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The Man Who Wanted to Smell Books

Selected Short Stories

by Elspeth Davie ...

Series Book 101 - Canongate Classics
Twenty-eight short stories by the Katherine Mansfield Prize–winning author: "a most impressive collection, a work of genuine imagination" ( Observer, UK).Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland's finest and most unjustly overlooked short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less ... Read more

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Twenty-eight short stories by the Katherine Mansfield Prize–winning author: "a most impressive collection, a work of genuine imagination" ( Observer, UK).Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland's finest and most unjustly overlooked short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less
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Mediation and Children's Reading

Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

by Anne Marie Hagen, Susan Alteri, Evelyn Arizpe, Tracy Cooper, Emma Davidson, Rebecca Davies, Jennifer Farrar, Elspeth Jajdelska, Fiona McCulloch, Sue Walker0 ...

Series series Studies in Text & Print Culture
This collection of essays explores the cultural significance of children’s reading by analyzing a series of Anglo-American case studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Marked by historical continuity and technological change, children’s reading proves to be a phenomenon with broad influence, one that shapes both the development of individual readers and wider social values. The essays ... Read more

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This collection of essays explores the cultural significance of children’s reading by analyzing a series of Anglo-American case studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Marked by historical continuity and technological change, children’s reading proves to be a phenomenon with broad influence, one that shapes both the development of individual readers and wider social values. The essays
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Coffin, Scarcely Used

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 1 - A Flaxborough Mystery
In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, the equally respectable councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia.But he is scarcely cold in his coffin before Detective Inspector Purbright, affable and annoyingly polite, must turn out again to examine the death of Carobleat's neighbour, Marcus Gwill, former prop. of the local rag, the Citizen. This time it looks like ... Read more

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In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, the equally respectable councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia.But he is scarcely cold in his coffin before Detective Inspector Purbright, affable and annoyingly polite, must turn out again to examine the death of Carobleat's neighbour, Marcus Gwill, former prop. of the local rag, the Citizen. This time it looks like
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The Telling

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JO BAKER was born and grew up in Lancaster, educated at Oxford and Belfast, and now teaches creative writing at Lancaster University. She is the author of two previous novels, both published by Heinemann. She is also a script writer, whose adaptation of Charlotte Bront?'s Shirley, has just won funding from the Irish Film Board. ... Read more

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JO BAKER was born and grew up in Lancaster, educated at Oxford and Belfast, and now teaches creative writing at Lancaster University. She is the author of two previous novels, both published by Heinemann. She is also a script writer, whose adaptation of Charlotte Bront?'s Shirley, has just won funding from the Irish Film Board.
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Charity Ends at Home

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 5 - A Flaxborough Mystery
“I am in great danger … I know that murder is going to be the reward for my uncomplaining loyalty.”This letter containing heartfelt and urgent pleas for help is received by three very eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable himself. So when one of the town’s most tireless charity workers, Mrs Henrietta Palgrove, is found the wrong way up in her garden pond, a connection ... Read more

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“I am in great danger … I know that murder is going to be the reward for my uncomplaining loyalty.”This letter containing heartfelt and urgent pleas for help is received by three very eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable himself. So when one of the town’s most tireless charity workers, Mrs Henrietta Palgrove, is found the wrong way up in her garden pond, a connection
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Broomsticks over Flaxborough

by Colin Watson ...

Series Book 7 - A Flaxborough Mystery
As Miss Lucilla Teatime often remarks, there is no lack of entertainment in the delightful town of Flaxborough.What could be more wholesome than the Folklore Society’s quarterly “revels”, with dancing, a bonfire, and a quaffing bench? Well-upholstered matrons and town worthies enter most enthusiastically into the spirit. So it’s unfortunate when a younger woman, the freethinking Edna Hillyard, ... Read more

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As Miss Lucilla Teatime often remarks, there is no lack of entertainment in the delightful town of Flaxborough.What could be more wholesome than the Folklore Society’s quarterly “revels”, with dancing, a bonfire, and a quaffing bench? Well-upholstered matrons and town worthies enter most enthusiastically into the spirit. So it’s unfortunate when a younger woman, the freethinking Edna Hillyard,
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Twenty-One Stories

by Graham Greene ...

These wide-ranging tales of menace, tragedy, and comedy offer ample proof that "in the short story, as well as the novel, Graham Greene is the master" ( The New York Times ).In "The End of the Party," a game of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying turn in the dark. In "The Innocent," a romantic gets a rude awakening when he finds a hidden keepsake from a childhood crush. A husband's sexual ... Read more

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These wide-ranging tales of menace, tragedy, and comedy offer ample proof that "in the short story, as well as the novel, Graham Greene is the master" ( The New York Times ).In "The End of the Party," a game of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying turn in the dark. In "The Innocent," a romantic gets a rude awakening when he finds a hidden keepsake from a childhood crush. A husband's sexual
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No Cake, No Jam

Hardship and happiness in wartime London

by Marian Hughes ...

No Cake, No Jam is the heart-warming true story of a little girl’s London childhood during the Blitz, and of how she rose above adversity through sheer guts and strength of character.Marian Hughes was born in the same year as her father committed suicide. She spent most of her early childhood with her elder sisters and brother in Spurgeon’s Orphanage in South London. There she learned to love ... Read more

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No Cake, No Jam is the heart-warming true story of a little girl’s London childhood during the Blitz, and of how she rose above adversity through sheer guts and strength of character.Marian Hughes was born in the same year as her father committed suicide. She spent most of her early childhood with her elder sisters and brother in Spurgeon’s Orphanage in South London. There she learned to love
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Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre

A Novel

by Miss Read ...

Series Book 17 - The Beloved Fairacre Series
There's no pleasing Mrs. Pringle—and everyone in Fairacre knows it. "Miss Read's novels are sheer delight" ( Chicago Tribune).Miss Read is certain of one thing—she won't be forced to hire grumpy Mrs. Pringle to straighten up her house. Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre chronicles the life of the beloved but curmudgeonly school cleaner through the stories of her fellow villagers. Readers will delight in the ... Read more

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There's no pleasing Mrs. Pringle—and everyone in Fairacre knows it. "Miss Read's novels are sheer delight" ( Chicago Tribune).Miss Read is certain of one thing—she won't be forced to hire grumpy Mrs. Pringle to straighten up her house. Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre chronicles the life of the beloved but curmudgeonly school cleaner through the stories of her fellow villagers. Readers will delight in the
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Success

A Novel

by Martin Amis ...

Newly reissued for the modern reader, Martin Amis’s Success is “a terrifying, painfully funny, Swiftian exercise in moral disgust” (The Observer).Foster brothers Terence Service and Gregory Riding could not be more different from one another—Terry “a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude” and Greg a “bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response.”After the shocking killing of Terry’s child ... Read more

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Newly reissued for the modern reader, Martin Amis’s Success is “a terrifying, painfully funny, Swiftian exercise in moral disgust” (The Observer).Foster brothers Terence Service and Gregory Riding could not be more different from one another—Terry “a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude” and Greg a “bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response.”After the shocking killing of Terry’s child
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The Stranger in the Mirror

A Memoir of Middle Age

by Jane Shilling ...

Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise. She hadn't seen it coming, and she certainly wasn't ready for it. Living a flawed, bittersweet version of the idyll she dreamed of in her twenties, in a tumbledown urban cottage by the Thames, with a son, a cat and a horse in a livery fifty miles away, she wondered whether middle age was the beginning of the end. Or was there one last great adventure to ... Read more

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Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise. She hadn't seen it coming, and she certainly wasn't ready for it. Living a flawed, bittersweet version of the idyll she dreamed of in her twenties, in a tumbledown urban cottage by the Thames, with a son, a cat and a horse in a livery fifty miles away, she wondered whether middle age was the beginning of the end. Or was there one last great adventure to
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An Unlikely Agent

by Jane Menczer ...

A desperate woman in Edwardian London finds an unlikely new job with an undercover spy organization in this charming historical thriller.London, 1905. Margaret Trant and her ailing mother have fallen on hard times. Living together in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood, Margaret's job with a ramshackle import-export company barely keeps them afloat. Then Margaret spots a newspaper ... Read more

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A desperate woman in Edwardian London finds an unlikely new job with an undercover spy organization in this charming historical thriller.London, 1905. Margaret Trant and her ailing mother have fallen on hard times. Living together in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood, Margaret's job with a ramshackle import-export company barely keeps them afloat. Then Margaret spots a newspaper
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