Rachel Miller & Darcy Rhone have been best friends since childhood. They've shared birthdays, the horrors of high school & even boyfriends, but while Darcy is the sort of woman who breezes through life getting what she wants when she wants it, Rachel has always played by the rules & watched her stunning best friend steal all the limelight. The one thing Rachel's always had over Darcy is the four-month age gap which meant she was first to being a teenager, first to drive, first to everything
- but now she's about to be first to thirty. & Darcy still has a charmed life. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Rachel is shocked to find herself questioning the status quo. How come Darcy gets a glamorous job at a PR firm & the perfect boyfriend, while Rachel grinds away at her despised job as an attorney & remains painfully single. Is it just luck? Or, looking back at their friendship & their lives together, is it a bit more complicated than that? Then an accidental fling complicates everything, & it's time for Rachel to make a few hard choices. & she's suddenly forced to learn that sometimes true love comes at a price.. .
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A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try & make money out of his knowledge.

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A Blandings novel

This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty

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A Blandings novel

This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty

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Peggy is a fifteen-year-old rather at odds with the world around her. Her older sister berates her constantly for being messy. Her teachers reprimand her for being unladylike. Her best friend has stopped talking to her, because she was so shocked when Peggy explained the facts of life to her. & now, she's got the strangest sounds reverberating through her head. Could they really be voices from another world, as her auntie thinks? Or is there a simpler explanation at hand? A moving, fascinating & superbly written novel of family life in the 1920s. ...

Peggy is a fifteen-year-old rather at odds with the world around her. Her older sister berates her constantly for being messy. Her teachers reprimand her for being unladylike. Her best friend has stopped talking to her, because she was so shocked when Peggy explained the facts of life to her. & now, she's got the strangest sounds reverberating through her head. Could they really be voices from another world, as her auntie thinks? Or is there a simpler explanation at hand? A moving, fascinating & superbly written novel of family life in the 1920s. ...

An intimate & entertaining portrait of one of comedy's greatest geniuses by those who knew Peter Cook best & can write abut his rare talent. The contributors include Clive Anderson, Alan Bennett, John Cleese, Stephen Fry, William Goldman, Barry Humphries, Eric Idle, Dudley Moore & Michael Palin. ...

On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. There are no obvious suspects, she was not an obvious victim. She just wasn't, thinks her grieving, bewildered friend Tess, the type to have something happen to her. Something Might Happen is not a murder mystery. There are clues, false trails, detectives, all the paraphernalia of the whodunnit, but Myerson's concern is with the effect of the murder on an ordinary community & specifically on Tess herself, her husband Mick & her three children. As the police go about their routine investigation, Tess's world of nappies, school runs & baked beans begins to unravel. Suddenly nothing is certain, the mundane becomes charged with significance, established relationships begin to crumble & places that once were safe are safe no longer. ' It is the naked honesty of Myerson's prose that makes her work so compelling, & this novel stands as her most impressively realised work to date-Myerson has a forensic interest in the messiness of grief, which she itemises with the awful clarity of vision that often accompanies shock' Guardian ...

Something Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology & in Japan, & rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication. Set in Dublin, against the vividly recognisable backdrop of the writer's native city in the late fifties, Something Special is the story of Yvonne, an ordinary, bold young Irish woman who believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the respectable young man who's courting her. Written with verve & characteristic sly humour, it moves to a surprising climax & conclusion
- a poignant, strangely haunting story about the incompatibility of dreams & desires.
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