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74386 JAPANESE BIBLE by Fiona Hammond


The Japanese approach to food is eating fresh, simply and sparingly. Sushi and Sashimi, stocks and soups, vegetables and salads, noodle and rice dishes, grilled and fried dishes, simmered, steamed and one-pot dishes, desserts and sweets,


extras and special ingredients are all covered together with 120 delicious and stylish recipes. Careful preparation and presentation are of the utmost importance. With straightforward instructions in a beautifully designed softback with colour photos on every right hand page. 258pp. £5.99 NOW £2.50


74304 READ THE LABEL! by Richard Emerson A book which demystifies the science between the food label in simple everyday language. MSG, glazing agents used to make biscuits, cakes and sweets shiny, organic farming methods, pro and pre biotic foods, functional foods, rich source of vitamins, terms without agreed meanings like luxury, economy and value, the old rules and the new rules of labelling, coated products and fatty nuggets, rules for non pre-packaged foods, food allergies, unrefined peanut oil and more. 230pp, paperback, diagrams. £5.99 NOW £3


71618 OLD-FASHIONED HAND-MADE SWEET


SHOP RECIPE BOOK by Claire Ptak With over 450 mouthwatering colour photos, here are recipes for over 90 all-time favourites - pear drops, sherbet, humbugs, all kinds of toffees, caramels, marshmallows, nougats, truffles and fudges, butterscotch, candied fruits, loads of lovely chocs and, of course, sugar mice! Takes a look at the history of sugar and sweet-making, the chocolatier’s art, basic ingredients and techniques and the essential equipment. 160pp, 9½” x 11½”, colour photos. ONLY £5


71773 HALOGEN OVEN SECRET by Norma Miller


Anyone with a halogen oven will know it is miraculous and have rapidly risen to popularity because it can grill, defrost, bake, steam and roast, cook, brown and cook everything fast. Here are over 100 tried and tested tasty recipes from traditional Shepherd’s Pie, Toad in the Hole, Sweet and Sour Pork and Chicken Curry to Fish Kebabs with Mango Salsa, Mustard Sardines, Nutty Pork Meatballs in Chilli Tomato Sauce, Sticky Chicken Wings with Green Salsa to Roasted Pineapple Wedges, Crème Brûlée and even Viennese Whirls. 192pp in large softback, colour photos. £7.99 NOW £4


72833 MATTHEW BIGGS’S COMPLETE BOOK


OF VEGETABLES: Revised Edition by Matthew Biggs


Perfect for gardener, botanist and cook, and an essential guide to successful vegetable gardening for all, but it also contains 150 mouth-watering recipes. It covers over 90 vegetables, from familiar favourites such as lettuce, tomatoes and runner beans to the more exotic karela, doodhi, oriental mustard and wasabi. Enjoy Custard Marrow with Bacon and Cheese, the Carrot and Raisin Cake and the Gumbo. 280 pages 27cm by 23cm. Colour.


£16.99 NOW £4


74174 BOOZE CAKES: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine and Beer


by Krystina Castella and Terry Lee Stone ‘Classic’ booze cakes include salty-sweet Honey Spiced Beer Cake, Tropical Fruit Cake Cupcakes and for the perfect party snack, try bite-sized Long Island Iced Tea Cakes, decadent little Wine Tasting Cakes and every imaginable flavour of jelly cake shot. Our favourites are the Strawberry Margarita Cheesecake and the Mud Slide Cake. With ideas for Mocha Rum Frosting, Spiked Butter Cream, Spiked Whipped Cream, Meringues and more delicious home made treats. Colour, 144 page large softback. £13.99 NOW £4


74274 SIMPLE ESSENTIALS: Chocolate by Donna Hay


Elegant cloth-bound creamy chocolate coloured elegantly designed cookbook has beautiful typography and even more delicious full page colour close up photographs of Chocolate Panna Cotta, Simple Choc Hazelnut Layer Cake, Chocolate Cake with Orange Syrup, Melt-and- Mix Chocolate Coconut Cake, Espresso Cakes, Chocolate Friands, Lamingtons, White Chocolate Panforte and all manner of brownies, cookies, slices and bakes, sorbet, Tiramisu, Soufflé and Truffles. 94 big pages, 60 recipes. $19.95 NOW £5.50


71596 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: The Baking Book edited by Meike Beck


Featuring more than 400 delicious, sweet and savoury recipes, this baking compendium helps you prepare scrumptious scones for afternoon tea, elaborate cakes for special event or fresh cookies for the biscuit tin covering all the basic baking techniques as well as advanced methods such as pastry making, cake decorating and sugar crafts. From bread rolls to brioche, glazes to gateau, pizzas to pies, here are beautiful Mini Green Cupcakes, Clown Cake, Cherry Clafoutis, Pitta Bread, Pistachio Baklava, Summer Fruit Parcels to Steak and Kidney Pie and Orange and Chocolate Cheesecake. 352 page large hardback, colour photos. £25 NOW £5


72911 GOOD FOOD 101 PASTA AND


NOODLE DISHES by Jeni Wright Vegetarians are well catered for with dishes such as Conchiglie with Tomato Sauce, Tricolore Tagliatelle, Fusilli with Roasted Vegetables, Four-cheese Pasta Florentine, Spaghetti with Mascarpone and Rocket, and Storecupboard Minestrone. Meat eaters will be more than satisfied with Rigatoni Sausage Bake, Leek, Pea and Ham Pasta or Spaghetti with Chorizo. Nutritional information and calorie count. 215pp, paperback, colour photos.


£4.99 NOW £1.75


72904 CUPCAKES: Baking Kit by Igloo Books


Cupcakes can come in all shapes and sizes from fun kids Caterpillar, Skeleton and Bee Sting Cupcakes to Carrot Cupcakes and the more healthy Apple, Banana and good old Fairy Cakes. Each of the 48 recipes is printed on a sturdy postcard sized card with a colour photograph on the front and prep and cooking time and


how many cupcakes it will make with ingredients, decoration and method on the reverse. Includes a big wooden spoon, two sizes of paper cases, three nozzles and a piping bag, white plastic reusable egg separator and four measuring spoons. Colour. £14.99 NOW £3.50


GREAT BRITAIN


The most hazardous part of our exhibition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.


- Joseph Thomson 74844 PHILIP’S STREET


ATLAS OF LONDON by Philips


Central London atlas pages are shown at 7" to the mile and shown in red on the Key at the beginning covering Greater London, right from Golders Green to Dulwich, the Olympic Park at Stratford to Richmond. There are administrative


and postcode boundary maps and a key to symbols covering roads, tunnels, speed cameras, gates or barriers, parking and park and ride, junction names, pedestrianised areas, restricted access, congestion charge zones, woods and parklands, houses and important buildings, railways and undergrounds, ambulance, police and fire stations and places of worship. Plus one way streets, banned turns, car pounds, riverboat piers, markets, museums, galleries, schools, golf courses, tennis courts, football stadiums, universities, churches, post offices and more. With Central London bus route map at the back, in tiny print but very clear index, red satin bookmark and all this is in a tiny pocket sized elegant hardback with Union Jack cover design and elasticated fastener. £8.99 NOW £4.50


74628 HYTHE: A History by Martin Easdown and Linda Sage


An historic Cinque Port and seaside resort of great defensive interest and unusual charm, Hythe is a quintessential small English town. Its Golden Age was from the 11th to the 14th centuries when, along with the other Cinque Ports, it was responsible for the defence of this


most vulnerable corner of England. Unfortunately, the gradual silting of its harbour, coupled with a serious fire and a bad bout of the Plague, led to its decline in status but then, in the 19th century, it was re-invented as a military town during the Napoleonic threat. The School of Musketry was established there, the famous Royal Military Canal was dug, and Martello Towers were erected as defensive bastions. The canal remains an attractive asset that still runs right through the heart of the town. In recent years, the child-sized Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway has attracted thousands of travellers, as has the traffic-free High Street, with its fascinating mix of building periods and styles. 132 pages, b/w photos and hand-drawn maps of Hythe in 1684 and 1950. £15.99 NOW £4


74639 SOUTHSEA PAST by Sarah Quail


Using the wealth of original material in the collections of the City Council’s Museums and Records Service, the author explores the gripping history of Portsmouth’s seaside suburb, and discusses the challenges the resort has faced since 1945 and the demise of the traditional seaside holiday.


Southsea is not only a satellite of the premier naval port. It is also a sizeable residential suburb in its own right and, although facilities for sea bathing and enjoying marine views have existed since the mid-18th century, it developed originally as a middle-class out-lier of the old town and its original suburb of Portsea. Only later did Southsea develop as, and acquire the trappings of, a Victorian seaside attraction. As, towards the end of the 19th century, its growing potential as a money-spinner became self-evident, the successful ‘municipalisation’ of the resort began, culminating in the hey-day of ‘the gem of England’s Watering Places’ graphically described here. 132 pages lavishly illustrated with 150 photos in b/w, and maps.


£14.99 NOW £4 74642 WEST BRIDGFORD


PAST by Geoffrey Oldfield The last history of this town with an unusual past was written in 1914. Time, then, for a reappraisal which adds nearly a century of dramatic change to the town’s story, and chronicles its vigorous efforts to retain its unique identity. Originally, West Bridgford was an early Anglo- Saxon settlement and, until 1881


remained a small, agricultural village, setting it apart from other villages around Nottingham which, by then, had already grown into industrial districts and suburbs. Though less than two miles from the heart of Nottingham, it was separated from it by the River Trent,


with only a narrow medieval bridge for access. Most of the land was owned by John Musters who, when events finally persuaded him to permit development, took care to produce a purely residential area with no industry and with covenants controlling the type and size of houses. His constraints continued throughout the 20th century, ensuring a rather special town of 30,000 people, who have always regarded themselves as a very separate community and have resolutely resisted any attempt to change its character. Today, it is home both to Trent Bridge cricket ground, of Test Match fame, and to Nottingham Forest Football Club. Long may it continue to prosper. 132 pages lavishly illustrated with b/w photos, and maps. £14.99 NOW £4


74625 A HISTORY OF


PINNER by Patricia Clarke Pinner is one of the most attractive of the London suburban villages: a commuter town where people still know each other’s business and stop for a chat in the High Street. Situated between two rivers, the Pinn and the Yeading, it was a settlement, or at least a highway, from the earliest times, and Bronze and Iron Age artefacts have been


found there. In Saxon times Pinner was under the domination of nearby Harrow, ruled by King Offa of Mercia and also the redoubtable abbess Cwoenthryth. The Medieval period saw a struggle to free itself from Harrow, but not until the 19th century did Pinner’s St John’s church become an independent parish. Excitement bordering on frenzy occurred in the 16th century with reports of a witch living in the nearby Weald, and in the 17th century Pinner was the first parish to provide relief for the poor, although then as now, there were not many poor in Pinner. Several magnificent houses dominated the village in the 18th century, with Mr James and Lady Jane Brydges, related to the Duke of Chandos at nearby Canons Park, purchasing the elegant Pinner Hill House. During the 19th century working people became more prominent in the town, and archive photos from the Edwardian era and the twenties show half-timbered shops, green spaces, village sports and the Pinner-Middlesex drag hunt, with the War casting a long shadow. 216pp, archive photos. £16.99 NOW £5


71802 LOST LONDON by Richard Guard


London has been inhabited for 2,000 years. Here are buried rivers, demolished landmarks, long-shut tube stations, overgrown cemeteries, underground Roman streets, abandoned bunkers and tunnels, demolished churches and long-defunct pleasures - places like the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Discover masquerades at Ranelagh


Gardens, Chelsea, decapitated heads displayed on London Bridge, the illicit Horn Fair at Charlton, marriages at Fleet, Chippendale’s workshop at Covent Garden, the Chelsea Bun House, Bartholomew Fair and the first art book shop on the Strand. Woodcuts, 192pp. £9.99 NOW £5


74314 WIT AND WISDOM OF LONDON by J. B. Edwards


The quotes in this endlessly entertaining book capture the delights as well as the horrors of London. The Thames is no longer the ‘Stygian pool reeking with ineffable and unbearable horror’ of which Disraeli spoke in the 19th century. From the Romans to Amy Winehouse via Charles Dickens, and from London Food and Drink to London Laughs, it captures the essence of London in the words of its people. 192 pages with line drawings. £9.99 NOW £3


72588 A POSTCARD FROM SHAKESPEARE’S


AVON by Jan Dobrzynski and Keith Turner Take the Shakespeare Express to follow the path of the Avon into the heart of Stratford. The images included in the book are 250 postcards drawn from the authors’ collection. With quotes from Shakespeare, extended captions, the subjects can range from a finely detailed statue of Shakespeare atop the Gower Monument, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the Shakespeare Hotel, the Warwick Pageant, fishponds and the Italian Gardens and postcards from the exterior and interiors of Warwick Castle. 160pp in large paperback. £12.99 NOW £2.50


72731 MOST AMAZING PLACES TO WALK


IN BRITAIN edited by Jo Bourne These 200 walks have been selected for their spectacular or beautiful scenery. Most are circular and each one comes with full instructions, map, distance, description of terrain, estimate of length and guide to amenities. One of the great challenges for Yorkshire hill- walkers is Ingleborough, the second ascent of the Pennine Three Peaks. The route described here takes the walker up past Gaping Ghyll pothole to Little Ingleborough, with the option of going on to the summit and enjoying views of Morecambe Bay on a good day. Here is Dorset with its steep stepped gorges and the ancient St Aldhelm’s chapel, or the long beaches and smugglers’ creeks of the Pembrokeshire Coastal path. 320pp, softback, colour photos. £14.99 NOW £5


! 74190 OUT OF LONDON WALKS: Great


Escapes edited by Stephen Barnett Interfusing is what a great guide does, guiding us beyond the fundamentals to find secrets here on the page, something personal, richly particular, unfailingly intelligent and finely wrought. From Stratford-Upon- Avon and Cambridge in the north, via Bletchley Park, St. Albans, London, Rochester, Hampton Court, Chartwell, Sittinghurst, Rye, Battle, and over to Winchester, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Avebury, Lacock, Bath, through the Cotswolds and to Oxford, we spend a day in each with a great curator. Lovely pen and ink drawings, photos. £9.99 NOW £3.75


73760 8 OUT OF 10 BRITS by Charlie Croker Between 1997 and 2007 the proportion of people over 70 holding driving licences rose from 38% to 52%. Women’s average bra size was 34B in the late 1990s and is 36C today. Covering our homes, jobs, obsessions, leisure time, food and drink, politics, religion, crime, town and country, health and wealth, here is everything about who we are. 204pp paperback, cartoons. £7.99 NOW £2.50


73855 GAUNTY’S BEST OF BRITISH by John Gaunt


Sky Sports broadcaster John Gaunt celebrates all that is wonderful, magical, special and fun from the mountain tops of Wales and Scotland to the white cliffs of Dover and along the way meets the best British boozers, cricketers, superheroes, comedy catchphrases, traits, bobbies, the Beeb, Shakespeare, The Sex Pistols and Bobby Moore. 296pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2


74050 WELSH HARP RESERVOIR: Through Time by Geoffrey Hewlett


This nostalgic book reveals what the Harp was originally like, exploring the canal system and the extremely popular Victorian Music Hall. The first greyhound race and the first bicycle race both took place here. It was the venue for horse racing, angling, boating and wildlife. It was also, incredible to relate, the place where early tests were made on torpedoes, tanks and sea planes. How did they cram it all in? 96 paperback pages. Colour.


£14.99 NOW £3.50


74034 BALSALL HEATH THROUGH TIME by Val Hart


Balsall Heath is an inner city area of Birmingham which developed rapidly in the 19th century. Extensive bomb damage in WW2 followed by a spiral of decline, a painful period or redevelopment, a changing population, large scale road schemes and a tornado in 2005 have literally ripped through this area. Through a series of sepia postcards and images juxtaposed with modern day colour photos the book illustrates some of the major changes in the buildings. 96 page paperback. £14.99 NOW £3


Great Britain


21 Out & About - In a box!


75034 WALKER’S BRITAIN IN A BOX by David Hancock and Nick Channer In a big sturdy box is the new expanded edition of 60 charming walks on reusable cards, the lightest possible guide and far more convenient than a book or handheld device. The transparent plastic sleeve means you don’t have to worry about damp pages anymore! Here are walks in classic walking country and in little known places and most are easy, half-day circular routes. Some are two day walks on folding four page cards ideal for a walking break. They offer charming places to stay, some with onward baggage transportation and combine great walking with memorable overnight stops. Each guide is a complete route with full directions, coloured maps, interesting things to look for, practical information on the starting point, and finding your way to such places as Lizard Point in South West Cornwall, flora and fauna, churches, coves and entrances, lighthouses, lifeboat stations, hostels and more. Beautifully designed and specially imported, first time discounted. $19.95 NOW £5


75035 WALKER’S TUSCANY IN A BOX by Adrian Woodford


35 original walks on pocketable cards, these reusable cards are the lightest possible walking guide, lighter than a book or handheld device and no damp pages when you use the transparent plastic sleeve provided. They cover the most beautiful parts of the Tuscan countryside and uncover off-the-beaten-track gems. One truly spectacular walk takes in a restored shepherds’ village beneath the towering walls of Monte Roccandagia before descending on old mule tracks to a beautiful village perched above a newly created lake. Some of the guides are four pages, include coloured maps, directions, starting points, points of interest, where to stay, the nearby countryside and what to see, memorable overnight stops and essential practical information. Colour and in a reusable box. $19.95 NOW £5


74948 CYCLIST’S BRITAIN IN A BOX by Arnold Robinson and Chris Hutt Explore the best of Britain by bike. All routes are on 1:250,000 mapping, plus 1.50,000 extract for off-road sections. Here are one, two day rides and longer tours, perfect for a short break, tips for places to stay. The reusable cards are the most portable and lightest possible cycling route guides, lighter than a book or hand held device and the transparent plastic sleeve provided will mean you won’t worry about damp pages. Simply carry the cards in a handlebar map holder or your pocket. The routes mainly cover minor or unclassified roads and lanes with plenty of off-road too suitable for all levels of fitness. Each card is a complete guide to one or more cycling routes with transportation information, practical info and interesting things to look out for en route. 50 routes from Penzance and Land’s End, the New Forest, the Weald of Kent, the East London Reservoirs, Anglesey and the heart of Snowdonia, the Peak District, the Dales from Skipton, Whitby to Newcastle, Hadrian’s Wall up past Aberdeen to Sandaig. Colour cards which can be kept safe in the sturdy box. $19.95 NOW £5


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