Tag: May-2025
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Close Knit
by Jenny Colgan Everyone knows her life story.But who will win her heart? Gertie has always wondered what her life would be like if she could pluck up the courage to leave the remote Scottish island where she was born. It”s the only place she”s ever known, but it can be stifling. The glue of…
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One More Day Of Us
by Shari Low 1990: In a hot, humid Hong Kong summer, three young singers are loving life, performing to packed crowds every night in a swanky hotel bar. Twenty-three-year-old Scottish songbird, Moira Chiles is living the dream alongside Carina Lloyd and Lisa Dixon. They work hard, play hard, and always stick together… until one day Moira…
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The Revenge Club
by Kathy Lette WHEN THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU, IT’S TIME TO GET EVEN. Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at the top of their game; so imagine their surprise when they start to be personally overlooked and professionally pushed aside by less-qualified men. Only they’re not going down without a fight. Society…
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Under A Riviera Moon
by Helen McGinn When a heartsick Maggie is sent on an errand by her mother to Cannes, she is keen to get it over with as quickly as possible. She has been tasked with collecting a treasured box of photos from her late grandmother Elizabeth’s best friend, the impossibly glamorous Allegra Morgon who is desperate…
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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…