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  • The Time of Your Life

    Getting on With Getting On

    by John Burningham ...
    Ageing is that part of the future that we try to keep in the future. And 'nobody likes to get old ... that doesn't mean to say you have to be an old fart sitting in the pub talking about what happened in the 1960s' Mick Jagger. John Burningham has collected fine examples of the wisdom and wit that comes with age from those in the know, woven with a rich selection of quotes and fifty poignant ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers

    by John Burningham ...
    Once upon a time there were two geese called Mr and Mrs Plumpster. Each Spring they returned to the marshes of their ancestors, and Mrs Plumpster laid her eggs. Soon six fine young Plumpsters hatched: Archie, Freda, Jennifer, Oswald, Timothy and Borka. But Borka was different. Borka had no feathers and could not fly. When winter came the other geese flew off in search of warmer climates, leaving ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Mr Gumpy's Motor Car

    by John Burningham ...
    Series Book 2 - Mr Gumpy
    Mr Gumpy has decided to go for a ride in his motor car. It's a nice day and the sun is shining, so off he goes. But he only gets as far as the lane before the children, the rabbit, the cat, the dog, the pig, the sheep, the chickens, the calf and the goat ask if they can come along too. As the motor car and its passengers make their way across the field, the weather begins to turn and the rain is ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    Avocado Baby and Other Stories

    by John Burningham ...
    Narrated by Alexander Armstrong ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 3 min

    Brought to you by Puffin.A brand new audio collection featuring ten of John Burningham's classic stories. Read by Alexander Armstrong.Celebrate the power of babies (and avocados!) with Avocado Baby, and join Borka the goose on her adventures, amongst so much more in these beloved stories.This collection includes: 'Would You Rather', 'Oi Get Off Our Train', 'Motor Miles', 'The Shopping Basket', ... Read more

    $12.28 USD

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  • A Very Private Eye

    An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters

    by Barbara Pym ...
    ‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper‘Could one write a book based on one’s diaries over thirty years? I certainly have enough material,’ wrote Barbara Pym. This book, selected from the diaries, notebooks and letters of this much loved novelist to form a continuous narrative, is indeed a unique ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • All The Devils Are Here

    by David Seabrook ...
    Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers and mad artists crawl the streets. Septuagenarian rent boys recall the good old days and Carry On stars go to seed. Clandestine fascist networks emerge. ... Read more

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  • Ngaio Marsh

    Her Life in Crime

    by Joanne Drayton ...
    The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story – revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography.While Ngaio Marsh had a flamboyant public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life. And no one knows better how to cover tracks with red herrings and remove incriminating evidence than a crime fiction writer…This fascinating biography of Ngaio Marsh ... Read more

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  • The Unexpected Professor

    An Oxford Life in Books

    by John Carey ...
    Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English ... Read more

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  • Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words

    by Alan Clark ...
    Some of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume.'From the moment the first scabrous and brilliant volume was published, people wanted more. Now they have it and they will not be disappointed... These diaries are not wonderful simply because they show a politician unafraid to ... Read more

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  • The Times Great Women's Lives

    A Celebration in Obituaries

    Edited by Sue Corbett ...
    This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural and emotional journey over the best part of two centuries.The anthology starts with the obituary of 91-year-old pioneering mathematician and scientist Mary Somerville (d. 1872) and concludes with that of ... Read more

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