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A survey of the use of ice in cookery takes us on a journey from 1581, where in Florence they put snow in the wine glasses, to that modern phenomenon, the growth of the ice-cream business.

When Louise returns to the house where she was brought up, old violence stirs beneath the calm surface. What, for instance, is the significance of the rare Chinese lily carefully raised by her grandmother in the odd greenhouse, perched high up on the side of the garden?

Jane Tucker is thirteen years old when she discovers she has a half-brother and sister, a revelation which promises to bring both excitement and succour to her ordinary life. But for unknown reasons, she is prevented from meeting them. Can Jane at last be part of a 'proper' family, or must she always remain the outside child?

Having lived and worked there, the author knew that London's East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. In this book, he chronicles their adventures and misadventures, as well as their wooings and their funerals.

From the earliest times poets have spoken out against the horrors of war - many dying on the battlefields on which they wrote. This extraordinary anthology gathers together the most startling poems against war ever written - from an infamous last stand in Ancient Greece to the chemical warfare of the present day Gulf.

Three years ago columnist and author Grace Dent joined new social network site Twitter, mainly as a place to dump her surplus jokes, rant about garbage TV and post exclusive j-pegs of her hot new toenail-varnish.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.

Charts the history of the assembly room at Kensington Palace in the 18th century, a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots. From the Chief Curator at the Royal Palace and author of "Cavalier". 'Engaging and witty, ' Andrew Roberts

Infused with character, mystery and humour, these lives intertwine and become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America - a crucible of broken dreams and of human folly.

POETRY / General

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast.

From acclaimed Hollywood actor/director James Franco comes a stunning work of fiction - the coming-of-age of a whole generation. PALO ALTO traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. Franco presents a stark, vivid, disturbing, but, above all, compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fri...

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in , their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were killed or driven out into the desert to die. By 1905, the survivors were interned in concentration camps, and systematically starved and worked to death. Years later, the ...

FICTION / Classics

Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh . Zimmer cannot decide - until a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. 'A nearly flawless work .

Oracle Night is a compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time.' (San Francisco Chronicle). Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook.

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin ...' In this book, the explosion that detonates the narrative also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs' oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story...

When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame: Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet. Ruthless, cruel, and - in Yashim's eyes - ineffective, Fevzi Ahmet is the only man who makes him afraid. And now Yashim must confront a secret whose roots lie deep in the tortured atmosphere of the sultan's harem, where normal rules are suspended, and women can simply disappear. Once again, Yash...

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LUKE AND JON is a coming of age novel about family, bereavement and how lives can change forever in a single second. Written with great power, warmth and humour, it signals a hugely engaging and original new voice. Luke's mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon. When Luke discovers his secret, Jon changes his life ...