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Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child’s father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and he retreated from the world. Unable to accept what had happened between them both went their separ read more
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Wednesday April 3rd
I am twenty-four and one day old. Question: What have I done with my life? Answer: Nothing. Grahame Greene died today. I wrote to him four years ago, pointing out a grammatical error in his book, The Human Fa
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My mother's gone right off me since Rosie was born. She was never a particularly attentive mother - I always had to clean my own shoes. But just lately I have been feeling emotionally deprived. If I turn out to be mentally deranged i read more
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Pandora and I are in love! It is official! She told Claire Nelson, who told Nigel, who told me. I told Nigel to tell Claire to tell Pandora that I return her love. I am over the moon with joy. I can overlook the fact that Pandora smo read more
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About the Book: Number Ten
A delight. Genuinely funny . . . compassion shines through the unashamedly ironic social commentary' Guardian.
Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.
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About the Book: Queen Camilla
'Wickedly satirical, mad, ferociously farcical, subversive. Great stuff' Daily Mail
What if being Royal was a crime?
The UK has come over all republican. The Royal Family exiled to an Exclu read more
Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary a read more
In his secret diary, British teenag
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A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers
"Set in the year 2001 where the class system is numbered from one to five and only the upperclasses are allowed to breed, Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes is about the births of a perfect but illeg read more
A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers
When Sita and her children leave India to join her husband in England, she is forced to sell her cow, but she keeps her milking bucket in the hope that she will be able to buy another cow in Leicester. read more
"The sight of duty does make one shiver," said Miss Herrick. "The actual doing of it would kill one, I think."
Ever anxious to keep up appearances, self-avowed intellectual and scholar Nicholas Herrick knows that to involve himself in read more
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