Alan Davidson: 16 books

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,...

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...

Fleur's an unusual superhero because she's a hen - a free ranging secret agent who's given a mission to release hundreds of her sisters from their grim prison camp.  Fast moving action and humour abound in this classic satire. First published in 1995 and still in print. Wonderful cartoon-style illustrations...

Written specifically for legal practitioners and students, this book examines the concerns, laws and regulations involved in Electronic Commerce. In just a few years, commerce via the World Wide Web and other online platforms has boomed, and a new field of legal theory and practice has emerged. Legislation...

'Please inform your father, Kate," said Annabel, still on her dignity, 'that I AM sensible.' Can Annabel persuade her best friend's father that she is indeed a fit and responsible person to go on holiday with Kate? Especially in view of the unfortunate episode of the Deputy Head catching...

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...

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,...

Alison Only Wanted to Change Her Life - Not End It! "AN IRRESISTIBLE COMBINATION OF DREAM INDULGENCE AND UNSETTLING NIGHTMARE" - Chicago Center for Children's Literature Alison Allbright is so ashamed of her tiny home and of parents who can't even afford a telephone or car....

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...

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...

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,...

The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. Featured this time are: AGAPE AMONG THE ROBOTS, by Allen Steele THE STARSHIP MECHANIC, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes PEACEMAKER,...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

More than 70 very short stories in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror! Why are 18 million spoons disappearing from Melbourne, Australia each year? How good is the magic of a discount wizard? What if superheroes were afraid to use their powers? These and other flash fiction challenges were put to...