Category: New Books
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A Little Course in Crochet
by Susie Johns Even if you’ve never held a crochet hook before, this practise book will help you pick up basic crochet stitches. Soon enough, you’ll be ready to show off your skills with crochet hats, crochet baby clothes or traditional crochet afghan blankets. Learn how to crochet at your own pace, in your own…
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A Little Course in Knitting
by Susie Johns Discover knitting like you’ve never known it before with DK’s A Little Course in Knitting. Want to learn how to knit this New Year but don’t know where to begin? No worries, we’ve got you covered! DK brings you a practical pocket knitting handbook jam-packed with pretty patterns, savvy stitches and more!…
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Who Are You Calling Vermin
by Pam Ayres ‘Maybe the polluters will purify our streams.Purify our waterways? In your bloomin’ dreams!All will be rewilded, all will be renewed,The country will look lovely,But we won’t have any food.Our stocks will be sustainable,The French will be our friends,We shall live in harmony, until the bitter end.’ Hidden beyond the bluebell woods and…
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The Works
by Pam Ayres The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres’ best-known poems, including ‘The Battery Hen’, ‘Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?’, ‘Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother’ and, of course, ‘Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth’. This edition includes a general introduction by Pam, as…
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On Animals
by Pam Ayres ‘Oh WHY must you bark at the postman?Why must you batter my ears?I know it seems rumBut the postman has comeEvery morning for SEVENTEEN YEARS.’ From her very first encounter with a friendly golden Labrador at just three years old, Pam Ayres has been enchanted by animals. Now, for the first time,…
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The Necessary Aptitude – A Memoir Audio-CD
By Pam Ayres This is the Audio-CD collection ‘I never once attended a Sunday morning church service in Stanford. There was always the feeling that they weren’t aimed at families like ours.’ Pam Ayres was the sixth child in a hard-up family who lived in a council house, her parents’ generation were harrowed by the…
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The Necessary Aptitude -A Memoir- The Book
By Pam Ayres ‘I never once attended a Sunday morning church service in Stanford. There was always the feeling that they weren’t aimed at families like ours.’ Pam Ayres was the sixth child in a hard-up family who lived in a council house, her parents’ generation were harrowed by the war. Yet they lived by…
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Up In The Attic
by Pam Ayres The brand new collection of verse from the nation’s favourite poet, Pam Ayres. With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four decades, Pam’s new collection is by turns hilarious, reflective and profound. From the dubious joy of being an exhausted, panic-stricken hostess in ‘The Dinner Party’ or…
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Surgically Enhanced
by Pam Ayres This new gift edition is a must-have for Pam’s many fans – and for anyone who enjoys beautifully crafted stories and poems to make you laugh and make you think. Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. Her work…
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Turned
by Emma Bloor A local author, who lives in Wiltshire has set this thriller in Lechlade, come and meet Emma at a book signing on May 24th in Lechlade Library from10am till 1pm. Reality is an illusion Something isn’t right in Addison Rae’s head. Things have changed and reality doesn’t seem real. The dead mayor…