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28 produkter
Coast
Av Libby Purves
Häftad, 2006
122 kr
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A stunning glimpse of some of Britain's finest coastline, from the granite columns of the Giant's Causeway on the Northern Irish coast and the rocky cliffs of Wales and South West England to the great open horizons of the East Anglian shore.A stunning glimpse of some of Britain's finest coastline, …
How Not to Be a Perfect Mother
Av Libby Purves
Häftad, 2004
130 kr
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A fresh new look brings this parenting classic up-to-date for a new generation of mothers and mothers-to-be. Taking an irreverent and humorous look at the trials and tribulations of motherhood, Radio 4’s Libby Purves has created an invaluable survival guide so that even the most unpromising madonna …
How Not to Be a Perfect Mother
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2012
88 kr
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A fresh new look brings this parenting classic up-to-date for a new generation of mothers and mothers-to-be. Taking an irreverent and humorous look at the trials and tribulations of motherhood, Radio 4’s Libby Purves has created an invaluable survival guide so that even the most unpromising madonna …
Shadow Child
Av Libby Purves
Häftad, 2010
144 kr
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'Family love is one of the most powerful elemental forces on earth, and at that moment, our last moment as a unit of three, we rode a great curling triumphant wave of it, all together. Death may have thought that he won, but I think otherwise.' There is no right way to deal with the loss of a …
Little Learning
Broodings from the Back of the Class
Av Libby Purves
Inbunden, 2007
2441 kr
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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 Bangkok to Tunbridge Wells, displaying her eclectic and provocative opinions and ideas on teaching and learning. This …
Little Learning
Broodings from the Back of the Class
Av Libby Purves
Häftad, 2007
431 kr
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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 Bangkok to Tunbridge Wells, displaying her eclectic and provocative opinions and ideas on teaching and learning. This …
Little Learning
Broodings from the Back of the Class
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2007
585 kr
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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 Bangkok to Tunbridge Wells, displaying her eclectic and provocative opinions and ideas on teaching and learning. This …
Little Learning
Broodings from the Back of the Class
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2007
598 kr
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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 Bangkok to Tunbridge Wells, displaying her eclectic and provocative opinions and ideas on teaching and learning. This …
One Summer's Grace
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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In the summer of 1988, Libby Purves set sail with her family on a voyage round the entire coastline of Britain, from the soft, sandy South-East, to the wilder shores of Orkney. They travelled in the wake of their literary-nautical forebears aboard their m
Free Woman
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2010
51 kr
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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, light-hearted and footloose, has spent fifteen years drifting round the world with a backpack and a cheerful willingness to do any …
Mother Country
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Even her closest friend agreed that Shark Grayson wasn''t fit to keep her baby. A heroin addict, living in a sordid London squat, she was already close to death when her American lover took charge of the situation by force, and carried off the baby Alexander to give him a loving home in the …
Nature's Masterpiece
A Family Survival Book
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2000
45 kr
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The family is nature''s masterpiece'' - George Santayana A compendium of practical advice and reflections on modern family life in the age of computer gaming, ever younger drug and drink problems, educational upheaval and concerns about the way children''s freedom, health and personal development …
How Not to Raise a Perfect Child
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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A perfect child: * Dresses neatly and practises the violin before breakfast * Comes top of the class and is captain of everything * Is unfailingly obedient and sweet-tempered * Is a perfect credit to its perfect mother A real child: * Prefers shoelaces undone and mismatched socks * Shouts ''Bum!'' …
How Not to be A Perfect Family
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Perfect Families: * Tick off museums in the guidebook* Tidy everything away neatly* Work hard and play fair* Show respect for one anotherReal Families: * Start fights in the Louvre * Keep all their worldly goods on the stairs and in the kitchen * Do their homework on the school bus and cheat at …
Long Walk in Wintertime
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2002
43 kr
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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 share at home, and their London house is always full of friends. At her thirty-seventh birthday party, Alice reflects …
Do You Think You're Clever?
The Oxford and Cambridge Questions
Häftad, 2010
120 kr
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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 unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can tell just how smart you really are. …
Shadow Child
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2009
40 kr
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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, and at that moment, our last moment as a unit of three, we rode a great curling triumphant wave of it, all together. …
Regatta
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2003
51 kr
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Sheila Harrison always looks forward to the descent of the summer visitors onto ''Seafret'', her tall brick house right on the front at Blythney, in East Anglia. She loves the way her spare bedrooms are full, from June to September, with successive waves of children - schoolfriends of her own three …
Passing Go
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2001
40 kr
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A funny, startling but ultimately hopeful novel of twenty-first century city lives. 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, sluttish metropolis beneath: Marcus the …
More Lives than One
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 1999
45 kr
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Kit Milcourt - impatient, quirky, idealistic and brilliant - has been a climber, diver in exotic waters and affluent young city banker. Now, because of his beloved Anna, he is a teacher. Glumly mediocre Sandmarsh High School, reeling under assaults from Inspectors and its own unpromising pupils, is …
Love Songs and Lies
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2007
40 kr
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A story about coming of age in 1970s Oxford. Politics and the Pill. Pot and poetry. Glamrock and groupies. The way we were. Love isn''t always the answer. Have you ever fallen for the wrong man? Sally does. Handsome, clever Max Bellinger brings a whiff of sophistication into the shabby canalside …
Home Leave
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2003
68 kr
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A perceptive novel from our favourite chronicler of the dilemmas of modern family life. Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings: British ''diplo-brats'', whose childhood homes lay in Italy or Israel, France or Washington DC – wherever their father was posted at the time. …
Continental Drift
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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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 long-suffering wife; Marianne''s replaced her husband with chocolate eclairs and gin; and Lizzie is battling with …
Casting Off
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2003
51 kr
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What makes a wife and mother, pillar of the community and partner in a cosy tea-shop (The Bun in the Oven) suddenly run away to sea, alone? Joanna Gurney hardly knows herself. But as she moves along the rocky, dangerous coast of Britain, evading police and press, Joanna meets other cast-off and …
Acting Up
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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The Andersons are a military family with honours and traditions stretching back two hundred years. When the second Iraq war breaks out, it is only natural that their newest generations should be represented in the ranks of British officers: at 24, Lieutenant Susie Anderson delays her wedding to …
How Not to Be a Perfect Mother: The Crafty Mother's Guide to a Quiet Life / Comment ne pas être une mère parfaite: Nouvelle édition
Av Libby Purves
Häftad, 2007
493 kr
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Comment ne pas être une mère parfaite
Av Libby Purves
E-bok, 2019
99 kr
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Faites-vous partie des mères parfaites ou des vraies mères ? Les mères parfaites sourient tout le temps, ont des maisons immaculées, n’élèvent jamais la voix. Les vraies mères, elles, portent des pulls tachés, ne finissent jamais rien, soupirent d’épuisement et tremblent pour un rien. Les mères …
Passing Go
Av Libby Purves
Häftad, 2001
131 kr
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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, sluttish metropolis beneath: Marcus the dotcom entrepreneur, Shona the shocking Britart princess, and Danny - the one nobody …
