If you love P G Wodehouse, with whom this author has been compared, here is your chance to discover Alan Davidson's classic comic creation, thirteen year old Annabel Fidelity Bunce.In the respectable little English town of Addendon, she's adored by her best friend Kate, considered by many of her school mates to be off her head - and tolerated nervously by teachers and other adults alike. This is the first of five anthologies of Davidson's very funny and wickedly observant Annabel s...

"A fascinating mystery.....psychology and secrets abound in this beautiful and intriguing story" - BOOK ANGEL {UK}"Oh, this book! Impossible to put down. The story is unique...beautifully woven. I cannot recommend it highly enough" - CHARLENE'S BOOK BLOG {USA}Alan Davidson is the author of the bestselling teen suspense novel The Bewitching of Alison Allbright, as well as the humorous series A Friend Like Annabel [all on Kobo]. His classi...

the best food reference work ever to appear in the English language ... read it and be dazzled' Bee Wilson, New Statesman First published in 1999, the ground-breaking Oxford Companion to Food was an immediate success and won prizes and accolades around the world. Its blend of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, was and remains unique. Interest in food, cooking, and the culture surrounding food has grown enormously in the intervening per...

Now available on Kobo! An old favourite about a very badly behaved girl who also happens to be a brilliant rider. Bonnie Wyndham thinks she can queen it around at her new school but who will come out on top - student or instructor?"The momentum begins to build from the very first page and never flags at all... Highly recommended" - REVIEWSHEET"Enough riding thrills to satisfy the most ardent fan but also a study in teenage rebellion....a great story and not just for horse l...

The enigma of the sweetly-smiling Sheena Franks-Walters, the dimmest girl in the class, has long fascinated Annabel. Why do her millionaire parents send her to a dump like Willers, full of unrefined classmates like Justine Bird and Miles Noggins, when they could afford to send her to the best school in the country? It's a mystery waiting to be solved.And why, in the second of these two long complete stories, does Annabel suddenly decide to adopt a "new attitude" to life? It's got b...

The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives, was recognized as unique. The study of food and food history is a new discipline, but one that has developed exponentially in the last twenty years. There are now university departments, i...

The ever-evolving nature of electronic commerce and social media continues to challenge the capacity of the courts to respond to privacy and security violations in 'cyberlaw'. Social Media and Electronic Commerce Law is designed to provide students and legal practitioners with a thorough and engaging exploration of the laws, regulations and grey areas of commerce via online platforms. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to address changes in legislation and recent court judgments,...

Alison Only Wanted to Change Her Life - Not End It!"AN IRRESISTIBLE COMBINATION OF DREAM INDULGENCE AND UNSETTLING NIGHTMARE" - Chicago Center for Children's LiteratureAlison Allbright is so ashamed of her tiny home and of parents who can't even afford a telephone or car. She dreams of a glamorous mother, beautiful clothes, exciting holidays..... all the things that everybody else seems to have. Then the mysterious Mrs Con...

Panacea or revolution? 'Evidence-based medicine' and 'cost-effectiveness' have become buzz-phrases for a wide variety of initiatives and planning processes which aim to give patients treatments that will benefit them. On the surface this seems a reasonable idea, but there are underlying currents which cast doubt on the process and reveal methodological problems, which must be understood if the concepts are to be properly used. Assuming no prior knowledge of the field, and written in the cl...

Originally published in London in 1859, this rare treasure of culinary history was recently brought to light in the award-winning Oxford Companion to Food, whose author, Alan Davidson, used it as a primary reference in researching some of the more obscure foodstuffs consumed across the globe. Davidson writes that "[CURIOSITIES] is in all probability the first attempt to write a general worldwide survey of animal products." Long out of print and scarce even in the antiquarian market, this l...

In the first of these two long complete Annabel stories, the horrible Julia becomes the all-powerful Monitor of the school Band Room. Such is her reign of terror, Annabel is goaded into retaliation. Inspired by a story in an old comic that she saw the Deputy Head reading under her desk, she enlists the help of Kate and Sheena. Together they don home-made masks and robes to become The Silent Three. Their mission - to fight tyranny and injustice! In the second story, Annabel becomes the unwi...

Thirteen years old, it's high time to achieve something in life before it's TOO LATE, decides Annabel.In the first of these two hilarious novellas, she tries to impress a visiting publisher at the Addendon Book Fair with her poems - until her own ambitions are submerged in a far greater cause, the future of her favourite author's books and [in her view] of English literature itself!In the second, she embarks on a series of desperate attempts to get into the Guinness Book of...