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Don't Tell Alfred is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. 'I believe it would have been normal for me to have paid a visit to the outgoing ambassadress. However the said ambassadress had set up such an uninhibited...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-03-04
ePub
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A modernA TALE OF TWO CITIES by the bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN.Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army and is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam. Bilbo runs...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-02-18
ePub
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First-time mum Roxy feels perennially ticked off. She and her partner Jack have given up their London flat to try out village life in Riverside, with their 10-month-old daughter Joey. But their new house still looks like a building site and Roxy is struggling to cope...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2010-01-21
ePub
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The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you would expect: counselling, contemplation, candid discussion and even prayer - not to mention booze,...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2009-12-03
ePub
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With this simple-to-use rating method, a woman can determine exactly how much of a jerk her man really is. By counting Jerk Units--points assigned to more than 500 undesirable behaviors--she can instantly see if her man exceeds the recommended daily allowance of Jerk...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-11-29
ePub
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A glittering and sexy story of passion and betrayal and one woman's search for true love.Crystal is beautiful, talented and ambitious. All her life she has dreamed of making it as a singer. After years of trying to break into the music industry her chance finally comes...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-11-10
ePub
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From Oedipus: PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF.From Paradise Lost: OH MY GOD I'M IN HELL.Perhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-11-05
ePub
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For eleven-year old James Joseph Johnson (or Jimmy for short) life is not always straightforward. In fact, things can be quite complicated, and don't always turn out as he'd planned . . . Born in 1946, Jimmy lives with his Mum and Dad in a shiny red brick terraced...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-11-05
ePub
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He's the King of the Swingers. But she's the Ice Queen.When Dr Jennifer Niederhauser becomes head of the chimpanzee project at Prowdes Animal Sanctuary, the uptight young zoologist looks forward to making her mark in the conservation world. But the regime is ramshackle,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-10-30
ePub
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'There were many staff at Kensington, fulfilling many roles; a man who was employed to catch rats, another whose job it was to sweep the chimneys. That there was someone expected to hunt Demons did not shock the new Queen; that it was to be her was something of a...
Editeur :
Hodderscape
Parution :
2009-10-15
ePub
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A classic Jeeves and Wooster novel from P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century.Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh with old flame Florence Craye, her new and suspicious fiancé Stilton Cheesewright, and two-faced Edwin the Boy Scout, Bertie desperately...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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I need hardly tell you the esential thing about a football i.e. nobody need tell me to get rid of it. i do not want it in the first place. Wot is the use of having a soaking wet piece of leather pushed at you? Give me a hadock every time, at least you can eat it. Poor...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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With one mad yell the mob, armed with stumps and bits torn from desks, surge away down the pasage, trampling the masters under foot. A buket of water fall on GRIMES and the term end in a series of wizard rags and japes. Cars arrive, driven by parents with drawn, white...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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If headmasters were honest a prospectus would be a book which sa how many kanes he hav, contane a warning about the skool dog and the amount of prunes and rice served during the term.Nigel Molesworth may not be the best student St Custard's will ever have, but he is...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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Fame. Fortune. Screaming girls. The adoration of strangers. I've had it all before, yet nothing could have prepared this Horny Little Devil for his new life in the City of Angels. Sacked as the coach of the Andorra rugby team and on the run from the sister I never knew...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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All skools make some sort at teaching the pupils things and the headmaster pin up a huge timetable of lessons ect. which make the heart sink when you look at it.Nigel Molesworth is back, this time taking the tinies in hand and showing that they can survive the first...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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The Wonder of Whiffling is a hugely enjoyable, surprising and rewarding tour of English around the globe (with fine coinages from our English-speaking cousins across the pond, Down Under and elsewhere).Discover all sorts of words you've always wished existed but never...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-09-24
ePub
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Hilarious storytelling from the creator of Reginald Perrin.Alan and Ange are on a train, heading for London. Alan is a philosophy lecturer, still a virgin at fifty-five; Ange a twenty-something, horoscope reading, darts groupie. They certainly don't expect their first...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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From the creator of Reginald Perrin - a hilarious novel returning to the life of Henry Pratt...When pretty young TV researcher Nicky Proctor visits Cafe Henry in London's Soho, Henry Pratt's life changes forever. He becomes an instant star of the TV food quiz, A...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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A sparkling and sexy tale of glamour modelling, romance and the treacherous promises of fame. When Angel is discovered by a model agent, her life changes for ever. Young, beautiful and sexy, she seems destined for a successful career in modelling and, very quickly, the...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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