12 Food and Drink
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.
£6.99 NOW £3
70210 THE SILVER EAGLE by Ben Kane
Kane reveals Ancient Rome in the raw. The forgotten legions fought against almighty odds at the very edge of the known world - and lost. Now Brennus the Gaul, Tarquinius the Etruscan soothsayer and Romulus, bastard son of a Roman nobleman, are prisoners of Parthia. But only two will survive. Meanwhile Fabiola, Romulus’s twin sister, is caught up in the vicious
eddies of Roman politics. Hunted by slave catchers, she flees, hoping to find her lover Brutus, bound for Alexandria with Caesar. Caesar and the Roman Republic hurtle towards their day of reckoning. 629pp in paperback.
£6.99 NOW £3
70214 UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN by Robert Radcliffe
The story of an American bomber crew stationed in Suffolk in 1943 and the way their lives intertwine with those of English folk on the ground, their British hopes and counterparts. Radcliffe provides an authentic sense of how terrifying it must have been to be at the controls of a Flying Fortress over Nazi-occupied Germany in broad daylight before there was sufficient fighter protection. Humour and pathos are blended. 440pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50
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 £3.75
70389 SALMON FISHING IN 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
70409 FEAST OF THE GOAT by Mario Vargas Llosa
A fierce, edgy thriller written by the Nobel Prize Winner. Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, 49 year old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorised a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans called the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In his gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life but his grasp is slipping and there is a conspiracy against him - a Machiavellian revolution already under way that will have bloody consequences of its own. 404pp in paperback. $16 NOW £3.50
70569 THE KING’S SECRET
MATTER by Jean Plaidy First published in 1962, this is a welcome reprint of the historical novelist’s work which blends romance and drama. After 12 years of marriage, the once fortuitous union of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon has declined into a loveless stalemate. Their only child Mary is disregarded as a suitable heir, and Henry’s need for a legitimate son to protect the Tudor
throne has turned him into a callous and greatly feared ruler. When the young and intriguing Anne Boleyn arrives from the French court, Henry is easily captivated by her dark beauty and bold spirit. But his desire to possess the wily girl leads to a deadly struggle of power that promises to tear apart the lives of Katherine and Mary and forever change England’s faith. With all the colour and detail of life at the courts of Greenwich and Hampton Court. 412pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3
70699 A DREAM IN POLAR FOG by Yuri
Rytkheu translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse Rytkheu brings the majestic, inhospitable Arctic to life in a moving story of cultures in collision, and sometimes in accord, in the far north. It is 1910. When ice traps John MacLennan’s ship in the Bering Strait, the youthful sailor, whilst trying to widen a small fissure with dynamite, blows up his hands. His captain hires several local Chukchi men to take him by dogsled to a Russian doctor and vows that the ship will wait for his safe return. But gangrene sets in, and John’s hands have to be amputated by a local medicine woman. Then strong winds break the ice shelf and his ship sails off without him. He gradually learns to adapt to his handicap, and to the Chukchi way of life, finding friendship and love among his hosts. 334 paperback pages. £8.99 NOW £3
FOOD AND DRINK
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
70982 LEN DEIGHTON’S FRENCH COOKING FOR MEN: by Len Deighton
Egon Ronay eulogises about this most unusual and helpful book thus: ‘The stuff that Len Deighton
conjures up so enticingly is what food enthusiasts’ dreams are made of. Its bedrock is knowledge: his beginnings in professional kitchens in France are only too clear…’ Considering that readers probably know Deighton as the author of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, as well as many other books of fiction and non- fiction, this may be surprising, but his mother was a professional cook and he has always been passionate about cooking. He devised his famous cookstrips as sketch-notes for pinning up in the kitchen. In this delicious book, just 50 strips, some illustrating a technique, others a process or a category of dish, enable the cook to prepare about 500 French dishes. The reader is shown not just how to make sauce hollandaise but how a hollandaise is changed into a béarnaise or a mousseline. This is not so much a cookbook as an entire system for understanding French cooking. Watercress Soup, Duck with Turnips, Escargots or Baba au Rhum, anyone? Dead simple with this all-encompassing book. Completely redesigned and updated edition. 252 pocket- sized pages lavishly illus. £9.99 NOW £5
70962 THE PERFECT EGG:
And Other Secrets by Aldo Buzzi
‘To eat is human, to digest divine’ writes the author of this highly idiosyncratic, scholarly, playful and witty chat about food and meals. From Apicius to Michel Guérard, from Alexandre Dumas to Carlo Emilio Gadda and from the Curé de Bregnier to St Nikolaus von Flüe, here are recipes, curiosities, secrets of high- and low-brow cookery,
personal anecdotes and quotations from literature and history, all adding up to a most enjoyable tribute to the profound pleasures of food. Surely nothing can be more worthwhile than that! Here is the food that has obsessed, provoked and intrigued the author all through his life, together with many diversions into the highways and byways that sidetrack him even as he discusses delicious Rabbit and Polenta, Blanquette de Veau or the best way to flavour Vegetable Soup (with whisky would you believe?) 150 pocket-sized pages with 14 drawings by Saul Steinberg. £9.99 NOW £3.50
71323 HOT CAKES by Debbie Brown
We laughed and laughed here at Bibliophile at some of the devilishly clever and saucy cakes on offer. See the gorgeous frilled petticoats swirling around flashing sexy legs and underwear on the Wild West Dancers cupcakes! A cake with the ‘wow’ factor is the scantily dressed
blonde spread out provocatively in a magazine centrefold. Sumptuous gold and black lace panties, sexy stiletto heels, a nostalgic stars and stripes sweetheart, a pierced tongue, a builder’s bum, a sexy basque and the Last Night of Freedom cake with the groom trussed up on a lamppost and decorated with a roadside cone! 19 saucy and suggestive cakes with detailed instructions of exactly which equipment you will need, these are real artworks and these ideas can be adapted. With suppliers listed and detailed photography to show the way to a professional finish. 80pp, colour photos. ONLY £3.50
71341 A WINE MISCELLANY by Graham Harding A beautifully produced hardback, with very funny pen and ink illustrations and well designed pages. Whether seeking a Château Pétrus, a Château d’Yquem, or just a decent bottle of the local vins de pays, anyone intrigued or enchanted by wine and its varied delights will find our book the perfect accompaniment. Whether your
passion is claret, burgundy or champagne, Old World or New, or whether you are intrigued by the famous Mouton-Rothschild labels designed by leading artists or curious about wine favoured by Byron, Keats and Shakespeare’s Falstaff, you will find it in these sun- drenched pages. 176pp. £9.99 NOW £3
70424 TOP 100 CHEAP
EATS by Hilaire Walden 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,
Chicken Yakitori to Risotto with Minted Lettuce and Peas, Seared Squid Salad - 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. $9.95 NOW £2
70612 400 BEST EVER RECIPES - LOW FAT, FAT FREE by Anne Sheasby
Low-fat living is the option of choice for the health- conscious, and we now know that scrumptious eating does not depend on fat content but on a balance of tastes and textures, flavoured imaginatively with herbs, spices and mouthwatering essentials such as onions, garlic, honey and lemon. These 400 recipes do not
require you to hold back on the puddings, and the big selection of low-fat desserts includes Crunchy Gooseberry Crumble, Fruity Bread Pudding, Hot Plum Batter and Baked Blackberry Cheesecake. Cooked main courses cover many standard favourites, but the cooking methods are adapted to reduce the fat content, for instance Pan-fried Mediterranean Lamb, Mexican Beef Burgers, Greek Lamb Pie, Country Pork with Parsley Cobbler, and Turkey and Tomato Hot-Pot. Colour photos and comes with nutritional information and a calorie count. 512pp, softback. ONLY £6.50
70885 GLUTEN FREE
COOKING FOR HEALTH by Anne Sheasby
Subtitled Nutritional Advice and over 50 Tasty Recipes for Wheat- Free and Gluten-Free Eating.
You
no longer need to worry that the coeliacs in your family are not getting a balanced diet. Here are over 50 gluten-free recipes as well as 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. 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 x 31cm in tempting close-up colour with mail order suppliers. £8.99 NOW £6
69893 DIABETIC: Best Ever Recipes
by Jacqueline Bellefontaine Diabetes is having too much sugar (glucose) in your blood and there is no cure. It mainly comes from the digestion of starchy foods such as bread and potatoes and from sugar, sweets and cakes. If there is too little insulin in the body, glucose
builds up in the bloodstream and causes the classic symptoms of diabetes. If glucose is allowed to build up, long term complications arise. Here are delicious recipes lower in fat and sugar than traditional recipes for healthy snacks and drinks including Sangria, Strawberry and Banana Tofu Shake, Blueberry Yoghurt Smoothie, Crab Toasties, Cheesy Biscuit Nibbles, Banana Applejacks, Raspberry Custard Cups, Baked Apple, Marinated Lamb with White Bean Mash, Oven Baked Pork with Roasted Chilli Tomato Salsa, Tandoori Chicken, Salmon Steaks with Oriental Coleslaw, Moroccan Chicken Kebabs, Courgette and Tomato Bake, Smoked Fish Pâté, Pumpkin Risotto, Summer Vegetable Quiche, Butter Bean and Cumin Soup, and delicious breakfasts including Drop Pancakes with Orange and Strawberries and Porridge with Apple Puree. So yummy you would never know they were low fat. 256pp with over 300 colour photos. Paperback. £12.99 NOW £6
68742 SEASONAL SPANISH FOOD: 125 Simple Recipes Bring Home the Flavours of
Spain by José Pizarro and Vicky Bennison 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
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 £3.75
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
69241 HOW TO MAKE 240 DELICIOUS LITTLE CAKES
by Catherine Atkinson
This delectable collection includes coffee sponge drops, granola bars, blueberry muffins, cupcakes, sweets, candies, truffles, fudge - we cannot possibly choose from them all. Here are classic cakes, drop scones, filled pastries and decorated creations as well as a selection of savoury scones to serve with soups, salads and cheeses. Includes a breakdown of calories, fat and sodium. 129 large softback pages, 240 colour photos. ONLY £4.50
69246 SIMPLE HOME BAKING by Carole Clements
Over 70 recipes take you through the whole range of cakes, gateaux, pies, tarts, breads, biscuits, buns and pastries. So, whether you wish to bake a homely tea- time treat, a delicious fruit pie for dessert or a sumptuous chocolate layer cake for a dinner-party centrepiece, you will find the perfect recipe here. We just cannot choose between Devil’s Food Cake with Orange Frosting or
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Sachertorte or Toffee Meringue Bars - so we think we might make them all. 96 large softback pages, 300 colour photos. ONLY £3
69250 PERFECT PARTY
FOOD by Bridget Jones Nibbles, finger food and light bites include Avocado Salsa, Crisp Fried Crab Claws, Quesadillas, Stilton Croquettes and Potato Wedges with Cheesy Dip. For brunches, lunches and fork suppers you might serve Smoked Fish and Asparagus Mousse, Turkey Croquettes, Chicken Fajitas or Leek Roulade,
while one-pot dishes include Fondue, Tempura, Paella and Mongolian Firepot. Dinner parties require smaller dishes on which you can really go to town. Desserts include Boston Banoffee Pie, Frozen Grand Marnier Soufflés or Chocolate Chestnut Roulade. 120 recipes, 650 step-by-step colour photos. 256pp, softback. ONLY £2.50
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
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.
£9.99 NOW £2.25
69787 ANDALUCIA: Taste of a Place by Vicky Bennison
Mercedes’ Granny’s Chicken Recipe (from Granada), Stewed Partridge or Rabbit, Chicken with Mint and Orange Juice, Roast Lamb with Honey and Almonds, Tripe and Chickpea Stew, Moorish Kebab, lovely vegetable recipes like Cauliflower with a Garlic and Vinegar Sauce or Spinach Jaén-Style, Flamenco Eggs, sherry in cooking, organic food, herbs and spices, shellfish, the famous charcuterie and quesos, Quince Jelly and delicious olive oil, this is a wonderful culinary tour of our favourite region of Spain. There is a tapas A- Z, shopping for food, wine, cheese, fine breads. Colour photos. 156pp, paperback. £12.99 NOW £3
69789 CRACKING FRENCH WINE by Hugh Baker
Clarette and Ugni Blanc, Cinsault, Grenache and Mourvèdre, Chardonnay, Muscat, Mauzac, Ondenc and Sauvignon Blanc, Sabagnin, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir, Gamay, Viognier - just the names sound delicious! This handy pocket sized book helps you explore French wines in a new way. Try new wines and varieties that are similar to the ones you already like. Discover the bargains that only experts or locals know about and have this knowledge at your fingertips when buying wine. 126pp.
£9.99 NOW £2.75
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. 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 £4
70056 HOW TO DRINK: From Mulled Cider to the First Pimm’s of Summer - the Indispensable
Guide to Good Living All Year Round by Victoria Moore
Unsnobbish and eclectic, here are crisp white wines, Sancerre and alternatives, recipes like Rosewater Fizz for lazy weekends, white port, tonic and salted almonds, Strawberry Daiquiri, a glass of Madeira, Pomegranate Fizz and cheesy biscuits. Organised by season, here are thirst-quenchers, all-night tipples and even quaffs to invigorate weekend cooks and gardeners. Moving through to the Winter season and Christmas is Coming with Christmas cocktails, Hot Drinks from the Stove, Ginger Wine and Whisky Mac, Cognac verses Armagnac. With five useful lists of alcohol free drinks and cheap but glamorous beverages. Line art. 340pp, softback. £12.99 NOW £3
70271 NEW COUNTRY COOK: A Twenty-First
Century Look at British Cuisine by J. C. Jeremy Hobson and Philip Watts The authors travelled through Britain looking for recipes that had been provided with a ‘lift’ and a ‘twist’ by imaginative chefs, restaurant managers, local producers and enthusiastic amateurs. There is, incidentally, a splendid recipe for Asparagus and Wild Garlic Risotto included here. Did you also know that you can very easily concoct Vegetarian Scotch Eggs that are just as delicious as the real thing? We highly recommend Herefordshire Fidget Pie. 224 pages 18cm x 25cm with over 80 close-up colour photos. £20 NOW £5
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