`I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.' Four Meals for Fourpence is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's clear eye, she describes the sights, sounds & smells of the old East End of London: shopping in the market, men waiting for work at the dock gates, the rituals of washday. She also describes the fear
- of illness, of unemployment, of the workhouse
- that hung over her family & thousands like them, & her determination that her own children would never know the kind of poverty she had experienced.

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The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge & broke a world record along the way, proving it's never too late to go on a life-changing adventure, experience the beauty & power of the elements, push the very limits of your abilities & rediscover who you are. ...

The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical conventions & created a more realistic form of drama that used the stage as a forum for debating social problems, notably the rights of the individual, & the damaging effects of orthodoxy.

This collection of four plays contains, A Doll’s House (1879) & Hedda Gabler (1890), his most striking depictions of the struggle by individuals
- especially women
- to realize their full potential; it also presents Peer Gynt (1867), an early verse tour-de-force, not originally intended for the stage, on the nature of the self, & The Master Builder (1892), a play that explores the clash between the old & the new in richly metaphorical language.

This collection returns to the acclaimed translations of William Archer (1856-1924), who through these renditions played a major role in promoting Ibsen’s reputation outside Norway. Archer was also a critic, who with actress Elizabeth Robbins & dramatist George Bernard Shaw was central in the modernisation of English theatre.

This paperback book has 390 pages & measures: 19.7 x 12.6 x 2cm







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Features poems from Chaucer, Shakespeare & Wordsworth to Whitman, Dickinson & Thoreau; from Keats, Blake & Hopkins to Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes & Amy Clampitt. This work engages with the seasons &, through them, with the ways in which we understand & engage with the world outside ourselves. ...

From glittering palazzos to humble seaside bars, from the derelict & forgotten islands to thriving vineyards, Manuela Darling-Gansser s journey across Italy reveals authentic recipes & long-held food traditions. Like its landscape, Italy s food is one of contrasts rich spices, fresh herbs, exquisite cheeses, hearty pastas, decadent desserts, & plenty of oranges, lemons & pistachios. & all Italians would agree, the best food is cooked at home. Drawn from the best of Italian cuisine, Manuela s recipes are always tempting & make it easy to introduce the flavours of Italy into your home. Divided into four chapters: Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter, this collection of Manuela s favourite recipes is sure to become a kitchen favourite. ...

Transform chance into strategy in this riveting board game that stretches your intellect & challenges your ability to think strategically. With versions for both junior & adult players, Foursite pushes you to juggle the payoff between risk-taking & caution, in your quest for victory. FOURSITE is a game that stretches the intellect, tests your ability to multi-strategise & provides a different set of challenges every time you play it. Quick & easy to set up, it relies on a small degree of chance & a high degree of strategic thinking & ingenuity to outwit the opposition. Consisting of 74 wooden tiles, each containing four symbols, FOURSITE allows point scoring based on your ability to match symbols, capture territory, & create formations around a fifth symbol. With versions included for both junior & adult players, Foursite pushes you to juggle the payoff between risk-taking & caution, in your quest for victory.
- Develops concentration skills & mathematical patterning abilities
- Provides plenty of challenge for experienced strategy game enthusiasts
- Attractive wooden design makes it a perfect coffee table gift
- 2 games in one for 2-4 players Product

Size: 22.5 x 22 x 5cm





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The problem with being a bounty hunter is it's all on-the-job training. & Stephanie Plum is still learning the ways to get yourself killed. Take the case of Maxine Norwicki... When Maxine failed to turn up for her day in court, Stephanie was given the task of bringing her in. Simple. Except Maxine's boyfriend has now begun receiving mysterious, coded notes from the runaway that hint at buried treasure. In fact the notes are so indecipherable that Stephanie has to call on the help of Sally Sweet, giant drag queen & code-breaker extraordinaire. & Steph's knight errant, cop Joe Morelli. is also proving useful
- although he can't decide what he wants most: Maxine's bounty or Stephanie's body. Meanwhile a friend loses a finger, a mother is scalped, an apartment is firebombed & a store clerk is murdered. & out in the street, the crazy treasure hunt game goes on...' Stephanie Plum is ass-kicking form...utterly delightful.' Cosmopolitan ' As smart & sassy as high-gloss wet paint.' Time Out ' Among the great joys of contemporary crime fiction.' GQ ' All the easy class & wit that you expect to find in the best American TV Comedy, but too rarely find in modern fiction.' GQ
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The Foe from the Future The Grange is haunted, so they say. This stately home in the depths of Devon has been the site of many an apparition. & now people are turning up dead. The ghosts are wild in the forest. But the Doctor doesn't believe in ghosts. The Valley of Death Will the Doctor defeat the plans of the malevolent Godrin? ...

Sometimes being the grim reaper really is, well, grim. & since Charley's last case went so awry, she has taken a couple of months off to wallow in the wonders of self-pity. But when a woman shows up on her doorstep, convinced someone is trying to kill her, Charley has to pull herself together. In the meantime, the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, is out of prison & out of Charley's life, as per her wishes & several perfectly timed death threats. But his absence has put a serious crimp in her sex life. While there are other things to consider, like the fact that the city of Albuquerque has been taken hostage by an arsonist, Charley is having a difficult time staying away. Especially when it looks like Reyes may be involved. Just when life was returning to normal, Charley is thrust back into the world of crime, punishment & the devil in blue jeans in this hilarious fourth instalment in the New York Times bestselling series. ...

Books Fantasy Fiction Books Welcome to the brutal & elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, & every night could be your last... Twenty-year-old violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books & history. Now, the commanding general
- also known as her tough-as-talons mother
- has ordered violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else & your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter
- like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful & ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, & the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. Alliances will be forged. Lives will be lost. Traitors will become allies... or even lovers. But sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780349436999 •†Author:   Rebecca Yarros •†Publisher:†  Piatkus •†Format:†  Hardback •†Pages:† 512 •†Dimensions:† 16.4 x 4.8 x 23.6 cm


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