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Join the Larkins for another adventure in the much-loved series, inspiration for the new ITV drama starring Bradley Walsh'Christening? We never said nothing about no christening, Ma, did we?'And so with the appearance of a letter announcing the imminent arrival of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-11-30
Collection :
The Larkin Family Series
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‘Fuck everyone from Holden Caulfield to Bridget Jones, fuck all the American and English phoney fictions that claim to speak for us; they don’t know the likes of us exist and they never did. We are who we are because we grew up the Stornoway way. We do not live in the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2006-09-07
ePub
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Hi!Let me introduce myself. I'm Martin Lukes, Special Projects Director at a-b global (UK).In your hands is a highly unique book, which pushes the envelope literature-wise. As you will see, it is a 120 per cent honest account of a year of my life - a phenomenal year...
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Penguin
Parution :
2006-06-29
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So there I was roysh, life focked, reputation focked, finances focked - everything completely focked, roysh, and we're talking big time. And it's all Fionn's fault, basically. He's the four-eyed focker who told me that, like, the first time you do it, roysh, you're...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-06-01
ePub
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Quite Honestly - a hilarious crime novel by bestselling Rumpole author John MortimerLife couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. She's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences and the offer of a job in advertising. With all this, she felt she should 'pay back...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-05-04
ePub
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A wickedly funny and observant novel about the delicate questions of love, death and money.Amy Hawkins, Californian millionairess, is travelling in Europe, to find her culture, her roots and a cause to which she might devote her considerable fortune. She lands at one...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-04-06
ePub
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Rachel Johnson's hilarious take on life as a yummy mummy in West London and on Exmoor has been making her newspaper readers chortle for the last couple of years: now they are seamlessly turned into a diary of her year, from the dog's birthday party in January (games of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2005-09-01
ePub
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Jonas Wergeland is a successful TV documentary producer and something of God's gift to women. But one day he returns from the world's fair in Seville to discover his wife dead on the living room floor. What follows is not only a quest to find the killer but also a...
Editeur :
Arcadia Books
Parution :
2005-05-01
ePub
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Master storyteller Patrick Neate has written a funny, provocative and daring tale of London high- and low-life set among the capital's twirtysomethings. Featuring performance poetry; murder; Trafalgar Square's only fried-chicken induced battle; hat selling; bank robbery...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-04-01
ePub
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In his eighth deliciously funny novel, Clyde Edgerton introduces us to the irrepressible Lil Olive, who's recently arrived at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall. Lil longs to be back in her own apartment, and since her driver's license...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2003-10-01
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Tragic and hilarious in equal measure, Tim Lott’s story of Charlie and Maureen Buck’s ailing marriage and their climb up (and down) the social ladder during the 1980s is a wonderfully honest portrait of ordinary people living through an extraordinary time. Steeped in...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2003-02-06
ePub
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Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character . . . Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2002-03-28
ePub
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'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2000-05-25
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NEW BOY is a dark modern comedy about the hormonal angst of a Jewish lad growing up in north-west London's bagel belt. "Sutcliffe has managed to pull off a worthy British companion to Portnoy's Complaint" Jay Rayner,Observer "Well-written,clever and very funny" Literary...
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Penguin
Parution :
1998-06-04
ePub
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Three of Benson's Lucia stories. "Queen Lucia" was published in 1920, "Miss Mapp" in 1922 and "Lucia in London" in 1927. They are much-loved novels of provincial snobbery and became a successful television series.
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1991-01-03
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"Mapp & Lucia" first published in 1935. "Lucia's progress" first published 1935. "Trouble for Lucia" first published in 1939.
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1991-01-03
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Clarence Day's reminiscences of growing up in a turn-of-the-century New York household which keeps wriggling out from under the thumb of a blustering Wall Street paterfamilias are classics of American humor.
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-03-06
epub sans DRM
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Six months after her trip to Wonderland, Alice has a new and exciting experience: while conversing with her cats and dozing in an armchair, she becomes curious while looking at a mirror. What could possibly be beyond it? The fact is that she will manage to cross the...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2024-12-19
epub sans DRM
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Catherine Morland, the novel's protagonist, is invited to spend a few days at the former Northanger Abbey, the home of the family of the young Anglican pastor to whom she is engaged and who believes her to be a wealthy heiress. Impressed by the place and even more so by...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2024-12-01
epub sans DRM
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Rudolph Fisher’s outstanding debut novel The Walls of Jericho, published in 1928, explores race and class issues during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance through the lens of Black lawyer Fred Merrit, who buys a home in a white neighborhood bordering Harlem. What progresses...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2024-04-12
epub sans DRM
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