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How to Be of a Speakingness Like Stephen Fry: A Delicious Collection of Sumptuous GorgeositiesThe English tongue has never tasted more delicious than in the mouth of Stephen Fry: his chokingly brilliant sesquipedalian prose is like a shaft of sunlight through the drizzle of quotidian language. Now, with this bound monograph, we can all emit a...

Quips and Quotes for the Young at HeartYou’ve made it. Old age. You want to make the most of your golden years and are finding yourself stereotyped and sidelined. But you’re not the doddering geriatric people think you are. Get inspired by this collection of senior sagacity and elderly erudition and show those young whippersnappers that old is the...

Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca,' beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges. It's the stuff of dreams. A...

Boost Your Social Confidence  The number of people with some form of shyness has increased, and research now suggests that up to 50% of people experience it. Many of these are "shy extroverts" - people who are publicly outgoing, but privately experience painful thoughts or feelings. Social phobia, the more chronic form of shyness, is now...

Identity theft is a horrifying and traumatic experience. It's easy to imagine the frustration at being wrongly denied a credit card or loan. Worse are the sleepless nights after threatening phone calls from creditors anxious to retrieve cash loaned in your name. It can also be much more serious.Identity theft is linked to organised crime: illegal...

Katherine Mansfield was the pen name of Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923), a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction. She is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are...