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|author=Lorraine Pascal

|title=Eating Well Made Easy: Deliciously healthy recipes for everyone, every day

|rating=4.5

|genre=Cookery

|summary=[[:Category:Lorraine Pascal:Lorraine Pascal]] specialises in no-nonsense, simple recipes that provide delicious results; a speciality that has afforded her a deserved space in today's crowded celeb chef culture. Lorrain's ethos in ''Eating Well Made Easy'' is to provide recipes for everyone, encompassing vegetarians, allergy sufferers and those who just want something delicious, all with a healthy spin.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489706</amazonuk>

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|author=Christopher Ransom

|summary=As a university student at Glasgow, Bee Rowlatt first encountered the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft through her epistolary travel narrative, ''Letters from Norway''. This book is her homage to Wollstonecraft as well as an attempt to pinpoint why this particular work has meant so much to her over the years and helped her form her own ideas about feminism and motherhood. From Norway to Paris and then San Francisco, Rowlatt follows in Wollstonecraft's footsteps and asks everyone she meets how modern feminism and motherhood can coincide. By using a Dictaphone, she is able to recreate her dialogues exactly, making for lively, conversational prose.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883784</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Stephen Halliday~~

~~|title=Cathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=History~~

|summary=What makes a cathedral? It's not automatically the principal church of anywhere that is made a city – St Davids is a village of 2,000 people, and wasn't always a city, but always had a cathedral, as did Chelmsford. It's not the seat of a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and hasn't had a bishop since 1690. It's not a minster – that's something completely different, and if you can understand the sign in the delightful Beverley Minster describing the difference, that I saw only the other month, you're a better man I, Gunga Din. Luckily this book doesn't touch on minsters much, and we can understand abbeys, so it's only the vast majority of this book that is saddled with the definition problem. It's clearly not a real problem, and those it does have are by-passable, for this successfully defines a cathedral as somewhere of major importance, fine trivia and greatly worthy of our attention.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821047</amazonuk>~~

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