Dawn French number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous & one of Britains best loved comic writers returns with Oh Dear Silvia a darkly comic page turner that will have you hanging on her every word. Who is in Coma Suite Number 5? A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless martyr? A bad mother? A cherished sister? A selfish wife? All of these. For this is Silvia Shute who has always done exactly what she wants. Until now when her life suddenly shockingly stops. Her past holds a dark & terrible secret & now that she is unconscious in a hospital bed her constant stream of visitors are set to uncover the mystery of her broken life. & she must lie there victim of the beloveds the borings the babblings & the plain bonkers. Like it or not the truth is about to pay Silvia a visit. Again & again & again... Oh Dear Silvia is the brand new novel from one of Britains most loved comic writers & the number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous. Praise for Dawn French: Extremely funny Sunday Times A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner Mail on Sunday Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose. As a writer comedian & actor she has appeared in some of this countrys most long running cherished & celebrated shows including French & Saunders The Comic Strip Presents... Murder Most Horrid The Vicar of Dibley Jam & Jerusalem Lark Rise to Candleford & more recently Roger & Val Have Just Got In. Her bestselling memoir Dear Fatty was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Her first novel A Tiny Bit Marvellous was also a great success going straight to No.1. ...

Dawn French number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous" & one of Britain's best loved comic writers returns with " Oh Dear Silvia" a darkly comic pageturner that will have you hanging on her every word. Who is in Coma Suite Number 5? A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless martyr? A bad mother? A cherished sister? A selfish wife? All of these. For this is Silvia Shute who has always done exactly what she wants. Until now when her life suddenly shockingly stops. Her past holds a dark & terrible secret & now that she is unconscious in a hospital bed her constant stream of visitors are set to uncover the mystery of her broken life. & she must lie there victim of the beloveds the borings the babblings & the plain bonkers. Like it or not the truth is about to pay Silvia a visit. Again & again & again..." Oh Dear Silvia" is the brand new novel from one of Britain's most loved comic writers & the number one bestselling author of "A Tiny Bit Marvellous". Praise for Dawn French: " Extremely funny". (" Sunday Times"). "A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner". (" Mail on Sunday"). Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose. As a writer comedian & actor she has appeared in some of this country's most long running cherished & celebrated shows including " French & Saunders" " The Comic Strip Presents..." " Murder Most Horrid" " The Vicar of Dibley" " Jam & Jerusalem" " Lark Rise to Candleford" & more recently " Roger & Val Have Just Got In". Her bestselling memoir Dear Fatty was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Her first novel "A Tiny Bit Marvellous" was also a great success going straight to No.1." ...

Dawn French number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous" & one of Britain's best loved comic writers returns with " Oh Dear Silvia" a darkly comic pageturner that will have you hanging on her every word. Who is in Coma Suite Number 5? A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless martyr? A bad mother? A cherished sister? A selfish wife? All of these. For this is Silvia Shute who has always done exactly what she wants. Until now when her life suddenly shockingly stops. Her past holds a dark & terrible secret & now that she is unconscious in a hospital bed her constant stream of visitors are set to uncover the mystery of her broken life. & she must lie there victim of the beloveds the borings the babblings & the plain bonkers. Like it or not the truth is about to pay Silvia a visit. Again & again & again..." Oh Dear Silvia" is the brand new novel from one of Britain's most loved comic writers & the number one bestselling author of "A Tiny Bit Marvellous". Praise for Dawn French: " Extremely funny". (" Sunday Times"). "A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner". (" Mail on Sunday"). Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose. As a writer comedian & actor she has appeared in some of this country's most long running cherished & celebrated shows including " French & Saunders" " The Comic Strip Presents"... " Murder Most Horrid" " The Vicar of Dibley" " Jam & Jerusalem" " Lark Rise to Candleford" & more recently " Roger & Val Have Just Got In". Her bestselling memoir " Dear Fatty" was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Her first novel "A Tiny Bit Marvellous" was also a great success going straight to No.1." ...

Dawn French number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous returns with Oh Dear Silvia. Everyone knows the real Silvia don't they? Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family & friends gather at her bedside each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? For Silvia hides a secret. One she can never tell. & as her visitors congregate so the truth about Silvia is slowly revealed. Again & again & again.. . Oh Dear Silvia is the brand new novel from one of Britain's most loved comic writers & the number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous. Hilarious. My top book..." (The Times). " Side-splitting darkly humorous". (Heat). " Written with serious intent both literary & thematically: Dawn tackles the big ones
- love death grief childhood motherhood parenthood
- head on". (Guardian). Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose. As a writer comedian & actor she has appeared in some of this country's most long running cherished & celebrated shows including French & Saunders The Comic Strip Presents... Murder Most Horrid The Vicar of Dibley Jam & Jerusalem Lark Rise to Candleford & more recently Roger & Val Have Just Got In. Her bestselling memoir Dear Fatty was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Her first novel A Tiny Bit Marvellous was also a great success going straight to No.1."

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Who could drown a goldfish or talk directly to God? Use a jigsaw as a template for china restoration? End up in the village millpond? Who planned for future blindness with military precision & sampled many of the different religions? The answer to all these questions was Giddy Aunt Lillian. She made a bank manager carry her money to a rival bank & then checked on their security. She created a pets graveyard in the back garden from which she wanted to start a new business. Fairies really did exist at the bottom of her garden & she was the bane of all the churches in the vicinity. She was every childs dream relative but every familys nightmare. Great-aunt Lillian was blissfully unaware of the chaos she left in her wake & was the talk of the village who found her adventures a constant source of gossip. Oh My Giddy Aunt! is set in a gentler time before the onslaught of health & safety rules & regulations or political correctness. It was a time when eccentricity was celebrated & social services was in its infancy. Today Lillian would be investigated & declared insane
- & the family probably would have been advised to put her away. Her niece Jojo was much beleaguered by her unconventional aunt & was often innocently drawn into her schemes but the magic stayed with Jojo as she went on to write this book
- it is narrated from her point of view. The book is a laugh-out-loud read that will appeal to readers over 45 & resonate with anyone who has a quirky relative themselves.

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Where the sunshine is showing where warm winds are blowing where lightning is flashing where snowflakes are snowing. The weather is changing. Come on! Lets get going! Join the Cat in the Hat as he introduces beginning readers to the weather. This title & others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature & natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes & zany illustrations. Aimed at early readers -- from four to seven year olds -- the books are designed to bridge the gap between concept books written for preschoolers & more formal non fiction titles that require fluent reading skills. By presenting the facts in a lively & rhythmic manner they provide the critical foundation upon which complex facts & ideas can eventually be built. ...

This hilarious book will have children tying their tongues in knots as they try to read aloud the most terrible tongue twisters ever written. Theyll have so much fun they wont even realise that theyre learning to read at the same time! With his unique combination of hilarious stories zany pictures & riotous rhymes Dr Suess has been delighting young children & helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat & ranked among the UKs top ten favourite childrens authors Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. As part of a major rebrand programme Harper Collins is relaunching Dr Seusss best-selling books. In response to consumer demand bright new cover designs incorporate much-needed guidance on reading levels. The standard paperbacks divide into three reading strands
- Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own & Yellow Back Books for older more fluent readers to enjoy. This is a Green Back book.
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Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War told through the songs & documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford East London in 1963 it received the acclaim of London audiences & critics. It won the Grand Prix of the Theatre des Nations festival in Paris that year & has gone on to become a classic of the modern theatre. In 1969 a film version was made which extended the play's popular success. The play is now on the standard reading list of schools & universities around the UK & was revived by the Royal National Theatre in 1998. This new version of the play as edited by Joan Littlewood returns the script to its original version.

Includes:: a new photo section of the original production & an Afterword by Victor Spinetti.

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Over the years the mobs of Preston North End have fronted up to infamous football firms such as the Chelsea Headhunters the Birmingham City Zulus & the Leeds Service Crew to name just a few. Although the Preston lads were often lacking in big numbers they were always prepared to stand their ground & have a go knowing that it was quality not quantity that would count when standing toe to toe with their rivals. In this brutally honest book staunch PNE fan Bill Routledge recalls the days when the dawn of Saturdays signalled a rush of adrenalin & a wave of anticipation; a time for the lads to put aside the worries of the working week & experience the buzz of mayhem on the terraces. He describes a time when music & fashion were vital to the identity of the firms as well as examining the history of violence at Preston North End the roots of the different factions & how they got their names. Together with other faces from the PNE firms he details hair-raising tales of violent clashes with other mobs as well as the fans misdemeanours on foreign soil. This fascinating insight into life on the frontline is as shocking as it is exciting
- but its not short of laughs either. It is a truthful account of the highs & lows of being a devoted passionate football fan waiting for glory.
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No one takes much notice of Ohbert Bennett when he creates a Glory Gardens website but Ohbert has a mission
- to make Glory Gardens
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