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The Complete Richard Hannay Buchan, John
John Buchan is most famous for his spy novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, turned into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock - which is in fact the first novel in this collection of five. Schwas buckling ...
Letters Concerning the English Nation Voltaire,
In the 1720s, an ill, penniless, French poet arrived in London. An exile from France for offending the establishment, he discovered that he rather liked what he found in England. In Letters ...
The Tao of Pooh Hoff, Benjamin
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff gives the reader an introduction to Taoist philosophy by looking at the characters in Winnie the Pooh. What sounds like an unusual idea, works wonderfully well. ...
The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems Jones (editor), Griff Rhys
‘There was lady from Nantucket, who spent her whole life in a bucket, she couldn’t get out, because there wasn’t a spout, she’d try, but give up and go..’ That’s not in the book. ...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys Pepys, Samuel (Edited by RC Latham and W Matthews)
Who’d have thought that a diary by a man living over 400 years ago could be such good fun? It is the 1660s and Samuel Pepys is a pen pusher, bean counter and general administrator for the navy ...
Big Babies Bywater, Michael
Every once in a while, a book comes along that captures something about the world as it is then, at that time, or at least as it seems to be. Michael Bywater's book Big Babies or: Why Can't We ...
