' It would be easy to become addicted to Robinson'
- Observer". ' One of the grand masters of the genre'
- " Literary Review".

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Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching
- a wise shepherd
- might have been a witch but now Granny Aching is dead

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There're a lot of edges more than people know. Between life & death this world & the next.. .an' they need watchin'.. .' There's trouble on the Wold its boundaries weak since Granny Aching
- the hag o' the hills
- died. Now all there is to stop the nightmares from taking over is young Tiffany Aching who's learning fast about duty about responsibility & about who she is & what she is. Luckily she's got the help of the Nac Mac Feegle
- a band of tiny disreputable pictsies known as the Wee Free Men. They'll fight anything.. .


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EVERY LAND NEEDS ITS OWN WITCH.. . Up on the Wold there's a monster in the river & a headless horseman in the drive. & now Granny Aching has gone there's only young Tiffany Aching left to guard the boundaries. To stop.. .things getting through. It's her l&. Her duty. But it's amazing how useful a horde of unruly pictsies can be
- as long as they are pointed in the right direction & can stop fighting each other first.. .FROM MASTER STORYTELLER TERRY PRATCHETT.
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Following the success of our popular Pink Flamingos Gift Set this humorous little incarnation of the classic kitschy lawn ornament will be at home anywhere from the backyard posy patch to the office desktop. Rumored to bring a bit o' luck to the owner the colorful garden gnome will at the very least bring a smile. ...

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson This book is a practical & attractive guide to the many edible varieties of weed. It will appeal to gardeners botanists cooks & foragers & to anyone who wants to control weeds in eco-friendly ways. Weeds have many virtues: * They are often valuable to wildlife including beneficial insects. * They can be good for the soil
- helping the accumulation of trace elements & acting as hosts for mycorrhizal fungi. * Many weeds make interesting & unusual culinary ingredients. The main part of the book provides full details of over 50 edible species with valuable nutritional information advice on how to cook them & numerous recipe suggestions as well as some fascinating historical facts & tips for non-culinary uses. It covers both native & non-native species including some tiresome invasives & lists both common weeds such as nettle dandelion chickweed & ground elder & less common ones such as brooklime & wintercress. Advice is also given on controlling weeds & identifying those that are harmful if eaten. With The Weeders Digest on your bookshelf you can put your troublesome weeds to good use & welcome some plentiful edibles into your kitchen. It

Includes:: attractive colour photographs throughout.


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Gardeners find weeds baffling & daunting. Here at last comes a practical guide which explains how weeds work & how best to deal with them. Whenever he is gardening William Edmonds sees Charles Darwin as his mentor. Darwin was intrigued by the nature of variation in plants & how this related to which plants thrived & survived. From his minute observations we can understand how weeds can propagate & take over a garden. Informed by Darwin's insights & by over thirty years of gardening experience William Edmonds describes & illustrates one hundred significant garden weeds arranged in the order in which they have evolved. For each there is a What To Do & a further chapter sets out the pros & cons of twenty tried & tested approaches to weeding. Learning to recognise understand & deal with each weed will take you well on the way to coping in a relaxed
- even enjoyable
- tussle with these devilish despoilers. Weeds Weeding (& Darwin) is an enlightening guidebook for every gardener.

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When someone describes a bitter woman as having: A mouth like a kirby grip" or a depressed man as having: "A face like a horse in the huff" you can be fairly sure that you have strayed into Weegie Wan-Liners territory. This is the latest collection of Glaswegiana the straightforward insults the sly digs & the outright threats culled from pubs & howffs citywide by Ian Black master of the quick sidestep learned as he practised these gems especially from the ex-friends to whom he said: " Listen bampot features when you were born they slung the wean & kept the afterbirth"." ...

In the summer of 2009 Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens enabling passengers to see what he is writing & to come & share their stories. He will meet travellers from around the world & will be given unprecedented access to wander the airport & speak with everyone from window cleaners & baggage handlers to air traffic controllers & cabin crew. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker de Botton will produce an extraordinary meditation upon the nature of place time & our daily lives. He will explore the magical & the mundane personal & collective experiences & the interactions of travellers & workers all over this familiar but mysterious site. Like all airports Heathrow (the 15th century village of Heath Row lies beneath the short stay car park) is a non-place that we by definition want to leave but it also provides a window into many worlds
- through the thousands of people it dispatches every day. A Week at the Airport" is sure to delight de Bottons large following & anyone interested in the stories behind the way we live."
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. London the week before Christmas 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work & too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk & reality TV; & a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these & countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill the novel pieces together the complex patterns & crossings of modern urban life & the group is forced one by one to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping satirical Dickensian in scope A Week in December is a thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction. ...