A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner: A powerful & profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love. ” She is his Juliet & he is her Romeo, & her family has threatened to kill them both...” This is the heartrending account of Zakia & Mohammad Ali, a couple from opposing Islamic sects, who defying their society`s norms have left behind everything they know & are quite literally risking their lives for their love. She is a Sunni, he is a Shia, but as friends from childhood Zakia & Mohammad Ali could never have predicted that their love would anger their families so much that they would be forced to leave their homes finding refuge in the harsh terrain of the Afghani mountains. Without money or passports they rely on the kindness of strangers to house them for a couple of days at a time as they remain on the run, never deterred. New York Times journalist, Rod Nordl&, has chronicled the plight of the young lovers telling their extraordinary story of courage, perseverance & love in one of the world`s most troubled countries. This moving love story is told against the bigger backdrop of the horrific but widespread practices that women are subjected to in Afghanistan. ...

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner-an astonishingly powerful & profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women`s rights in the Muslim world.” She is his Juliet & he is her Romeo, & her family has threatened to kill them both...” This is the heartrending account of Zakia & Mohammad Ali, a couple from opposing Islamic sects, who defying their society`s norms have left behind everything they know & are quite literally risking their lives for their love. She is a Sunni, he is a Shia, but as friends from childhood Zakia & Mohammad Ali could never have predicted that their love would anger their families so much that they would be forced to leave their homes finding refuge in the harsh terrain of the Afghani mountains. Without money or passports they rely on the kindness of strangers to house them for a couple of days at a time as they remain on the run, never deterred. New York Times journalist, Rod Nordl&, has chronicled the plight of the young lovers telling their extraordinary story of courage, perseverance & love in one of the world`s most troubled countries. This moving love story is told against the bigger backdrop of the horrific but widespread practices that women are subjected to in Afghanistan. ...

This book offers a unique culinary slant on dinner a deux with fun & adventurous recipes that will help love to blossom, tease palates & arouse the senses...and make all the difference between a firecracker of an evening & a damp squib: Something to Slurp on
- get the juices flowing with a Basil Martini or a Bloody Mary with Clam Juice Nibbles & Tit-bits
- get down to some fun foreplay with Spiced Honey Almonds or Caviar Blini Shapely Veg
- get forking Asparagus with White Crab Meat or Pommes Sarladaises with Truffles Smooth & Slippery
- serve Milton`s Moules or Salmon Tikka Skewers with Dill & Pomegranate Raita for a boost in the bedroom Flesh
- wrap your mouth around Pot-roast Haunch of Venison & Beef Fillet, Ceps & Marsala Sauce The Spice of Life
- get hot & spicy with Saffron Roast Chicken or Paneer Chilli Getting Fruity
- with Pineapple & Pork Curry or Poached Quince with Mascarpone & Gorgonzola Cream Sweet Bits
- down & dirty desserts, from Chocolate Chilli Fondant to Raspberry Rose Puddin Read on & let Milton Crawford share his secret potions of love. ” Cooking is like love: It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” (Harriet van Horne).







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For fans of Apple Tree Yard & The Silent Wife, The Loving Husband draws readers into a marriage where nothing is as it seems... For better, for worse, to love & to cherish, till death us do part... Fran Hall & her husband Nathan have moved with their two children to a farmhouse on the edge of the Fens
- a chance to get away from London & have a fresh start. But when Fran wakes one night to find Nathan gone, she makes a devastating discovery. As questions about her husband & her relationships start to mount, Fran`s life begins to spiral out of control. What is she hiding from the police about her marriage, & does she really know the man she shared her bed with?
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” The Low Carbon Diet” is for all those out there who really want to save the planet (but just haven`t got round to it). It provides an easy-to-follow programme for individuals & families to cut down the carbon calories they consume at home, on the road & at play. If you only try one diet this year, make it this one. No preaching, no doom-mongering. Just practical, achievable, everyday actions that can make all the difference
- to your carbon weight, bank balance & fitness level. Not to mention the health of the only planet we have.
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A suitcase of stolen cash has brought three criminals together. One has a bullet in his side. One has blood on his hands. One has vengeance on his mind. Each has run from their past. Each will now fight for their future. A modern noir thriller, The Low Road highlights our desire to outrun our demons, & the dark consequences we face when we are forced to confront them. ...

Doe maar gewoon dan doe je gek genoeg Act normal, & that will be crazy enough Nine out of ten people in the Netherlands will"e this well-worn saying if asked to come up with a basic trait of the Dutch character. Expatriates who have been here for a while see it differently. For them, Dutch society is a weird & wonderful maze full of unpredictable people. At times Dutch people will ignore you politely; other times they will go out of their way to help you. You will get into trouble with the authorities for putting up a fence without permission but, in the late evenings, many family television channels broadcast pornography & advertisements for telephone sex into the privacy of your home. Even your best friends reach for their diaries to make a dinner date, because you don t just drop by without being invited. & when you buy them a present they will open it in front of you without batting an eyelid. A country & a people full of paradoxes. Or is there some kind of system behind it all? Han van der Horst paints a picture of Dutch society & the Dutch psyche that will help expatriates understand the country they are living in & will help them function properly at work & in their free time. The Low Sky Understanding the Dutch is the best guide to the Netherlands & its people. This latest edition has been completely reviewed & updated to do justice to the major social changes that have affected Dutch society in recent years.” ...

Manuel is growing up in Franco`s Spain. He adores his elder sister, María, & they are watched over by their mother, who enjoys reciting poetry, & their father, a construction worker with vertigo. Beyond the walls of the house, he encounters chatty hairdressers & priests, wolf hunters & monstrous carnival effigies. The community is still haunted by the civil war, yet Manuel`s world is changing. Coca-Cola opens a factory nearby & news arrives of men landing on the moon. This is a story about family, memory & the experiences that make us who we are. ...

Award-winning writer Paul Theroux draws upon personal experience of living in Malawi in his eye-opening novel, about one man`s return to an Africa he no longer recognises, ” The Lower River”. Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa
- & the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out & his business goes belly up, Ellis turns back to the one place in which he briefly found happiness. Yet returning to the village of Malabo shocks him. The school he built is a ruin. The people he remembers are poor, apathetic, hostile. The country labours as if under a great, invisible burden. However, Ellis is determined. This is his escape, a paradise regained. But escape can be a snare, a trap for the unwary...” The Lower River” is a hypnotic, compelling & brilliant return to a terrain no one has ever written better about than Paul Theroux: the tragic stage of modern Africa, AIDS-ravaged & despairing in the face of creeping consumerism, greed & dependence. ” Remarkable, admirable, riveting, heartbreaking. A masterly, moving portrait of how Africa ensnares & enchants”. (” Guardian”). ” Terrific writing. Theroux`s senses are always on full alert”. (” Evening Standard”). ” Powerful, vivid, shocking”. (” The Times”). ” Theroux invests this very 21st-century journey into the heart of ennui with a caustic bite, like the snakes that pop up throughout”. (” Metro”). ” The sense of menace is masterful. Theroux has never written a better novel”. (” Sunday Telegraph”). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people & places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels & collected short stories, ” My Other Life”, ” The Collected Stories”, ” My Secret History”, ” The Stranger at the Palazzo d` Oro”, ”A Dead Hand”, ” Millroy the Magician”, ” The Elephanta Suite”, ” Saint Jack”, ” The Consul`s File”, ” The Family Arsenal”, ” The Mosquito Coast”, & his works of non-fiction, including the iconic ” The Great Railway Bazaar” are available from Penguin.
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The lower Seine from Le Harve to Paris in a series of guides from Editions Grafocarte/ Editions de l` Ecluse to France’s canals & navigable waterways with mapping showing facilities & navigational hazards along each route, general information on signals & regulations, & descriptions of places of interest. Each guide provides mapping of the route showing locks, stop gates, mooring quays, tunnels, weirs, dangerous shoals, sand or mud banks, etc., as well as a wide range of facilities from drinking water & rubbish disposal to various types of shops, restaurants, pharmacies, shipyards & engine repair workshops, etc. The mapping is usually presented as vertical 28 x 8.5cm panels which, together with the annotations, occupy one whole page of the guide & so each cover 14km or more of the route. Also included as necessary are more detailed enlargements of main basins or photographs of bridges, shown usually as viewed from both directions. The text providing navigational information & tips as well as descriptions of places of interest & a general background are kept separate from the maps but, where possible, placed on the adjoining page to the relevant section of the route. The guides also provide general information on rules & regulations, plus illustrations of navigational signals. Each guide also has an index of locations along the route annotated with symbols indicating various facilities, accompanied where possible with contact details.* All of the text, explanations & the map legend are in French, English & German.** Please note:** The publishers’ name has changed from Editions Grafocarte to Editions de l’ Ecluse & the series name shown on each title is Fluviacarte or Navicarte depending on whether mapping of coastal waters is included. Various combinations of these names can be found"ed in other publications on French waterways. ...