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 Classic Christmas: traditional and contemporary - food director Pamela Clark
 
Christmas is the time for family celebration and this title is filled with all your seasonal favourites. Classic Christmas is where you'll find that recipe your mother gave you for baked ham, roast turkey, mince pies, fruit cake, Christmas pudding. There are traditional and contemporary recipes for drinks and nibbles, starters, mains, sides, puddings, cakes and edible gifts.
 
Parrot and Oliver in America - Peter Carey
 
                                                                        
Oliver is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France, just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Oliver sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid yet another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. Through their adventures with women and money, incarceration and democracy, writing and painting, they make an unlikely pair. But where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glourious, brand-new experiment, America? A dazzling inventing reimagining of Alexis de Tocqueville's famous journey, Parrot and Oliver in America brilliantly evokes the Old World colliding with the New. Above all , it is a wildly funny, tender portrait of two men who come to form an almost impossible friendship, and a completely improbable work of art.                   
 
 
Nightwatching [videorecording] - Directed by Peter Greenaway
 
1642 is a turning point in the great master's life - when Rembrandt reluctantly agrees to paint a group portrait of the Amsterdam Musketter Militia. However, he soon discovers that there is conspiracy and murder afoot. In his decision to expose the collaborators through his art, Rembrandt creates his most clebrated painting, and secures his reputation but brings about his social and financial destruction.

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