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A Hay Festival & The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection A hilarious & merciless parody of rural melodramas & one of the best-loved comic novels of all time Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range & We are not like other folk maybe but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm& Sensible sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living When she is orphaned at twenty she decides her only option is to descend on relatives
- the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm There is Judith in a scarlet shawl heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness; raving old Ada Doom who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; lustful Seth & despairing Reuben Judith&s two sons; & there is Amos preaching fire & damnation to one & all As the sukebind flowers Flora takes each of the family in hand & brings order to their chaos Cold Comfort Farm is a sharp & clever parody of the melodramatic & rural novel & Very probably the funniest book ever written& Sunday Times& Screamingly funny & wildly subversive& Marian Keyes Guardian& Delicious Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P G Wodehouse & the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh&s Scoop& Independent& One of the finest parodies written in Englisha wickedly brilliant skit& Robert Macfarlane Guardian Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902 She went to North London Collegiate School & studied journalism at University College London She then worked for ten years on various papers including the Evening Standard Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) & her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey & Pa (1936) Nightingale Wood (1938) Westwood (1946) Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949) & Beside the Pearly Water (1954) Stella Gibbons died in 1989
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A witty portrait of rural England in the early twentieth century the Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbons&s Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Lynne Truss author of Eats Shoots & Leaves When sensible sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm she meets the doomed Starkadders cousin Judith heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos preaching fire & damnation; their sons lustful Seth & despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; & crazed old Aunt Ada Doom who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people Armed with common sense & a strong will she resolves to take each of the family in hand A hilarious & ruthless parody of rural melodramas & violet prose Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time This new Penguin Classics edition

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an introduction by Lynne Truss discussing Stella Gibbons&s unconventional life & career & her joyously satirical voice Stella Gibbons (1932-89) novelist poet & short-story writer was educated at North London Collegiate School & studied journalism at University College London She then worked for ten years on various papers including the Evening Standard & published several books of poetry & short stories If you enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm you might like George & Weedon Grossmith&s Diary of a Nobody also available in Penguin Classics & Brilliant very probably the funniest book ever written& Julie Burchill Sunday Times& Literary bliss& Guardian

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Cold Earth

Cold Earth is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series - a major BBC One drama starring Douglas HenshallIn the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress In his mind she shares his Mediterranean ancestry and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity Then it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house Perez knows he must find out who she was and how she diedAlso available in the
Shetland series are Raven Black White Nights Red Bones Blue Lightning Dead Water and Thin Air
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Cold Earth is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series
- a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall In the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road & sweeps down to the sea At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud & peaty water smash through a croft house in its path Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress In his mind she shares his Mediterranean ancestry & soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity Then it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house Perez knows he must find out who she was & how she died Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black White Nights Red Bones Blue Lightning Dead Water & Thin Air

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Black - A colour which does not emit any colour of the spectrum. Black absorbs all frequencies of the spectrum.
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