When seventeen-year-old Franz exchanges his home in the idyllic beauty of the Austrian lake district for the bustle of Vienna, his homesickness quickly dissolves amidst the thrum of the city. In his role as apprentice to the elderly tobacconist Otto Trsnyek, he will soon be supplying the great & good of Vienna with their newspapers & cigarettes. Among the regulars is a Professor Freud, whose predilection for cigars & occasional willingness to dispense romantic advice will forge a bond between him & young Franz. It is 1937. In a matter of months Germany will annex Austria & the storm that has been threatening to engulf the little tobacconist will descend, leaving the lives of Franz, Otto & Professor Freud irredeemably changed. In the tradition of novels such as Fred Uhlman`s classic Reunion, Bernhard Schlink`s The Reader & Rachel Seiffert`s The Dark Room, The Tobacconist tells a deeply moving story of ordinary lives profoundly affected by the Third Reich. ...

Japan, 1936. An old eccentric artist living with seven women has been found dead- in a room locked from the inside. His diaries reveal alchemy, astrology & a complicated plan to kill all seven women. Shortly afterwards, the plan is carried out: the women are found dismembered & buried across rural Japan. By 1979, these Tokyo Zodiac Murders have been obsessing a nation for decades, but not one of them has been solved. A mystery-obsessed illustrator & a talented astrologer set off around the country
- & you follow, carrying the enigma of the Zodiac murderer through madness, missed leads & magic tricks. You have all the clues, but can you solve the mystery before they do?
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In this wonderfully entertaining & enlightening book, food writer Jenny Linford traces the story of the tomato from its origins to the present day in seven feature spreads that look at topics including Varieties & Handling, Grow Your Own, Tomato Flavour Friends, Festivals, Meet the Growers, Saving Our Tomato Heritage & Preserving Tomatoes. Start with Small Bites with recipes for Cherry Tomato Bruschetta, Ginger Tomato Spare Ribs, Bloody Mary Prawn Cocktails & canapes such as Tomato Basil Granita, Tomato Tuna Empanadas & Plum Tomato Tartlets. Heartwarming Soups & Salads include Pappa al Pomodoro, Green Tomato Sorrel Soup, Tomato Tabbouleh, Fattoush & Panzanella; while Fish, Meat & Poultry as well as Vegetable Dishes are covered with Tuna Steaks with Miso-glazed Tomatoes, Chicken Cacciatore, Lamb Meatballs, Tunisian Baked Eggs, Provencal Stuffed Tomatoes & Tomato Tarka Dal. Plus there are Rice Dishes, Breads & Pastry & Sauces, Salsas & Preserves that make the most of this delicious & bountiful fruit. ...

In 1934 Norman Lewis & his Sicilian brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja set out on a journey to visit the cathedral in Seville, the site of the Corvaja family tomb. Spain is on the brink of civil war so the travellers embark on foot, walking a hundred miles, sleeping in caves & seeing parts of Spain no tourist had ever visited. Bullets fly around them in Madrid. They are forced to take a detour into Portugal, where they come across a village where a witch has recently been burnt at the stake. & when they finally find the Corvaja tomb, things are not quite what they expected. ...

It is satisfying, & entirely in keeping with the mischievous character of Norman Lewis, that his very last book, The Tomb in Seville, is also his first. For the extraordinary set of misadventures recounted in The Tomb of Seville were first described in Norman Lewis`s apprentice-work, Spanish Adventure, which he rightly refused to have re-issued in later life. In 1934 he travelled across the breadth of Spain into Morocco. The eve of the murderous civil war. He was acting as both friend & fellow-adventurer to his young brother-in-law, Eugene Corvaja, but also as minder, charged by his Sicilian father-in-law with keeping an eye on his son, who he knew to be a compassionate idealist easily attracted to left-wing causes. Norman, of course, had his own agenda, though the outward mission of this unlikely pair was to locate the tomb of the last Spanish Corvaja in the Cathedral of Seville. As an old man, he `twice distilled` these powerful lifelong memories to create a slim, sharpened text, with all the bite of a vintage Norman Lewis. Other Norman Lewis titles published by Eland: Jackdaw Cake, The Missionaries, Voices of the Old Sea, A View of The World, Naples` 44, Dragon Apparent, Golden Earth, The Honoured Society & The Empire of the East. ...

The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian King Tutankhamun [ Tut.ankh. Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter & the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with its nest of coffins & funerary shrines, surrounded by a mass of burial equipment arranged in three peripheral chambers. Published in 1923, this is the first volume of Carter`s trilogy, describing the years of frustration in search of the burial site, the triumph of its eventual discovery & the long, painstaking process of exploring & cataloguing its treasures. Containing over 100 images from the site itself, this volume also

Includes:: Carter`s short article, ` The Tomb of the Bird, ` which inadvertently spawned the legend of the great curse of Tutankhamun`s tomb.

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The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun [ Tut.ankh. Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter & the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with its nest of coffins & funerary shrines, surrounded by a mass of burial equipment arranged in three peripheral chambers. After the long search for the tomb & its initial discovery & excavation (volume 1), after the discovery of the king`s resting place & body (volume 2), the third & final volume of Howard Carter`s account sees him reach the treasury, full of the incredible riches that the Pharaoh had sort to take with him to the world beyond & which had seemed lost to time before Carter`s historic discovery. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, the book

Includes:: over 150 photographs of the treasury & its contents.

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The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun [ Tut.ankh. Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter & the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with its nest of coffins & funerary shrines, surrounded by a mass of burial equipment arranged in three peripheral chambers. Following on from the first volume`s account of the search for & initial discovery of the team, in the second volume Howard Carter recounts the discovery of the king`s burial chamber: the breakthrough to the four protective shrines, the revelation of the quartz-sandstone sarcophagus, the king`s three coffins (his own of pure gold) & the bejewelled mummy of the Pharaoh himself. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, the book

Includes:: over 150 photographs of the treasures that lay within the great burial chamber of Tutankhamun.

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The Tooth Fairy meets the Royal Family in this hilarious rhyming sequel to The Tooth Fairy`s Christmas from Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner Peter Bently & Garry Parsons, bestselling illustrator of The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas. The prince has lost his first tooth! He`s asleep in his bedroom in the palace... but the palace is enormous! Will the Tooth Fairy ever find him? & meanwhile can she help find another set of important royal teeth that have gone missing?! ...

The Top 500 Summits are the highest 500 mountains in Britain & Ireland with a drop of at least 500 feet on all sides. From the highest mountain on the list, Ben Nevis (4, 411ft) to the lowest, Knockanaffrin in Ireland (2, 477ft), this guide tells Barry`s personal journey over all 500 summits. Other walkers who have shared in some of Barry`s adventures contribute to this unique book. The 500 summits comprise 430 in Scotl&, 29 in Irel&, 21in Wales & 20 in Engl&. Anyone climbing all of them will almost certainly have completed the Scottish Munros & Corbetts. A record of anyone completing the 500 summits will be kept on the website where 2walk. This book contains a fabulous collection of photographs. It will provide interesting & entertaining reading for regular hill walkers as well as the many thousands of people who go walking in the mountains of the British Isles on an occasional basis. Part coffee-table guidebook & part personal account, this is a book for anyone who loves the mountains of Engl&, Irel&, Scotland & Wales. ...