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ISBN: 9781848311329 - Do You Think You're Clever? Bestseller Do You Think You're Clever?
John Farndon, Libby Purves

ISBN10: 184831132X  ISBN13: 9781848311329
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jun 2010
Why can't you light a candle in a spaceship? What books are bad for you? Is nature natural? This work takes the reader through philosophy to physics, literature to logarithms considering why the pole vaulting world record will never exceed 6. More

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ISBN: 9780340837436 - Shadow Child Shadow Child
Libby Purves

ISBN10: 0340837438  ISBN13: 9780340837436
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division Hodder Paperback
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Mar 2010
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... More

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ISBN: 9780340829318 - A Long Walk in Wintertime A Long Walk in Wintertime
Libby Purves

ISBN10: 0340829311  ISBN13: 9780340829318
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division Coronet Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Dec 2002
At her thirty-seventh birthday party, Alice reflects that their life has been a pretty successful production so far. But two months later, she wonders how it fell apart so quickly. Were things ever as good as they seemed? Had the McDonalds really... More

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ISBN: 9780340793916 - Mother Country Mother Country
Libby Purves

ISBN10: 0340793910  ISBN13: 9780340793916
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division Flame
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Feb 2003
Everyone 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, carrying off the baby Alexander to give him an affluent future... More

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ISBN: 9780340657980 - A Long Walk in Wintertime A Long Walk in Wintertime
Libby Purves

ISBN10: 0340657987  ISBN13: 9780340657980
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division Sceptre
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 16 Jan 1997
A modern day family saga 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... More

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ISBN: 9780007163847 - How Not to be a Perfect Mother How Not to be a Perfect Mother
Libby Purves

ISBN10: 0007163843  ISBN13: 9780007163847
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Thorsons
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2004
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... More

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ISBN: 9780340718810 - Regatta Regatta
Libby Purves

ISBN10: 0340718811  ISBN13: 9780340718810
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division Flame
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Jun 2000
Bestselling author of More Lives than One returns with a major novel for summer reading, backed by GBP15,000 of advertising in summer women's magazines. Sheila Harrison always looks forward to the descent of the summer visitors onto 'Seafret'... More

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ISBN: 9780340822425 - Radio Radio
Libby Purves

ISBN10: 0340822422  ISBN13: 9780340822425
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division Coronet Books
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 May 2003
A sharp and revealing, and at times hilarious memoir of Libby's own experiences woven into the story of radio's birth and development. Libby Purves has had an ongoing love affair with the radio since her childhood, when she saved her pocket money... More

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ISBN: 9780340829882 - Home Leave Home Leave
Libby Purves

ISBN10: 0340829885  ISBN13: 9780340829882
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division Coronet Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Jan 2003
Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings - France or Washington DC - wherever their father was posted. But all that was years ago. Now, amid growing tensions, marriage-fatigue and resentments, the tragedy of Toby's... More

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ISBN: 9780340751367 - Nature's Masterpiece Nature's Masterpiece
Libby Purves

ISBN10: 0340751363  ISBN13: 9780340751367
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division Coronet Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Oct 2000
A Family Survival Book - a compendium of practical advice and reflections on modern famliy life in the age of computer gaming. 'The family is nature's masterpiece' - George Santayana A compendium of practical advice and reflections on modern... More