At the peak of her fast-paced career as a news presenter & interviewer Selina Scott bought a house in the Tramuntana hills of Mallorca. It was a ramshackle old farmhouse without even mains electricity, but the beauty & peace of the surroundings promised an idyllic escape from her high-pressure job.

After several years of commuting between continents she decided to settle there & spend time renovating the house properly. Along the way a new rhythm & peaceful way of life would surely emerge?

It was then that the adventure really began.

In this funny, elegantly written account of her Spanish years Selina tells us about the house that captured her heart, the neighbours that became friends, & those that didn't, the hills & wildlife that enchanted her, the building work that nearly broke her &, crucially, the dog that found her, & changed every single one of her best laid plans!

An uplifting story of escape, change & friendship.







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The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves & to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'. This book revives
- beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture
- the notion of the amorous subject. It will be enjoyed & understood by two groups of readers: those who have been in love (Or thing they have, which is the same thing), & those who have never been in love (or think they have not, which is the same thing). This book might be considered, in its restless search for authorities & examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's.

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This collection of poems, cartoons & stories is Spike Milligan at his very best. It ranges from nonsense rhymes about donkeys, elephants & Indian bankers to weirdly wonderful cartoons & a three-part story: Adolf Hitler, Dictator & Clown.
Milligan
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A MAGGOT is not an historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot') in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in Engl&. It took shape as a mystery
- a compelling investigation of unaccountable motives & deeds
- which led through beguiling paths to a starling vision at its centre.

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A MAGGOT is not an historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot') in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in Engl&. It took shape as a mystery
- a compelling investigation of unaccountable motives & deeds
- which led through beguiling paths to a starling vision at its centre.

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Gardens Of The Moon: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1
Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting & bloody confrontations
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Memories of Ice
The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like
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