This handy road atlas combines large scale mapping with an easy-to-carry format to make planning journeys - short or long - simple. As well as clear mapping at 4.2 miles to 1 inch, service stations and places of interest are all shown and you will also find urban area and city centre maps, an easy-to-use mileage chart and a clear index showing over 20,000 place names.
From tried and tested knock knock jokes to your favourite author’s funniest jokes, this bumper collection is sure to raise a smile! Children love reading joke books from cover to cover, and they’ll also never tire of trying their one-liners out on an adult audience… so be prepared to start laughing!
Lemony Snicket’s world famous saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to alarm and depress its ever-growing number of distressed fans! Here, the entire series - thirteen full length novels on 53 CDs - is read by Tim Curry, adding an even more dastardly and evil dimension to this already miserable tale. Lemony Snicket advises, “if you may be more comfortable getting a good night’s sleep, I suggest you should probably choose some other CDs to save yourself from a heapful of horror and woe”. This unique audio collection comes in a handy travel tin so you can take your sorrows with you, wherever you go.
Never before has there been a better excuse to update your home library with the complete works of Shakespeare. This stunning new edition, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, combines the very latest textual scholarship with illuminating insights into how Shakespeare’s plays were and are performed. With notes on each page, photographs and thought-provoking essays, this is a glorious edition of one of the world’s most important books.
This is a new edition of Madhur Jaffrey’s seminal cookery book. Completely redesigned and rephotographed, this is the essential reference book on Indian cuisine with chapters on meat, poultry, fish and vegetables as well as pulses, breads, rice, relishes, chutneys and pickles. Complete with comprehensive background information on ingredients and techniques, Madhur Jaffrey brings you Indian food at its very best.
Toby Buckland is the main presenter of BBC2’s Gardeners’ World. In this fully revised title, he offers a beginner’s guide to planting and caring for 50 of his favourite garden plants. Ideal for anyone who wants to introduce colour and seasonality to their garden, this accessible and practical book will make a very welcome gift for any keen amateur.
Newly reissued to support the Government’s focus on learning through synthetic phonics in primary schools, these delightful books will enthral, entertain and educate all young learners. Featuring Stephen Cartwright’s popular illustrations, the stories are designed to be shared with parent and child, encouraging new readers to begin to sound out the words as they go. Fun rhymes will help children to anticipate word endings, and entertaining tales with special fold-out pages will add to the enjoyment.
Ballymaloe is one of the world’s best cookery schools and Darina Allen, its co-founder and main teacher, is in a league of her own. Every student who has gone through her school has begged her to write down her recipes and ideas, and here they are in this definitive book, which has everything to inform you to become adventurous in the kitchen. Ballymaloe Cookery Course offers 1175 recipes, 370 variations and more than 100 basic skills - from making pastry to preserving lemons - and the simple instructions will inspire you to prepare and enjoy the art of fresh produce and fine food.
The companion volume to the hugely popular Grow Your Own Veg, Carol Klein - with her usual advice for growing all your favourite fruits plus less familiar ones such as lemons, figs, mulberries and cranberries. Her approach is environmentally friendly and easy, giving you all the help and confidence you need to succeed.
The new prseident - a mixed race Hawaiian with Kenyan and Kansan parents - has opened a window on 21st century America. His life touches and is touched by a sinking community of Chicago’s South Side. He challenges America’s racial discourse. He creates an argument for a different America. He wins a presidential election few thought possible. But this is not just the story of a single man. It is the story of a movement and of the people who drove the movement forward. It is a new American story that will cascade down the generations.