Having kick-started the grow your own vegetable craze with her hugely popular TV programme, Carol Klein now returns to show you how to harvest and cook all that delicious veg you’ve been growing. Considering every stage in the process, she uses clear step-by-step photography and details how to use vegetables when they’re young or old and offers over 80 fresh and easy recipes to help you make the most of your vegetables.
Jane Austen’s romantic fiction has inspired some of the very best television and film drama. Packed with handsome and troubled heroes and beautiful and independant heroines, her novels are an absolute delight to read. This gorgeous collection features all six novels and will provide you with some very satisfying holiday reading this summer!
The philosophy of Nicky Hambleton-Jones’ is simple: all you need to change your life is belief in yourself and your dream, and the determination to get out of bed every day no matter how tough it gets! From losing weight and creating a personal style to reinvigorating your relationship and finding your dream job, this is a passionate book full of energy and inspiration to boost confidence and encourage dreams of success.
This little hardback (part of the Classic Cooking series), with it’s charming illustrations and innovative format, has a wonderfully classic feel. Within, the book is absolutely practical - offering over 100 recipes, simplified for the contemporary kitchen, but providing the traditional tastes and flavours of France. Irresistible once you pick it up, Classic French Cooking, along with the other books in the series, will make a delightful gift or you could simply treat yourself to all three!
Travel around the planet and back through the centuries in some of the most exciting travel adventures ever told. Here you’ll discover great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains and multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Beautifully repackaged in a stylish new livery, these epic tales are designed to help you see the world afresh and will open your eyes to a world in which so much was still to be discovered.
Dr Raj Persaud uses the latest research to explain how to increase your attractiveness generally and to become absolutely irresistible. In this fascinating trio he also examines the psycholgy involved in maintaining a healthy mental attitude in the face of seemingly endless pressure and utilising positive personal change to help realise your dreams. Authoritative, accessible and comprehensive these guides offer practical, down to earth advice.
If you want to mobilise your joints, enhance your fitness and improve your posture but don’t have the time, this great little fitness book provides fifteen minute exercise routines to help you get into good habits without having to go to a gym. Comes complete with clear step-by-step photos to show you the details of each exercise and a live-action DVD demonstrating each sequence.
Eva Ibbotson is one of the most acclaimed children’s authors writing today, and this three book set shows her at her dazzling best. Travel to the mysterious and exotic world of the Amazon rainforest in Journey to the River Sea; follow the story of an abandoned baby in The Star of Kazan and join the fun when the children at an unconventional boarding school visit a romantic royal kingdom in The Dragonfly Pool. A wonderful set for lovers of old-fashioned adventure!
Setting out to do for boys what Rainbow Fairies has done for girls (see page 8), the Beast Quest series features exciting adventure stories designed to grab the attention of boys used to the fast-paced excitement provided by computer games. An evil wizard, a massive spider king and a three-headed lion are just some of the beasts you’ll meet along the way. Each book includes four free collector cards, designed to swap and share and to encourage a playground acceptability of reading.
Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen’s husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged… Full of Maeve Binchy’s warmth and compassion, The Glass Lake is joined by another seven of her best-selling novels.