Over 80 tasty and sustainable recipes including Zero Waste Pesto, Irish Potato Cakes, Rice and Bean Burgers, Puttanesca Tart, Italian Toad In the Hole, Waste-Less Wedges, Gnocchi alla Romana, Banana Custard Tarts, Tiramisu, an Easy Vegan Treacle Sponge, Rum and Ginger Cake, Peanut Butter Cookies and Amaretti Biscuits. Filled with invaluable tips on how to stock your store cupboard and use up some of the most commonly wasted food, this book is full of simple and tasty mouthwatering recipes which celebrate the joy of cooking, and eating. Experiment with Crumble Piri Piri Sweet Potato or Digger Pie, and all look delicious in these full page colour photos. 192pp, 19 x 24cm.

Captures the great era of men's magazines. It includes fetish master Irving Klaw, Elmar Batters own leg fetish, the speciality magazines of England, and concludes with Sweden and Denmark's emergence as the new powers in European sex publishing. Everyone was publishing lovely bare breasted ladies with silky stockings in every position imaginable. Titles such as Highball, Sizzle, Lace Undies, Nymph, French Lace, Black Silk Stockings, Solo, Touch, High Heels and many more hit the newsstands. Back in New York, Irving Klaw introduced fetish digests in the same specialty bookstores, leading to a '60s fetish boom, with Lenny Burtman's High Heels, Satana, Striparama, and Leg Show. The photos had a rawness showing the older models with that look of experience, openness and control. Many could be the woman next door caught just as the reader dreamt. See pre-Playboy burlesque titles, featuring big hair, heavy make-up, cigarettes, and cocktails, but in west coast mid-century settings with better photography, paper, and printing. Contains over 400 colour pages of magazine covers and interiors with well-researched text profiling important publishers and artists, individual magazines, and specialty magazine categories. 458 pages, 11" x 8" x 2", this thick volume has a tactile blue snakeskin jacket, hundreds of glam models in erotic colour photos. Text in English, German and French.

A young woman emerges from a coma. Who is she, and why was she dumped unconscious in a hospital car park upon a dark night? She is unable to recall anything, even her name. Then Ada Shaftsbury, a boisterous shoplifter she meets in a homeless hostel, takes up her cause and names her Rose. Peter Diamond is already investigating a suspicious death - a woman has plunged from the roof of Bath's Royal Crescent during a party, and none of the guests seem to know who she is. Badgered by Ada and galvanised by another gruesome death, Diamond takes on the case and is soon forced to admit that Rose is the key. But she has disappeared, and Diamond's own dark night is just beginning. Lovesey amply demonstrates his gifts as the grand master of the contemporary whodunnit in this elaborate plot with architecture as perfect as the city he writes about. 344pp, paperback.

From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnership. The grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of unprecedented international turbulence. Yet no one could deny that as a young man, George seemed uninspired. As his biographer Harold Nicolson famously put it, "he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps." The contrast between him and his flamboyant, hedonistic, playboy father Edward VII could hardly have been greater. However, though it lasted only a quarter-century, George's reign was immensely consequential. He faced a constitutional crisis, the First World War, the fall of 13 European monarchies and the rise of Bolshevism. The suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under his horse at the Derby, he refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar Nicholas II during the Russian Revolution, and he facilitated the first Labour government. And, as Jane Ridley shows, the modern British monarchy would not exist without George; he reinvented the institution, allowing it to survive and thrive when its very existence seemed doomed. The status of the British monarchy today, she argues, is due in large part to him. How this supposedly limited man managed to steer the crown through so many perils and adapt an essentially Victorian institution to the 20th century is a great story in itself. But this book is also a riveting portrait of a royal marriage and family life. Queen Mary played a pivotal role in the reign as well as being an important figure in her own right. Under the couple's stewardship, the crown emerged stronger than ever. George V founded the modern monarchy, and yet his disastrous quarrel with his eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, culminated in the existential crisis of the Abdication only months after his death. Jane Ridley has had unprecedented access to the archives, and for the first time is able to reassess in full the many myths associated with this crucial and dramatic time. She brings us a royal family and world not long vanished, and not so far from our own. Photos, remainder mark, 15.24 x 22.86cm. 560 pages.

June 1917 and while German bombers raid London from above, a man's body is fished from the Thames below. With no identifying items or labels about his person, Detective Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy waste precious time struggling to name the anonymous victim before they can properly begin their investigation. One by one family and business associates are traced, which only makes the list of suspects ever longer. Between the interminable presence of war and closer to home pitched battles in the East End between rival gangs, Marmion must carefully tread a dangerous path to lead him towards the killer. 'Marsten has tapped into a rich vein of inspiration.' - Daily Mail. 378pp, paperback.

This one-volume guide to occult history and practices is an excellent resource and introduction to the subject. Dostoevsky said that if the Devil did not exist, mankind had created him in our own likeness. The author does not believe in a Devil, but he does believe that there are evil forces in the world arising from the dark side of human nature, which we have denied and disowned by projecting them onto the mythical figure of Satan. Duality is at the centre of the three major religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but there is another way, that of the occultist. Starting with conceptions of Satan in the Talmud, Kabbalah, Book of Revelation, and Koran, the author moves on via the Templars and the Malleus Maleficarum to witchcraft, discussing famous instances such as the Salem witch trials, Aleister Crowley, whose voracious sexual appetite and sadistic streak finally discredited him, and the King of the Bexhill-on-Sea witches Alex Sanders, who was initiated into Wicca and never looked back after he inadvertently stepped into a coven led by his grandmother. Societies such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn included famous people among the membership, and the author examines the exercises promoted by the Dawn's megalomaniac founder who insisted on going by the name of McGregor Mathers, Comte of Glenstrae, based on a mixture of Rosicrucianism, eastern yoga, Egyptian ceremonial magic, and Kabbalah. Hitler and the Nazis used occult practices to reinforce their evil, including the quasi-religious rites of the Nuremberg rallies. The author also discusses H. P. Lovecraft, Dennis Wheatley and occultist rock bands such as Led Zeppelin. 256pp, paperback, illus.

In the 1950s, radio observations revealed the presence of often millions of solar masses of interstellar gas, showing that some galaxies emitted much of their power at radio wavelengths, a process requiring massive injections of electrons moving at nearly the speed of light. These data and x-ray observations led to the recognition that multimillion solar mass blackholes lurk in the centres of most giant galaxies. With the confirmation of the Big Bang model, it was obvious that galaxies had to form in the early universe and then evolve into their present-day structures. However, theoretical model for galaxies consisting of only normal baryonic matter failed to produce credible results and the answer came from an unexpected quarter. An extra invisible component, the dark matter halos, evidently surround galaxies and make up most of their mass. In the late 20th century, the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based 8-10m aperture telescopes opened the way to the study of useful galaxies. So where are we now? This book introduces the world of galaxies from a 21st century perspective with the help of fully realised why what we are seeing is one of nature's wonders. Very clear explanations, good graphics and wonderful galaxy pictures in colour, nice layout and typography. 22.3 x 25.9cm, small remainder mark. 256pp.

Elly Griffith described this Good Housekeeping Book of the Year as 'spellbinding' and Marian Keyes as 'unusual, beautiful, feminist, gripping, deserves to win prizes. I loved it so much.' It is a brave and timely novel which will fuel the debate on women's rights to walk safely through our streets and is not just another crime fiction novel about a dead girl. When she arrived in New York on her 18th birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice was looking for a fresh start. Now just one month later she is the city's latest Jane Doe, an unidentified murder victim. Ruby Jones is also trying to start over. She travelled halfway round the world only to find herself lonelier than ever, until she finds Alice Lee's body by the Hudson River. From this first, devastating encounter, the two women form an unbreakable bond. Alice is sure that Ruby is the key to solving the mystery of her life - and death, and Ruby, struggling to forget what she saw that morning finds herself unable to let Alice go. Not until she is given the ending she deserves. With luminous prose, this is a brilliantly clever and original novel and a lyrical story of friendship from beyond the grave. 322pp, paperback with fairly large print.

The Starry Night, Vincent's Bedroom with the yellow coverlet, 14 Sunflowers in a Vase, The Church at Auvers-sur-Oise, Garden with Flowers in that unmistakeable pointillism style with greenish sky and yellowed grasses and flowers are the five designs. There are four of each totalling 20 blank quality notecards for all occasions and 20 white envelopes. Colourful box.

Sub-titled 'Secrets and Recipes from the reign of Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II' this melting pot of anecdotes, photographs and recipes is written by Charles Oliver who was in royal service for more than 60 years. If you have ever pondered what Queen Victoria ate for breakfast, George V's preferences for pudding, the formal proceedings of a state supper, the intimate affair of afternoon tea and an insight into the history of royal cooking, here are anecdotes and menus that span three generations of royal dining. The selection of menus are those used at actual royal events alongside a series of exclusive private photographs of the royal family, all about the rules and protocols, how guests should be seated and that Her Majesty's only dislike her Head Chef Charles Mellis can recall is her dislike of grapefruit. The Queen and Prince Philip enjoy fairly light meals and a typical royal menu would be smoked Scottish salmon and Cornish lobster, grilled fillet of beef maître d'hotel, accompanied by buttered French beans, a macédoine of vegetables, fried potatoes and salad, followed by vanilla cream parfait, cheese and cream crackers, celery hearts, fresh fruit and coffee. Here are recipes like Poulet au Riz, Dinde Rôtie Palace with sausage meat, Potato Croquettes, Asparagus Sauce Chantilly and Millefeuilles aux Pommes. There is a wonderful photograph of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in full Highland dress on page 144 and a very relaxed young Queen Elizabeth in front of a huge open fire, also in Scotland, the young Prince Charles and Princess Anne, and relaxed shots in the garden with the corgis, plus after-dinner rituals in the dining room at Balmoral and plenty of personal information based on Charles Oliver's personal recollections. He died in 1965. We dish up 219 decadent pages, many photos and line art.