Tim Wilson & Fran Warde have teamed up to create this comprehensive reference work & inspirational collection of recipes. For each type of meat, the book recommends the best breeds, advises which cuts suit which style of cooking & tells you what to ask your butcher in order to buy the best quality. There are more than 100 recipes arranged according to season, from Sticky citrus-marinated pork chops in April through Moroccan chicken with preserved lemons in July to Slow-baked herb-crusted leg of mutton in December. Through monthly farm diaries, the book also reveals what life is really like on a thriving British farm. Packed with specially commissioned photographs taken on the farm as well as in the kitchen by renowned photographer Kristin Perers, this is a uniquely beautiful & useful book. ...

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. ...

Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. Jakob Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. As World War II draws to a close, Jakob fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany & Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl`s unscheduled train reaches the bomb first. Gretl is the only survivor. Though spared from the concentration camp, the orphaned German Jew finds herself lost in a country hostile to her people. When Jakob discovers her, guilt & fatherly compassion prompt him to take her in. For three years, the young man & little girl form a bond over the secrets they must hide from his Catholic family. But she can`t stay with him forever. Jakob sends Gretl to South Africa, where German war orphans are promised bright futures with adoptive Protestant families-so long as Gretl`s Jewish roots, Catholic education, & connections to communist Poland are never discovered. Separated by continents, politics, religion, language, & years, Jakob & Gretl will likely never see each other again. But the events they have both survived & their belief that the human spirit can triumph over the ravages of war have formed a bond of love that no circumstances can overcome. ...

A World War II love story set against the romance & danger of occupied Venice. Cenzo is a world-weary fisherman, determined to sit out the rest of the war. He`s happy to stay out of the way of the SS, quietly going about his business of fishing in the lagoons of northern Italy. Then one night, instead of pulling in his usual haul, Cenzo fishes a young woman out of the canal. Guilia is an Italian Jew who has managed to escape capture & is determined to find her family. This meeting results in them both taking an entirely unexpected journey, & Cenzo suddenly finds himself thrown headlong into the world of international wartime politics, where everyone has their own agenda & nowhere is safe... ...

From the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park comes a suspenseful World War II story set against the beauty, mystery & danger of occupied Venice. Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied & the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a canopy of stars, a fisherman named Cenzo finds a young woman`s body floating in the lagoon & soon discovers that she is still alive & in trouble. Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht SS. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia
- an act of kindness that leads them into the world of Partisans, Mussolini`s broken promises, &, everywhere, the enigmatic maze of the Venice Lagoon...
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She is the girl with the dragon tattoo. Lisbeth Salander. An uncompromising misfit whose burning sense of injustice & talent for investigation will never respect boundaries of state or status. He is a campaigning journalist. Mikael Blomkvist. A lone wolf whose integrity & championing of the truth bring him time & again to the brink of unemployment
- & prosecution. The call comes in late at night: a superhacker has gained access to critical, top secret U.S. intelligence. Blomkvist knows only one person who could crack the best security systems in the world. This case has all the hallmarks of Salander. She is accused of acting without reason, taking risks just because she can, but though they have lost touch, Blomkvist knows Lisbeth better than that. There must be something deeper at the heart of this
- maybe even the scoop that Millennium magazine so desperately needs for its survival. A tangled web of truth that someone is prepared to kill to protect.

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Lisbeth Salander & Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son`s well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story
- & it is a terrifying one. More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder`s world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker. It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters
- & a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, & to Blomkvist & Salander themselves.

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