When seventy-year-old Maura Murphy discovered she had cancer she left her husband of fifty years & started writing her memoirs. Born chronically ugly & as cross as a briar into a poor rural homestead in 1920s Ireland Maura lived much of her adult life in England where she raised nine children & fought to keep together a family ravaged by poverty & alcohol. The voice of a silent generation of an immigrant-Irish underclass Maura Murphys tough & remarkable life is a compellingly written account of struggle & survival like no other. With all the immediacy & impact of Frank Mc Courts prize-winning ANGELAS ASHES Mauras voice is feisty funny & fearless. & she needed to be all those things to survive an extraordinary series of privations & abuses. Her story is compelling & upbeat despite everything. ...

Mum is ill & Dad has to go to work so Lily will have to go to Melanies house for the day. Dad says shell have lots of fun but theres a problem: Lily doesnt want to go! Join Lily as she braves Melanies house & realises that doing new things neednt be scary after all... ...

Weve all been there. Some kids still are. Looking under the bed for the bogeyman experiencing the delights of odd socks or suffering from (our own & other peoples) bad breff" as Gez so charmingly puts it. Yet Gez isnt always so grounded in real life & the authentic language of the school playground & the top deck of the bus. Sometimes he goes off into the absurdest grossest of fantasies with Spike-Milligan-esque poems like Gnome Sweet Gnome & Steve & His Secret Agent Underpants. Not to mention Henry Meek who can make his bottom squeak & saves a climber lost in the mountains with this unusual talent." ...

This is a collection of wise & wacky words of advice from the bestselling & award-winning author of Why Eating Bogeys Is Good For You". From the marvellous mind of Mitchell Symons comes such gems of wisdom as: You cant trust a dog to watch your food. Why buy shampoo when real poo is free? Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time as you wont have a leg to stand on. & if getting even doesnt work then just get odd." ...

David Melling is one of the leading childrens author/illustrators today & his second book about Douglas the little brown bear is as funny & compelling as the first. It combines brilliantly imaginative illustrations with an endearing sense of what it is like to be a small child learning about the world. Douglas dad gives him a wonderful new woolly hat & he races outside to show it off. In his excitement he doesnt realise that it is unravelling... His friends have helpful but useless ideas of how to put things right & it is left to the little bear to work out for himself the best thing to do... ...

After a bad break up doesnt every girl want the same things? * For her ex-boyfriend to stay single forever...* Or maybe emigrate to a remote uninhabited island? * Better still that shed never met him in the first place! But what if one of those wishes came true? Tess is heartbroken when Seb breaks up with her & cant help blaming herself. If only shed done things differently. If only she could make right all her regrets... But she cant. Its over. She has to forget about him. Drunk & upset on New Years Eve she wishes shed never met him. But when she wakes up to discover this dream has come true she realises she has a chance. To do it all over again. & to get it right this time... ...

Dont You Want Me" is the second novel by bestselling author India Knight. Sex
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Donts for Husbands & Donts for Wives are facsimile editions of the original books published by A&C Black in 1913. Each pocket-sized book contains hundreds of snippets of entertaining advice for a happy marriage which rings true almost 100 years after it was written. The reissued titles are ideal Christmas stocking fillers & gifts for weddings engagements & anniversaries. Advice appears under the following chapters: 1. Personalities 2. How to Avoid Discord 3. Habits 4. Financial Matters 5. Evenings at Home 6. Jealousy 7. Recreation 8. Food 9. Dress 10. Entertaining 11. Household Management 12. Children Among the bon mots there is much wisdom. They would make great stocking fillers or wedding anniversary gifts! Good Book Guide (October 2007) ...

Created by Jim Davis the Garfield comic strip now appears in 2 570 journals worldwide & is read by some 263 million people around the globe making it... The world's most widely syndicated comic strip in history as recorded by Guinness World Records. Here are the latest two new titles in this bestselling series which now boasts sales of almost 7 million copies. Each title contains over 120 daily strips...not yet seen in book format. ...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. It's a dreadful shock for Horrid Henry when Perfect Peter is born & despite his best
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- efforts he can't manage to get rid of him. As Peter gets bigger Henry gets crosser adn crosser but the day comes when Henry inadvertently finds himself saving Peter & discovers that its rather nice to be a hero.

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