When Aunt Lucy tells William that a busy day is a happy day William does his best to keep himself very busy indeed. Unfortunately not everyone appreciates his efforts to cheer up Christmas Day
- & when a conjuring trick with an egg goes very badly wrong William finds himself in more trouble than ever! These fourteen fantastic Just William stories are as funny as ever.
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The Adventures of the Wishing Chair When Mollie & Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present they discover the most extraordinary thing: a chair that can fly & grant wishes! The Wishing-Chair takes them on some marvellous adventures
- to a castle where they narrowly escape from a giant & rescue Chinky the pixie to the Land of Dreams & to a disappearing island! Be whisked away by Enid Blyton's magical Wishing-Chair stories. The Wishing-Chair Again Mollie & Peter are home for the holidays & they long to see their pixie friend Chinky & their magic Wishing-Chair. Together they have wonderful adventures but what happens when the Wishing-Chair is stolen & then gets its wings cut off by the naughty Slipperies? Be whisked away by Enid Blyton's magical Wishing-Chair stories. More Wishing-Chair Stories Mollie & Peter & Chinky the pixie have more amazing adventures on their Wishing-Chair. They find gold at the end of the rainbow they meet brownies & they visit the Land of Wishes. Best of all they get to help Santa Claus deliver presents for Christmas! Be whisked away by Enid Blyton's magical Wishing-Chair stories.
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In a masterpiece of storytelling Margery Allingham sends her elegant & engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household where there have been two suspicious deaths. & if poisoning were not enough there are also anonymous letters sudden violence & a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business & Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth. ...

A genuinely funny & original novel about mental illness growing up & parental breakdown from much-loved comedienne Jo Br&. Alice is five & convinced she needs five personalities to cope. Her family tucked in a cottage in deepest Herefordshire are a bit weird. Her mother Gina is obsessed with the weatherman on the local news & when she climbs naked onto the roof with Alices pet guinea pig in her arms she is whisked off to the local psychiatric hospital. Keith Alices father tries to keep calm but his patience is severely tested by his in-laws. The only thing that gives Alices hope is her love for Morrissey of The Smiths... ...

Mr. Morello is a slightly confused pear-shaped 45 year-old Italian immigrant living with his larger plump wife & three children. As a family they share a curious fondness for all things British & yet by dint of their Italian heritage struggle to come to terms with some of our more esoteric characteristics. Mr. Morello a fastidious & prodigious letter writer takes it upon himself to correspond with some of the great institutions & individuals--from Tony Blair George W. Bush The Lord Chancellor Richard Branson & the Archbishop of Canterbury to Gordon Ramsay & The Bank of Engl&. All in an attempt to have his seemingly endless list of quandaries answered by the experts & at times in vain attempts to secure employment for his idling children. These hilarious letters composed in Mr. Morellos bizarre English-Italian hybrid vernacular & plethora of responses from the great & not so good follow a long & successful tradition of prankish correspondence as pioneered by Lazlo Toth & Henry Root. This good-natured exploration of British customs & idiosyncrasies is written with gentle & generous humor. ...

The Morgan Motor Company
- now the last independent British car manufacturer
- forged its reputation with a remarkable range

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In 1962 a small Morgan sports car TOK258 created history by defeating factory teams run by leading international manufacturers in the famous 24 hour race at the Le Mans circuit. The car crossed the finishing line on Sunday 24th June having completed 2256 miles in the twenty four hours from the start time on Saturday afternoon to win the 2 litre GT class. Although privately owned the car was entered & supported by the Morgan Motor Company & driven by Chris Lawrence & Richard Shepherd-Barron. This new colour 50th anniversary edition of the original book by Ronnie Price now with racing driver Richard Shepherd-Barron as co-author covers the concept preparation & official testing at the circuit. It gives a blow-by-blow account of the race with anecdotes memorabilia material & photographs only recently made available. ...

Morgan: 100 Years traces the history of the Morgan Motor Company
- the only car maker in the world to survive for a century under
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Welcome to Morganville. Youll never want to leave
- Morganville is a small town filled with unusual characters
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The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion Tolkiens epic tale of war. After the The Lord of the Rings was at last achieved J R R Tolkien turned his attention once again to the Matter of the Elder Days. The text of the Annals of Aman the Blessed Land in the far West is given in full; while in writings hitherto unknown is seen the nature of the problems that Tolkien explored in his later years as new & radical ideas portending upheaval in the old narratives emerged at the heart of the mythology & as the destinies of Men & Elves mortals & immortals ecame of central significance together with a vastly enlarged perception of the evil of Melkor the Shadow upon Arda. The second part of this history of the later Silmarillion is concerned with developments in the legends of Beleriand after the completion of The Lord of the Rings. ...