It's Christmas 1845 & Haworth is in the grip of a freezing winter. 

Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë are rather losing

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Meet Mr Tiddles
- he's not your everyday cat. He's a cat with attitude! When Harry gets a cat of his own, he does everything to
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that its very existence has to remain a jealously guarded secret. Fatal consequences lie in store for 'bona fide' guests & uninvited visitors alike, while the sybaritic luxury of the place is evoked in an effortless prose style which is quintessentially F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also featured in this volume are The Cut-Glass Bowl, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, An Alcoholic Case, The Lees of Happiness, The Lost Decade & Babylon Revisited. ...

Meet the Diamond Brothers, the world's worst private-detective agency, in this Chandler-esque spoof from the creator of the

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Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She & her sisters, dreamy Martine, glamourous Rochelle & tough Jude, could hardly be more different from each other but their Mum's tried to teach them the value of sticking together. Now Mum's expecting yet another baby & she's convinced this one is a boy. Time to move to a bigger place, she insists, & the girls scarcely have time to protest before they find themselves at their new house. Its rough, dilapidated & filthy & before they've even unpacked the furniture, Mum goes into labour! By the time Mum comes home with the new baby, Jude's been in a fight, Rochelle's found a new boyfriend & Martine's stormed off. ...

As Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, Andrew Marr offers a vivid account not only of the Queen, but also of the country over which she has reigned for six decades. Turning his attention to the monarch
- & to the monarchy, chronicling the Queen's pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from public gaze & making a strong case for the institution itself. Thematically arranged, rather than chronologically, Marr dissects the Queen's political relationships, crucially those with her prime ministers; examing her role as Head of the Commonwealth of Nations; he looks at what the Queen actually does
- from opening hospitals to meetings with visiting heads of state & other dignitaries
- & looks at why she spends 3 hours every night reading the contents of the red boxes sent over from Downing Street. Marr also looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 & how the monarchy
- & the monarch
- have had to change & adapt as a result. indeed, he argues that under her watchful eye, the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized & made as for for purpose in the 21st century as it was when she came to the throne & a 'new Elizabethan age' was ushered in.




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With the flair for narrative & the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch ? & to the monarchy, chronicling the Queens pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from the public gaze, & making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged thematically, rather than chronologically, Marr dissects the Queens political relationships, crucially those with her Prime Ministers; he examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth, & her deep commitment to that Commonwealth of nations; he looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 & how the monarchy ? & the monarch ? have had to change & adapt as a result. Indeed he argues that under her watchful eye, the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized & made as fit for purpose in the twenty-first century as it was when she came to the throne & a ?new Elizabethan age? was ushered in. ...

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The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life & values has remained in print, a source of delight to generations of readers, & a major literary influence, much imitated but never equalled. If you don't recognise yourself at some point in The Diary you are probably less than human. If you can read it without laughing aloud you have no sense of humour. ...

'12 June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, & I hope you will be a great source of comfort & supportï ½. In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank & her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family & a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexeï ½, fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary. An intimate record of tension & struggle, adolescence & confinement, anger & heartbreak, this is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank. ...