A professional cook and single mother finds her career is jeopardized when she falls for a high-ranking politician Kate McKinnon is 36 and mother to five-year-old Toby. She has a small but thriving business catering for private clients. Her life is on an even keel—until, that is, she gets a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office and has her first fateful meeting with Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State. He's powerful and charismatic, but also married and a father and totally out of bounds—yet she falls for him. When a journalist spots them together, he alerts the gossip press. Who cares whether Kate's affair with Oliver is true or not? It’s a great story and will shift a ton of newspapers—and destroy several lives in the process.

Three women in their fifties - one widowed, one divorced and one never married - meet when they join a choir. Lucy, a food journalist, is obeying her bossy daughter who prescribes singing to assuage her grief. Joanna, the successful businesswoman for whom failure is not an option, is tackling her inability to sing a note. And much-divorced Rebecca is unashamedly looking for another mate. When they decide to combine their talents to restore a run down hotel on the Cornish coast and turn it into a spa offering holiday courses, conflict is bound to result. Lucy, Joanna and Rebecca are a sympathetic and engaging trio, very different women, each with private demons to confront. We feel for them as they cope, or fail to cope, with the pain of the past and fear for the future. Prue Leith makes their intertwined journeys riveting and ultimately satisfying, even uplifting. The choir teaches them a good deal more than how to sing

Product Description: Whether you spend your life in the kitchen serving upwards of 1,000 meals a year, or whether you are a weekend gourmet, The Cook's Handbook will extend your kitchen expertise, giving you access to all the untried recipes in your cookbook collection.

Uprooting her children to accept a position as a billionaire's head gardener after a painful divorce, Lotte shares her new employer's passion for his garden but strongly disagrees with him and his spoiled wife on how the garden should best be cared for.

This revised and updated edition benefits from five years' research, carried out by the teachers and students at Leith's School of Food and Wine. Over this period every recipe has been tried again and again with minor variations, with the result that subtle improvements have been made to almost all of the 1400 recipes included in the first edition. The book also contains nearly 100 new recipes, including many adventurous innovations. There are new chapters on nutrition and healthy eating, and each of the almost 50 sections of the book has been updated to include the most recent information and methods. There is a wide range of recipes, covering soups, starters, vegetable dishes, salads, main courses, stockes, sauces, spreads, puddings, cakes, breads, biscuits, preserves, canapes, snacks and garnishes, each one honed to near perfection as is possible. In addition, there are illustrated instructions on how to perform every culinary operation, from boiling an egg to skinning a squid. This practical guide is useful for everyone, from the unskilled novice to the experienced professional. (view table of contents)

This first novel by the great British cook follows the adventures of Jane, an accomplished attorney, as she separates from her husband Patrick, a struggling restaurateur. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Two sisters share a terrible secret about a horrible accident that could ruin their lives in this brilliant novel of sibling rivalry, love, and betrayal. By the author of Leaving Patrick. 10,000 first printing.

Presents recipes for a variety of dishes, from cakes and couscous to snacks and salads. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This comprehensive wine-buying and drinking companion covers wine production, tasting, buying, storing, and serving. There are chapters on wines from every part of the world including France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Eastern Europe, South America, and Australia, together with sections on champagne, sherry, port, and other fortified wine...read more