Shares the author's chocolate-making secrets. This book takes you on a chocolate adventure, showing you how to blend it with other ingredients from lavender to chilli to cinnamon. It helps you discover how to make wild strawberry and pink peppercorn truffles, sea-salted caramel tart and the best chocolate martini.

Ant and Dec meet up at night using the secret tunnel that connects their Chiswick homes ...Bear Grylls has to survive alone for days in a 5-star hotel and ...Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall helps the tenants of a block of flats rear their own oxen.

Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sayings that offer advice or words of encouragement and are used in everyday English without much thought ever being given to their meanings, or indeed, usefulness. This book explores the truth behind our favourite proverbs, their history and whether they offer any genuine help to the recipient.

Offering bizarre facts, fiends and freaks, this book helps you: marvel at the ice man, who survived Everest's 'Death Zone' in just a pair of shorts; try not to scream in fright at the living zombie, covered head to toe in ghoulish tattoos; and, praise the heroic pet parrot who saved a family from their burning home.

Shows you hundreds of ways to revolt against the tedium of everyday life. Whether it's making rude gestures to a hotel clerk under the desk or making your own 'Do Not Disturb' sign that says 'Come In If You Like Swordplay', this collection allows you to unleash your rebellious side - without getting arrested.

Have you ever been lost for words in the East End markets? Ever got your Gertie Gitanas (bananas) confused with your corns and bunions (onions) and it's all gone a bit Pete Tong (wrong)? This book presents some of the most frequently used old-fashioned phrases, including: 'apples and pears' - stairs, and 'Barnet Fair' - hair.

This is the book that reveals all about one of England's greatest, best-loved bands - the men who put Cockney into rock and made...'Rockney'!

What do three great British institutions - Blue Peter, pantomime and Scouts - have in common? They have all had Peter Duncan at the helm! This is the true story of a man with a career and life that seems to know no bounds, told with the wit, charm and humour that has become synonymous with his name.

For many people, Clive James will always be a TV presenter first and foremost, and a writer second - this despite the fact that his adventures with the written word took place before, during and after his time on the small screen. This memoir tells the inside story of his years in television.

Peter Kay's gift for observing the absurdities and eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread appeal.This book presents his autobiography, beginning with Kay's first driving lesson, taking him back through his Bolton childhood, the jobs he held after school and leading up until the time he passed his driving test and found fame.

At Harvard, social acceptance and success with the opposite sex had to be applied for. In the absence of family money or innate charisma, misfit and maths prodigy Eduardo Saverin dreamed of joining one of Harvard's elite Final clubs.

Takes you through six months in a designer's life. Starting at the end of one catwalk show, this title explains how a collection is put together - from the rail of found objects, to how it gets on to the catwalk, into the shops and onto the covers of a magazine.

The life and times of the No.1 bestselling author of ON THE EDGE.

Reveals the precise role of the Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909 to root out 'the spies of the Kaiser' up to its role in countering Islamic terrorism. This book describes the distinctive ethos of MI5 and how the organization has been managed.

The most accessible, recipe-led River Cottage book yet, with 200 fantastic new recipes that present Hugh's philosophy to his widest audience so far

The most desirable restaurant book ever published, now in a smaller format edition

Taking the reader behind the scenes of Heston's hit television shows including In Search of Perfection and Big Chef takes on Little Chef, this book shows what drives this remarkable man to keep searching for more revolutionary ways to put more frisson into food. It is a story every bit as attention-grabbing as his famous snail porridge.

Ronnie Irani has had an extraordinary career as a first-class cricketer and is now a star broadcaster with talkSPORT Radio. This is his true account of life both on and off the pitch.

The autobiography of the world's greatest drummer.

A memoir about a journey of love, courage and violence that was Sheryl's life with Paul Gascoigne. It provides a portrait of what it means to love and live with an addict.