A is for Anxiety, Alcohol & awful Activities. B is for Bedtime, Baking & Boredom. C is for Childcare & Cooking With Your Coat on. N is for Not Swearing (bloody frustrating) & S is for Soft Play Places, Sniffing Babies' Arses (to see if they've filled their nappies
- are there not easier ways of finding out?) & Sex (see also L, for lack thereof).

Can I Give them Back Now? The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting merrily puts two fingers up to the pervasive notion that parenthood is an eternally rewarding experience. Taking a wry, down-to-earth & humorous look at life with young children, it taps into the very normal, but hard-to-admit ambivalence that so many parents feel about raising kids.

Darkly funny & occasionally shocking, Joanna Simmons & Jay Curtis' brilliantly alternative A-Z of parenting is essential reading for all mums & dads who really, really love their kids, but...




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A is for Anxiety, Alcohol & awful Activities. B is for Bedtime, Baking & Boredom. C is for Childcare & Cooking With Your Coat on. N is for Not Swearing (bloody frustrating) & S is for Soft Play Places, Sniffing Babies' Arses (to see if they've filled their nappies
- are there not easier ways of finding out?) & Sex (see also L, for lack thereof).

Can I Give them Back Now? The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting merrily puts two fingers up to the pervasive notion that parenthood is an eternally rewarding experience. Taking a wry, down-to-earth & humorous look at life with young children, it taps into the very normal, but hard-to-admit ambivalence that so many parents feel about raising kids.

Darkly funny & occasionally shocking, Joanna Simmons & Jay Curtis' brilliantly alternative A-Z of parenting is essential reading for all mums & dads who really, really love their kids, but...




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Published in 1864, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? was the first volume in what turned out to be the Palliser sequence of six political novels, serialized on television some years ago. It is in this book that we first meet Plantagenet Palliser, later to become Duke of Omnium, but the forces of attention concerns two women & their lovers: Lady Glencora & Alice Vavasour. Trollope wonderfully contrasts their private dramas with the public excitements of politics in a book which has all the breadth & scope of the best nineteenth-century epics. ...

An ordinary suburban house hides a dark secret in this chilling mystery novel. Leah hates the house & hates living in a mess while her dad does the much needed renovations. The house gives her the creeps & her fears are realised when the ghost of a boy appears in her bedroom. She discovers he lived in the house in the 1970s ...

Can you spot the spotty dog? Turn the pages of this wonderful book & see if you can find the spotty dog's hiding place. As you turn each page, you will find more & more of his friends lurking within the pictures
- the little white owl, the jet black cat, the tiny grey mouse, the slippery snake, the furry mole, the prickly hedgehog, the bright white butterfly, the hungry hippo, the busy bee, the crusty croc & a surprise at the end! Children will pore over this for hours.
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