Mike

More than just a vegan cookbook, this is a guide to developing a healthier relationship with food. The emphasis is on innovative simplicity and using easy-to-find ingredients in unexpected ways. All the basics are included, with information on everything from sharpening knives to potato varieties for beginner chefs and must-try concoctions for seasoned chefs. Just as valuable are the numerous essays written by activists which cover topics ranging from vegan parenting and Western nutrition to reducing waste, growing your own food and eating seasonally.

Recipes and Food for Thought

Another Dinner Is Possible

Mike Gayle

It's their party... Meet Melissa and Paul: Five years after they split up he's still looking for love in all the wrong places while she wants the one thing she can't have: Paul. Meet Chris and Vicky: They're so in tune they even brush their teeth in time with each other. So what is Chris doing risking it all for a meaningless affair? Meet Cooper and Laura: He wants to settle down, she wants to take a grown-up gap year - but can their relationship really survive a year apart? Set across a year of leaving dos, birthday parties and anniversary celebrations The Life and Soul of the Party is a warm, funny and moving tale celebrating love, life and those special moments we've all spent in the kitchen at parties. Mike Gayle has contributed to a variety of magazines including FHM, Sunday Times Style and Cosmopolitan. His bestsellers, My Legendary Girlfriend, Mr Commitment, Turning Thirty, Dinner for Two, His 'N' Hers, Brand New Friend and Wish You Were Here are available in Hodder paperback. To find out more about his novels, visit Mike's website at www.mikegayle.co.uk

The Life and Soul of the Party

Kathy Hibbs

I started this book or writing to help Kathy and I deal with our grief in the loss our little granddaughter and the near loss of our daughter. I thought reliving the events would somehow help us cope with all the emotions one experiences during times when life hurts the most. For Kathy, it was a painful process. She would help me with certain events but could not review the writing. Reliving it was too painful for her. As for me, reliving those twelve days and the months after provided a stream for my tears to flow out of me and into the river of God's peace. In the early hours of the day, while sitting in my study I would write while the tears ran down my face. These tears were to me like small drops of rain God was sprinkling on me to wash away my sorrow. Some mornings I would feel that he too was crying with me, his tears were also running down my face. It was his tears that washed away my sorrow, my grief and replaced it with his love and his peace. His love for you and me is stronger than anything this world can throw at us. I learned many things during these days of remembrance. The one thing I learned that stands out the most is that God's hold on us is the strongest when life hurts the most. He never lets go. Our faith allows us to hold onto him while he is firmly holding onto us. He is most capable to hold on to my family and to yours in the palm of his righteous right hand.

Twelve Days of Cape

Plagued by a lifetime of mistreatment at the hands of her abusive step-family, Kate finds solace in a surprising revelation about her true lineage. Will Kate rise above her tragic past and harness her newfound strength to seek justice and become the hero she deserves to be?

Million Dollar Girl

Rosemary Gallagher

A lighthearted but honest look at Catholic attitudes, beliefs, and practices for those involved in an inter-faith marriage. 192 pages; Paperback

How to Survive Being Married to a Catholic

J. W. Rinzler

George Lucas

Before 'Star Wars' there was 'The Star Wars' This is an adaptation of Lucas's rough-draft screenplay for what would become the film that changed the world.

The Star Wars

Mike Perham

The incredible true story of the youngest person to sail around the world single-handed

Mike

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