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Most children at the tender age of six or so are generally full of the most impractical schemes for becoming policemen, firemen or engine drivers when they grow up… I knew exactly what I was going to do: I was going to have my own zoo… Menagerie Manor is the hugely entertaining account of how the wellknown and much-loved conservationist and author,...

Don't Get Mad, Get Over It!Don't get mad; get over it. That's the advice of Vicky Edwards, a woman who has been chucked more often than a kebab and one too many pints on a Friday night. Practical and funny, this book will help you to dust yourself down and start all over again while you're going through the emotional turbulence of being dumped,...

‘So there we were, driving along with an earth-box, a bag of turkey and, squalling his head off on my knee in Sheba’s basket, the new boy.’ The Toveys are no strangers to disaster, particularly the Siamese-related kind, but when their beloved Solomon dies unexpectedly, they’re faced with a completely new type of problem – do they find another cat...

The behaviour of a Siamese cat is never predictable, as all owners well know. The calm of the Tovey household is once again torn to shreds when Doreen’s cat Seeley instantly loathes the new arrival, Shebalu, and she – all five inches of her – loathes him back.And then, even worse, they become firm friends, and team up to create havoc.The characters...

Quips and Quotes for Every Occasion‘Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it is a mistake to make a habit out of it’W. Somerset Maugham‘Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner’Oscar Wilde‘It is better to be quotable than to be honest’Tom StoppardBritain has long been littered with wicked...

This essential dictionary and phrase book includes every term you need to know when buying, maintaining, renovating or building a home in France. Accessible and comprehensive, it includes the technical words you won’t find in an ordinary dictionary for tools and equipment and every aspect of painting, carpentry, roofing, plumbing and drainage. It...