the seventh title in the series.



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”A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero”. (David Walliams). The giraffe, the pelican & the agile monkey set out to prove that they are the best window-cleaning company around. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children`s writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, & total sales are over 100 million worldwide! Quentin Blake is one of Britain`s most successful illustrators. His first drawings were published in Punch when he was sixteen. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books & he was Roald Dahl`s favourite illustrator. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award & the Kate Greenaway Medal. Besides being an illustrator he taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art & in 1999 he became the first ever Children`s Laureate! Six years later he was awarded a CBE for services to children`s literature & in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year`s Honours
- which means his full title is Sir Quentin Blake, although we can still all go on calling him Quentin as usual.
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Phizzwhizzing new cover look & branding for the World`s NUMBER ONE Storyteller! The Giraffe & the Pelly & Me is a classic Roald Dahl story. Billy`s biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet shop. But then he finds a giraffe, a pelly & a monkey living inside
- they`re the Ladderless Window Cleaners! Who needs ladders when you`ve got a giraffe? They become best friends & when they meet the richest man in all Engl&, there`s a chance Billy`s scrumptious-galumptious dream just might come true... Listen to THE GIRAFFE & THE PELLY & ME & other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams & Steven Fry
- plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store & Google Play
- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! & HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.


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Adaption is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. A strict devotee of Darwin`s evolution principle, Lohmark views education as survival of the fittest: classifying her pupils as biological specimens & scorning her colleagues for indulging in `favourites`. However, as people move West in search of work & opportunities, the school`s future is in jeopardy & the Lohmark is forced to face her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive. ...

It was the kind of August day that hinted at monsoons, & the year was 1774, though not for very much longer. Sixteen-year-old Nix Song is a time-traveller. She, her father & their crew of time refugees travel the world aboard The Temptation, a glorious pirate ship stuffed with treasures both typical & mythical. Old maps allow Nix & her father to navigate not just to distant lands, but distant times
- although a map will only take you somewhere once. & Nix`s father is only interested in one time, & one place: Honolulu 1868. A time before Nix was born, & her mother was alive. Something that puts Nix`s existence rather dangerously in question.. . Nix has grown used to her father`s obsession, but only because she`s convinced it can`t work. But then a map falls into her father`s lap that changes everything. & when Nix refuses to help, her father threatens to maroon Kashmir, her only friend (and perhaps, only love) in a time where Nix will never be able to find him. & if Nix has learned one thing, it`s that losing the person you love is a torment that no one can withst&. Nix must work out what she wants, who she is, & where she really belongs before time runs out on her forever.
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