Beer is the most popular alcoholic drink on the planet, but few who enjoy it know much about how its four ingredients
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The Incredible Journey meets The Mouse & His Child, an enchanting tale that begs to be read aloud. The magical story of the adventures of a lost toy rabbit from a New York Times bestselling author, twice winner of the Newbery Medal. Abilene loves her blue china rabbit, but Edward Tulane is extremely vain & only loves himself. On a voyage from New York to London, Edward falls overboard & from there finds himself on an amazing journey. He travels with tramps, works as a scarecrow, comforts a dying child.. . & finally learns what it is to truly love. ...

The Mirror is one of the UK`s best-loved dinghies. This book teaches you how to sail & race one & how to get the best out of it. The Mirror dinghy is a British sailing icon & continues to evolve, keeping up with modern sailing technology & requirements. Written by the national UK Mirror Coach, this fully illustrated book covers everything you need to know including rigging, sailing theory & practice, reefing, launching & landing, capsizing, racing & transportation. It also

Includes:: four master classes which aim to get the reader to advanced racing standard. This is the only book you`ll ever need to sail your Mirror. Fully illustrated with step-by-step photography. It teaches everything from the essentials of sailing theory & rigging, through faster upwind & downwind sailing, to racing tactics & how to outsmart the opposition. Written by the National Mirror Coach

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The Mirror dinghy was a significant factor in the boom of dinghy sailing in the 1960s, introducing thousands to the delights of sailing. While sailing has come a long way since then & there have been a lot of far more exotic craft launched, the Mirror remains a fantastic boat in which to learn to sail & to compete at the highest levels. With this second edition, The Mirror Book has been bought into the Start to Finish series format alongside such revered books as The Laser Book & The Topper Book, The Catamaran Book & The Foiling Dinghy Book. Like these titles, this book tells you everything you need to know about sailing the Mirror (whether it be the original gaff-rigged boat or has the newer Bermuda rig). Written for both those starting out through to those striving to win a championship, the book is packed with practical advice & illustrated with step-by-step photographs. It covers: setting up the Mirror & early sailing experiences; developing skills on all points of sailing & with the spinnaker; racing & masterclasses to become a championship winner. Over 180 photographs show you exactly how it`s done, & 72 diagrams illustrate key boat parts, the different points of sailing & complex on-the-water scenarios with clarity. It is written by Peter Aitken, formerly the UK National Mirror Coach, who has coached teams to win world championships in the Mirror, Cadet & 420 classes, & Tim Davison, a successful racer & author of countless books on sailing. The UK Mirror Class Association have contributed to this update & it is endorsed by Dave Wade, double Mirror National Champion, who says: ” Armed with this book, your understanding of Mirror sailing techniques will grow, & your results will improve. I thoroughly recommend it.” ...

When Joseph Conrad was discharged from the clipper Torrens in London during the summer of 1893, his seafaring career was over. He had travelled the world by then, risen in rank from apprentice to captain, survived shipwreck & turbulent seas. But after nineteen years afloat he longed for the l&, & wrote to his cousin of the `uniform grey of my existence`. Once ashore, however, vivid memories of his past life began to surface. While steam & internal combustion were changing maritime travel forever, Conrad started to reflect on the voyages he had made in the Golden Age of Sail, the people & ships he had known, the extraordinary communities whose lives, language & very nature were shaped by the swells & silences of the open ocean. The Mirror of the Sea is a personal meditation on the sea & its meanings by one of the twentieth century`s most important novelists. Our new edition is illustrated with the seascapes & deck scenes of the artist-sailor John Everett, who Conrad wanted to work with on an illustrated edition of The Mirror & the Sea in the 1920s.` The great thing, ` Conrad wrote in 1923, `is to make the book like art-production
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- not a shop article.` Nothing came of the project with John Everett at the time; Little Toller has resurrected this lost notion of a collaboration between the writer & the artist.

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It all starts, as these things sometimes do, with a dead man. He was a neighbour, not someone Abby knew well, but still, finding a body when you only came over to borrow a tin of tomatoes, that comes as a bit of a shock. At least, it should. & now she can`t shake the feeling that if she hadn`t gone into Simon`s flat, if she`d had her normal Wednesday night instead, then none of what happened next would have happened. & she would never have met Melody Black.. . Wild & witty, searing & true, THE MIRROR WORLD OF MELODY BLACK is about the fine line that separates normal from not
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Louisiana is the setting for this riveting tale of a kidnapped child & the man on her trail
- Sam Simoneaux, who feels honour-bound
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` The Missing has a delicious sense of foreboding from the first page, luring us into the heart of a family with terrible secrets & making us wait, with pounding hearts for the final, agonizing twist. Loved it` Fiona Barton, Author of THE WIDOW You love your family. They make you feel safe. You trust them. But should you...? `A twisty-turny psychological thriller.. . Well-written, pacy & gripping` Fabulous When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, his mother, Claire, blames herself. She`s not the only one. There isn`t a single member of Billy`s family that doesn`t feel guilty. But the Wilkinsons are so used to keeping secrets from one another that it isn`t until six months later, after an appeal for information goes horribly wrong, that the truth begins to surface. Claire is sure of two things
- that Billy is still alive & that her friends & family had nothing to do with his disappearance. A mother`s instinct is never wrong. Or is it? Sometimes those closest to us are the ones with the most to hide...”I was grabbed by this book from the first page & read the ending with an open mouth.I wish I could unread it so that I could go back & discover it again. Brilliant!” Angela Marsons, Author of SILENT SCREAM
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Barbegazi are fabled creatures who live in the alps, rather like gnomes. Tessa knows that they exist because her beloved grandfather told her about them. So she sets out to prove to her family & friends that her grandfather wasn`t just a confused old man. Soon she finds not only a family of Barbegazi but also a dastardly plot to kidnap one & keep it captive. But Tessa realises that uncovering the truth carries great responsibilities
- & sometimes things have to remain a secret. The Missing Barbegazi is a delightful debut novel about the importance of family & the power of hope.
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`A captivating mystery at heart but also a poignant study of grief, loss & the unbreakable bonds of family... A triumph` Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little Lies A stunning debut thriller, The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana is a gripping novel full of twists & turns, & a desperate hunt to solve a decades-old mystery. Anna Flores was just a child when her adored teenage sister disappeared. Unable to deal with the pain, Anna took the first opportunity she had to run from her fractured family, eventually building a life for herself abroad. Now, thirty years on, her mother has died, & Anna must return home to sort through her possessions. In doing so, she has to confront the huge hole her sister`s disappearance left in their lives, leaving just one question unanswered: what really happened to Gabriella? Because not knowing is worse than the truth. Isn`t it? ...