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0$5.99Book Condition: Great
Books considered to be in ‘great’ condition are as new. This status is applied to books without noticeable wear and tear and can include literally new books as well as those of exceptional condition and quality.==========
Synopsis:
A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away, and he becomes lost in memory and beauty …Read more below -
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A Crocodile in the Family
0Original price was: $3.99.$2.99Current price is: $2.99.A family of birds stumble across an egg in the bush and take it home with them. The family are thrilled when a little crocodile hatches from the egg, but the other animals are a little confused.
‘Why do you keep him?’ they ask. ‘Is it because he’s helpful?’
‘He is helpful,’ replies the family, ‘but that’s not why we keep him.’
As Croccy gets bigger, the bush animals become more confused. ‘Is it because he’s beautiful? Is it because he’s fun? Is it because he makes a great coat rack? Is that it? Is that why you keep him?’
Croccy is beautiful, and he is fun, and he does make a great coat rack. But that’s not why the family keep him. They keep Croccy because he belongs with them. And that’s that.
A Crocodile in the Family is a beautiful picture book with a whole lot of heart about family in all its shapes and sizes. It’s the perfect bedtime read for kids aged 3+. -
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A Dragon in a Wagon
0Original price was: $4.99.$3.74Current price is: $3.74.When Susie Fogg takes her dog for a walk, she dreams of having a more exciting pet. Something huge, fierce or odd, like a dragon in a wagon. She soon gets carried away by her imagination. An imaginative, rhyming and wonderfully silly picture book that children will adore.
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A Funny Thing Happened to Simon Sidebottom
0$5.99A hilarious, gross, laugh-out-loud, choose-your-own-adventure book. Continued Below …
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A Holiday in Greece
0$5.99Book Condition: Great
Books considered to be in ‘great’ condition are as new. This status is applied to books without noticeable wear and tear and can include literally new books as well as those of exceptional condition and quality.==========
Synopsis:
A Holiday in Greece is a bilingual book for all adventure seekers, holidaymakers and those eager to learn about the birthplace of modern civilisation.
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A Keeper
0$5.99When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying goodbye to that dark and dismal part of her life. Her childhood home is packed solid with useless junk, her mother’s presence already fading. But within this mess, she discovers a small stash of letters—and ultimately, the truth.
Forty years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet except for the constant wind that encircles her as she hurries deeper into the darkness away from the cliffs and the sea. She has no sense of where she is going, only that she must keep on.
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A Life Apart
0$5.99A Life Apart tells two stories. The first is of Ritwik’s; a story of a young man’s escape from a blighted childhood of squalor and abuse in Calcutta to the edge of what he considers to be a new world, full of possibilities, in England, where he has a chance to start all over again. But his past, especially the scarred, all-consuming relationship with his mother, is a minefield: will Ritwik find the salvation he is looking for?
Could it arrive in the form of the second story that comprises the novel, the one he is writing himself, the story of an Englishwoman in the old world of Bengal on the eve of India’s first partition? Or could it be in the figure of the eighty-six-year-old Anne Cameron, fragile and damaged, who gives shelter to Ritwik in London in exchange of the care that she needs? And then one night, in the badlands of King’s Cross, Ritwik meets the suave, unfathomable Zafar bin Hashm. As present and past of several lives collide, Ritwik’s own goes into free fall.
Set in India during the 1970s and ’80s, in England in the ’90s and in Raj Bengal in the 1900s, this award-winning first novel from one of India’s most acclaimed new writers is about dislocation and alienation, outsiders and losers, the tenuous and unconscious intersections of lives and histories, and the consolations of storytelling. Unsentimental yet full of compassion, and written with unrelenting honesty, this scalding debut marks a new turning point in writing from and of the Subcontinent.
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A Lost Wife’s Tale
0$4.99Edith Lutz doesn’t want to be found. She’s left behind a comfortable home in a flurry of hastily packed bags, fleeing for an anonymous life in the city. With a new look, new name and new job as live-in housekeeper to wealthy publisher Adam, she’s hoping to outwit her past and build herself a new life.
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A Perfect Heritage
0$5.99The House of Farrell – home of The Cream, an iconic face product that has seen women flocking to its bijoux flagship store in the Berkeley Arcade since 1953.
At Farrell, you can rely on the personal touch. The legendary Athina Farrell remains the company’s figurehead and in her kingdom at the Berkeley Arcade, Florence Hamilton plies their cosmetics with the utmost discretion. She is sales advisor – and holder of secrets – extraordinaire.
But of course the world of cosmetics is changing and the once glorious House of Farrell is now in decline, its customers tempted away by more fashionable brands.
Enter Bianca Bailey, formidable business woman, mother of three, and someone who always gets her way. Athina and Bianca lock horns over the future of the House of Farrell but it is the past that tells its devastating tale of ambition and ego, passion and wonder.
Here is a tale of survival … and a perfect heritage.
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A Plan Unravelled
0$5.99Ten minutes.
That’s all I had between make-up and filming. I usually took this time, be it ten minutes, fifteen or sometimes only thirty seconds, to grab some water or rehearse my lines in my caravan. I shouldn’t have strayed from routine.
Ten minutes. That’s all it took for me to destroy every bit of success I’d achieved in the past fifteen years.
I’d only been eight when I’d written out Ruby’s Master Plan:
Move to New York.
Get an acting gig.
Make money.
I’d ticked them all off by the age of eighteen.
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A Question of Trust
0$4.991950s London. Tom Knelston is charismatic, working class and driven by ambition, ideals and passion. He is a man to watch. His wife Alice shares his vision. It seems they are the perfect match.
Then out of the blue, Tom meets beautiful and unhappily married Diana Southcott, a fashion model. An exciting but dangerous affair is inevitable and potentially damaging to their careers. And when a child becomes ill, Tom is forced to make decisions about his principles, his reputation, his marriage, and most of all, his love for his child.
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A Squash and a Squeeze
0$4.99Book Condition: Great
Books considered to be in ‘great’ condition are as new. This status is applied to books without noticeable wear and tear and can include literally new books as well as those of exceptional condition and quality.==========
Synopsis:
With the help of an old man and all of her animals, an old lady realises that her house is not as small as she thought it was.“a bit of a classic … A goat on the bed and a cow on the table tapping out a jig? My readers collapsed in heaps, and then had to have it read again. And again.”
– Vivian French in The Guardian
