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Yachting Monthly's This Cruising Life
Libby Purves, well known author and broadcaster, puts her finger right on the nub of what makes cruising so enjoyable, so amusing and so exasperating in her popular column in …
Free Woman
Sarah Penn and Maggie Reave are sisters, as different as a tabby and a tiger. Sarah has married kind, reliable Leo and settled contentedly into small-town life. Maggie, …
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
Sometimes it takes a fresh pair of eyes to see yourselves clearly . . . Henry is a young, hip, radio DJ; Philip is an ex-MP ruined by scandal and disowned by his party; Diana, his …
Shadow Child
A powerful novel from Radio 4 presenter and Times columnist Libby Purves, inspired by the loss of her own son.'Family love is one of the most powerful elemental forces on earth, …
Passing Go
On the high ground above the great city, Roy and Helen live in brittle affluence inside a weary marriage. Of their four children, three have long vanished into the sprawling, …
A Long Walk in Wintertime
Alice McDonald has escaped all the obvious traps that lie in wait for women. She loves her job but enjoys her clever, spirited children too; her husband (Dan the New Man) does his …
In the Cage
Henry James's 1898 novella In the Cage (written in the same year as the more well-known The Turn of the Screw) is a sly, slight, vaguely sentimental work but one that acts as a …
A Little Learning
This lively selection brings together journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves’ experiences as journalist, parent, governor and former pupil of half a dozen assorted schools from …
Do You Think You're Clever?
What happens if I drop an ant?What books are bad for you?What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their …