This is the first Blandings novel In whuch P.G. Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth his bone-headed younger son the Hon. Freddie Threepwood his log-suffering secretary the Efficient Baxter & Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote without at least one imposter on the premises Blandings Castle is never itself. In Something Fresh there are two each with an eye on a valuable Egytian amulet which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this... ...

Doesn't every girl dream of getting.. .something from Tiffany's? It's Christmas Eve. & on 5th Avenue in New York City two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love. Gary is buying his girlfriend Rachel a charm bracelet. Partly to thank her for paying for their holiday-of-a-lifetime to New York. But mainly because he's left his Christmas shopping far too late. Whereas Ethan's looking for something a little more special
- an engagement ring for the first woman to have made him happy since he lost the love of his life. But when the two men's shopping bags get confused & Rachel somehow ends up with Ethan's ring the couples' lives become intertwined. & as Ethan tries to reunite the ring with the woman it was actually intended for he finds it trickier than expected. Does fate have other ideas for the couples? Or is there simply a bit of Tiffany's magic in the air.. .
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It's 1975. Helen O' Dowd & Sarah Flannery encounter one another briefly under traumatic circumstances. Three years later their lives collide unexpectedly again & for the next thirty years they remain in contact without ever laying eyes on one another again or realising that they once met. As time goes by they share their triumphs & disasters their hopes & their fears. This is a story that begins on a bridge on an autumn afternoon. It's a story of marriage children love & true friendship. ...

Thursday Next Head of Juris Fiction & ex-Spec Ops agent returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two a pair of dodos & Hamlet who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard. Its not going to be easy. Thursdays former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system & the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination. With help from Hamlet her uncle & time-travelling father Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? & why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare? ...

This is a diary packed with famous names & extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail & wonderful observation providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades & a revealing often hilarious & sometimes moving account of Gyles Brandreths unusual life
- as a child living in London in the swinging sixties as a jumper-wearing TV presenter as an MP & government whip & as a royal biographer who has enjoyed unique access to the Queen & her family. Something Sensational to Read on the Train takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride from the era of Dixon of Dock Green to the age of The X Factor from the end of the farthing to the arrival of the euro from the Britain of Harold Macmillan & the Notting Hill race riots to the world of Barack Obama & Lewis Hamilton. With a cast list that runs from Richard Nixon & Richard Branson to Gordon Brown & David Cameron
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Includes:: princes presidents & pop stars as well as three archbishops & any number of actresses
- this is a book for anyone interested in contemporary history politics & entertainment royalty gossip & life itself.




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Mr Tumble is having fun with his friends! From baking in the kitchen to a day at the farm add the stickers to create lots of fun activities for Mr Tumble & all of his friends. With 12 scenes & 4 pages of reusable stickers to play with again & again! ...

A collection of Calvin & Hobbes cartoons. The author won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year & has also illustrated Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons Calvin & Hobbes Yukon Ho! & Weirdos From Another Planet. ...

Lord Edward Corinths fiance Verity Browne returns from Prague with suspected tuberculosis. The only cure for TB in 1938 is rest & a healthy diet so she goes to a private clinic in Henley-on- Thames run by a Cambridge friend of Edwards. Meanwhile Edward investigates a series of murders with a Henley connection. His dentist Eric Silver has been murdered
- shortly after sharing with Edward his final patient his suspicions about the deaths of three of his elderly patients. Silver had identified an entomological connection between the deaths. General Lowther had had a heart attack drinking a wine called Clos des Mouches Hermione Totteridge a well-known gardener had been poisoned by the new insecticide with which she had been experimenting & James Herold had been stung to death by his bees. Edward goes to stay with his old friend Harry Makin inherited a title & a property in Henley. His investigation comes to a thrilling climax during what many believe will be the last Henley Royal Regatta before a new European war. Both Edward & Verity face death from someone or something wicked. A classic murder mystery with as complex a plot as one could hope for & a most engaging pair of amateur sleuths (Sweet Poison") Charles Osborne author of " The Life & Crimes of Agatha Christie". This is a witty & meticulous recreation of the class- ridden middle England of the 1930s...a perfect example of golden-age mystery traditions with the cobwebs swept away
- (" Bones of the Buried") " Guardian". The plot is both intricate & enthralling like Poirot on the high seas & lovingly recorded by an author with a meticulous eye & a huge sense of fun Michael Dobbs."

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It's the week before Hallowe'en & Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained & dreams fulfilled.. . And as two boys trembling on the brink of manhood set out to explore the mysteries of the dark carnival's smoke mazes & mirrors they will also discover the true price of innermost wishes.. . ...

' Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you're sad. Sometimes you're good. Sometimes you're bad.' But one little elephant will always know his mother's love in this picture book treasure from the ever-popular Emma Dodd. Featuring rhyming texts delightful artwork & embellished with foiling throughout. ...