The Rise & Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite. Before Diana Mosley (nee Mitford) became a social pariah, she was a principal member of the Bright Young Things set in London's 1920s & '30s high society. As the young wife of Bryan Guinness, heir to the Guinness family brewing empire, she lived a gilded life until fascist leader Oswald Mosley turned her head. This ground-breaking biography adopts a new approach in exploring the life of Diana Mitford
- removing her from her famous family & fascism to look at the woman behind the myths.
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Welcome to your Little Book of Lists!

A whole book filled with just lists! Notebook goals!

My idea of absolute

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Join our favourite domestic godess in this fabulous insight into the real life of  Mrs Hinch
- like you've never seen her before!

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A man is knocked down outside 221B Baker Street. His dying words speak of a man risen from the grave.

A Viscount has gone

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As snow falls on Baker Street, the wintry city is abuzz with excitement: the Malabar Rose – a fabled & enormous ruby – has been sent as a gift to Queen Victoria by the Marharajah of Marjoudh.

An extraordinary condition is attached: the gem must be displayed at London’s sumptuous Blenheim Hotel. How can the safety of this priceless jewel be assured?

The authorities wisely enlist the help of Sherlock Holmes & his colleague Dr Watson… but fortunately for them, they are also on the receiving end of help from Holmes’s redoubtable housekeeper Mrs Hudson & her able assistant, Flotsam the housemaid.

The Malabar Rose isn’t the only exotic attraction stirring up excitement in the city, however. World famous magician the Great Salmanazar will be amazing the lucky few who can secure tickets at a once-in-a-lifetime spectacular.

Not only that, but the world’s most beautiful woman – the glamorous, if rather risqué, fire dancer Lola Del Fuego – will be joining him on the bill.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781788631334
• Author: Martin Davies
• Publisher: Canelo
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 340
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm















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Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her generation, Dora Jordan played a quite different role offstage as the mistress of one of the sons of George lll. Dora bore him ten children, & they lived in quiet happiness in Bushy Park on the Thames. This ...

Genie Street is a magical place where anything can happen. This is an ideal first chapter book series for children who are gaining in reading confidence & want to progress to reading a proper book. Each book is split into two stories, with large type & plenty of pictures, so that children can read it for themselves, with a sense of achievement. Ideal for Key Stage 1 children. When Daisy & Tom move to Genie Street, they are worried they might be bored. But before long they meet a talking cat called Jinx, & find out that nobody who lives on the street is quite what they seem! Old Mrs Kramer looks like an ordinary old lady, but in fact she is a dragon tamer! What will happens when Daisy & Tom join her for an adventure? Book 1 in the Genie Street series. ...

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage…

‘ Mrs Mc Ginty’s dead!’
‘ How did she die?’




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At the outbreak of the Second World War Constance Miles was living with her husband in the pretty Surrey village of Shere. A prolific correspondent with a keen interest in current affairs, Constance kept a war journal from 1939 to 1943, recording in vivid detail what life was like for women on the Home Front. She writes of the impact of evacuees, of food shortages & the creative uses of what food there was, & the fears of the local populace, who wonder how they will cope. She tells of refugees from central Europe billeted in village houses &, later in the war, of the influx of American servicemen. She travels frequently to London, mourning the destruction of familiar landmarks & recording the devastation of the Blitz, but still finds time for tea in the Str&. A woman of strong convictions, Mrs Miles is not afraid to voice her opinion on public figures & her worries about the social upheavals she feels certain to follow the war. But most of all her journals record an overlooked aspect of the conflict: the impact on communities outside of major cities, who endured hardships we find hard to imagine today. It is a fascinating document that makes for compulsive reading. ...

Daddy mole who has mislaid his spectacles. Morris can’t find them anywhere.

So, he decides to go on without them, trusting

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