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Originally told to Kipling's own children - particularly his daughter Josephine, this collection of stories represent Kipling's art at its finest point. Generations of readers remember 'the great...
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Available 03/07/2008
Jane Austen found her sister Cassandra a locket. Karyn Bosnak charged $20,000 on credit cards, and Elizabeth Wurtzel got caught shoplifting. George Eliot, for some reason, hated shopping. As people...
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A beautifully designed collection of well-loved fairy tales, including such favourites as Rumpelstiltskin, Little Snow-White, Rapunzel, The Emperor's New Clothes and many more.
Hardback: £16.99
Following the wonderfully moving In Loving Memory, this anthology offers a delightful and provocative collection of readings and poems, comic and profound. The perfect partner for weddings and...
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Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficult domestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now the circumstances have changed, but for women today Christmas is...
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It's an impossibly difficult and painful time; someone you love has just died and you have very quickly to choose an appropriate and moving reading for the funeral. In an increasingly secular age...
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Going all the way back to Homer's Odyssey, the 'quest' is a popular and well-respected story-telling format in Western literature, seen in such classics as THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, ALICE'S...
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GOOD COMPANIONS is a collection of prose and poetry that has travelled with John Bayley for most of his 75 years. Unlike many standard anthologies, Bayley's is highly personal and is full of his...
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This exceptional compilation contains more than fifty short stories, novellas and poems, both classic and modern, by some of the most distinguished writers of all time. Masterful works by Bram...
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Penelope Farmer has invented that new genre, the autobiographical anthology. Following on from her book of twins (for Virago) and sisters (for Penguin) this book of grandmothers describes the...
A seminal fiction collection that stretches from Gertrude Stein to Grace Paley, from Edith Wharton to Angela Carter, from Mae West to Margaret Atwood, from Zora Neale Hurston to Joyce Carol Oates. ...
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This book contains the musings of Margaret Atwood, Jo Brand, Bette David, Dawn French, Joyce Grenfell, Cynthia Heimel, Dilly Keane, Kathy Lette, Terry McMillan, Edna O'Brien, Dorothy Parker, Joan...
Paperback: £6.99