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Are you ever stuck for a fascinating new dish to try? This amazing cookbook contains 365 regional dishes from around the world - one for every day of the year. From Egyptian Cabbage to Scotch Scones and French Spiced Venison, this amazing list of recipes will have you trying new foods in no time! Each recipe is presented in a simple way, with easy-to-understand instructions. This edition has been specially formatted for today's e-readers.
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This anthology contains eighty fantastic poems, some of which won awards with national and international poetry competitions. They include poems of comedy, drama, history, love and romance, despair and joy, death, reflection as well as self-belief. It is an anthology of real treasure aimed at inducing the maximum pleasure for readers by a poetic master.
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Lee's first love was always poetry, though he was only moderately successful as a poet. Lee's first poem appeared in The Sunday Referee in 1934. Another poem was published in Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine in 1940 and his first volume of poems, The Sun My Monument, was launched in 1944. This was followed by The Bloom of Candles (1947) and My Many-coated Man (1955). Several poems written in the early 1940s reflect the atmosphere of the war, but...
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Friday marks the end of Valerie Bell's busy working week. It is a day when she can unwind with a plate of fish and chips and peas, followed by apple pie. In this book of poetry, Valerie celebrates life's simple pleasures as well as its setbacks; its humour as well as its sadness. There is also a cautionary tale told in the rhyme Santa's Dilemma which has a moral for us all to ponder on. Santa has been feeling the strain of his great responsibility...
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G.K. Chesterton's "The Crimes of England" is his response to the Great War in which he holds his own nation to account - a move which might be considered risky. Except, of course, that most of the crimes he details turn out to be England's past alliances with and sympathies towards Germany in general and Prussia in particular. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces ambitiously takes on the task of explaining the continued popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective over the course of three centuries. In plays, films, TV shows, and other media, one generation after another has reimagined Holmes as a romantic hero, action hero, gentleman hero, recovering drug addict, weeping social crusader, high-functioning sociopath, and so on. In essence, Sherlock Holmes...
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On Thursday the 23rd of June 2016 the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland voted to leave the European Union after 43 years of membership. This excellent book guides the reader through what Brexit actually means, explaining everything from the history of the EU and the terminology being used through to a who's who of the key players around the negotiating table, verifiable facts and figures, interesting trivia about Europe...
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Travel back in time to ancient Pompeii with "The Last Days of Pompeii" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a captivating and thrilling historical novel. Immerse yourself in a tale of love, intrigue, and tragedy at the heart of a city on the verge of being buried by the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
In this enchanting narrative, you will meet Nydia, a blind slave with a tragic fate, Glaucus, a Roman nobleman, and Ione, a priestess of Isis. Their lives...
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Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too. Michael Eaude traces this history and its monuments: Roman Tarragona, celebrated by the poet Martial; Greek Empuries, lost for centuries beneath the sands; medieval Romanesque architecture...
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Down in the Dugouts is the second collection of poems from William A. Roberts. Though war and the worst of human behaviour are recurring themes throughout the book, they are counterbalanced by optimism, nature, beauty, hope and humour. With the author's ability to convey depth of feeling in a surprisingly short amount of time, this anthology is a true tour of the human condition.
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This book argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad's work speaks directly to us in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad's skepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping our history are important tools for understanding the political world in which we live. He is prepared to face a future where progress is not inevitable, where actions have unintended consequences, and where...
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Peer Confesses, Bishop Undresses, Torso Wrapped in Rug, Girl Guide Throttled, Baronet Bottled, J.P. Goes to Jug. Fleet Street is perhaps hardly a place you would associate with poetry, but when Ted Harriott and John Bull started asking around, they were surprised by how many 'closet poets' they unearthed among their newspaper colleagues. Some, like Michael Gabbert, John Pudney and Paul Dehn (from whose poem 'Gutter Press' this stanza is taken), found...
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Eagle's Pass is a collection of poems from Darinka Springer, offering the reader a wide and interesting range of both style and subject. From religious thoughts to observations on life, the author addresses both the mundane and the esoteric. Born in Slovenia in 1948 and moving to the United Kingdom in 1969, Darinka is a Londoner at heart.
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The usual suspects gather. The splendour of the natural world surrounding it cannot fail to inspire. Changing seasons bring varying outlooks. Whether in the wilderness or just looking upon the garden.
Family interactions feature in this collection, some from the view of a son, some of a father. Situations which may strike a chord with others.
The effort of keeping surplus weight off, especially after working hard to shift it, in the first place...
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Anna Claire has written these poems with older schoolchildren in mind, hoping they will encourage lively debate and reflection. Many of the poems are personal, and some are tragic but they are based on situations and circumstances that most of us encounter or face at some point during our lifetime.
Reflection enables us to respond to others with understanding, and perhaps with the benefit of doing so, we are better equipped to deal with that which...
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Donald Cameron is a keen walker with a love of nature and the outdoors. It is the Perthshire countryside that particularly inspires Donald to write poetry, with many of the offerings in this book resulting from that inspiration. However, you will also find poetic musings on subjects as deep as life, death and the human condition, alongside writings about such everyday things as dunking a biscuit and a child's fun with their sleigh.
Whether you...
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Welcome to my journey - an antidote for extreme delays and utter frustration, a book of poetry and verse aimed to amuse and entertain weary travellers. If you can read it, it's something you won't easily forget. The poems include Daisy White and the Saga of Captain Black about a pair of shire horses, The Alarm Cock which was made into an animated film and shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Gun Dog, Saturday Night at the Movies and many more. It's...
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