When Jo Green takes a nannying job in London to escape her small-town routine, complicated family, & perfect-on-paper boyfriend Shaun, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Dick & Vanessa Fitzgerald are the most incompatible pair since Tom & Jerry, & their children
- glittery warrior pixie Cassandra, bloodthirsty Zak & shy little Tallulah
- are downright mystifying. Suddenly village life seems terribly appealing.

Then, just as Jo's getting the hang of their designer lifestyle, the Fitzgeralds acquire a new lodger & suddenly she's sharing her nanny flat with the distractingly good-looking but inexplicably moody Josh. So when Shaun turns up, things get even trickier...



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When Jo Green takes a nannying job in London to escape her small-town routine, complicated family, & perfect-on-paper boyfriend Shaun, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Dick & Vanessa Fitzgerald are the most incompatible pair since Tom & Jerry, & their children
- glittery warrior pixie Cassandra, bloodthirsty Zak & shy little Tallulah
- are downright mystifying. Suddenly village life seems terribly appealing.

Then, just as Jo's getting the hang of their designer lifestyle, the Fitzgeralds acquire a new lodger & suddenly she's sharing her nanny flat with the distractingly good-looking but inexplicably moody Josh. So when Shaun turns up, things get even trickier...



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The Nanny Goat wants kids more than anything in the world. When she can't have any of her own, she adopts one instead, but he's different to the others. One by one, the other kids start to go missing, & everyone blames the Nanny Goat's Kid. Has he really eaten them? Or are the others just trying to make a scapegoat out of him? ...

Known collectively as the ' Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale & intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval & reform across much of Europe, with aspects of its legacy lingering to this very day. There is a mass of literature on Napoleon & his times. Yet there are only a handful of scholarly works that seek to cover the Napoleonic Wars in their entirety, & fewer still that place the conflict in any broader framework. This study redresses the balance. Drawing on recent findings & applying a 'total' history approach, it explores the causes & effects of the conflict, & places it in the context of the evolution of modern warfare. It reappraises the most significant & controversial military ventures, including the war at sea & Napoleon's campaigns of 1805-9. The study gives an insight into the factors that shaped the war, setting the struggle in its wider economic, cultural, political & intellectual

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All this happened a good many years ago. This is the disclaiming first chapter of this sea tale par excellence which evolved from a passage in The Moon & Sixpence that Maugham had written twelve years before. On his way home from a remote Pacific isl&, Dr Saunders meets the treacherous Captain Nichols, who is carrying Fred Blake from Australia, where he has committed murder. Sheltering from a storm at the island of Kanda, the trio are befriended by the good-natured Erik Christessen. But once they encounter the cool & beautiful Louise their story becomes one of love, jealousy, murder & suicide. ...

The most"ed writer in English literary history, Shakespeares work continues to grip audiences & delight readers. His plays fill our theatres & have inspired countless films, most recently the immensely popular Romeo & Juliet starring Leondardo Di Caprio & the Oscar winning film Shakespeare in Love. Bringing together 150 of the most famous extracts from his plays, sonnets & poems, this collection offers the definitive guide to Shakespeares work. Whether you wish to philosophise over To be or not to be, stir up the emotion with Once more unto the breach dear friends, or simply enjoy the beauty of Shall I compare thee to a summers day? this is the book for you. Arranged for easy reference under the plays, the Comedies, Tragedies & Histories, & with separate sections for the sonnets & poems, the book will also contain brief notes to accompany each extract & position them within the action of the play. ...

From the first flush of love, through courtship & vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs & drowning your sorrows, ' The Nation's Favourite Love Poems' will meet all your romantic requirements. In this selection of 100 popular poems, poets of every age consider that most universal of themes: love. As well as traditional lovers' favourites such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ' How do I love thee?' & Shakespeare's ' Shall I compare theee to a summer's day?' there are contemporary voices such as Adrian Mitchell, Wendy Cope & John Fuller, whose erudite yet salacious ' Valentine' would melt the most fridgid heart. There are even poems for those more melancholic moments, Hardy's haunting ' After a Journey', for example, & Larkin's poignant ' Love Songs in Age'. So, wherever you are in the tunnel of love, dip into this book & you will be reassured to discover that at one time or another a poet has been there before you. ...

In a nationwide poll to discover Britain's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's ' If...' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together the results of the poll in a collection of the nation's 100 best loved poems. Among the selection are popular classics such as Tennyson's ' The Lady of Shallott' & Wordsworth's ' The Daffodils' alongside contemporary poetry such as Allan Ahlberg's ' Pease Mrs Butler' & Jenny Joseph's ' Warning'. Also included is the poignant ' Do not Stand at my Grave & Weep'. ...

To mark the end of the millenium, The Nations Favourite 20th Century Poems brings together over 100 of the most celebrated & cherished poems of the last hundred years. Including poets as diverse as John Betjamin & Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon & Allan Ahlberg, & subjects from all avenues of life
- war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals & comedy
- the whole breadth of the last hundred years of the nations life is encapsulated here. Compiled & edited by Griff Rhys Jones, this latest in the successful series of The Nations Favourite Poems, brings together the wealth of new & innovative poetry styles that have flourished in the 20th Century. Whether in the wonderfully witty modern-day sonnets of Wendy Cope, the fantastical nonsense

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