Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback)

Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback)

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Ten-year-old Gerald doesn't know why his older brothers and sisterscomplain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on thelunch table, the family home on the Greek island of Corfu is a bitlike a zoo so they should feel right at home... Gerald joyfullypursues his interest in natural history

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback)

The first book Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, now the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece PBSWhen the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any

Sky Ship and other stories: A Bloomsbury Reader (McCaughrean Geraldine)(Paperback / softback)

The Durrells of Corfu (Haag Michael)(Paperback)

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left? The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and

Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Gerald Durrell - The Authorised Biography (Botting Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for

Corfu Trilogy (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Suitable for adults and children alike, this title includes three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - 'My Family and Other Animals', 'Birds, Beasts and Relatives' and 'The Garden of the

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Pevná vazba)

My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu, which inspired the ITV drama The Durrells. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another

Mother Steals a Bicycle: And Other Stories (Selvam Salai)(Pevná vazba)

My Family and Other Animals (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine...a country where we can

Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

Because Mummy Said So - And Other Unreasonable Tales of Motherhood (Low Shari)(Paperback / softback)

Hilarious, heartfelt stories of a mother and her two sons from egg to empty

Natasha: And Other Stories (Bezmozgis David)(Paperback)

Now a Major Motion Picture A dazzling debut--and a publishing phenomenon--Natasha: And Other Stories is the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken the critics by storm.Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before May 2003, when Harper's, Zoetrope, and The New

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback)

Volume two in The Corfu Trilogy, now the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu on PBS Masterpiece Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969

Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Blackwood Algernon)(Paperback)

'Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories' is a collection of supernatural stories by one of the greatest writers of such stories to have ever lived, Algernon Blackwood. This collection contains the title story, 'Ancient Sorceries', which is the tale of a tourist who becomes enchanted by a strange

Godfall and Other Stories (Odell Sandra)(Paperback / softback)

In Godfall and Other Stories, writer Sandra M. Odell presents 22 stories that move from riveting to weird to horrifying, exploring dark, dark places of human (and not-so-human) beings. What happens when the gods start falling dead from the sky? Why can't a cactus marry a gila monster? When a boy

Dear Science and Other Stories (McKittrick Katherine)(Paperback)

In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she

Regression and Other Stories (Gelman Andrew)(Paperback)

On Chapel Sands - My mother and other missing persons (Cumming Laura)(Paperback / softback)

The Gambler and Other Stories (Dostoyevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his

Aye-Aye and I (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes ...it was Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky come to life ...one of the most incredible creatures I had ever been privileged to

Whispering Land (Durrell Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

The author and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there's one thing that's better than a small zoo - a bigger one. So the author heads off to South America to collect more animals. This title offers an account of his journey into the South American