Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award 1997 A stunning novel of political life betrayal & passion which lifts the lid on vice within ...

You don't need to be Wiccan to enjoy this friendly book of home cooking & natural remedies. To the kitchen witch every recipe is like a little spell bringing the opportunity to create love & positive energy in the home & for loved ones. This year-round guide to seasonal recipes & rituals for all the pagan festivals will be invaluable to Wiccans wishing to celebrate the good things that are given to us by the l&. Wicca is a peaceful balanced & harmonious way of life. The word 'witch' comes from the words 'wise' or 'wisdom' & witches or Wiccans originally were called ' The Wise Ones.' They also study natural remedies & the infl uences of the cycles of the moon & the planets. Witches seek to harm noone knowing that the energy they send out comes back threefold. The Kitchen Witch follows the eight pagan festivals: Samhain Yule Imbolc Ostara Beltane Litha Lughnasadh & Mabon. This book is about being at one with nature & the four elements. During these festivals birth life death rebirth & union are celebrated. The celebrations involve sharing food with loved ones or friends. Each of the eight festivals has delicious recipes using a variety of seasonal foods & foods commonly found in most kitchens. There is also information on herbs plants spices fl owers & essential oils that you can use for spell or circle work & homemade lotions & potions. This book is a guide for the everyday witch that can be enjoyed by everyone. Soraya is a white witch & an internationally renowned author & psychic. She writes for The Weekly News a leading weekly paper. She is the author of Tarot Spells Psychic Powers & Runes. ...

Kitchenella: the heroic feminine cook. The continuing story of the rise & fall of good food finds us at the end of a decade of exceptional growth & opportunity yet once again in crisis. We believe in food icons & celebrity chefs but their philosophies are no longer convincing because they cannot possibly understand the predicament of the average family living through recession & trying to do it right in the kitchen. Where are the cooks with wit who work out the budget & plan an easy dish that efficiently feeds family & friends? Full of logical economical & imaginative recipes that solve the modern cooks dilemma Kitchenella will teach you the skills of those teachers who work without books the mothers & the cooks who subsequently learned from them to decisively show you the easy way to cook & shop. Promoting a modest simple way to cook Kitchenella shows cooking is not about showing off & extravagance but generosity & kindness; a subtle & intelligent way to nurture. It is cooking that is economically sustainable & achievable. It has its roots in the learned spirited cooking of generations food that can claim to have helped win wars & saved lives; a style of cooking that is still relevant today by practically addressing the struggles of modern cooks both men & women. The ambition to cook is a fantasy for many yet Kitchenella shows how the everyday struggle to put food on the table can be transformed into cooking that is clever & beautiful. ...

Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in the First World War & is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. In Kitcheners Last Volunteer" he vividly recaptures how life was lived in the Edwardian era & how it was altered irrevocably by the slaughter of millions of men in the Great War & by the subsequent coming of the modern age. Henry is unique in that he saw action on land sea & in the air with the British Naval Air Service. He was present at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 with the British Grand Fleet & went on to serve on the Western Front. He befriended several of the young pilots who would lose their lives & he himself suffered the privations of the front line under fire. In recent years Henry was given the opportunity to tell his remarkable story to a wider audience through a BBC documentary & he has since become a hero to many meeting royalty & having many honours bestowed upon him. This is the touching story of an ordinary mans extraordinary life
- one who has outlived six monarchs & twenty-one prime ministers & who represents a last link to a vital point in our nations history."
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Scotlands hottest chef takes us into his home kitchen to show just how accessible inexpensive & uncomplicated gourmet food can be. Tom draws on his experience of home cooking to provide a superb collection of recipes for time-pressured cooks that makes the most of fresh seasonal food. From one-pan wonders & meals that can be put together in half-an-hour to intensely flavoured braises that can be assembled in next to no time & left alone to cook there are brilliant ideas for easy midweek meals. These are recipes that have been created specifically for the home kitchen not dishes adapted & compromised from a chefs restaurant. Shopping for them is easy techniques are straightforward & they are fun to cook. Tom also offers readers his Kitchin Secrets covering a host of topics including sourcing the best ingredients preparing ahead getting the timing right & balancing the flavours in a dish. This beautifully illustrated contemporary cookbook will appeal to a wide audience not least Toms many fans from his engaging television appearances. ...

Haoyou knows that his fathers spirit lives among the clouds above Ancient China. He also knows that to save his mother from being forced into a new marriage he must now follow in his fathers footsteps & take to the skies riding a kite through the clouds & the spirits of the dead. Then the Jade Circus offers him a chance to escape his enemies & travel throughout the empire & maybe even perform before Kublai Khan himself. But is going with the circus really the best option? It could be that the circus master is leading him into even greater danger. This outstanding story is like nothing else youve ever read
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Afghanistan 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament & his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade & the family is forced to flee to America Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. ...

This is the remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini. Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba one of the richest & most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite & bring it home triumphantly to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen & he promises to help him
- for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim & this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted & jeered at by Amir's school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives & define their futures. When Russia invades Afghanistan Amir & Baba escape to San Francisco where Baba fades but Amir feels that at last he can succeed. But he is still haunted by guilt & he knows that his past will not let him go. The destructive rule of the Northern Alliance followed by the even more terrifying & oppressive Taliban have destroyed the country that Amir knows but the hearts of men cannot be suppressed. Amir must return to Afghanistan to search for salvation & perhaps his life-altering mistakes can be redeemed. This is a moving courageous story of love loyalty secrets & vengeance & of a country & a boy whose footsteps cannot be retraced as the events & decisions resonate & alter them for ever.
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Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father & resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him
- for he always helps Amir
- but this is 1970s Afghanistan & Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage & the place he holds in his father's heart. But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament which was to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade & the family is forced to flee to America Amir realises that one day he must return to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

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