In this hilarious sequel from Raymond Briggs, author of The Snowman & inspiration for The Snowman & Snowdog, a still rather grumpy Father Christmas decides to go on holiday. No-one needs a holiday more than Father Christmas, but where can such a well-known & easily recognized person go? Father Christmas sets off in search of his ideal holiday spot! France, Scotland & Las Vegas are his chosen destinations, but as Father Christmas discovers
- there`s nowhere like home.
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This mini hardback edition of this Christmas bestseller is the perfect stocking-filler. On Christmas Eve every child leaves out a drink & a snack for Father Christmas. Before long he really, really needs a wee but what can he do about it? There`s a long time to wait before he can get home & when he finally does he`s lost his house key! This is a hilarious take on a dilemma that every toddler will identify with! ...

` Father Christmas needs a wee. He`s been drinking drinks since half past three.. .` At each different house that he visits Father Christmas drinks & eats all the goodies left out for him. Before long he really, really, really needs a wee. So much so that he even forgets to leave the presents behind. But he dashes back, delivers all the pressies & flies home at high speed to avoid an embarassing accident.. .there`s just one tiny problem.. .he`s lost his house key! Find out what happens & whether Father Christmas ever gets to relieve himself in this brilliant & fabulously funny counting book from the talented author/illustrator Nicholas Allan. ...

Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different? Turkey & carols, presents & crackers
- they all start to feel a bit... samey.
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Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different? Turkey & carols, presents & crackers
- they all start to feel a bit... samey.
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Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 & one week before Hitler`s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin`s most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. &, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover & reveal the truth
- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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In early 2014, after many years living abroad, Sam Miller returned to his childhood home in London. His father was dying. When the editor, writer, critic & academic Karl Miller died later that year, the obituaries spoke of his brilliance & influence, of how he founded the London Review of Books, & how he had shaped the careers of some of the finest writers & poets of the second half of the twentieth century. But they gave little sense of Karl Miller beyond the world of work: the warm, funny, football-loving family man so adored by his children & grandchildren. In the months after his death, Sam began to write about his father. He had been told, long ago, a family secret involving his parents & a close friend. Now, by reading his father`s papers & with the help of his mother, he was able to piece together a remarkable story. Fathers is the result: a tender, thoughtful exploration of childhood & parenthood, of friendship, love & loyalty. ...

Aristocracy, liberalism, progress, principles...useless words! A Russian doesn`t need them` Returning home after years away at university, Arkady is proud to introduce his clever friend Bazarov to his father & uncle. But their guest soon stirs up unrest on the quiet country estate
- his outspoken nihilist views & his scathing criticisms of the older men expose the growing distance between Arkady & his father. & when Bazarov visits his own doting but old-fashioned parents, his disdainful rejection of traditional Russian life causes even further distress. In Fathers & Sons, Turgeneve created a beautifully-drawn & highly influential portrayal of the clash between generations, at a time just before the end of serfdom, when the refined yet vanishing landowning class was being overturned by a brash new breed that strove to change the world. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin`s original covers.
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Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is? As a boy growing up on the south coast of Engl&, Howard Cunnell`s sense of self was dominated by his father`s absence. Now, years later, he is a father, & his daughter is becoming his son. Starting with his own childhood in the Sussex beachlands, Howard tells the story of the years of self-destruction that defined his young adulthood & the escape he found in reading & the natural world. Still he felt compelled to destroy the relationships that mattered to him. Saved by love & responsibility, Cunnell charts his journey from anger to compassion, as his daughter Jay realizes he is a boy, & a son. Most of all, this is a story about love
- its necessity & fragility, & its unequalled capacity to enable us to be who we are. Deeply thoughtful, searingly honest & exquisitely lyrical, Fathers & Sons is an exploration of fatherhood, masculinity, authenticity & family.
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It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius ` Fatty O` Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty can normally take life as it comes. Right at home in easy-going Fayetteville, Arkansas, he is happily married to his childhood sweetheart Betty, & likes nothing better than the company of good friends Tubby O` Rourke & Porky Flanagan. But when Fatty & Betty head off to Ireland on the trip of a lifetime, they find that they have left their comfort zone far behind. Calamity & mayhem ensue as one mishap after another befalls the beleaguered couple. Can Fatty`s broad shoulders take the strain or will he suffer one indignity too many? Will he get his just deserts, or just dessert? ...