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Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons' hilarious comic novel of rural life, new to Penguin Modern Classics When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend...
Cold Comfort Farm: Popular Penguins
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she...
The Rich House
'It ought not to be forgotten that Miss Gibbons is a poet as well as a novelist... She sees idiosyncrasy in nature and humanity, and makes both live' - Observer...
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers
These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall...
The Greatest Kingdom (A Clock of Stars, Book 3)
Author: Francesca Gibbons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The thrilling third volume in the bestselling middle-grade trilogy, beautifully illustrated throughout by Chris Riddell Step through the door in the...
The Greatest Kingdom (A Clock of Stars, Book 3)
Author: Francesca Gibbons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The thrilling third volume in the bestselling middle-grade trilogy, beautifully illustrated throughout by Chris Riddell Step through the door in the...
The Shadow Moth (A Clock of Stars, Book 1)
A most magical children's book, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and illustrated by award-winning Chris Riddell Imogen should be nice to her little sister Marie. She should be...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and...
Stellarlune: Volume 9
In this stunning ninth book in the New York Times bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie and her friends discover the true meaning of power - and evil....
Mistletoe Malice: 'Christmas literary comfort and joy' (Meg Mason,
A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.'Literary comfort and joy....
The Amazing Book of World Mythology: A Unique Celebration of Culture,
The book contains 20 stories as wide-ranging as Theseus and the Minotaur to Thor's Hammer to the Journey of the Monkey King. They are split thematically into six chapters: In...