Archive for February, 2009

Meena Pathak Celebrates Indian Cooking - Meena & Anjali Pathak

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

The 100 delicious recipes in this book are all easy to prepare and cook as well as being full of healthy ingredients. They are perfect dishes for entertaining, from casual get-togethers and barbecues to more elaborate celebratory dinners. The chapters include Snacks and Small Bites, Picnics and Barbecues, Classics, Special Occasions and Puddings and Desserts. In addition, throughout the book there are fascinating features, giving an insight into the history of Pathaks, as well as anecdotes and stories from Meena. Meena Pathak Celebrates Indian Cooking is a must for anyone who enjoys cooking with spices to create delicious, quick and easy dishes, from the authentic to the innovative.

Sidesplitters Collection - 10 Books

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

This brilliant collection of spooky, silly, disgusting and festive jokes is sure to have children in stitches. Each rib-tickling, side-splitting book features a vast array of groan-worthy humour and all illustrated with black-and-white cartoons. Boys and girls will love the silly humour and they can arm themselves with a vast collection of one-liners ready to entertain the entire family! Give the collection to a joke-hungry child or share them out and spread a little laughter!

Jack Frost Series - 3 Books - R.D.Wingfield

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Jack Frost, scruffy, insubordinate and fearless, staggers from crisis to crisis, his extraordinary powers of detection well disguised by a bumbling exterior. Here, the gruelling assortment of crimes he stumbles across include a young boy found dead in a rubbish heap and a well-known junkie whose corpse is found blocking the drain of a public lavatory. Possibly three of the best crime novels ever written!

How To Grow Fresh Air - Dr B.C Wolverton

Thursday, February 5th, 2009


Plants not only produce the oxygen that makes life possible, they add precious moisture and filter toxins too. Houseplants can perform these essential functions in your home or office and this guide not only shows you how to grow and nurture 50 different houseplants but rates each for it’s effectivness with different pollutants, ease of growth and maintenance.

Virginia Andrews - 10 Books

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving grandparents. Although her mother is dead and she has never met her mysterious father, Ruby is happy, especially when she finds love with the handsome Paul Tate. But Paul’s wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry, and when Ruby’s grandmother dies, she is forced to seek out her unknown father in his vast New Orleans mansion. There, in a house of lies, madness and cruel torment, a shameful deception comes to light, and Ruby must cling to her memories of Paul: for only their love can save her now… Virginia Andrews has been a best-selling phenomenon since the publication of her spellbinding classic, Flowers in the Attic. In this special offer there are two complete series, the captivating Landry Family series and the spine-tingling De Beers Family series… You’ll be utterly hooked by both!

The Sewing Book - Alison Smith

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009


Every home should have a copy of this beautifully illustrated book, the only guide to sewing you’ll need. Whether you’re an absolute beginner and need a little help replacing a button or you want to make the family budget stretch further by making your own clothes or soft furnishings, then this practical guide will hold your hand every step of the way.

Grow Your Own Veg - Carol Klein

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Carol Klein has collaborated with the Royal Horticultural Society to create this lavishly illustrated, easy-to-follow, practical and inspiring beginner’s handbook about everything anyone ever needs to know to grow vegetables, salads and herbs all year round, whatever the size of your garden. From preparing a plot, planning what to plant and how to grow any one of the 40 featured food plants, this is a book to which veg growers can return every year, whatever their level of expertise.

The Olivetti Chronicles - John Peel

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows pretty much defined popular culture as it emerged and shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers. His Radio 4 show, “Home Truths”, became required listening for millions. But all the while, Peel was also committing his laconic brilliance to paper, in articles and reviews for newspapers and magazines, his diaries and his letters.

Now for the first time, these writings have been brought together. Selected by his wife, Sheila, and his four children, these writings amount to a second autobiography, telling the John Peel story as it happened. From his earliest journalism - and, as Peel admitted in the original synopsis of his autobiography: ’starting with crap pieces (opportunities for hilarious quotes from same “clouds are poems written in the sky”)’, he also wrote contributions for “International Times”, “Oz”, “Gandalf’s Garden” and “Disc and Music Echo”, then “Sounds”, the “Observer”, the “Independent”, “Radio Times” and he was even briefly a correspondent for “Bike” magazine. Woven through these pieces are Peel’s diary entries, letters and personal reflections from his family who are the subject of so many of them. This extraordinary, hilarious and moving book is a reminder of just why John Peel remains a truly great Briton and how much we still miss him.