Morag & Heather, two eighteen-inch fairies with swords, green kilts & badly dyed hair fly through the window of the worst violinist in New York, an overweight & antisocial type named Dinnie, & vomit on his carpet. Who they are, how they came to New York & what this has to do with the lovely Kerry
- who lives across the street, & has Crohn`s Disease, & is making a flower alphabet
- & what this has to do with the other fairies (of all nationalities) of New York, not to mention the poor repressed fairies of Britain, is the subject of this book. It has a war in it, & a most unusual production of Shakespeare`s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT`S DREAM & Johnny Thunders` New York Dolls guitar solos. What more could anyone desire from a book?

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An ordinary boy with an ordinary life stands accused of killing the next president of the United States. WHAT HAPPENED? Dr Paul Allen is a well-respected man. He lives a happy, comfortable life with his second wife & their family. Until the night when a knock at the door blows his world apart: a hugely popular presidential candidate has been shot, & they say the young man who pulled the trigger is Paul`s son. Daniel, the only child from his first, failed marriage, was always a good kid & Paul is convinced his quiet boy is not capable of murder. Overwhelmed by a vortex of feelings, Paul embarks on a mission to understand what happened & why. Following the trail of his son`s journey across America, he is forced to re-examine his life as a husband & a parent, & every decision he ever made. What follows is a powerfully emotional & suspense-filled quest that keeps you guessing to the very end. ` Monsters don`t just become monsters, after all.` ...

Love eating out? Looking for suggestions from a source you can trust? Whether you re holidaying in Cornwall, on a business trip to the highlands, ambling through Suffolk, or simply want to try a new place close to home, The Good Food Guide will help you discover the UK s very best restaurants, pubs & hidden gems on a budget that suits you. Our expert inspectors dine anonymously & pay the bill in full. Their detailed, entertaining, impartial reviews take account of feedback from thousands of regular diners, making The Good Food Guide for decades the nation s bestselling restaurant handbook your essential companion to eating out in Britain. Acting fearlessly on the recommendations of our inspectors & readers, we tell it like it is. Read interviews with top chefs, catch up with exciting foodie trends, & find out which restaurants are the ones inspectors can t wait to revisit & which dishes really set their hearts racing. ...

Where to eat tonight? Tomorrow? Next week? Next summer? By the sea, in the city, the country or in that little place round the corner? Leave it to The Good Food Guide, Britain s number one restaurant handbook, to help you decide. This trustworthy dining companion, a reassuring presence in the nation s bookcases & glove boxes since 1951, seeks out the cream of restaurants, pubs & cafés across the UK, from big names to best-kept secrets, from budget eats to destination dining. Our experienced inspectors dine anonymously & pay the bill in full. Their authoritative & entertaining write-ups take account of feedback from thousands of regular diners whose voices keep The Good Food Guide fresh & free from bias. When we award our highest score, a perfect 10, it matters. ...

The Good Food Guide: Recipes is a unique & beautiful recipe book showcasing 60 of the UK's most talented chefs & their phenomenal restaurants. Compiled by the team behind the UK's best-selling restaurant guide, The Good Food Guide: Recipes features step-by-step recipes, often signature dishes, from chefs who have shaped the culinary map of Britain. Incisively written & lavishly illustrated, The Good Food Guide: Recipes is a must-have cookery book for aspiring chefs & foodies alike. ...

The UK`s bestselling restaurant guide, the Good Food Guide is the essential companion for your adventures in the cafes, pubs & restaurants that make the nation`s dining scene shine. From brilliant set lunches to blow-out meals in the country`s most spectacular restaurants, & from cosy breakfasts to quirky new discoveries, this trusted guide brings together the brightest & best eating experiences for 2016. Every taste & occasion is catered for: international eateries, romantic neighbourhood gems & celebrity big-hitters are all given engaging, in-depth coverage. Re-written from scratch every year, the Good Food Guide combines the findings of its experienced, anonymous inspectors with reviews from thousands of loyal readers, giving a uniquely detailed & unbiased insight into UK dining today. With The Good Food Guide`s help, you can navigate new towns like a local, hunt out the very best food on your doorstep & discover the movers & shakers shaping the nation`s eating habits for the future.* Entertaining reviews with prices, maps & contact details* Notes on exceptional wine, vegetarian menus & keen prices* GBP50 worth of money-off vouchers The Good Food Guide`s inspectors dine anonymously & pay for every meal. Their reports are combined with feedback from thousands of readers to create the guide`s authoritative, honest reviews. ...

Take a tour around Great Britain with Rose Prince as she seeks out the best independent food producers & the most delicious fare on the market. Whether you're looking for the tastiest smoked salmon, old-fashioned handmade Scotch eggs, quirky marmalades or the first asparagus of the season, Rose has it covered. From farm shops to food markets, to delis, producers, pick-your-owns & websites, this book highlights the extraordinary people who go the extra mile to make something remarkable to eat. If you are passionate about delicious food, & love shopping for it, The Good Produce Guide 2011 will be an indispensible handbook. ...

Create sweet sentiments or whimsical wishes using this mix&- match flipbook of classic fortune-telling components. Simply flip the pages to choose three elements that offer a heartfelt expression for a special moment (” On the eve of a wedding/the sweet song of love/ will shine joy upon you”). Flip again & the perfect phrase for any occasion is ready to be written on h&-cut fortunes & inserted into delicious homemade fortune cookies. Also included are both Basic & Chocolate Fortune Cookie recipes with flavour variations, along with cookie folding instructions & decoration ideas. ...

Twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement, although Northern Irish politics has avoided returning to the bloodshed of the Troubles, by every other metric it has objectively failed. The botched parliament at Stormont lumbers from crisis to crisis & has scarcely passed any laws. At the time of writing, Sinn Fein & the DUP are refusing to share power & Northern Ireland is facing being run directly from London. This remarkable book examines power-sharing & the peace process in Northern Ireland on the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement & asks what it has achieved beyond an end to violence. She concludes that, although it brought an end to violent blood shed on Northern Ireland`s streets, it also failed to create healthy & functional politics. The Good Friday Agreement served an important purpose in 1998, but has since been out-paced by local & global politics. It is no longer fit to facilitate the peaceful politics it made possible, as the current collapse of power-sharing sadly shows. ...

Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable
- streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high explosive. But amongst the ruins Berliners survive, including some he knew &, miraculously, his lost love, Lena. However, in the same way she refused to leave with him before the war, Lena won`t join him now without finding her husband & Emil has disappeared from the safe care of the Americans who, turning a blind eye to his links with Hitler, want his expertise as a rocket designer for themselves. Trawling through the shambles of the city, through the illegal night clubs & the thriving black market, Jake discovers that the twilight war of intrigue between west & east has already begun & that he could quite easily be one of its first casualties. This superb novel from the author of Leaving Berlin is now rightly considered a modern classic.
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