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Wed Wabbit (Paperback)
Lissa Evans
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You're called Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin Graham. You have to solve a series of nearly impossible clues. You need to deal with a cruel dictator and three thousand Wimbley Woos (yes, you read that sentence correctly). And the whole situation - the whole, entire thing - is your fault. Wed Wabbit is an adventure story about friendship, danger and the terror of never being able to get back home again. And it's funny. It's seriously funny.
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Wished (Hardcover)
Lissa Evans; Illustrated by Bec Barnes
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Ed and his sister Roo are faced with the most boring half-term
holiday in history: five days spent in the company of their elderly
neighbour Miss Filey, and her ancient, smelly cat. But when they
find a box of birthday candles in a cupboard in Miss Filey's house,
their world is changed completely. These are no ordinary candles,
every single one of them comes with a wish. There's only one
problem: some of those wishes actually belong to someone else . . .
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Wished (Paperback)
Lissa Evans; Illustrated by Bec Barnes
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R254
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Three children. One long, boring school holiday at an ancient
neighbour's. One very old, very smelly cat. But when Ed and co find
a box of birthday candles and make a wish, their world is changed
completely. For with every candle comes a wish, but some of those
wishes actually belong to someone else . . .
Now a major film starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill
Nighy. It's 1940. In a small advertising agency in Soho, Catrin
Cole writes snappy lines for Vida Elastic and So-Bee-Fee gravy
browning. But the nation is in peril, all skills are transferable
and there's a place in the war effort for those who have a knack
with words. Catrin is conscripted into the world of propaganda
films. After a short spell promoting the joy of swedes for the
Ministry of Food, she finds herself writing dialogue for 'Just an
Ordinary Wednesday', a heart-warming but largely fabricated 'true
story' about rescue and romance on the beaches of Dunkirk. And as
bombs start to fall on London, she discovers that there's just as
much drama, comedy and passion behind the scenes as there is in
front of the camera . . . Originally published as Their Finest Hour
and a Half
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of
Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny'
NINA STIBBE 'Wherever her eye falls, it finds the exact,
significant detail, and her ear for dialogue is unerring' OBSERVER
'Monica's naked curiosity and general bolshiness are easy to
identify with' LISSA EVANS Poppy, newly recruited cub reporter at
the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he's
wrong in his belief that 'Women are a nuisance in the office'. He
certainly doesn't think she's a nuisance when it's time for the tea
round - a job which never fails to fall to the only female
reporter. What Poppy lacks in experience, she makes up for in
spirit and ambition. She'll make the Downingham Post the best
regional newspaper there is - even if she occasionally gets the
names wrong in court hearings. Life for a single professional woman
in the post-war years certainly has its challenges - from finding a
room, when the tyrannical landlady doesn't consider Poppy to be
quite respectable to changing her editor's deeply entrenched ways.
This semi-autobiographical novel, recounted with Monica Dickens's
wit, warmth and wry observation will charm all who read it. If you
enjoyed My Turn to Make the Tea, you will love One Pair of Feet,
Dickens's novel of being a wartime trainee nurse, also published in
Virago Modern Classics.
As featured on BBC Radio 4 Good Reads 'A timely, bittersweet comic
novel' Guardian ____________________ What do you do next, after
you've changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting
through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club - an old
possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade. Mattie is a
woman with a thrilling past and a chafingly uneventful present.
During the Women's Suffrage Campaign she was a militant. Jailed
five times, she marched, sang, gave speeches, smashed windows and
heckled Winston Churchill, and nothing - nothing - since then has
had the same depth, the same excitement. Now in middle age, she is
still looking for a fresh mould into which to pour her energies.
Giving the wooden club a thoughtful twirl, she is struck by an idea
- but what starts as a brilliantly idealistic plan is derailed by a
connection with Mattie's militant past, one which begins to
threaten every principle that she stands for. Old Baggage is a
funny and bittersweet portrait of a woman who has never, never
given up the fight. ____________________ 'Essential . . . Evans is
a brilliant storyteller' Stylist
SHORTLISTED FOR HWA Crown Awards 2021 'A book to be treasured and
returned to again and again' The Independent 'Funny, moving and
utterly life-enhancing' Daily Mail With caustic wit and artful
storytelling, Lissa Evans elegantly summons a time when the world
could finally hope to emerge from the chaos of war. ___ It's late
1944. Hitler's rockets are slamming down on London with vicious
regularity and it's the coldest winter in living memory. Allied
victory is on its way, but it's bloody well dragging its feet. In a
large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is just about
scraping by, with a herd of lodgers to feed, and her young charge
Noel ( almost fifteen ) to clothe and educate. When she witnesses a
road accident and finds herself in court, the repercussions are
both unexpectedly marvellous and potentially disastrous -
disastrous because Vee is not actually the person she's pretending
to be, and neither is Noel. The end of the war won't just mean
peace, but discovery... ___ Readers love V For Victory: ***** 'The
characters stay in the memory and heart.' ***** 'It's pitch perfect
- funny, sad, moving, compelling' ***** 'Full of warmth, wit and
wisdom, an absolute joy'
In 1940, every draft of every film script had to be approved by the
Ministry of Information. Cast and crew were waiting to be called up
at any moment, travel was restricted and filming was interrupted by
regular bombing raids. And so it is that we find a disparate group
of characters whose paths would never have crossed in peacetime:
Ambrose Hilliard, a washed up old ham from the golden era of silent
movies; Catrin Cole, formerly an advertising copywriter drafted in
to 'write women' for the Ministry of Information; Edith Beadmore, a
wardrobe assistant at Madame Tussauds; and Arthur Frith, peacetime
catering manager turned wartime Special Military Advisor. This
distinct group find themselves thrown together in the wilds of
Norfolk to 'do their bit' on the latest propaganda film - a
heart-warming tale of derring do, of two sisters who set out in a
leaking old wooden boat to rescue the brave men trapped at Dunkirk.
All completely fabricated, of course, but what does that matter
when the nation's morale is at stake? Newly crowned actor,
script-writer, costumier and military attache must swallow their
mutual distaste, ill-will and mistrust and unite for the common
good, for King and country, and - in one case - for better or
worse...
Stuart Horten, ten years old and small for his age, is about to
have the strangest ADVENTURE of his life. After moving to the
boring town of Beeton, he finds himself swept up in an INCREDIBLE
QUEST to find his great-uncle's lost legacy: a magician's workshop
stuffed with trickery and MAGIC. There are clues to follow,
unbearable neighbours to avoid and PUZZLES to solve, but what
starts as FUN ends up as DANGER, and Stuart begins to realise that
he can't finish the task on his own...
When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London
to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge -
thiry-six, drowning in debts. Always desperate for money, she's
unscrupulous about how she gets it. The war's thrown up all manner
of new opportunities but what Vee needs is a cool head and the
ability to make a plan. On her own, she's a disaster. With Noel,
she's a team. Together they cook up an idea. But there are plenty
of other people making money out of the war and some of them are
dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn't
actually safe at all . . . Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize
for Fiction, 2015
Magic, mystery and a very dangerous quest... Stuart Horten (aged ten, but looks younger) is now the owner of a Magician's Workshop - a treasure trove of illusions and the gateway to seven magical adventures. Except that without his great-uncle's last will and testament, Stuart can't actually prove the workshop is his. Can he solve the puzzles and find the will before it's too late? Or will the looming danger and increasing risks ruin his friendships for good?
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