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Bee Bible
Bee Bible
by
Sally Coulthard
Is really true that, if bees go extinct, civilisation could only last four years? Sally Coulthard takes the reader on a fascinating flight through the history, science, folklore, behaviour, and cultural significance of the bee. From the earliest evidence of keeping honeybees to why a bee sting hurts, or how bees talk to each other, make honey and build their hives,...
Borough Market The Knowledge Produce Skills Recipes
Borough Market The Knowledge Produce Skills Recipes
by
Angela Clutton
Moving through meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, dairy, bakery and store-cupboard ingredients, this book shares tantalising recipes that will teach you to make the most of your produce, inspired by the incredible seasonal offerings from Borough Market traders. Recipes include Roasted Cod's Head with Clams and Seaweed; Beef, Leek...
Brownies, Blondies And Other Traybakes
Brownies, Blondies And Other Traybakes
Chocolate brownies are happiness squared. The quest for the elusive BEST EVER brownie is one that never ends, it can be sprung upon you at any moment - whether eaten in the corner of a cosy cafe or to accompany your afternoon cup of tea at home, a truly fabulous brownie is something you will find yourself lusting after for years to come. Likewise, blondies,...
Budget Air Fryer Cookbook - Money Saving Meals for All Occasions
Budget Air Fryer Cookbook - Money Saving Meals for All Occasions
The popularity of air fryers looks set to last - and why not, with all the benefits they bring to the household budget and the time-poor cook? Here the best-selling author of The Air Fryer Cookbook focusses on keeping your energy and food costs as low as possible. The recipes cater for a wide range of tastes and needs, exploring ideas...
Christmas Cookies
Christmas Cookies
A joyous collection of over seasonal baking recipes that all the family can enjoy. Decoration hints and tips are followed by recipes for more than 60 different cookies, from Jolly Santas, Coconut Snowballs, Frosted Fir Cones and Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups to Reindeer Pretzel Cookies and Meringue Snowmen. Go all out with packaging ideas for giving your home-baked treats as gifts...
Clean & Green - 101 Hints and Tips for a More Eco-friendly Home
Clean & Green - 101 Hints and Tips for a More Eco-friendly Home
From everyday cleaning and laundry tips to zero-effort oven cleaner and guidance on removing tricky stains from clothing and furniture, these economical, practical methods are perfect for anyone looking to reduce their use of plastic and throwaway products. Nancy shares the tried-and-tested recipes she has developed for all-purpose...
Everyday Comfort : 100 Balanced & Healthier Versions
Everyday Comfort : 100 Balanced & Healthier Versions
This debut cookbook showcases balanced and nourishing versions of comfort food classics, Friday night feasts and decadent desserts. With a little knowledge, clever shortcuts, some basic kit and a handful of ingredients, you can get the very best out of 100 family favourites. Good food is one of life's greatest joys, and Katie’s mission...
Festive - Simple Recipes Crafts & Traditions
Festive - Simple Recipes Crafts & Traditions
Create lasting memories with the family and embrace your festive spirit with this collection of Christmas traditions both old and new. Here are simple recipes, styling tips and crafts to make your celebrations meaningful and beautiful without the big spend. Recipes include Mini gingerbread house biscuits, Brie and cranberry waffles, Christmas Cake...
Foolproof Freezer
Foolproof Freezer
by
Rebecca Woods
Organized by the most familiar frozen ingredients and with a few fresh additions, you'll find anything from Fish Pie to Flatbreads and Sweetcorn Fritters to Seafood Gumbo, in this useful collection of reliable recipes.
Foolproof Freezer will be the go-to favourite for anyone looking for a tasty meal that is no fuss and easy on the pocket.
Publisher: Quadrille...
Foolproof One Pot - 60 Simple and Satisfying Recipes
Foolproof One Pot - 60 Simple and Satisfying Recipes
by
Alan Rosenthal
One-pot cooking cuts down on washing up, requires minimal kitchen space and tends not to be overly complicated. What's not to love? Foolproof One-Pot celebrates throwing ingredients into a single dish and letting the oven do the work. Alan Rosenthal offers amazing new ways to elevate classics, as well as revealing new sure-to-be...
Gin Made Me Do It - 60 Beautifully Botanical Cocktails
Gin Made Me Do It - 60 Beautifully Botanical Cocktails
Gin aficionado and cocktail maven Jassy Davis explains how to choose the perfect blend, mix the ultimate martini, and deliver delicious cocktails for every occasion. From the perfect G&T and updates on classics like the Aviator and the Vesper, to a wide range of herbaceous cocktails, the recipes in this book are fresh, flavourful, and fun,...
Ginger Pig Christmas Cook Book
Ginger Pig Christmas Cook Book
From the award-winning Ginger Pig butchers, here are all the recipes you need for the most important meal of the year, plus all the other get-togethers of the festive season. In addition to delicious dishes there's a wealth of helpful advice, from how to stuff a bird to the art of building a festive cheese board. Whether you're feeding a crowd or cooking for just...
How To Fix The Perfect Cocktail
How To Fix The Perfect Cocktail
What would a Manhattan be without orange bitters, or an Old-fashioned without angostura bitters? Adam Elan-Elmegirab presents the results of a decade of research into how bitters came to be an integral part of the perfect cocktail, taking us from the early days of snake-oil salesmen to the birth of the cocktail, Prohibition and the renaissance of bitters as an essential...
Jay Rayner Nights Out At Home Recipes & Stories
Jay Rayner Nights Out At Home Recipes & Stories
The award-winning food critic presents delicious, achievable recipes inspired by restaurant creations that have stolen his heart. They include a cheat’s version of the Ivy’s famed crispy duck salad, brown butter and sage flatbreads from Manchester’s Erst, miso-glazed aubergine from Freak Scene and instructions for making the...
Knitting Peter Rabbit
Knitting Peter Rabbit
Learn to knit 12 enduring and endearing characters from Beatrix Potter's stories, with step-by-step instructions and photography which beautifully translate the original illustrations. Create characters including Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and Squirrel Nutkin, and dress them in simple felt garments to complete the storybook look. All...
Mary Makes It Easy - The New Ultimate Stress-free Cookbook
Mary Makes It Easy - The New Ultimate Stress-free Cookbook
In this brand-new collection of 120 recipes, published alongside her new BBC Series, Mary shares her tips and tricks to make home cooking stress-free, easy and - of course - delicious. Divided into clear chapters featuring one-pot recipes, 5-ingredient meals, easy bakes and desserts as well as store cupboard favourites. Each recipe is beautifully...
Nigel Slater A Thousand Feasts
Nigel Slater A Thousand Feasts
Whether at his own kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei, Nigel Slater has kept note of the small things, events and happenings that gave pleasure before disappearing forever. Here he celebrates details like enjoying a soup for breakfast, packing...
One Pan Chicken
One Pan Chicken
This cookbook provides 70 recipes with chicken as the star of the show, from the whole bird to favourite cuts to using up leftovers. And all of them can be made in just one pan - such as a casserole dish, roasting pan, baking tray, frying pan, or stockpot. The delicious and inventive dishes include Chicken Piccata, Miso Butter Chicken, Chicken wrapped with Ham and fried with Sage...
Ottolenghi Simple
Ottolenghi Simple
by
Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi's award-winning recipes are always a celebration: an unforgettable combination of abundance, taste and surprise.
Ottolenghi SIMPLE is no different, with 140 brand-new dishes that contain all the inventive elements and flavour combinations that Ottolenghi is loved for, but with minimal hassle for maximum joy.
Bursting with colourful photography,...
Quiz Actually The Festive Family Film Quiz Book
Quiz Actually The Festive Family Film Quiz Book
by
Shooman, Joe
This book is packed full of tricky, fun and entertaining quiz questions that will test you and your loved ones on the Christmas movies we watch every year. Get ready to find out who really knows their Christmas crackers from their Christmas turkeys, and their Miracle on 34th Street from their Nightmare On Elm Street. It's time to...
RHS 50 Ways to Outsmart a Squirrel & Other Garden Pests
RHS 50 Ways to Outsmart a Squirrel & Other Garden Pests
by Simon Akeroyd
Discover clever methods for protecting your plants and crops without harming wildlife in this engaging and humorous compendium... If, in despair and dejection, you've been tempted to reach for a bottle of insecticide or order an animal trap, then think again; here's a whole book of handy tips and tricks.' Gardens Illustrated...
RHS The Little Book of Cacti & Succulents: The complete guide to choosing, growing and displaying
RHS The Little Book of Cacti & Succulents: The complete guide to choosing, growing and displaying
by Mitchell Beazley
With fans far and wide, cacti and succulents come in myriad shapes and sizes too. These firm favourites of Instagram influencers are perfect for adding greenery indoors, and can add structure and detail to outdoor spaces as well. Smaller plants are companions for 'generation...
RHS The Little Book of Wild Gardening: How to work with nature to create a beautiful wildlife haven
RHS The Little Book of Wild Gardening: How to work with nature to create a beautiful wildlife haven (Hardback)
by Holly Farrell
The Little Book of Wild Gardening is a guide for anyone wanting to garden in a more sustainable, natural way. Working with nature benefits not just the garden, but also the gardener, wildlife and the wider environment. Divided into sections for different garden areas...
River Cottage Good Comfort
River Cottage Good Comfort
by
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
In this collection of 100+ heart-warming recipes, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall makes our favourite foods healthier not by taking stuff out of them – but by putting more in! Celebrate the best whole ingredients in all their colourful and seasonal diversity. Relish a hearty winter stew that is deeply beefy, but also heaving with healthy...
River Cottage Great Roasts
River Cottage Great Roasts
Let the oven do the work with these quick and simple recipes from the River Cottage kitchen. All you need are good ingredients, an oven and some simple bakeware to create easy weeknight dinners, showstopping Sunday roasts, fuss-free breakfasts, tea-time treats and indulgent puds. Recipes include: Spiced whole cauliflower with preserved lemon and yoghurt; Roast mushrooms...
Simply Jamie
Simply Jamie
Whatever time pressures you might face, these tried and tested recipes will slot smoothly into the rhythms of your week. Here are 20-minute-to-table dishes, no-time-to-shop cupboard rescues, and weekend wins that create smart leftovers and make mealtimes a doddle in the following days. Recipes include Jarred Pepper Pasta, Roasted Veg with Camembert Fondue, Batch-It-Up Bolognese, Gochujang...
The Book Of Pasta
The Book Of Pasta
This masterclass on Italy’s iconic ingredient presents easy weeknight meals, impressive weekend dinners, and recipes for every occasion in between, such as Mafaldine with escarole and olives, Bavette with bagna cauda and crunchy vegetables, and Fusilloni with zucchini, cherry tomatoes, and salted ricotta. Includes recipes for every taste, diet, budget, and bandwidth, with...
The Christmas Book
The Christmas Book
An exploration of the artistic and cultural influence of Christmas, presented through a range of beautiful and significant artworks from across the ages - the ultimate cultural companion to the festive season. Rich and evocative images of paintings, books, prints, sculptures, textiles, ceramics, and photography are thoughtfully paired to highlight similarities and contrasts between...
The Cocktail Cabinet : Gin (70 Essential Recipes)
The Cocktail Cabinet : Gin (70 Essential Recipes)
Whether you prefer a simple gin and tonic, a bubbly French 75, or more modern creations like the bramble, gin is the foundation of some truly great cocktails. Without it, we wouldn’t have the martini, the Tom Collins, or the negroni. With mid-century-inspired illustrations and easy-to-follow recipes, this deck is the ideal pick for budding...
The Essentials - Cheese Tools
Introducing the essential kit for your cheese board - a refined toolbox in an elegant book-like box that makes the perfect going-away gift. Inside, you'll find three knives suitable for your favorite cheese varieties. From soft Brie to crumbly Blue Cheese and robust Parmesan, we've got you covered. All products are made of stainless steel and are dishwasher safe.Included in this set:• 1 Pronged...
The Get-Ahead Christmas Cook
The Get-Ahead Christmas Cook
A stress-busting guide for the festive period, with fail-safe recipes that can be prepared and often made ahead, along with hints, tips and menus for the big day and beyond. Classic and original recipes cover everything from canapes for drinks parties to hassle-free ideas for all kinds of seasonal entertaining, as well as foolproof recipes for Christmas Day, including...
The Green Roasting Tin - Vegan & Vegetarian One Dish Dinners
The Green Roasting Tin - Vegan & Vegetarian One Dish Dinners
With the 75 recipes in this book - half vegan, half vegetarian - you simply pop your ingredients in a tin and let the oven do the work. This fast and fuss-free formula is perfect for anyone who wants to cook easy meals day-to-day, without all the washing-up. Recipes include Miso aubergine with chilli, pak choi, tofu and peanuts; Three...
The Little Book Of One-Pot Meals
The Little Book Of One-Pot Meals
All made in one vessel - whether it be pot, pan or tin - these recipes allow you to cook delicious, fuss-free food with maximum taste and minimal hassle. Here are recipes for air-fryers, slow cookers, hobs and ovens; meals for every occasion, from quick weeknight favourites to delicious date-night treats; budget-friendly recipes to help keep costs down; and a variety...
The Philosophy Of Pickles & Fermented Foods
The Philosophy Of Pickles & Fermented Foods
More than the latest health trend, pickling and fermentation are techniques that have been used by people across the globe in food preparation for millennia. And they are part of a region's cultural heritage, passed from generation to generation, whether it's the Korean kimjang - the making and sharing of kimchi - the Japanese preparation of the nukadoko...
The Seriously Good Student Cookbook
The Seriously Good Student Cookbook
Fancy a full English on toast or stuffed croissants after a heavy night? Need something comforting for dinner like the ultimate carbonara or a colcannon-topped baked potato? Perhaps you want something easy but filling to see you through those long hours at the library, like a best-ever turkey club sandwich or a Mexican black rice bowl. Here are 80 simple but...
Weekend Cook
The Weekend Cook
by
Angela Hartnett
An invitation to supper at Angela Hartnett's house is a real treat. Nestled in the middle of Wilkes Street, in London's vibrant East End, you know you're going to get delicious food, great company and a relaxed atmosphere Collected in these pages are over 80 recipes from one of Britain's most-loved chefs, as well as time saving tips and cheats that will take...
Whisky Made Me Do It - 60 Wonderful Whisky and Bourbon Cocktails
Whisky Made Me Do It - 60 Wonderful Whisky and Bourbon Cocktails
In the latest addition to the bestselling ‘Made Me Do It’ series, leading American mixologist Lance Mayhew presents 60 wonderful whisky and bourbon cocktails. He explains everything you need to know, from how to choose the right type of whisky, to mixing the ultimate Manhattan, to finding the perfect cocktail for any occasion....
Engenius Bounce Marble Run
Renowned winner of ‘Gift of the Year’, the ‘Engenius Contraption’ series is growing... and this exciting new addition to the range will soon be turning heads. The all-new motor-driven lift raises a column of marbles, ejected one by one down a slide and onto a series of miniature trampettes... the balls bouncing from one to the next before returning via the spiral hopper. It’s...
Engenius Helix Marble Run
Another all-new addition to the Engenius range, the ‘Helix’ has been designed with both simplicity and reliability in mind. An elegant combination of laser-cut plywood parts and paper straws, this kit is straightforward yet rewarding to build. Inspired by Victorian cast iron engineering, the balls revolve three times around a helical track that’s over two metres in length. The motor-driven...
Scratch Map Ocean Edition
Scratch Map Ocean Edition
Let’s face it, Scratch Map® maps make great gifts that are good to give – so we want to give you as many options to suit the intended recipient. Scratch Map®Oceans map is our first world map poster printed on clear acrylic, and boy has it caused a storm of excitement! With bright swathes of rainbow colour under shimmering silver foil.
The perfect...
The Globe DIY Model Kit
The Globe is a huge rotating model on a pedestal with classical panel designs and a secret drawer. A big challenge to make but a most rewarding result.
One of our Mechanical Robotime kits - designed for creative model makers, young and old.
Supplied in a gift box.
Finished model dimensions:
H:52cm x W:32.5cm x D:29cm
567 pieces.
After Dinner Quiz
After Dinner Quiz
A perfect accompaniment to any dinner party or family get-together. This After Dinner Quiz is designed to look like a delicious box of chocolates and is packed full of 300 questions on topics from General Knowledge, Sport, Entertainment and History. Lift the lid up and the questions are each printed on cards that look like chocolates nestled in a chocolate box tray. The instructions...
Anti Monopoly Board Game
Anti Monopoly Board Game
This board game may look familiar, but don't be fooled… this is Anti-Monolopy, the real-estate trading game for the 21st Century. This is a family favourite with an exciting twist! Players first have to choose Free Enterprise or Monopoly, then play under different rules depending on which option each selects. Competitors charge fair market value while monopolists...
Baffled
In this great family board game you need the memory of an elephant. In just 60 seconds you must memorise the position of the twelve symbol tiles... BUT prepare to be Baffled as the symbols constantly swap and change positions around the board! Baffled is cleverly designed so that children and adults have an equal chance of winning. Fun for ALL the family, who can survive on the Baffled board the longest......
Chess & Draughts Set
An elegant wooden chess and draughts set with integral drawers.
Dimensions: 34 x 31 x 6cm
Warning: Not suitable for children under 3 years of age as small parts may present a choking hazard.
Christmas Games
Introduce some fun and chuckles into your Christmas celebrations! This seasonal selection of crazy games and wacky pastimes is designed to entertain your family and friends throughout the festivities. This comprehensive compendium includes:Christmas Charades… festive mimes to get you moving!Santa’s Sack… think up crazy examples to random topics!Christmas Lists… can you remember...