Bob Flowerdew offers expert advice, beginning with demonstrating how to achieve a more continuous crop and then stepping into the kitchen to show you how to preserve and cook your inevitable glut by bottling, drying, jamming, smoking and storing. With ingenious ideas that will inspire you to get back out into the veggie patch, this is a book for all year round.
Whether you’re growing your own veg or are just trying to eat more healthily, this book of recipes shows that vegetable-based dishes can be lip-smackingly tasty as well as good for you. With recipes for starters, main courses and salads, all illustrated with lovely photos, this book is a deliciously healthy delight.
This exciting new series reflects the current shift in emphasis towards contextualised learning. Here, ideas are placed within the context of real-life scenarios, which are introduced by four humorous characters to make the topics both relevant and memorable. In this way, key ideas in Geography, History, English, Maths and Science are explored and revision spreads are offered to ensure the subjects are being properly absorbed.
As a young child, Lydia endured a cruel and loveless childhood. Years later, she has found peace and fulfilment in the beautiful city of Venice, until one day Lydia glimpes a young man’s face in the crowd that threatens to bring back reminders of a dreadful secret. Lydia is forced to return to England to face her past, and maybe her future… Compelling and heartbreaking, capitvating and beautfully written, this three book set offers a brilliant introduction to the bittersweet novels of Erica James.
These stories of derring-do on the battlefields of the Napoleonic War have deservedly become classics of the boy’s own genre. Featuring a hero who is as devastating to women as he is fearsome to his opponents, Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels are fast-moving, full of wit and always historically accurate. This barnstorming 12-book set follows Sharpe from skirmishes in India at the side of the Duke of Wellington to Portugal, where he comes across a prickly English governess, giving the reader barely a chance to pause for breath!
Lion, Rabbit, Mouse, Tiger and Shark make tooth-brushing fun with this fabulous novelty book. The innovative format is perfect for sharing and learning with your child. Simply stand the book up and flip over the pages while brushing along with your animal friends. The wipe-clean cover is designed to protect against splashes and a mirror allows children to watch themselves as they brush.
Learning about vehicles has never been so much fun… Each book features a lively rhyming text and bright pictures. A picture dictionary at the back helps build vocabulary while the audio CD allows children to listen to the story and follow along with the page-turning cues.
This brand new maths dictionary is full of clear, straightforward explanations of the key terms and concepts of Key Stage 2 and beyond. Accompanied by bright illustrations, each concept is explained alongside worked examples of alternative methods as well as hints, tips, strategies and shortcuts. Ideal for young students, this book will also prove invaluable to stuck parents!
Secrets of the Lost Symbol builds upon the expertise and wisdom of Nobel Prize-winning scientists, historians, technologists and conspiracy theorists to help readers fully understand the mysteries behind the Lost Symbol. Featuring extracts, interviews and specially commissioned commentary, this fascinating guide presents a wealth of information behind Dan Brown’s bestselling novel.
Themed around the major landmarks of a baby’s first year, each page in this charming scrapbook features a beautifully illustrated background and spaces in which to write memories and stick in mementoes such as photographs and drawings. The scrapbook also features four pages of stickers to help you create a work of art you’ll treasure forever.