Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway" continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time space madness & regret. This " Penguin Classics" edition is edited by Stella Mc Nichol with an introduction & notes by Elaine Showalter. Past present & future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway elegant & vivacious is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh & dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood. In another part of London war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked & on the brink of madness slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation. Their experiences mingling yet never quite meeting Virginia Woolf masterfully portrays a serendipitous unity of inner lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of " The Bloomsbury Group". This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from " Mrs Dalloway" (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel " The Waves" (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive " Orlando" (1928) & "A Room of One's Own" (1929) a passionate feminist essay. If you enjoyed " Mrs Dalloway" you might like James Joyce's " Ulysses" also available in " Penguin Classics". " The book's celebrated stream of consciousness is one of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel." (" New Yorker")." ...

Stephen Frys secret wife speaks out at last... Enjoyed a nice cuppa this morning with a Hob Nob & Jeremy Kyle. There was a woman on there whod been married 16 years without realising her husband was gay. Extraordinary! Which reminds me its our 16th anniversary in a few weeks. What a coincidence. Stephen Fry
- actor writer raconteur & wit. Cerebral & sophisticated a true Renaissance man. Or is he? Finally his secret double life
- the womanizing the window-cleaning the kebabs the karaoke
- is exclusively revealed by Edna his devoted wife & mother of his five six or possibly seven children. These diaries take us through a year in the life of an unwitting celebrity wife & are rumoured to include:
- scandalous nocturnal shenanigans
- advice on childcare
- 101 things to do with a tin of Spam. A good diary should be like a good husband
- a constant companion a source of inspiration & ideally bound in leather.
- Edna Fry twitter.com/ Mrs Stephen Fry







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Behind every great man there stands a great woman so the adage goes
- & never does it apply more wholeheartedly than in Barry
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A old widow is killed in the parlour of her cottage! Mrs Mc Ginty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger James Bentley whose clothes revealed traces of the victims blood & hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didnt look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows -- what he didnt realise was that his own life was now in great danger! ...

Now in paperback Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious Women" gives the last word on careers for real women. It's all about who you know & what you know. You can't have it all but you have to do it all. Saying 'no' is the single most important life skill for women. Welcome to the world of Mrs Moneypenny. This high-flying super-connected super-woman is on a mission: to help you get ahead at work. In this incisive hilariously frank book Mrs Moneypenny tells you everything you need to know from nurturing your network to the art of outsourcing. Whether you're just starting out or a rung from the top let Mrs Moneypenny be your ultimate mentor. " Ambitious or not this book will amuse you provoke you challenge you help you & cheer you up". (Jeanette Winterson' " The Times"). "A masterclass in how to succeed & stay sane.. .incisive self-deprecating & hilarious". (" Management Today"). " This wisdom-filled guide obliterates the myth that women can "have it all"...and redefines success & happiness for everyone" (Arianna Huffington President & Editor-in-Chief of " The Huffington Post"). For 12 years Mrs Moneypenny has been entertaining readers of the " Financial Times" with her views on everything from Wellington boots to waxing. She runs her own business while juggling three children (Cost Centres 1 2 & 3) & a sports-obsessed husb&. She has acquired a large mortgage several academic degrees of varying uselessness & a passion for shooting innocent birds. She presents the Channel 4 series " Superscrimpers" & the " Mrs Moneypenny" show has run at the Edinburgh Fringe off-Broadway & the Hay Festival. Heather Mc Gregor is a leading London headhunter. She owns & runs Taylor Bennett the executive search firm chairs the educational charity Career Academies UK & is a founding member of the Steering Committee of the 30 per cent Club." ...

On a rainy Sunday in January the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric & endlessly curious living off crumbs of affection & snippets of gossip. Together upper lips stiffened they fight off their twin enemies: boredom & the Grim Reaper. Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unexpected friendship with Ludo a handsome young writer & learns that even the old can fall in love.. . ...

Mrs Pepperpot never knows when she's going to shrink to the size of a kitchen pepperpot & its usually at the most inconvenient moments! But being small can be a lot of fun too
- Mrs Pepperpot will meet the little people in the Magic Wood be taught to swim by a frog & even sit on a mouse's back! A compilation of nine short stories including: Mrs Pepperpot in the Magic Wood"; " Mrs Pepperpot & the Puppet Show"; " Midsummer Eve with the Ogres"; " Mrs Pepperpot & the Baby Crow"; " Mrs Pepperpot learns to Swim"; ' Mrs Pepperpot gives a party"; " Sir Mark the Valiant"; " Mrs Pepperpot turns Detective"; " Mrs Pepperpot & the Brooch Hunt"."
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Mrs Pepperpot has a problem
- a huge problem
- she shrinks! & when she does she finds herself in all sorts of trouble... In

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is growing increasingly disenchanted after her decades of public service & years of family scandal. One day the Queen takes things into her own hands & in a spur-of-the-moment decision leaves the palace alone & incognito. An unlikely group of six including two of the Queens most trusted household staff members William & Shirley; one of her loyal ladies in waiting Lady Anne; an equerry fresh from the battlefields of Afghanistan Luke; a young equestrienne who minds the horses in the Royal Mews Rebecca; & Rajiv an Etonian spending his early 20s behind the counter in an artisanal cheese shop in Mayfair & moonlighting as a tabloid photographer are the only ones who know of her disappearance. They vow to find her & bring her back to the palace before MI6 turn her Scottish sojourn into a national crisis. Capturing the faded but enduring glamour & glory of a seemingly old-fashioned institution & a woman who wonders if she too has become outmoded this is a charming witty & poignant novel of responsibilities & freedom. ...

From the number one bestselling multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher comes a brand new true story of Victorian scandal On a mild winters evening in 1850 Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburghs Georgian New Town & drew up at 8 Royal Circus a grand sandstone terrace lit by gas lamps. The guests were gathered in the high airy drawing rooms on the first floor the ladies in glinting silk & satin pulled tight over boned corsets; the gentlemen in tailcoats waistcoats & neckties. When Mrs Robinson joined the throng she was at once enchanted by a Mr Edward Lane a handsome medical student ten years her junior. He was fascinating she told her diary before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a mans charms. But a wish had taken hold of her which she was to find hard to shake... ...