depends on the right weather conditions in the English Channel on the day of the D-Day landings. Will a team of Allied scientists be able to agree an accurate forecast five days in advance? A Scot, Wallace Ryman, has devised a system that could solve all the difficulties but he is a reclusive pacifist who stubbornly refuses to divulge his secrets. A young maths prodigy from the Met Office is sent to Scotland to uncover Ryman’s methodology, but events begin to spiral out of control. 352 paperback pages.
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70156 SOUTH RIDING by Winifred Holtby When Sarah Burton returns to her home town as head mistress, she is full of ambition, determined to inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in the aftermath of World War One, the country is in depression and ideals are hard won. Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall stands for everything Sarah despises - his family has farmed the South Riding for generations, its position uncontested. Yet Sarah cannot help but be drawn to this proud, haunted and almost ruined man. With a preface by Shirley Williams and an epitaph by Vera Brittain. 518pp. £8.99 NOW £3
70175 COBBLESTONE
HEROES by Ken McCoy When Susan, Jimmy and Billy Bairstow are found alive in their bombed home, they are nicknamed ‘the miracle children’. But losing their parents and having to live with their aunt Dorothy doesn’t feel very lucky especially when, unable to cope with all three children, Dorothy sends Billy to an orphanage. Susan and Jimmy are shocked and lonely, and when they hear that Billy has died,
they decide to run away. It is on this same adventure that they meet Freddie. Susan feels the first stirrings of love for the young serviceman, but chances are they will never meet again - Freddie is off to war. Susan and Jimmy reluctantly return to their aunt’s house, but there are silver linings in the clouds ahead, including their aunt’s revelation that Billy is alive. 289pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
70177 DENIAL by Peter James When actress Gloria Lamark takes her own life, her devoted son Thomas is broken hearted. How could her high-profile media-star psychiatrist have failed to save such a special person whom Thomas loved in such a very special way? Dr Tennent had a lesson to learn and a very painful one. Michael is caught up in the first flush of love, but has no idea how dangerous romance can be. For both Michael and Thomas will do anything for the women they love. 498pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
70180 EYE OF THE NEEDLE by Ken Follett His weapon is the stiletto, his codename The Needle. He is Hitler’s prize undercover agent, a cold and professional killer. In the week before D-day, the Allies are disguising their invasion plan with a phoney armada of ships and planes. The plan would be ruined if an enemy agent found out - and then The Needle does just that. Hunted by MI5, he leaves a murderous trail across Britain to awaiting U-Boat. But he hasn’t planned on encountering a remarkable young woman on a storm- battered island. A heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of war resting in the hands of a spymaster, his opponent and a brave woman. 464pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
70181 FORM LINE OF BATTLE by Alexander Kent
Gibraltar; the gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. As in the past, Britain will stand or fall by the fighting power of her fleet. For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities means a fresh command and the chance of action after long months of inactivity. However, his mission to support Lord Hood in the monarchist-inspired occupation of Toulon has gone awry. Bolitho and the crew of the Hyperion are trapped by the French near a dry Mediterranean island. The great ship of the line’s battered hull begins to groan as her sails snap in the hot wind. Set in June 1793. 358pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
70188 LACEYS OF
LIVERPOOL by Maureen Lee Alice Lacey couldn’t be more different from her sister-in-law, the bitter, ambitious Cora. And when both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in Liverpool in 1940, Cora’s jealousy and resentment prompt her into an action with the most far-reaching consequences. Alice’s own happiness is soured when her husband, disfigured in an accident,
turns against his family. As her marriage slowly begins to disintegrate, Alice looks for a life outside her home and decides to buy the tiny hairdresser’s where she works. But to do this, she must first borrow money from Cora. 389pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
70194 NEST OF SORROWS by Ruth Hamilton Kate Murray’s father had never forgiven her for being born a girl. Her elder sister Judith he had accepted - after all she was a pretty child and the next one would be a boy. But when Kate arrived, scrawny, red-haired, underweight, he was told there would be no more children, no son and heir, and from that moment his hatred of his younger child was born. Kate, growing up in a world of constant rejection, seeing the way her Lancashire ‘respectable poor’ family tried to hide the cracks of a bad and violent marriage, determined to find a life and a world where she was loved, was successful and where people were proud of her. 380pp in paperback.
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70364 FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen The story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom, about the beginning and ending of love, teenage lust, the unexpectedness of adult life, why we compete with our friends, how we betray those closest to us, and why things almost never work out as they ‘should’. It is a story about the human heart and what it leads us to do to ourselves and to each other. With acute observations and magnificent dialogue. 597pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £5
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THE YEMEN by Paul Torday When he is asked to become involved in a project to create a salmon river in the highlands of the Yemen, fisheries scientist Dr Alfred Jones rejects the idea as absurd. However, the proposal captures the eye of several senior British politicians and so Fred finds himself forced to set aside his research and figure out how to fly 10,000 salmon
to a desert country, and persuade them to swim there. What the sheikh wants, the sheikh gets and Harriet is there to make it happen. Dr Jones discovers much about himself as he falls in love. The stuffy formality of the civil service is gently lampooned. Complete with extracts from Peter Maxwell’s unpublished autobiography and other correspondence and a glossary of Arabic terms. 330pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4.50
70204 STONEHENGE: A Novel of 2000BC by Bernard Cornwell
A circle of chalk, a ring of stone, and a house of arches come to call the far gods home. One summer’s day a stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement. He is killed by one of the chief’s sons in the old temple. The mysterious treasure, assumed by some to be gift from the gods, causes great dissension within the tribe. Three brothers perceive it in a different way but they share one dream. Is it the third son, the man of peace, the lover of the sun bride, who will be the creator and the master-builder of the Temple of Shadows. Cornwell burrows into prehistory to answer the puzzle of why and by whom Stonehenge was built. 578pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
70206 TARA ROAD by Maeve Binchy Ria and Marilyn have never met. They live thousands of miles apart, one in a big warm Victorian house in Tara Road Dublin, the other in a modern open-plan house in New England. Two more unlikely friends would be hard to find - Ria’s life revolves around her family and friends, while Marilyn’s reserve is born of grief. But when each needs a place to escape to, a house exchange seems an ideal solution. Along with the borrowed houses come neighbours and friends, gossip and speculation as the women swap lives for the summer. 639pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
68694 DOG WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD by Alexander McCall Smith
On this visit to the residents of Corduroy Mansions, the charmingly crumbly mansion block in Pimlico, there is as much news as ever. Barbara Ragg, fearless literary agent, succumbs to romance and the charms of the Scottish Highlands whilst her colleague and rival Rupert Porter tracks a mysterious author through the halls of Fortnum & Mason. Dee, vitamin evangelist and retailer, hits upon a miracle cure with her Sudoku remedy. Freddy de la Hay, that most urbane and long-suffering Pimlico terrier, is enlisted as a secret agent by MI6 to spy upon suspect Russian businessmen. 312pp, line drawings. £16.99 NOW £4
68973 IMPORTANCE OF BEING SEVEN by Alexander McCall Smith
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Bertie never gets to seven years old in this sparkling addition to the 44 Scotland Street saga. Bertie’s mother Irene inflicted an intensive educational programme on him in the womb, with readings of Dante’s Divine Comedy and recordings of Beethoven’s Fifth, and his life is a constant struggle to break free of her expectations. His brother Ulysses bears a striking likeness to the psychotherapist Dr Hugo Fairbairn. Meanwhile the children’s teacher, Elspeth Harmony, is obliged to resign for pinching the insufferable Olive’s ear but is rescued by her boyfriend Matthew, who offers marriage and a red Aga cooker, thus revealing his higher social class. 311pp. £16.99 NOW £4.50
70208 THE GIRL FROM PENNY LANE by Katie Flynn
Young Kitty Drinkwater lives in Paradise Court, just off Burlington Street. Life is tough in Liverpool in the years after the First World War and Kitty is always hungry and dressed in rags. As the eldest child, she is the scapegoat for her feckless and drunken mother and dreams of a better life. Lilac Larkin’s prospects by contrast are very different - she is a beautiful, self-possessed young woman, and even when her pleasant job as a lady’s maid comes to an end and she starts work in a bag factory, she is sure that her life will be full of promise and excitement. When the two girls meet by chance in a millinery shop, neither can have any idea what changes in their lives the encounter will bring. 406pp in paperback.
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70202 SPITFIRE GIRLS by Carol Gould
Top-class pilots were crucial to the survival of Great Britain during the dark days of the Blitz, and playing a vital role in fending off the German attack was the women’s section of the Air Transport Auxiliary, a close and dedicated circle of female pilots. T5hese women risk their lives to ferry aircraft day and night from factory to the arena of war, and lasting friendships were born.
Together Edith Allan and her fellow pilots faced Nazi terror, class prejudices, and the forbidden romances of war time. The novel evokes all the drama of this extraordinary period and these brave women, without whom the Battle of Britain might never have been won. 612pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
70215 VIRGIN EARTH by Philippa Gregory By the author of ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ here is an utterly gripping novel. John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into civil war. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist Colony of Virginia in America. John’s plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers. For the Tradescants, through the upheavals of the Commonwealth and the Restoration, this means consolidating their reputations as the greatest gardeners in the country. 567pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
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70885 GLUTEN FREE COOKING FOR HEALTH by Anne Sheasby
Subtitled Nutritional Advice and over 50 Tasty Recipes for Wheat-Free and Gluten-Free Eating. With these step- by-step instructions, plus nutritional info for each recipe, no longer need you worry that the coeliacs in your family are not getting a balanced diet. Here are over 50 gluten-free recipes that are so delicious that the rest of the gang need not feel deprived, as well as essential info on following a gluten-free diet, shopping, cooking and eating out. There are excellent tips for basic stocks, sauces and dressings, and foolproof instructions on cooking gluten-free staples such as rice and polenta. Even cakes, breads and pastry can be enjoyed with impunity. And children receive special attention too, with advice and recipes to keep their packed lunches and birthday celebrations palatable. The book covers every course and includes popular everyday dishes such as Chicken and Leek Pie and Vegetable Moussaka, as well as special treats such as Thai Chicken or Braised Lamb with Apricots and Herby Dumplings. 96 pages 24cm by 31cm in tempting close-up colour with mail order suppliers and specialist organisations. £8.99 NOW £6
70424 TOP 100 CHEAP
EATS by Hilaire Walden It is possible to cook delicious, wholesome food inexpensively, and this book shows you how. 100 mouth-watering recipes. Spiced Lentil Patties, Souffléed Macaroni Cheese, Tagliatelle with Green Beans and Herbs, Baked Rigatoni alla Bolognese, Pork and Apple
Skewers, Pork Chops with Plum Sauce, Pasta with Bacon, Tomatoes and Chilli, Turkey with Garlic, Ginger and Sesame, Chicken Yakitori to Risotto with Minted Lettuce and Peas, Seared Squid Salad to Summer Berry Packages - recipes designed to please your palate and your wallet. Divided into starters, fish and seafood, meat and poultry, vegetarian and desserts. With prep time and serving numbers. 128pp in paperback, colour photos.
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66863 MY LIFE IN FRANCE by Julia Child When Julia Child first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband Paul, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dived into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever. Her unforgettable story unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a cook and writer and one of the most endearing American personalities of the last 50 years. Meryl Streep played her in the film Julie and Julia. 352pp in well illustrated paperback. $15 NOW £4.50
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68631 RALPH AYRES’ COOKERY BOOK introduced by Jane Jakeman
Ralph ‘Radolphus’ Ayres, Head Cook at New College, Oxford in the early 18th century, recorded in his Diary the contents of a meal he ate in a college in 1756, where the first course included Cod with Oysters, Ham, Fowls, Boiled Beef, Rabbits Smothered with Onions, Mutton, Veal Collops, Pork Griskins, Minced Pies and Roots (vegetables). For the second course were Roast Turkey, Haunch of Venison, a Brace of Woodcock, Snipes, Veal Olives, Trifle, Blancmange, Stewed Pippins and Preserved Quinces. Reproduced in this exquisite book presented in Ayres’ own handwriting with beautiful contemporary botanical drawings. 88 large pages, colour illus. First edition. £14.99 NOW £5
69723 HOW TO STORE YOUR HOME-GROWN PRODUCE
by John and Val Harrison Canning, pickling, jamming and so much more, here is how to keep your produce by drying, freezing, blanching it or storing it in oil. Here are the best ways to make chutneys from fruit, pickles from cucumbers, ciders, jams and even ketchup, how to dry, string and
keep onions from one season to the next and more. Learn how to bottle, freeze, dry and even salt home grown produce including artichokes, asparagus, aubergine, fennel, melons, peaches and pears, plums and potatoes, sweetcorn to whitecurrants. Colour photos. 186pp in paperback. $12.95 NOW £4
68742 SEASONAL SPANISH FOOD: 125 Simple Recipes Bring Home the Flavours of
Spain by José Pizarro and Vicky Bennison Think of Spanish ingredients and you conjure up some of the best products in the world: extra virgin olive oil, juicy tomatoes, spicy chorizo, jamón ibérico, fresh seafood, Manchego cheese, piquillo peppers and outstanding wine. Each recipe is simple in composition and easy to master. Spring brings an Artichoke and Sheep’s Cheese Salad. Enjoy autumn’s Cep Mushrooms with Shrimp and Serrano Ham and stay warm in winter by means of a Roast Duck with Quince Escabeche. Delicious. 240 large pages, colour. $32.95 NOW £4.50
69085 SEASONAL PRESERVES by Joanna Farrow
Preserves make wonderful accompaniments to many dishes and are perfect gifts for friends and family. Following detailed advice on choosing the right equipment and ingredients, the sweet and savoury recipes cover every kind of preserve for the whole of the year. The scrumptious recipes include favourites such as Chilli Tomato Chutney as well as the more adventurous Indian Lime Pickle, Aromatic Salt, and Cherry and Almond Ratafia. 160 pages, amazing close- up photos.
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69955 OLIVES: More Than 70 Delicious and Healthy Recipes by Avner Laskin
Olives enliven salads and vegetable dishes like Potato Gratin, enhance Mussels in a Caper Sauce and are featured in a superb Lamb Casserole or a delectable Beef Risotto. You
will also find it in Rye Bread, Turkish Pastries and Focaccia. Olives add flavour to puff pastry, paella, fish casseroles, stir fries to Estoussad Provençal (beef, wine, carrots and onions) or a lovely Baked Whole Sea Bass in Olive Sauce. Colour photos, 128 glossy pages in paperback.
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69108 GOURMET FOOD ON A BUDGET by Jason Atherton
Many of the 80 savoury recipes can be served either as a starter or a main dish. Tuck in to Braised Lamb with Aubergines or Grilled Sardines with Bacon, Basil and Tomato and enjoy your desserts of Yoghurt, Honey and Pistachios or White Chocolate Custard without feeling as if you are breaking the bank. 192 softback pages, luscious close-up colour photos. £14.99 NOW £3
69128 AGA EASY by Lucy Young The author is the bright new face of Aga cookery writing, after having worked for 16 years as assistant to Mary Berry. In the splendidly clear introduction are tips for use, from cold sheet to plain shelf and from cleaning to servicing, and the recipes include every kind of meal from brunch to stir-fries and from pasta to desserts. So get cooking on a Simple Salsa, or a mouth-watering Ruda Chicken Broth or, our favourite, Lush Strawberry Cheesecake. 191 large paperback pages, close-up colour photos.
£14.99 NOW £4 69131 BIG BOOK OF PASTA Your Complete
Guide to Cooking Perfect Pasta Every Time by Linda Doeser et al
We first learn all about the types of pasta, how to make it fresh, rolling and shaping fresh pasta and how to knock up the four basic sauces: tomato, ragù, béchamel and pesto, and the four essential stocks: beef, chicken, dish and vegetable. Then come the superbly and rather inspiringly photographed recipes. Arranged into Soups and Starters, Meat and Poultry, Fish and Seafood, Vegetarian and Filled and Baked, there are over 140. Salmon Lasagne Rolls and the Sicilian Linguine almost had us licking the pages! 320pp, 9"×11", colour. £20 NOW £4.50
69974 CRAZY WATER PICKLED LEMONS:
Enchanting Dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa
by Diana Henry and Jason Lowe
The Crazy Water is an Italian dish of sea bass poached in a salty, garlicky broth, cooked by the fishermen of the Amalfi coast. To the author,
certain dishes seem magical by being out of the ordinary, or bold in their simplicity or due to the apparent dissonance of their ingredients, such as Catalan Stuffed Chicken with Honey and Quince Allioli. Others appeal to her because the food is ‘marked with the decorativeness of the culture from which it comes’. Take, for instance, Breast of Duck with Pomegranate and Walnut Sauce or Lamb and Mint Pilaf with Turkish Cherry Hosaf. Stop playing it safe and be adventurous! 192 large pages with mouthwatering close-up photos. £15.99 NOW £5
69170 A TASTE OF DEVON by Stuart Adlington
Clotted cream is probably the most synonymous of all the foods associated with the county of Devon - rich, creamy and totally indulgent. Potted Devon Crabs, Seared Scallops with Black Pudding and Celeriac, Lobster Thermidor, Tandoori Spiced Salmon, Fisherman’s Pie, Exeter Stew with Herby Doughboys and White Pot (Baked Rice Pudding) are some of the other delights, not forgetting our favourite, Devonshire Clotted Cream Fudge! Simple recipes, 46pp, colour photos. £9.99 NOW £2.50
69171 A TASTE OF MIDLANDS by Stuart Adlington
From Lincolnshire Rarebit, Pork Pie, Stilton and Celery Soup, Venison Steaks and Damson Sauce, Faggots, Mushy Peas and Onion Gravy, Brummie Bacon Cakes, Chicken Tikka Masala and Pilau Rice, Roast Tamworth Pork with Pears and Perry, Lincolnshire Plum Pudding, Black Country Bread Pudding, Damson Cobbler to Branston Pickle, here is the Midlands, the Heart of England. Hand raised pork pies from Melton Mowbray, Lincolnshire sausages, Red Leicester Cheese and of course the spices from the Balti Triangle in Birmingham. 46pp, colour photos. £9.99 NOW £3
69877 GARLIC AND ONIONS: The Many Uses and Medicinal
Benefits by Margaret Briggs The venerable globe and the stinking rose! It is no surprise that the Ancient Egyptians worshipped the onion. The concentric rings encompass the Earth, life, everything they held dear. As well as that, onions provided a source of health, wealth and happiness. Garlic has so many compounds of benefit to our bodies packed inside each little clove that we cannot imagine how anyone gets through life without it. Admittedly, the odour of stale garlic
is something to be avoided, but this is a small price for the benefits and preventions from so many ailments. Now grown in over 175 countries, onions and garlic have inspired writers and thinkers and are associated with the supernatural and many legends. Here are delicious recipes for such classics as Chilli Con Carne and Boeuf Bourgignon, Hummous with Coriander and Pitta Bread, Tapenade, a paste of crushed olives and garlic, wonderful salad dressings, what to do with leeks and shallots, garlic festivals, anti-inflammatory and anti- bacterial effects and the C-Z of minerals and vitamins in alliums. 160 large, nicely laid out pages with some line art and charts. £6.99 NOW £3
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