Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady" Britain's oldest women's weekly in her hilarious diary "A Diary of The Lady: My First Year & a Half as Editor". ' The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty tatty disorganized & impossibly old-fashioned set in an age of doilies & flag-waving patriotism & jam still for tea some sunny day.' Appointed editor of " The Lady"
- the oldest women's weekly in the world
- Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start how do you become an editor when you've never well edited? How do you turn a venerable title full of ads for walk-in baths during the worst recession ever? & forget doubling the circulation in a year
- what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants? Will Rachel save " The Lady"
- or sink it? " Action-packed entertaining marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist & has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing". (" Sunday Times"). " She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her away from a penis". (Mrs Julia Budworth co-owner " The Lady"). "A total romp wonderfully readable unflinchingly described". (" Guardian"). " Hysterical. For the first time everyone is talking about " The Lady" for reasons other than nannies". (Piers Morgan). Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels & two volumes of diaries. " The Mummy Diaries" " Notting Hell" " Shire Hell" & "A Diary of The Lady" are all available now from Penguin."



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The cult classic that can still change your life! Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart -- & in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice anything can happen. Entertaining humorous scary shocking subversive The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time. ...

As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it modern science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying heartbeat of nature. In Dice World acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe uncovering the truths & lies behind probability & statistics explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every great success in business & demonstrating the possibilities quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers & undergoing teleportation. He explores how the 'clockwork universe' imagined by Newton in which everything could be predicted given enough data was disproved bit by bit to be supplanted by chaos theory & quantum physics. Clegg reveals a world in which not only is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things. Forget the clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World a unique portrait of a startlingly complex cosmos from the bizarre microscopic world of the quantum to the unfathomable mechanics of planetary movements where very little is as it seems... ...

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Venetia Fox is Londons most sought-after actress darling of the demi-monde & every noblemans desire. But shes about to face her toughest role yet
- seducing a confession from the devilishly handsome & very dangerous Lord Linwood to bring her fathers murderer to justice! She might have the whole of London fooled but Linwood can see through Venetias ardent attempts to persuade him to open up. His past is murky but hes no criminal. Her interest in him has Linwood intrigued
- he might just have to play Miss Fox at her own seductive game... Gentlemen of Disrepute Rebellious rule-breakers ready to wed!

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Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton
- Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radios greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly
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Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton
- Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radios greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly
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This is a full cast dramatisation of a classic Dick Barton mystery recorded in 1946 rediscovered in the National Film & Sound Archive of Australia. Dick Barton" rose to popularity in the 1940s in the first long running radio serial. Originally broadcast in 1946 it went out each weekday evening for the next 5 years. At its peak it had an audience of 15 million. This vintage recording with nostalgic appeal is guaranteed to have " Dick Barton" Fans old & new on the edge of their seats." ...

This is a new title in the fantastic First Reading" series aimed at children who are beginning to read. When young Dick Whittington hears that the streets of London are paved with gold he travels to the big city to seek his fortune. Things dont quite turn out as hed hoped but can a kind man & a cat solve all Dicks problems? It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. It is a great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership." ...

A remarkably visual writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870) emerged from a tradition where illustrations formed a significant part of both serial & book publishing. At the centenary of his birth Dickens & the Artists" explores the novelists artistic opinions & connections. His tastes are manifest in his novels his magazine Household Words & his journalism. Dickens engaged with the art of the Old Masters commenting forthrightly on the latest changes at the National Gallery & recording his visits to museums during his tours of Europe. As well as exploring Dickens own views the distinguished contributors reveal his influence on Victorian artists. He had long & close friendships with some of the leading artists of his time including Clarkson Stanfield Daniel Maclise Frank Stone & William Powell Frith. These & other artists depicted scenes from his novels or drew inspiration from his subjects & characterizations that continue to influence our image of Dickensian England today." ...

The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide & the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twists workhouse had been found & made public the news that both the workhouse & Dickenss old home were still standing near Londons Telecom Tower. This book by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings presents the story for the first time & shows that the two periods Dickens lived in that part of London
- before & after his fathers imprisonment in a debtors prison
- were profoundly important to his subsequent writing career.

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