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What do readers say about To Say Nothing of the Dog?
lively and often funny impenetrable nattering prose time travel book a comedy of errorsFrom Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel . . .
Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940... More details on To Say Nothing of the Dog
A Search Party-Wartime Headgear-The Problem of Nepotism-Royal Headgear-The Bishop’s Bird Stump Is Missing-Jumble Sales-A Clue to Its Whereabouts-Astronomical Observations-Dogs-A Cat-Man’s Best Friend-...
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What do readers say about Major Pettigrew's Last Stand?
pleasant and fresh love and guns literary fiction novel witty, sweet and funWritten with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition.
When retired Major Pettigrew strik... More details on Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Major Pettigrew was still upset about the phone call from his brother’s wife and so he answered the doorbell without thinking. On the damp bricks of the path stood Mrs. Ali from the village shop. She ...
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What do readers say about Cold Comfort Farm?
clever and funny jaunty and optimistic laugh out loud hilarious a great satireThe deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. When the recently orphaned socialite F... More details on Cold Comfort Farm
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spa...
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What do readers say about Love in a Cold Climate?
a sparkling romantic comedy incestuous little trollop great little novel farce, not comedyA sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.
Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with h... More details on Love in a Cold Climate
IAM OBLIGED TO begin this story with a brief account of the Hampton family, because it is necessary to emphasise the fact once and for all that the Hamptons were very grand as well as very rich. A sho...
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What do readers say about High Rising?
novel of manners satire with a heart charming and funny deeply anti-romantic subtextSuccessful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary who... More details on High Rising
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What do readers say about Mapp and Lucia?
delicious, unmatched humor a comic classic an omnibus edition a wicked pleasureAt last they meet - the two most formidable ladies in English literature collide in genteel and deadly enmity. Lucia shakes the dust of Riseholme from her elegant feet and, with Georgie Pilson as devoted courtier, prepares to conquer the high society... More details on Mapp and Lucia
Though it was nearly a year since her husband’s death, Em-meline Lucas (universally known to her friends as Lucia) still wore the deepest and most uncompromising mourning. Black certainly suited her v...
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What do readers say about Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?
the illustrations are priceless humorous light, delightful and entertaining story very entertaining and extremely sillyThe delirious 1925 Jazz-Age classic that no less an authority than Edith Wharton called "the great American novel."
If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas,... More details on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Well last evening Dorothy called up and Dorothy said she has met a gentleman who gave himself an introduction to her in the lobby of the Ritz. So then they went to luncheon and tea and dinner and then...
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What do readers say about The Pursuit of Love?
witty and satirical lightly autobiographical comic novel a story of life upper-class british farceOne of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford's classic is now a major BBC and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James, Andrew Scott and Dominic West
'He was the great love of... More details on The Pursuit of Love
THERE is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh. The table is situated, as it was, is now, and ever shall be, in the hall, in front of a...
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What do readers say about Crazy Rich Asians?
comedy of manners light, fluffy read a soap opera light romantic comedyA hilarious and heartwarming New York Times bestselling novel-the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture!
"There's rich, there's filthy rich, and then there's crazy rich … A Pride and Prejudice-like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-Am... More details on Crazy Rich Asians
“You sure about this?” Rachel asked again, blowing softly on the surface of her steaming cup of tea. They were sitting at their usual window table at Tea & Sympathy, and Nick had just invited her to s...
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What do readers say about The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4?
straightforward diary format wit and understated humor short daily diary entries the humour is timelessFriday January 2nd
I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be... More details on The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
I will help the blind across the road. I will hang my trousers up. I will put the sleeves back on my records. I will not start smoking. I will stop squeezing my spots. I will be kind to the dog. I wil...
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