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When the body of gangland boss Harvey Preston is found caught in the nets of a local fishing boat, British Intelligence suspects a connection with a cross-channel smuggling ring and sends in undercover agent Paul Chavasse to investigate.
Hailed as the world's most innovative chocolatier by London's Sunday Times, Paul A. Young can transform chocolate into haute cuisine. This book is a journey through a chocolatier's world, where he shares his passion, knowledge, and recipes for the home cook. Starting with truffles and ganache, moving on to many cocktails and other beverages, and surprising recipes like Dark Chocolate and Chilli Gnocchi, Mascarpone, and Pecorino, this book will bring inspiration into every chocolate lover's home.
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The 47th Regiment of Foot served in North America during the whole of the American War of Independence. It experienced the transition from peacetime soldiering, through the deteriorating political situation, to open rebellion.
The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.
Reproduction of the original: The Double-Dealer by William Congreve
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Shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards 2018 for Biography of the Year and Cycling Book of the Year There are things he does alone, and things that he alone does. Jacques Anquetil was a cyclist with an aristocratic demeanor and a relaxed attitude to rules and morals. His womanising and frank admissions of doping appalled 1960s French society, even as his five Tour de France wins enthralled it. Paul Fournel was besotted with him from the start ("Too young to understand, I was nevertheless old enough to admire") and followed Anquetil's career with the passion of a fan and the eye of a poet. In this stunningly original biography of a complex and divisive character, Fournel - author of the seminal Vélo (or Need for the Bike)- blends the story of Anquetil's life with scenes from his own, to create a classic of cycling literature.
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