` As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful & bright` Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy have grown up together in Orchard House with their friend Laurie next door, & now it`s time for them to go out & find their places in the big wide world, to do the great & marvellous things they`ve dreamed of & discover their `castles in the air`. They each find themselves tested, & fall in love, but when tragedy strikes they find their best comfort is in each other, & home. BACKSTORY: Learn more about the unusual author & have a go at making jam! ...

” Goodbye Buenos Aires” is a vivid & earthy celebration of Argentina, which chronicles the rise & fall of the British colony in the 20`s & 30`s through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives
- a hard-drinking, womanising, emigre Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars & brothels of the city whilst trading with farmers upcountry. It is also the biographical portrait of an errant father by a son & a moving description of Argentina by one of its leading writers & journalists. Andrew Graham-Yooll chronicles his now lost tribe, the Anglos
- the British of Argentina
- through this, at times, harrowing memoir of separation, unpredictable politics, personal loss & love rediscovered.


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This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, & what makes us European. Spend time with some of your favourite writers & artists in this truly unique collection spanning everything from art, language, food, music & movies, to war, literature, driving, nudity, geography, smoking & nature. Featuring pieces of exceptional quality from some of our most treasured novelists, historians, journalists, poets & artists, including: Jessie Burton, Richard Herring, Alain de Botton, Tom Bradby, Val Mc Dermid, Matt Haig, Afua Hirsch, Lionel Shriver, Sarah Perry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ian Rankin, Owen Jones, Mark Kermode, Robert Macfarlane, Chris Riddell, Former Prime Minister Jim Hacker & many more.A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the times we live in, our relationship with the continent, & ourselves.* * * * *
Includes: PIECES BY: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Tom Bradby, Jessie Burton, Ben Collins (aka The Stig), Colonel Tim Collins, Robert Crampton, Adam Dant, Alain de Botton, Kate Eberlen, Matt Frei, Nicci French, Simon Garfield, Jonathan Lynn writing as Former Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Matt Haig, Richard Herring, Jennifer Higgie, Afua Hirsch, Owen Jones, Oliver Kamm, Alex Kapranos, Mark Kermode, Hari Kunzru, Olivia Laing, Marie Le Conte, Amy Liptrot, Robert Macfarlane, Henry Marsh, Val Mc Dermid, Ian Mc Ewan, Hollie Mc Nish, Kate Mosse, Jenni Murray, Sarah Perry, Ian Rankin, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Chris Riddell, Andrew Roberts, Will Self, David Shrigley, Lionel Shriver, Sunny Singh, Ece Temelkuran, Rob Temple, Bee Wilson, Sarah Winman
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In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war...and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is Deighton`s fourteenth novel & a vivid evocation of wartime Engl&, the story of a group of American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in the winter of 1943-4. At the centre of the novel are two young men: the deeply reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother, estranged son of a deskbound colonel, & the cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse, well on his way to becoming America`s Number One Flying Ace. Alike only in their courage, they forge a bond of friendship in battle with far-reaching consequences for themselves, & for the future of those they love. ...

Mog was tired. She was dead tired... Mog thought, `I want to sleep for ever.` & so she did. But a little bit of her stayed awake to see what would happen next. Mog keeps watch over the upset Thomas family, who miss her terribly, & she wonders how they will ever manage without her. Nothing happens for some time...then suddenly, one day, Mog sees a little kitten in the house. The kitten is frightened of everything
- noise, newspapers, bags & being picked up. Mog thinks the kitten is very stupid. But then Mog realises that the nervous kitten doesn`t know how to play & just needs `a little bit of help`. & so, Mog pushes the surprised kitten into Debbie`s lap, where it finds it actually likes being tickled & stroked. The new family pet is settled in at last. But Debbie says she will always remember Mog. ` So I should hope, ` thinks Mog. & she flies up & up & up right into the sun.
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May, 1992. Hana is twelve years old when her older sister Atka puts her on a UN evacuation bus fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Thinking they will be apart for a short time, they make a promise to each other to be brave. But as the Bosnian war escalates & months go by without contact, their promise becomes deeply significant. Hana is forced to cope as a refugee in Croatia, while Atka & their younger siblings battle for survival in a city overwhelmed by crime & destruction. Then, when Atka manages to find work as a translator, events take an unexpected turn, & the remarkable events that follow change her life, & those of her family, forever. ...

Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune, or at least a plausible little scrounge, the irrepressible Ukridge gives con men a bad name. Looking like an animated blob of mustard in his bright yellow raincoat, he invests time, passion & energy (but seldom actual cash) in a series of increasingly bizarre money-making schemes. Shares in an accident syndicate? Easily arranged. Finance for a dog college? It`s yours. & if you throw in some cats, flying unexpectedly from windows, & a young man trying ever-more-desperately to impress the family of his latest love, you get a medley of Wodehouse delights in which lunacy & comic exuberance reign supreme. ...

Goodbye to Berlin contains six sketches of individual`s lives in pre-Hitler Berlin: the author`s landlady, Sally Bowles, a working class family & a Jewish family. Many of the characters cross over with the characters portrayed in his other Berlin novel Mr. Norris Changes Trains. ...

Goodbye to Soho is Clayton Littlewood’s vivid & entertaining non-fiction account of his & his partner’s struggles to keep afloat their designer menswear shop based in London’s Soho. Following on from his award-winning diary Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho. Littlewood is at it again, watching the hookers, the gangsters, the rent boys & following the same strange characters who make up this strangest of villages. With a Dickensian cast of characters consisting of eccentric artists, Soho madams & ex-Diana Ross impersonators, Goodbye to Soho is a snapshot of modern London life – a Samuel Pepys diary for the Soho subculture. ...

` There`s happiness in having less. If you are anything like how I used to be
- miserable, constantly comparing yourself with
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