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According to Yes by Dawn French Penguin Pp. 365 Rosie Kitto, an eccentric primary school teacher from England, finds herself a position as ...

Trout Fishing in America  by Richard Brautigan Canongate Pp. 122 The novella immediately announces itself as a surreal work of post-modernis...

Mr. Macgregor  by Alan Titchmarsh Pocket Books Pp. 341 English gardener, broadcaster, TV presenter, poet and journalist, Alan Titchmarsh, ha...

Knots and Crosses  by Ian Rankin Orion Pp. 226 In a new introduction, Ian Rankin explains that he didn’t know Detective Sergeant John Rebus ...

Tanamera  by Noel Barber Corgi Pp. 736 Tanamera (from the Malay meaning ‘red earth’) is the saga of the eponymous house and all who live in ...

Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy  by Ben MacIntyre Viking Pp.328 Spies, especially female spies, capture the imagination. Ursula Kuc...

Pain and Prejudice  by Gabrielle Jackson Allen & Unwin Pp. 321 Subtitled ‘A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies’, this book focuses ...

Whatever Happened to Margo?  by Margaret Durrell   Penguin Pp. 259 Those who read Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy about the escapades of the...

The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District  by James Rebanks Penguin Pp. 287 Sheep are big business. Last month (August 2020) in L...

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives  by Gerald Durrell Penguin Pp. 245 This is the second instalment of Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy...

After She Left  by Penelope Hanley Impact Press Pp. 337 This novel focusses on three generations of women and in particular the...

Sometimes everything gets 'a bit much' and, in these times, I have found that working designs from Really Cross Stitch: For when You...

How to Talk to Girls at Parties by   Neil Gaiman; illustrated by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba Dark Horse Books Pp.62 This is the ...