` Once you started anything in Professor Branestawm`s house you never knew when it might finish or even if it ever would` Poor Mrs Flittersnoop! It`s not easy being Professor Branestawm`s housekeeper. People may say he`s a genius, but all his inventions always make life more complicated, alarming & extraordinary than it was before. An innocent bottle of old cough mixture turns out to be an elixir that makes all the waste paper in the bin come to life, the burglar-catcher & the pancake-maker operate just a little too efficiently, & about the spring-cleaning machine, the less said the better. You could write a book about it, but nobody would believe it.

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Material: In the Backstory you can find out about accidental inventions that changed our lives & try a few experiments of your own! Vintage Children`s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds & the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book & Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.



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The mouth-watering new book from acclaimed author illustrator, Oliver Jeffers. Henry loves books...but not like you & I. He loves to EAT books! This exciting story follows the trials & tribulations of a boy with a voracious appetite for books. Henry discovers his unusual taste by mistake one day, & is soon swept up in his new-found passion
- gorging on every delicious book in sight! & better still, he realises that the more books he eats, the smarter he gets. Henry dreams of becoming the Incredible Book Eating Boy; the smartest boy in the world! But a book-eating diet isn`t the healthiest of habits, as Henry soon finds out...
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It`s time to peek inside the world`s most famous museums. Welcome to Lonely Planet Kids` Incredible Cabinet of Wonders
- the greatest
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Prince`s College, Cambridge, is a peaceful & scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master`s daughter. Spirited, beautiful, & thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman. One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days` hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard
- who is pursuing a quarry of his own. Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge. It falls to Prudence to unravel the identity of the smugglers
- who may be forced to kill, to protect their secret.

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Holly is off on her first international Dadventure! Dad`s taking Holly on one of his travel-writing trips
- to Malaysia! Holly
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January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy
- eccentric, charismatic & considered the greatest British mathematician of his age
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In 1895/6 the sixty-year-old Mark Twain set off on a worldwide lecture tour to pay off his debts from a publishing company bankruptcy, notes from which a year later became his final travel book Following the Equator. Two years later he wrote, ` How I did loathe that journey around the world! except the sea-part & India.` Although he was only in India for just over two of the twelve months, his exploits & observations there take up forty per cent of the book-and by common consent are by far the best & liveliest part of it. In The Indian Equator the Mark Twain travel trilogist Ian Strathcarron, his wife & photographer Gillian & his factota Sita follow in his mentor`s footsteps, train tracks & boat wakes tracing the route that Twain, his wife Livy, his daughter Clara, his manager Smythe & his bearer Satan took as they crisscrossed the sub-continent. Leaving from the Bombay that was & the Mumbai that is, both writers follow the lecture circuit of old India--including what is now Pakistan--across the plains & cities of the north up to the peaks of the Himalayas by way of Baroda, Jaipur, Delhi, Agra, Lucknow, Benares/ Varanasi, Calcutta/ Kolkata, Darjeeling, Lahore & Rawalpindi. Staying in the same Raj clubs, travelling down the same train lines, meeting the high & mighty & the downtrodden & destitute, Twain & Strathcarron are absorbed by an India that then was & now is `not for the faint of heart nor mild of spirit nor weak of mind nor dull of sense nor correct of politic`; a rapidly changing yet still deeply traditional society where `a few hundred million have grabbed the twenty-first century by the whiskers & many more hundred million still tuck the nineteenth century into bed at night`. Mark Twain loved the India of 1896; like his trilogist, he would love it still. ...

A feast for the eyes as well as the mind, this is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of the mouth-watering ingredients used in Indian cooking. Monisha Bharadwaj shares the secrets of Indian cuisine & celebrates variety & ingenuity. From asafoetida to walnuts, each of 100 ingredients is explored giving useful advice about its appearance & taste, how it grows, how to store it &, of course, its culinary uses, complemented with over 200 classic Indian dishes. Every ingredient is a vivid insight into India's great & colourful traditions, from the earthy, creamy lentil dishes & yogurt-based marinades in North Indian cooking to the rice, coconut & curry leaves that are the famous staples of the South. Including tips on how to balance hot, sweet & sour flavours, how to cook spices so that they achieve their full-bodied, almost nutty-tasting flavour & explanations for why it is so essential to brown onions to a deep russet colour, The Indian Kitchen will bring rich & heady flavours into the heart of every home. ...

Indian Slow Cooker helps you to create authentic Indian food with over 60 delicious, fuss-free recipes that can be prepared ...

The Indian Spa achieves that rare combination of photographic indulgence with authoritative coverage of Indian wellness therapies in their entirety. As people turn to the spa for health, relaxation & rejuvenation, interest in India & its wellness traditions grows & this new book illustrates how these centuries-old practices are relevant in today's world. All of the subcontinents healing traditions Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani & traditional Tibetan medicine are covered, alongside the related practices of yoga & meditation & numerous forms of herbal & beauty treatments. Lavishly illustrated with over 550 new, full colour photographs, the book offers the reader an insight into the sheer luxury of the worlds leading retreats & their facilities, as well as comprehensive chapters on the various therapies offered in India & overseas (many never photographed before). Details on natural products & key botanicals as well as an overview of related cultural practices like astrology, dance & martial arts ensures this book is a treasure trove of information & inspiration for spa goers worldwide. ...