Up with the Lark: My Life on the Land (Bomford Joan)(Paperback)

Up with the Lark: My Life on the Land (Bomford Joan)(Paperback)

'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily Telegraph Joan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She ran away from school whenever she could to help

Call of the Kiwi (Lark Sarah)(Paperback)

In the exhilarating conclusion to the internationally bestselling In the Land of the Long White Cloud trilogy, the spirited Warden and McKenzie clan continues its trials--and triumphs--in New Zealand and beyond. The great-granddaughter of Gwyneira McKenzie--who arrived in New Zealand as a naive

Land Girls (Huth Angela)(Paperback)

The modern classic of life on the Home Front re-issued with a great new

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography (Quirk Lawrence J.)(Paperback)

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of working-class shop girls in the Depression

After the Fall (Darling Giana)(Paperback)

I was settin' up to live a good life, the kinda life I'd fought hard to deserve.With a good woman--the best woman--at my side, a degree under my belt, and the whole world at my feet, I was livin' the kinda happily ever after usually denied the rebellious and the criminal. I'd turned my back on that

The Lark (Nesbit E.)(Paperback)

'A charming and brilliantly entertaining novel... shot through with the light-hearted Nesbit touch' Penelope Lively, from the introductionWhen did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've got - to have a lark entirely on our own? No chaperone, no rules, no...No present income or future

My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life (Cohn Rachel)(Paperback)

I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan Happy birthday In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICS -- the International Collegiate

In the Land of the Long White Cloud (Lark Sarah)(Paperback)

Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, longs for a family of her own--but nearing her late twenties, she knows her prospects are dim. Then she spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand's honorable bachelors and begins an affectionate correspondence with a

Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change (Fitzgerald Joan)(Pevná vazba)

Collectively, cities take up a relatively tiny amount of land on the earth, yet emit 72 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Clearly, cities need to be at the center of any broad effort to reduce climate change. In Greenovation, the eminent urban policy scholar Joan Fitzgerald argues that too many

The Land of Spices (O'Brien Kate)(Paperback)

Mere Marie-Helene once turned her back on life, sealing up her heart in order to devote herself to God. Now the formidable Mother Superior of an Irish convent, she has, for some time, been experiencing grave doubts about her vocation. But when she meets Anna Murphy, the youngest-ever boarder, the

Joan - Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor (Fenwick Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The first biography of Joan Leigh Fermor, society beauty, professional photographer and

Middle England - Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2019 (Coe Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter tries to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten he exists, while in London his friend Doug doesn't understand why his

Play It as It Lays (Didion Joan)(Paperback)

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las

The Housing Lark (Selvon Sam)(Paperback)

The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canon A Penguin Classic Set in London in the 1960's, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor shortage, The Housing Lark

People's Favourite Poems - Out and about with Kipling, Larkin and the rest (Dexter Gary)(Paperback / softback)

My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru (Guest Tim)(Paperback)

At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The Bhagwan preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom, and enjoyed inhaling laughing gas, preaching from a

Tying The Knot (Bateman Amanda)(Paperback / softback)

The story picks up with Janie Arnold making a life changing decision to help her cousin Megan and hopefully to leave Janie free to start her own life. Whilst on holiday in Lanzarote she meets Adam, a boat builder from back home in Wales and Alison another holiday maker from Derbyshire. Life is

Up and Down in the Dales (Phinn Gervase)(Paperback)

Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph______ What's your name? I asked the child.'Tequila, ' she replied. I'm named after a drink.''Tequila Sunrise,

How to Break Up With Your Phone - The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life (Price Catherine)(Paperback / softback)

The Art of Breaking Up (Stevens Elizabeth)(Paperback)

Breaking up is hard to do. Whether you're breaking up with a bad habit, a life you know, or your first boyfriend. But we all have to do it. It's just one of the many sucky things about growing up. Some of us do it better than others. I do it badly.Wade Phillips shattered Lisa McGinty's heart in

Messenger: The Legend of Joan of Arc (Lee Tony)(Paperback / softback)

A gripping and powerful story of Joan of Arc's short but inspirational life fighting for freedom during the One Hundred Years War between France and

Play It As It Lays (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Albumand The Year of Magical

Revolving Door of Life (McCall Smith Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

We catch up with the latest delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall

Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Yogis Jaimal)(Paperback)

Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Equal