Since it was published in 1991 Annabel Karmel’s essential guide to feeding babies and young children has become a word-of-mouth classic. For 15 years this book has remained the number-one bestselling book on feeding children and it is consistently in the Top 20 Hardback non-fiction titles in the UK – an amazing achievement. Now for the very first time there is a brand-new illustrated edition of the New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner. Annabel has brought her collection of mouthwatering recipes up to date with new dishes handy advice and tips and stunning colour photographs. She makes it easy for mums to give their child the best start in life with fresh home-cooked food. Plus Annabel offers time-saving menu charts to help you shop and plan ahead and takes you effortlessly through each stage of feeding your baby and toddler all based on her experiences as a busy mother of three. Give this classic bestselling book as a special gift to a friend or enjoy using it in your own kitchen and your baby is guaranteed the very best start in life.

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Are you serving the same old meals to your family week in week out? Do you find yourself staring at the contents of your fridge hoping for inspiration? Do you long for some original recipes that are quick stress-free healthy and tasty? If so help is at hand from the best-selling author and leading authority on feeding children Annabel Karmel. This updated edition of Family Meal Planner is packed with over 150 mouth-watering recipes for both children and adults to enjoy plus essential tips on nutrition time-saving and planning ahead. It includes:–shopping lists and advice on stocking the larder and freezer -meals for all occasions from nourishing breakfasts to teatime treats -low-fat healthy recipes -tasty and imaginative suggestions for school lunchboxes -food that is fun for children to make-family suppers that double up as delicious dinner party ideas. Put the joy back into everyday cooking with this essential collection of tried-and-tested recipes.

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Spanning Tom Waits’ extraordinary 40-year career, from “Closing Time” to “Orphans”, “Lowside of the Road” is Barney Hoskyns’ unique take on one of rock’s great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who’s achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. From his perilous ‘jazzbo’ years in ’70s Los Angeles to the multiple-Grammy winner of recent years – by way of such shape-shifting ’80s albums as Swordfishtrombones – this exhaustive biography charts Waits’ life step-by-step and album-by-album. Affectionate and penetrating, and based on a combination of assiduous research and deep critical insight, this is a outstanding investigation of a notoriously private artist and performer – the definitive account to date of Tom Waits’ life and work.

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‘The children’s food guru’ – “Daily Express”. ‘The Delia Smith of cooking for children’ – “Guardian”. Annabel Karmel is known and trusted by millions of parents for her unrivalled advice on feeding babies and children. Now in association with Great Ormond Street Hospital she puts her wide expertise and knowledge to use in a broader parenting arena providing a comprehensive planner for you and your baby. Divided into clear easy-to-find sections for pregnancy 0-3 months 4-6 months 7-9 months and 10-12 months “Complete Baby Care Planner” provides your optimum diet for pregnancy and ensures a healthy happy stress-free first year for you and your baby. With clear charts and tip boxes throughout this is the book no parent can be without. It features: essential at-a-glance planners; indispensable advice on feeding and superb recipes; crucial information on the practicalities; effective techniques to deal with crying and sleeping; and easy methods to encourage your child’s development.

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Brilliantly funny teenage angst author Louise Rennison’s first book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Now repackaged in a gorgeous new paperback and looking even fabber than ever. Louise is an international bestselling author and her books can’t fail to make you laugh out loud. There are six things very wrong with my life: 1. I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years. 2. It is on my nose. 3. I have a three-year-old sister who may have peed somewhere in my room. 4. In fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberfuhrer Frau Simpson and her bunch of sadistic ‘teachers’. 5. I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home. 6. I went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive.Follow Georgia’s hilarious antics as she tries to overcome the dilemma’s that are weighing up against her and muddle her way through teenage life and all that it entails: how to replace accidentally shaved-off eyebrows; how to cope with Angus her small labrador-sized Scottish wildcat; her first kiss with Peter — afterwards known as Whelk Boy; annoying teachers; unsympathetic friends and family and how to entice Robbie the Sex God! Phew — she’s really got her work cut out!

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Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime…One of the biggest-selling Japanese thrillers ever, and the inspiration for a cult film, The Devotion of Suspect X is now being discovered across the world. Its blend of a page-turning story, evocative Tokyo setting and utterly surprising ending make it a must-read for anyone interested in international fiction.

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Everyone knows that Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place – after all he wrote a bestselling book about it. Yet despite the appearance of “The World According To Clarkson” things don’t seem to have improved much. However Jeremy is not someone to give up easily and he’s decided to have another go. In “And Another Thing” our exasperated hero discovers that: he inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina; we’re all going to explode at the age of 62; Russians look bad in Speedos – but not as bad as we do; no one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie’s long lost sister; and he should probably be nicer about David Beckham. Thigh-slappingly funny and – as ever – in your face Jeremy Clarkson bursts the pointless little bubbles of the idiots while celebrating the special the unique and the sheer bloody brilliant…

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Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry confused and more than a little scared – right now his life is spinning out of control and it is all his dad’s fault. If his rotter of an estranged father hadn’t dropped dead at a karaoke night Charlie would still be blissfully unaware that his dad was Anansi the spider god. He would have no idea that he has a brother called Spider who is also a god. And there would be no chance that said brother would be trying to take over his life flat and fiancee or to make matters worse be doing a much better job of it than him. Desperate to reclaim his life Charlie enlists the help of four more-than-slightly eccentric old ladies and their unique brand of voodoo – and between them they unleash a bitter and twisted force to get rid of Spider. But as darkness descends and badness begins is Fat Charlie Nancy going to get his life back in one piece or is he about to enter a whole netherworld of pain?

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Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry confused and more than a little scared – right now his life is spinning out of control and it is all his dad’s fault. If his rotter of an estranged father hadn’t dropped dead at a karaoke night Charlie would still be blissfully unaware that his dad was Anansi the spider god. He would have no idea that he has a brother called Spider who is also a god. And there would be no chance that said brother would be trying to take over his life flat and fiancee or to make matters worse be doing a much better job of it than him. Desperate to reclaim his life Charlie enlists the help of four more-than-slightly eccentric old ladies and their unique brand of voodoo – and between them they unleash a bitter and twisted force to get rid of Spider. But as darkness descends and badness begins is Fat Charlie Nancy going to get his life back in one piece or is he about to enter a whole netherworld of pain?

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Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime…One of the biggest-selling Japanese thrillers ever, and the inspiration for a cult film, The Devotion of Suspect X is now being discovered across the world. Its blend of a page-turning story, evocative Tokyo setting and utterly surprising ending make it a must-read for anyone interested in international fiction.

Price : £ 5.23

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