Sealed with a sticky paw! First class correspondence from the nation`s favourite bear, Paddington. Dear Aunt Lucy, I expect this will come as a great surprise to you, but not only have I arrived in Engl&, but I have an address. I`m staying at number 32 Windsor Gardens & it isn`t at all like the Home for Retired Bears...` This delightfully engaging series of letters from Paddington to his Aunt Lucy in Peru, follows his new experiences in London while showcasing his uniquely charming & hilarious take on the world. From stowing away on a ship, to working as a barber, there is certainly never a dull moment. ...

Is there someone you love from the bottom of your heart? Do you sometimes find it difficult to tell them how you feel? This gorgeous book will help you. The heart-warming rhyme will touch the heart of the one you love, & express everything you feel in the cutest way. The clean design & contemporary styling will appeal to existing Peter Rabbit fans & is sure to catch the eye of anyone looking for a gorgeous way to say `I love You`. ...

Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar for a celebration of love & all the ways to tell that special someone how much you care. This delightful little book features Eric Carle`s bright & distinctive artwork of favourite things, from pretty sweets to sparkling stars, with The Very Hungry Caterpillar making an appearance alongside each one. ...

This must-have guide series to India is packed with savvy insider knowledge. The best experiences in India are hidden in the narrow lanes of the old city where the five-star chef eats on his day off. They are in the home studios of designers & the workshops of seventh generation craftsmen. The highly successful Love Travel Guides series is the only luxury travel guide series dedicated to India. Entries are personally sourced from in-the-know locals including chefs & fishermen, artists & architects, writers & taxi drivers, before being personally tested. All information presented made it there under one simple criterion: if it makes you fall in love with the city, it is included in this book; otherwise it`s out. Each book is divided into various sections such as: Musts; Delicious; Fabulous; Gorgeous; Adventurous; Wildly Adventurous; Essential; & Share With Love. Completely h&-made, each guide is lovingly bound using old Indian paper making techniques & covered with khadi, the fabric of India`s independence. Truly unique in its presentation & style, these are beautifully presented guides for the independent-minded traveller with time to spare & money to spend. ...

Love Goa belongs to the series of beautiful cloth-bound guidebooks for the luxury Vagabond, containing all the savvy inside ...

A collection of Szerb`s shorter fiction, which superbly demonstrates his development from young idealist to mature ironist ” Here you have Szerb in miniature...revealing his multi-faceted genius” Nicholas Lezard, Guardian This selection of Antal Szerb`s stories & novellas, set first in a quasi-mythical past & then in the London & Paris of the Thirties, provides an exhilarating guide to the writer`s development, from precocious beginnings to a masterful maturity. In these unforgettable tales-two of which are new to this edition-Szerb displays his irrepressible love of life & the gentle irony that became his hallmark. Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Though of Jewish descent, he was baptised at an early age & remained a lifelong Catholic. He rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, through studies of Ibsen & Blake & histories of English, Hungarian & world literature. He was a prolific essayist & reviewer, ranging across all the major European languages. Debarred by successive Jewish laws from working in a university, he was subjected to increasing persecution, & finally murdered in a forced labour camp in 1945. Pushkin Press publishes his novels The Pendragon Legend, Oliver VII & his masterpiece Journey by Moonlight, as well as the historical study The Queen`s Necklace & Love in a Bottle & Other Stories. ...

Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitford`s bestselling novel. The Pursuit of Love. ` How lovely
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M.F.K. Fisher`s personal, intimate culinary essays are well-loved American classics, combining recipes with her anecdotes, reminiscences, cultural observations & passionate storytelling. Auden, Fisher saw eating as inextricably bound up with living well. Whether reflecting on an epic lunch served by a fanatical waitress, the life-giving properties of wine, quails whose glorious smell `would rouse Lazarus` or how the love of food can save a marriage, each piece is a perfectly-crafted work of art. ...

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland & in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang`s achievement is her short fiction
- tales of love, longing, & the shifting & endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics & psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. ” Love in a Fallen City”, the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, introduces readers to the stark & glamorous vision of a modern master.
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The 1985 smash hit now in facsimile reprinted Penguin paperback. 51 years, nine months & four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza`s impassioned advances & married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half century, Florentino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When her husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life on the twilight of their lives? An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love in this bittersweet classic. ...