Be blown away by this month's books!
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Celebrate
Paul Hollywood, the best baker in the business, is back with Celebrate: showstopping bakes to mark the special moments in your life. Having been a judge on Bake Off for over a decade and a professional baker for even longer, Paul knows the joy of baking and how it can be one of celebratory fun.
With chapters on Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter as well as Party Food and Cakes, you will have something up your sleeve for every occasion, from Easter and Christmas, to summer picnics, Valentine’s Day and much more. Including recipes for easy traybakes, layer cakes, quiches, tarts, breads, pastries, desserts and cookies, expect family favourites like Mini Chocolate Logs and twists on classics like Strawberry Heart Scones, as well as Paul’s delectable Bake Off Cake and scrumptious handheld beef pies.
Filled with his fool-proof recipes and kaleidoscopic photography, Celebrate makes the occasions that mean the most to us all the more memorable.
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Diddly Squat: Home To Roost
It's been another memorable year on Diddly Squat Farm - will the chickens finally come home to roost?
So, that went well . . .
The spring barley crop failed. Just like the oil seed rape. And the durum wheat. Then the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid and the mushrooms went mouldy.
Farming sheep, pigs and cows was hardly more lucrative. Jeremy would be better off trying to breed ostriches.But in the face of uncooperative weather, the relentless realities of the agricultural economy, bureaucracy, a truculent local planning department and the world’s persistent refusal to recognise his ingenuity and genius, our hero’s not beaten yet. Not while the farm shop’s still doing a roaring trade in candles that smell like his knacker hammock, he isn’t.
On the face of it, the challenges of making a success of Diddly Squat are enough to have you weeping into your (Hawkstone) beer, but misery loves company and in girlfriend Lisa, Farm Manager Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald his Head of Security Jeremy knows he’s got the best. And it’s hard for a chap to feel too gloomy about things when there’s a JCB telehandler, a crop-spraying hovercraft and a digger in the barn.
Because as a wise man* once said, ‘there’s no man alive who wouldn’t have fun with a digger . . .’
*Jeremy
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Bono: Stories of Surrender
An updated and abridged edition of Bono’s bestselling memoir, including a new introduction by the author,Stories of Surrenderis an unforgettable love story, a tribute to fatherhood, friendship, faith and music. Honest, irreverent, and intimate, it’s a backstage pass to a frontman's remarkable life, from Bono’s childhood in Dublin to the rise of U2. A companion to the Apple Original Film of his critically acclaimed solo theatre show,Stories of Surrenderis a luminous autobiography of one of the great voices of our time.
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Smartphone Nation
The tools and understanding you need to protect yourself, and your family.
Smartphone Nation will transform the way you – and your children – understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr – one of the UK's leading experts on digital literacy – sets out how you can keep the advantages of the internet whilst identifying often hidden dangers and stepping away when you’re over-reliant.
This life-changing guide provides practical tips, clear takeaways and tested strategies to empower you to take back control of your digital life. Covering misogyny, pornography, body image, advertising, violence and more, Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr explains echo chambers, the attention economy, and why we are still so unprotected when it comes to digital media.
You’ll learn how to game your algorithm, how to limit targeted advertising, how to catch misinformation and how to improve your digital nutrition.
Essential reading for parents and anyone who has ever worried about how compulsively they check their phone, Smartphone Nation will equip you not only to survive in the digital space, but to thrive.
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