What is the connection between a bear of very little brain & a honey pot? Usually it's the very sticky paw of Winnie the Pooh as he takes a break between adventures for a little something In these five stories taken from the book The House at Pooh Corner Pooh & Piglet build a house for Eeyore Tigger comes to the forest & has breakfast Piglet nearly meets the Heffalump again Pooh invents a new game & Owl moves house As usual they are accompanied by Kanga Roo Rabbit & Owl
- to say nothing of Pooh's very clever young human friend Christopher Robin Now with a musical introduction Alan Bennett's delightful readings bring each & every character in the forest to life 1 CD 1 hr 5 mins
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' One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do he thought he would do something so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing' This is the second classic children's story by AA Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh & his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood In this volume Pooh meets the irrepressible Tigger for the first time learns to play Poohsticks & sets a trap for a Heffalump In this stunning edition of The House at Pooh Corner AA Milne's classic characters are once again brought to life by EH Shepard's illustrations Do you own all the classic Pooh titles? Winnie-the-Pooh The House at Pooh Corner When We Were Very Young Now We Are Six Also look out for Return to the Hundred Acre Wood & The Best Bear in all the World Milne's classic children's stories
- featuring Piglet Eeyore Christopher Robin & of course Pooh himself
- are both heart-warming & funny teaching lessons of friendship & reflecting the power of a child's imagination like no other story before or since Pooh ranks alongside other beloved characters such as Paddington Bear & Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage Whether you're 5 or 55 Pooh is the bear for all ages AA Milne is quite simply one of the most famous children's authors of all time He created Winnie-the-Pooh & his friends Piglet Eeyore Tigger Kanga & Roo based on the real nursery toys played with by his son Christopher Robin & those characters not only became the stars of his classic children's books Winnie-the-Pooh & The House at Pooh Corner & his poetry for children they have also been adapted for film TV & the stage Through his writings for Punch magazine AA Milne met EH Shepard Shepard went on to draw the original illustrations to accompany Milne's classics earning him the name the man who drew Pooh

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' One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do he thought he would do something so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing' This is the second classic children's story by AA Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh & his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood In this volume Pooh meets the irrepressible Tigger for the first time learns to play Poohsticks & sets a trap for a Heffalump In this stunning edition of The House at Pooh Corner AA Milne's classic characters are once again brought to life by EH Shepard's illustrations Do you own all the classic Pooh titles? Winnie-the-Pooh The House at Pooh Corner When We Were Very Young Now We Are Six Also look out for Return to the Hundred Acre Wood & The Best Bear in all the World (coming soon) Milne's classic children's stories
- featuring Piglet Eeyore Christopher Robin & of course Pooh himself
- are both heart-warming & funny teaching lessons of friendship & reflecting the power of a child's imagination like no other story before or since Pooh ranks alongside other beloved characters such as Paddington Bear & Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage Whether you're 5 or 55 Pooh is the bear for all ages AA Milne is quite simply one of the most famous children's authors of all time He created Winnie-the-Pooh & his friends Piglet Eeyore Tigger Kanga & Roo based on the real nursery toys played with by his son Christopher Robin & those characters not only became the stars of his classic children's books Winnie-the-Pooh & The House at Pooh Corner & his poetry for children they have also been adapted for film TV & the stage Through his writings for Punch magazine AA Milne met EH Shepard Shepard went on to draw the original illustrations to accompany Milne's classics earning him the name the man who drew Pooh

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Originally published in 2007 Kate Morton's debut novel The House at Riverton became a bestselling sensation & won the Richard & Judy Best Read of the year This special tenth anniversary edition of Kate Morton's acclaimed debut features a new foreword from the author Summer 1924 On the eve of a glittering Society party by the lake of a grand English country house a young poet takes his life The only witnesses sisters Hannah & Emmeline Hartford will never speak to each other again Winter 1999 Grace Bradley 98 one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide Ghosts awaken & memories long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind begin to sneak back through the cracks A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could ...

WNNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY The shadow of the Second World War looms dark over the third chilling mystery for Dr Ruth Galloway Some buried secrets shouldn't be uncovered'A melancholy setting an eerie discovery a lone investigator perfect for the long winter evening' Financial Times Dr Ruth Galloway is called in by a team of archaeologists investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast when they unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff They seem to have been there a very long time Ruth must help discover how long & how on earth they got there Ruth & DCI Nelson are drawn together once more to unravel the past Tests reveal that the bodies have lain preserved in the sand for sixty years The mystery of their deaths stretches back to the Second World War a time when Great Britain was threatened by invasion Ruth thought she knew the history of Norfolk
- she's about to find out just how wrong she was & how far someone will go to keep their secrets buried
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With echoes of Daphne du Maurier this is a gorgeously written reading group debut perfect for fans of Kate Morton Tracy Rees & Jenny Ashcroft 400 pages Maine Sarah ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion With nowhere to go fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta Unless they can sign a new pledge class the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu In order to accomplish their goal they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup & men; at the same time Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have
- a sense of individuality The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending & start being themselves
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The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture & geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage It

Includes:: episodes as romantic & dramatic as any in fiction the purchase by the author's great-grandfather of a peasant girl with whom he had fallen in love; the desperate sledge journey in the depths of winter made by her grandmother to intercede with Tsar Aleksandr II for her husband; the extraordinary courtship of her parents; & her Scottish granny being caught up in the abortive revolution of 1905 Eugenie Fraser herself was brought up in Russia but was taken on visits to Scotland She marvellously evokes a child's reactions to two totally different environments sets of customs & family backgrounds while the characters are beautifully drawn & splendidly memorable With the events of 1914 to 1920
- the war with Germany the Revolution the murder of the Tsar & the withdrawal of the Allied Intervention in the north
- came the disintegration of Russia & of family life The stark realities of hunger deprivation & fear are sharply contrasted with the adventures of childhood The reader shares the family's suspense & concern about the fates of its members & relives with Eugenie her final escape to Scotland In The House by the Dvina Eugenie Fraser has vividly & poignantly portrayed a way of life that finally disappeared in violence & tragedy



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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA passionate memoir' Neil Mac Gregor A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in & lost by five different families A remarkable book' Tom Holland Personal & panoramic heart-wrenching yet uplifting this is history at its most alive' AD Miller In 2013 Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power What was once her soul place' now stood empty & derelict A concrete footpath cut through the garden marking where the Berlin Wall had stood for nearly three decades In a bid to save the house from demolition Thomas began to unearth the history of the five families who had lived there a nobleman farmer a prosperous Jewish family a renowned Nazi composer a widow & her children & a Stasi informant Discovering stories of domestic joy & contentment of terrible grief & tragedy & of a hatred handed down through the generations a history of twentieth century Germany & the story of a nation emerged ...

The irresistible new novel set between 1960s Tuscany & present-day Devon from number one bestseller Santa Montefiore Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa just outside her small village & dreams of living there someday When Dante the son of the villa's owner invites her inside she knows that her destiny is there with him But as they grow up they cross an unseen line jeopardizing the very thing they hold most dear Decades later & hundreds of miles away a beautiful old country house hotel on England's Devon coast has fallen on hard times Its owner Marina hires an artist-in-residence to stay the summer & teach the guests how to paint The man she finds is charismatic & wise & begins to pacify the discord in her family & transform the fortunes of the hotel However it soon becomes clear that he is not who he seems From the Italian countryside to the English coast The House by the Sea is a moving & mysterious tale of love forgiveness & the past revealed This book has been published in the US under the title The Mermaid Garden ...