This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent sexual disruptiveness & bad manners Here are subversive tales ? by Ama Ata Aidoo Jane Bowles Angela Carter Colette Bessie Head Jamaica Kincaid & Katherine Mansfield among others ? all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses & revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence & deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter some of these stories celebrate toughness & resilience some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice. ...

Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank Mc Court's sad funny bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s & in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship & suffering in Brooklyn tenements & Limerick slums
- too many children too little money his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brings the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage & survival against apparently overwhelming odds. Written with the vitality & resonance of a work of fiction & with a remarkable absence of sentimentality ' Angela's Ashes' is imbued on every page with Frank Mc Court's distinctive humour & compassion. Out of terrible circumstances he has created a glorious book in the tradition of Ireland's literary masters which bears all the marks of a great classic.
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The official print edition of the internet phenomenon. Already over 8 000 five star different reader reviews. (And counting.) It's been six weeks since the angels of the apocalypse destroyed the world as we know it. Only pockets of humanity remain. Savage street gangs rule the day while fear & superstition rule the night. When angels fly away with a helpless girl her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back... ...

In Ariostos epic sixteenth century poem Orlando Furioso the beautiful Angelica is rescued by the valiant Ruggiero. He swoops in riding a hippogriff a fantastical winged creature the offspring of a griffin & a mare. Volatore as this hippogriff calls himself has escaped Ariostos poem after being trapped within it for centuries & is now determined to find Angelica himself. Landing in San Francisco he meets Angelica Greenberg & the unlikely couple falls in love. But events constantly conspire to separate them & Volatore sets out to find the perfect form he must embody to consummate their love. Angelica Lost & Found contains life-enhancing wisdom & emanates with wicked drollery aesthetic insight & the romance of Russell Hoban at his best. ...

Angelica the Angel Fairy makes sure we all treat each other kindly at Christmas time. But when Jack Frost steals her magic items everyone from Brownies to the residents of an old folks home start acting up! Can Kirsty & Rachel restore order in time for Christmas? ...

Angelina & the Royal Wedding"
- a wonderful story by Katharine Holabird & Helen Craig. Angelina is full of excitement. She
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Angelina & Henry visit the Royal Palace of Mouseland to help teach the princesses a special ballet for the King & Queen's wedding anniversary. To Angelina's horror Miss Lilly is confined to her bed with a terrible cold & Angelina is asked to be in charge. When she finds the 'perfect' princesses squabbling in the ballroom she realizes they are just like other mouselings & loses her nerves. She soon teaches them to be magic fairies & the ballet is a great success. ...

Angelina is a pretty little mouse who wants more than anything else to become a ballerina. She dances all the time
- even when
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Angelina is a pretty little mouse who wants more than anything else to become a ballerina. She dances all the time
- even when
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Angelina the dancing mouse has been enchanting little ballerinas for 30 years. In this larger format anniversary paperback picture book she will inspire a whole new generation. Angelina wants more than anything else to become a ballerina & dances all the time
- even when she's supposed to be doing chores or getting ready for school. Her parents Mr & Mrs Mouseling are in despair
- but then they think of a plan. They decide it's time for Angelina to go to ballet school! She works hard for years & years until she becomes the famous ballerina Mademoiselle Angelina! This wonderful story
- a firm favourite of little girls
- has captured the hearts & minds of toddler after toddler & has already become a classic spawning a whole library of Angelina books as well as a television series & even a musical. This new bigger book only underlines the incredible importance of Angelina Ballerina & celebrates her thirtieth birthday.



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