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How Baking Works

Baking explained: foolproof recipes and perfect cakes and bakes every single time.

This is baking explained in a clear, accessible and engaging manner: foolproof recipes and perfect cakes and bakes every single time from GBBO favourite, James Morton. With stunning photography and a whole host of mouth-watering treats to try, as well as tips on how to salvage baking mishaps and explanations as to why certain techniques and stages are needed, this is the only baking book you'll ever need... 
 
'The best book ever' -- ***** Reader review 
'Takes baking books to a higher level' -- ***** Reader review 
'Absolutely perfect' -- ***** Reader review 
'The only baking book you'll ever need to own' -- ***** Reader review 
'The best baking book I've ever bought!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Utterly brilliant' -- ***** Reader review 
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I want to show you how baking works. I want to prove how easy baking can be. 
 
Whether you want light cakes, squidgy brownies, perfect pastry, stress-free macarons or mountainous meringues, this book features a mini-masterclass for each one. 
 
Everything's split up into wee, simple steps. There's no faff and you don't need any expensive equipment. You don't even need a sieve. 
 
And for baking veterans, this book tells you why you're doing what you've been doing all these years. 
 
Here's to baking that just works.

James Morton was runner-up on Great British Bake Off 2012 and loved for his uniquely creative approach to baking. He published his first book, Brilliant Bread, in 2013 which won the Guild of Food Writer's Award for Best Cookery Book the following year. Now a qualified medical doctor, James combines imagination and chemistry in his recipe writing, applying an evidence-based approach to baking to dispell unnecessary myths, concoct foolproof recipes, develop techniques that work, and to help as many people as possible become better and more confident bakers. His books are the new classics for the home kitchen and essential to every baker's collection.

This is baking explained in a clear, accessible and engaging manner: foolproof recipes and perfect cakes and bakes every single time from GBBO favourite, James Morton. With stunning photography and a whole host of mouth-watering treats to try, as well as tips on how to salvage baking mishaps and explanations as to why certain techniques and stages are needed, this is the only baking book you'll ever need... 
 
'The best book ever' -- ***** Reader review 
'Takes baking books to a higher level' -- ***** Reader review 
'Absolutely perfect' -- ***** Reader review 
'The only baking book you'll ever need to own' -- ***** Reader review 
'The best baking book I've ever bought!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Utterly brilliant' -- ***** Reader review 
********************************************************************* 
I want to show you how baking works. I want to prove how easy baking can be. 
 
 Whether you want light cakes, squidgy brownies, perfect pastry, stress-free macarons or mountainous meringues, this book features a mini-masterclass for each one. 
 
 Everything's split up into wee, simple steps. There's no faff and you don't need any expensive equipment. You don't even need a sieve. 
 
 And for baking veterans, this book tells you why you're doing what you've been doing all these years. 
 
 Here's to baking that just works.

Brilliant Bread

Exciting new collection of simple bread recipes from hugely popular Great British Bake Off finalist James Morton

[an] excellent bread bible... Extraordinarily well-written and produced, engaging for beginners with something to offer even the seasoned pro, this is a potential long-term classic

Morton’s cheerful, geeky enthusiasm communicates itself on every page, and step-by-step pictures make learning the various techniques needed easy.

He was runner-up on Great British Bake Off 2012. He learnt to bake with his granny, growing up in the Shetland Isles. James is studying medicine at the University of Glasgow. This is his first book.

Winner of the 2014 Guild of Food Writers Award for Cookery Book of the Year. 
James Morton was surely the people's favourite to win 2012's Great British Bake Off series - with his Fairisle jumpers and eccentric showstoppers, this soft-spoken Scottish medical student won the viewers' hearts if not the trophy. 
James's real passion is bread-making. He is fascinated by the science of it, the taste of it, the making of it. And in Brilliant Bread he communicates that passion to everyone, demystifying the often daunting process of "proper" bread making. James uses supermarket flour and instant yeast - you can save money by making your own bread. You don't even have to knead! It just takes a bit of patience and a few simple techniques. 
Using step by step photos, James guides the reader through the how-to of dough making and shaping, with recipes ranging from basic loaves through flatbreads, sourdoughs, sweet doughs, buns, doughnuts, focaccia and pretzels. Inspiring and simple to follow, with James's no-nonsense advice and tips, this book will mean you never buy another sliced white loaf again.

Gangland: The Lawyers

Previously a solicitor for twenty-five years, James Morton then worked as editor of Law Journal and Criminal Lawyer. He is now a full-time writer and author of the bestselling Gangland series.

While many lawyers are honest, for Gangland figures, the best lawyer is often corrupt – a ‘shyster’ – who will act as a go between with the police, provide false alibis, bribe and intimidate witnesses, jurors and judges and occasionally organise robberies and burglaries. Sometimes these lawyers even kill or may be killed themselves. 
 
Gangland: The Lawyers brings us such lawyers as Frank Ragan, who acted for three mob leaders, and James Sawyer, the barrister and forger involved in the first Great train Robbery. From the amazing story of Gambino crime boss John Gotti (the ‘Teflon Don’) and his attorney Bruce Cutler, to the American judge Joseph Peel, who had his co-judge killed, James Morton presents a worldwide history of these shady individuals and their seedy but compelling stories.

The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq

The First Detective

A major new historical biography of the influential criminal spy and private detective Eugene Vidocq

You really must read ... The First Detective: the extraordinary life and times of a career-criminal

Morton has done Vidocq a service by removing him from his unfair tabloid image and giving him his due as an important social innovator

Eugene Vidocq was the Morse, the Guv'nor, the James Bond of his day. A notorious criminal and prison escaper, he turned police officer and employed a gang of ex-convicts as his detectives. Now, James Morton takes us on a historical romp through the 18th century in search of this elusive figure. 
 
Today Vidocq's influence can still be seen as members of The Vidocq Society, an unusual, exclusive crime-solving organization honor him by applying their collective forensic skills and experience to 'cold case' homicides and unsolved deaths.

A Dictionary of Criminal and Sexual Slang

Gangster Speak

A DICTIONARY FOR THE DAVE COURTNEY MARKET

James Morton gained his knowledge of criminal slang whilst working as a solicitor. He is author of the popular Gangland series of books as well as several books with Mad Frankie Fraser.

An Aladdin's cave of criminal slang as spoken in the UK, America and Australia. If you're scratching or set tripping, if you're viper mad or coming heavy, if the ming are on the wing and you've no idea what any of this means, then you need Gangster Speak. 
 
From the shocking to the ridiculous, Gangster Speak contains over 2,500 linguistic gems: 
Ghosting - the practice of transferring a troublesome prisoner to another establishment during the night without warning 
Hobbit - a prisoner who complies with or sucks up to the system 
Put on armour - layer oneself with magazines to deflect knife wounds in a prison fight 
Hooch - 'illicit liquor' 
A Bernie - a victim who might be armed and prepared to use a weapon, after Bernard Goetz who killed a robber on the subway 
 
Providing a useful guide to the nicknames of criminals, as well as fascinating word histories and multiple definitions for different uses of a word around the globe, with Gangster Speak you'll never be lost for words.

Mad Frank's Underworld History of Britain

Hard-hitting stories of true crime in Britain, from notorious gangster Mad Frankie Fraser

These are the amazing cases that fascinated notorious gangster "Mad" Frankie Fraser during his life of crime . .  hard-hitting stuff

Since the publication of his first book, Frankie Fraser has enjoyed celebrity status, hosting his own one-man show, appearing in films and even conducting his own guided tour of London's East End crime sites. He has written four previous books, including the bestselling Mad Frank's Diary. Having spent most of his adult life behind bars, Frankie is now enjoying living a quiet life and being able to come and go as he pleases - without having to ask permission from the Governor! 
 
James Morton is a solicitor and author who has worked with Frank on his previous books and has published several successful crime titles of his own, including his Gangland series, the latest of which is Gangland: The Lawyers.

Sites of gruesome murders, stories of killings, frauds, jewel thefts and treachery are all part of Mad Frankie Fraser's grand tour of Britain's criminal underworld. As one of the most notorious gangsters of the 20th Century, he is perfectly placed to give us the lowdown on crimes from up and down the country, plus his take on crimes he was personally involved in and cases as yet unsolved. Written with crime author James Morton, this is the definitive guide to Britain's many lives of crime.

Mad Frank's Britain

Frankie has been friend or foe of virtually every London gangster over the course of his 78 years

Mad Frankie Fraser has become a household name, known to millions as one of London's most notorious gangsters. In Mad Frank's London - his fourth book - Frank continues the shocking stories of his life of crime. 
Frankie Fraser recalls the good and the bad times, brings the criminals of his acquaintance to life, and guides us through the darker streets of London - as only a born Londoner, and true gangster could.

Frankie Fraser

James Morton

An extraordinary insight into another world... He's so shamelessly upfront that you'll soon find yourself hanging on his every word.

As entertaining as his last two works ... you would be mad to miss it.

The Confessions of Britain’s Most Notorious Villain

‘They say I’ve killed 40 people and who am I to disagree? I’ve always liked even numbers.’ 
 
Branded the dentist for using pliers to extract the teeth of those who owed money to his boss Charlie Richardson, Frankie Fraser was labelled the most dangerous man in Britain by two Home Secretaries. He is famous for his crimes, many of which have entered gangster folklore. In these diaries, however, originally published when he was 78, Mad Frank delved into areas he had never chosen, or dared, to talk about before. 
 
His day-by-day entries record unsolved murders, shoot-outs, crooked coppers, bribery, extortion, wrongful convictions, and even sex in prison. And by contrast, he also opens up with personal memories of growing up in poverty, in London's East End, and the reality of having to steal food to feed the family. 
 
Frankie Frasier died in 2014, and this rare True Crime classic is first-hand history at its most compelling.

James Morton

Praise for Mad Frank's Diary

An extraordinary insight into another world... He's so shamelessly upfront that you'll soon find yourself hanging on his every word.

As entertaining as his last two works ... you would be mad to miss it.

Books by James Morton

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