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  • A Long Walk in Wintertime

    by Libby Purves, Libby Purves ...
    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 that their life has been a pretty successful production so far.But love can be treacherous, and ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • A Free Woman

    by Libby Purves, Libby Purves ...
    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 menial job as long as it has no future. But now Maggie has come home, pregnant, and undecided ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • How Not to Raise a Perfect Child

    by Libby Purves ...
    A warm, reassuring parenting guide for mothers and fathers who want to raise happy, resilient children without the pressure of perfectionism. With humor, practical reflections, and everyday family examples, the book helps parents navigate discipline, friendships, school, money, clothes, pets, toys, grandparents, parties, illness, outings, and the ordinary worries of family life while remembering ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Home Leave

    by Libby Purves ...
    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. But all that was years ago. Now Catherine is approaching middle-age, married to a life of cheeseparing ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • How Not to Be a Perfect Mother

    by Libby Purves ...
    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 can cope with the baby years.This is a parenting book with a difference- rather than a serious tome ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Love Songs and Lies

    by Libby Purves ...
    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 house they share in that final year at Oxford. And Sally, so steeped in the Romantics that she confuses ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • More Lives than One

    by Libby Purves, Libby Purves ...
    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 hard put to contain his maverick ideas. Year Seven, on the other hand, love them. Only the soothing ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • One Summer's Grace

    by Libby Purves ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Little Learning

    Broodings from the Back of the Class

    by Libby Purves ...
    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 collection of the best of her writing in the Times Educational Supplement covers - sometimes ... Read more

    $54.95 CAD

  • Nature's Masterpiece

    A Family Survival Book

    by Libby Purves, Libby Purves ...
    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 are threatened by considerations of safety. Libby also considers the maintenance of marriage in an age of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Regatta

    by Libby Purves ...
    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 and the waifs and strays sent by the Country Hosts' Association.But Sheila is not prepared for the ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Acting Up

    by Libby Purves ...
    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 handsome fellow-officer Callum and joins her regiment on the hot sands of Kuwait. Brother Francis, ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD