Mr Chartwell" by Rebecca Hunt was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award & shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards New Writer of the Year. July 1964. At home in Kent Winston Churchill wakes to a visitor: someone he hasnt seen for a while a dark mute bulk watching him. Its Mr Chartwell. In Battersea Esther Hammerhans young vulnerable & alone answers the door to her new lodger. Through the glass she sees a vast silhouette. Its Mr Chartwell. Mr Chartwell is a large black dog. He is charismatic & dangerously seductive but as their lives are slowly drawn together can Esther & Winston withstand his strange powerful charms & strong hold? For Mr Chartwells motives are far darker & deeper than they seem. " Charming funny moving finely crafted & engagingly evocative". (" Independent"). " Charming original rewarding entertaining". (" Financial Times"). " Brilliantly original & thought-provoking. Hunt tackles a serious topic with humour & intelligence". (" Sunday Express"). Rebecca Hunt graduated from Central Saint Martins College with a first class honours degree in fine art. She lives & works in London. Her first novel " Mr Chartwell" was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award & shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards New Writer of the Year." ...

' Mr Darcy's Guide to Courtship' is no ordinary Regency courtship manual composed as it is by a Fitzwilliam Darcy as yet unmellowed by contact with Elizabeth Bennet. Full of entirely justified pride & meticulously cultivated prejudice Jane Austen's most famous (and most fancied) hero here reveals the secrets of his success with the opposite sex offering hints to both ladies & gentlemen on the rules of courtship including making oneself agreeable identifying an appropriate partner & how to escape the unwanted attentions of rogues & fortune-hunters. Also
Includes:: beauty tips from Caroline Bingley thoughts on the improper courtship techniques of Messrs Wickham & Mr Collins reflections on spinsterhood by Miss Emma Woodhouse & Darcy's advice to his many illustrious correspondents including Lord Byron the Duke of Wellington & Mr Willoughby of Combe Magna.
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An annual taking the gardener on a journey through the gardening year as a friendly uncle looking over the garden wall helping you out by answering the obvious questions gardeners ask
- & some not so obvious ones too! Illustrated with Mr Digwells up to date cartoons long a feature of the Daily Mirror Mr Digwells latest Annual is easy to understand & gives you the right information to produce wonderful gardens fantastic specimen plants perfect lawns & stunning shrubberys. This is a reference book you will turn to time & again & hopefully realise that Old School Mr Digwell is just as up to date as ever he was. For a perfect contemporary garden Mr Digwell is the best companion.
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He called her disparagingly a 'flirt & a rattle'. She was a wealthy widow looking for adventure. He was a young Jew twelve years her junior but willing to play. Neither of them knew then that one day he would say I owe this lady all'. Queen Victoria called the new Mrs Disraeli 'vulgar' but created her a Viscountess. Their love story threads its way through Victorian society -- dazzling powerful & exciting -- & ends amongst the beech trees of Buckinghamshire. We meet the great people of that age: see them through the sharp amused eyes of an eccentric one time little milliner whose love created a great prime minister & a great statesman. ...

In 1776 Foote's was the most talked-of name in the English-speaking world. By 1777 it was almost unmentionable. Samuel Foote friend of David Garrick & Dr Johnson is the greatest lost figure of the eighteenth century; his story defies belief & has only been forgotten for reasons both laughable & shocking. Foote's rise to fame was based on three unrelated accidents: his extraordinary gifts as an impressionist a murder within his family which he turned into a true-crime bestseller & the loss of his leg after a disastrous practical joke. Out of this was born the most singular career in stage history. He flouted convention in transvestite roles evaded the censors by selling his scurrilous satires as ' Tea Parties' wrote a series of plays for one-legged actors -- accordingly not much revived -- & established London's Theatre Royal Haymarket. Then came two scandalous trials that rocked Georgian high society. Trials of such magnitude they kept America's Declaration of Independence from the front pages of the London papers. In a unique conflation of biography & social & medical history award-winning historian Ian Kelly uncovers the hidden world of 'the Hogarth of the stage'. From Sheridan to Dickens to Dudley Moore Foote's influence continues but Mr Foote's Other Leg is not just a tragicomic tale of this Oscar Wilde of the eighteenth century it is also the story of the first media storm the first true-crime bestseller the first victim of celebrity culture & a joyous hop around the mad theatre of London life -- high & low. ...

Kate Winslet reads the second riotously funny book in the Mr Gum series by Andy Stanton. Good evening. OK this books a bit hard to describe. Theres this gingerbread man with electric muscles see? & hes as rich as a mushroom right? & Mr Gum & Billy William are planning to get the cash yeah? & its up to Polly to save the day. & theres a funfair & hot dogs & Friday OLeary shouts out some crazy stuff &...hey that wasnt so hard to describe after all. SEE YA! ...

An irresistible laughter-inducing romp
- Sunday Times Good evening." Ok this books a bit hard to describe. Theres this gingerbread
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Mr Gum returns in the fifth shamelessly hilarious book... Good evening. Do you like bears called Padlock? Course you do. Do you like hot-air balloons? Course you do. Do you like tall sailing ships with mad sea captains & horrifying old villains & words like wab! tungler & kelp? COURSE you do! Well guess what you lucky little nibbleheads? This books got all of those things
- & a lot more besides. Its a rollicker! Its a frolicker! Its a funtime sun-time yollicker! So what you waiting for? Get reading!
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Kate Winslet reads the fourth riotously funny book in the Mr Gum series by Andy Stanton. Good evening children on this dark & windy night. Now come gather round the fireplace for tis time for strange tales to be spun. Like the tale of Polly & that old tumbledown windmill by the riverside. But just what is the windmills terrible secret? Why is Mr Gum lurk-lurk-lurkin about? & how much does Old Granny know? Gather closer children for all shall be revealed...BRRR! SPOOKY! ...

Follow Polly & Friday on another crazy adventure on the streets of Lamonic Bibber. & watch out for that dastardly villain Mr Gum not to mention his sidekick Billy William. But what could that fiend be up to this time? Could there be 8 ladies all called Pamela? Will Friday OLeary have to wrestle a man-eating Octopus? Who knows? Either way itll be barking bonkers. But dont believe us believe them... ...