The comic is often
thought to be particularly subjective. This collection of comic poetry
illustrates this breadth of humour. It straddles several centuries and
includes poetry by figures such as Shakespeare, Rochester, Donne, Gay,
Byron, Keats, and Betjeman.
Poplar Street is just
an ordinary street in an ordinary town, except there's something
strange about Audrey Wyler's nephew. When the strange-looking vans
arrive a surreal nightmare begins which threatens to turn the familiar
street into a wasteland of devastation and desperation.
A complete and
unabridged edition of this enduringly popular children's books.Released
in time with the new film."Look sharp!" shouted Edmund. "All catch hands
and keep together. This is magic -- I can tell by the feeling.
Quick!"Evil King Miraz and his army can only mean trouble for Narnia,
and Prince Caspian, his nephew and the rightful
heir to the throne, fears for his safety and the future of his country.
In Sicily 405 AD, the
infinite duel between a man and a superpower begins. The man is
Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse. The superpower
Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas.
Back in 1988, a young
author emerged onto the crime scene with a fresh and inspiring New York
crime series starring a young aspiring film-maker
- Rune. The series quickly established their author as one to watch. In
this opener, Rune becomes the obsessed with the murder of one of the
customers at her video store.
The phenomenally
successful Jack Higgins teams up with Justin Richards to launch a sure
fire best seller for children. The mother of fourteen-year-old twins...
Max, wealthy,
powerful and utterly ruthless, a self-made man without a past. Angela,
his wife, a society debutante who fell in love with the handsome,
enigmatic stranger and broke her parents' hearts by marrying him.
Francesca, the glamorous air stewardess who saw in Max her ticket to a
new life.
So begins the
delightfully reticent love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York
and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84
Charing Cross Road, London. For 20 years, this outspoken New York writer
and Frank Doel, a rather more restrained London bookseller carry on an
increasingly touching correspondence.
When Elizabeth
Glendinning QC dies of a sudden heart attack while making
a desperate phone call to the police, her colleagues and family are
devastated, and mystified. What was she doing in east London at the time
of her death, and what was she trying to tell Inspector Cartwright in
her last phone call?
When she loses her
high-powered job, her husband and her plush Park Avenue apartment in one
afternoon, Ivy Ames emerges broken but unbowed. The newly single
mother-of-two picks herself up, dusts herself down and reinvents herself
as a private school admissions advisor. But Ivy has no
idea what she's let herself in for.
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