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Valerie Grove
Kaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children’s books in 1961 and changed the face of children’s publishing forever. Her child-like enthusiasm and shrewd…
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Dodie Smith
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her…
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A biography of John Mortimer revealing various aspects of Mortimer’s legal and literary career, from his first attempts at writing novels and the early help he offered his barrister father…
Frank and funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of those immortal classics, The Hundred and One Dalmations and I Capture the Castle.
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Penelope Mortimer,Valerie Grove
This 1958 novel about the ‘captive wives’ of the pre-women’s lib era presents the story of Ruth, a 1950s house-bound mother being driven mad by her life. ‘Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting’…
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Elizabeth Von Arnim
A 1929 novel about a woman who is cut out of her husband’s will. The first ever reprint of Elizabeth von Arnim’s unjustly ignored besteller about a woman who realises…
Valerie Mason-John,Paramabandhu Groves
New material includes Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, how to run Eight Step Recovery Meetings, and how to mentor. Whether you are struggling to stay off heroin or with an obsessive…
