Something Fresh: (Blandings Castle)Blandings is now a major BBC One television series starring Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall. This is the first Blandings novel, In whuch P. G. Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his log suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one imposter on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'.

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fashion and music and his recollections of that formative year sit alongside those of Cummins himself

40 years of field notes picked from books

The 21st Eagle of the Empire novel

coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women's lives from the First World War to Greenham Common and beyond

Stridsberg approaches both the strange and the mundane with a fairy-tale sensibility that lights our world anew

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The world hurtled forward on gears and crankshafts

Epic in scope and revelatory in detail

Who will learn that a little tenderness goes a long way

sees Sadie crying because her father has lost all their money