The Palm-Wine Drinkard is the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man & his search for his dead wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural & often terrifying beings
- among them the `complete gentleman` who returns his body parts to their owners, the insatiable `hungry-creature`, & his own pyromaniac son. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what TS Eliot described as a `creepy crawly imagination`, The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded as the seminal work of African literature.
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Enjoy more than 100 utterly delicious recipes from award-winning restaurant The Palomar, with dishes influenced by the rich cultures of Southern Spain, North Africa & the Levant. This debut cookbook

Includes:: recipes for the restaurant`s signature dishes, alongside recipes drawn from family tradition, mothers & grandmothers, from influences, encounters, places travelled to & places evoked by their flavours alone. Pulling on the traditions of the Mediterranean, The Palomar Cookbook is your guide to recreating the intense & evocative flavours of an exotic elsewhere in your own kitchen. With mezze dishes to share, sweet & savoury pastries, simple dishes for a quick fix & more complex dishes for a main meal, each recipe is both evocative & innovative, &
- first & foremost
- bursting with flavour. Chapters include: What`s in the cupboard? Essential ingredients & spice mixes The meal before the meal Spiced olives with rose petals & balsamic vinegar Velvet tomatoes Baba ganoush Raw beginnings Scallop carpaccio with ` Thai-bouleh` Kubenia Spring salad The main act Cauliflower steak with labneh & grated tomatoes Polenta Jerusalem-style Pork belly with ras el hanout Yael`s Kingdom Kubanah bread Tahini ice cream Jerusalem mess For those who want to kick back Drunken botanist Bishbash posh wash Sumac-ade PRAISE FOR THE PALOMAR ” Middle Eastern fireworks”
- Giles Coren, The Times ” Death-row dinner good”
- Grace Dent, Evening Standard ” Gorgeousness”
- Nigella Lawson






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A special edition of The Pan Book of Horror Stories reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan`s 70th anniversary. Over fifty years ago, Pan launched a series of books that were to delight & disgust
- sometimes even on the same page
- readers from across the world. From classics in the genre to scraping-the-barrel nastiness, the Pan Books of Horror had them all. This reissue of the very first Pan Book of Horror contains twenty-two terrifying tales of horror by a dazzling array of famous names
- including Peter Fleming, C.S. Forester, Bram Stoker, Angus Wilson, Noel Langley, Jack Finney & L.P. Hartley. Stories of the uncanny jostle with tales of the macabre, it is the perfect bedside book
- for those with nerves of steel!



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Panama Cruising Guide (5th Edition) is a newly updated version of The Panama Cruising Guide by Eric Bauhaus, which is a necessity for anyone planning to sail in Panama. Providing over 223 highly accurate charts in the Panama Cruising Guide, all surveyed by Eric with professional computer-aided surveying equipment, cannot be found anywhere else. The charts describe many beautiful & safe Panama anchorages that were previously uncharted & unknown. The tried & tested waypoints will let you sail the beautiful but reef-infested waters of Panama, like the San Blas Islands, lush tropical rivers & other areas with safety & ease.
Features:• Hundreds of color & aerial photos• Piloting instructions• Complete information on the Canal & more
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The most comprehensive guide written about the Caribbean & Pacific coasts of Panama. With 187 detailed chartlets ` The Panama Guide` travels through the 365 islands of San Blas, explores the protected bays of Bocas del Toro, the green shores of the Las Perlas achipelago, the rivers leading into the tropical forests as well as the Panama Canal. This book

Includes:: explicit piloting instructions, GPS waypoints, lists of navigational aids, local services, customs regulations & recommendations for on shore activities. A full colour section featuring Tom Zydler`s photography depicts the splendour & panorama of cruising in Panama.

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” You`ve only been here for a few days but you already know loads of people. You walk into people`s lives, just like that.” Gabriel is a stranger in a small Breton town. Nobody knows where he came from or why he`s here. Yet his small acts of kindness, & exceptional cooking, quickly earn him acceptance from the locals. His new friends grow fond of Gabriel, who seems as reserved & benign as the toy panda he wins at the funfair. But unlike Gabriel, the fluffy toy is not haunted by his past... ...

Invented in 1788, the panorama reached the height of its popularity at the time of the 1900 Universal Exhibition. Vast circular canvases installed in purpose-built rotundas were designed to be viewed from centrally placed platforms & attracted an admiring public. The aim was to produce a perfect illusion. Thus the relationship between viewer & ”reality” underwent a profound mutation, opening up a new logic according to which the world was transformed into a spectacle & images substituted for direct experience. This illustrated text examines the wide variety of panoramas in both the Old & New Worlds. Included among views of cities are Robert Baker`s ” View of Edinburgh” & Karl Friedrich Schinkel`s ” View of Palermo”, as well as depictions of Paris, Moscow, Jerusalem & Lima. Among historical themes, ” The History of the Century” & ” Battle of Moscow” proved especially popular. The author expands his subject to encompass the sister formats of diorama & cineorama. ...

Brian Blessed has a lifelong love of animals & over the years has rescued cats & dogs, horses & ponies, & even a very ungrateful fighting cock. All were characters in their own right, such as Jessie, a dog left languishing for a year at the local RSPCA, who ruled the entire household with a rod of iron, when she wasn`t out harassing the local vicar. Then there was Bodger, an abused terrier cross breed, who was nursed back to health by Brian & his wife, & Peppone, a stray cat & notorious thief, who was responsible for a crime epidemic in the Bagshot area. Most of all there was Misty, a soul mate & the first Jack Russell Brian met who didn`t take an instant dislike to him. Over the years Brian has encountered more exotic animals too, from Kali the black panther who had free run of his kitchen & the gentle boa constrictor Bo Bo who went for walks with him in Richmond Park to the female gorillas who found him incredibly attractive. Written with all of Brian`s ebullience, The Panther in My Kitchen is a laugh-out-loud, life-affirming book about the joy animals bring & why we should care for them. ...

What could be more simple than a pan`ino? Take some bread & butter, slice it through the middle & fill it. Seen in this way, the sandwich is almost an ”anti-cuisine”, a nomadic shortcut that allows for speed & little thought. But when Alessandro Frassica thinks about his pan`ino, he considers it in a different way, not as a shortcut, but as an instrument for telling stories, creating layers of tales right there between the bread & its butter. Because even if the sandwich is simple, it is not necessarily so easy to create. Alessandro searches for ingredients, & in the raw foods he finds people: producers of pecorino cheese from Benevento, anchovies from Cetara, `nduja spicy salami from Calabria. Then he studies the combinations, the consistencies & the temperature, because a pan`ino is not just a random object; savoury must be complemented by sweet; tapenade softens & provides moisture; bread should be warmed but not dried; thus the sandwich becomes a simple way of saying many excellent things, including finding a complexity of flavours that can thrill in just one bite. ...

From the publisher of Graeme Macrae Burnet`s His Bloody Project, the first in a new series of distinctive, standalone crime stories, each with a literary bent. In 1950s London, a literary agent finds fame when he secretly steals a young woman`s brilliant novel manuscript & publishes it under his own name, Lewis Carson. Two days after their meeting, the woman is found strangled on Peckham Rye Common: did Lewis purloin the manuscript as an act of callous opportunism, or as the spoils of a calculated murder? ...