Contains 700 recipes covering soups, tarts, snacks and sandwiches, salads, main courses, accompaniments, puddings, baking, preserving, drinks, and breakfasts. This book covers recipes from spaghetti Bolognese, sausage hotpot or shepherd's pie to salmon with dill and mustard crust, couscous stuffed peppers or sweet chilli beef.
"This is a unique new reference book on English-language writers and writing throughout the present century, in all major genres and from all around the world - from Joseph Conrad to Will Self, Virginia Woolf to David Mamet, Ezra Pound to Peter Carey, James Joyce to Amy Tan." "Fiction, plays, poetry, and a whole range of non-fictional writing are celebrated in this informative, readable, and catholic reference book, which includes entries on literary movements, periodicals, and over 400 individual works, as well as articles on some 2,400 authors." "A lively introduction by John Sutherland highlights the various and sometimes contradictory canons that have emerged over the century, and the increasingly international sources of writing in English which the Companion records. Catering for all literary tastes, this is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to modern (and postmodern) literature."--Jacket
This indispensable volume, based on the popular Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, features over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries covering novels, plays, songs, poems, authors, and literary movements. It includes useful plot summaries, entries on significant fictional characters, and biographical articles on influential figures in literature, all presented with a light touch that enhances readability. Fully revised and updated, it introduces sixty new entries on contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, P.D. James, and Toni Morrison, along with new appendices listing Nobel, Booker, and Pulitzer prize winners. The content spans topics once considered non-literary, including detective stories, science fiction, children's literature, and comic strips, and addresses important movements and critical theories, including recent developments in Freudian and Marxist criticism. With extensive coverage of global literature, entries on literary movements and critics, updated information on modern authors, and new essays on topics like parody, anachronism, and autobiography, this volume is an essential resource for readers and literature enthusiasts alike.