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Chapter 1   Belle flicked through the pile of magazines in front of her. Pictures of beautifully sculpted,...
Chapter 1   I loved New York with the kind of mad passion I reserved for only one other thing in my life....
Greg Heffley’s on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in...
Peri-Peri Chicken Livers   I’ve finally perfected the peri-peri chicken liver recipe!...
Apple and Sage Pork Sausages with Sweet Mustard Sauce   By Bertus Basson   Other than...
Fire-Baked Lemon Tart   By Tomas & Daniel   This is one of the most delicious tarts you will...
INTRODUCTION    Lessons from the Boot of a Car is not a how-to book or a how-I-did-it book. It’s...
Dear Reader,   I have been told that publishers these days like a particular type of memoir. They like a...
Introduction   After the several whirlwind months that ensued after The Little Paris Kitchen book and TV...
On September 18, 1980, at about six thirty in the evening, Senior Airman David F. Powell and Airman Jeffrey L. Plumb...
Chapter One   It's just a night out with girlfriends, not the Academy Awards, thinks Gabby, frowning at...
Chapter 1   Hazel   During the third attack, Hazel almost ate a boulder. She was peering into the...
About the book   David and Goliath is the dazzling and provocative new book from Malcolm Gladwell, no.1...
FREE RECIPE FROM SAVE WITH JAMIE: CRISPY MOROCCAN LAMB PASTILLA Pretty much every day in the markets of...
In a note dated 3 June 1954, the Belgian Ambassador in London conveyed an invitation to Her Majesty’s...
Mercury in Sagittarius   (January 27, 1866)   The 12 men congregated in the smoking-room of the...
Tonight's escape fantasy stars Six. A horde of Mogadorians stands between her and my cell – which isn't...
Prologue   Cheltenham, 29 March 1991   Flora kicked off her shoes, pulled her dress over her head...
About the book   Elijah Rolene is a lost man. Following the death of his wife, he quits his job as a police...
I AM always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighbourhoods. For instance, there is a...

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