Dreary and

Brigid Keenan was never destined to lead a normal life. From her early beginnings ? a colourful childhood in India brought to an abrupt end by independence and partition, then a return to dreary post-war England and on…

Mr Bridge : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141198668 : 0141198664 : 22 Jan 2013 : Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only…

Escaping a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium, the hero gets entangled with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, which complicates his affections for a penniless…

Frederick : Hardback : Random House USA Inc : 9780394810409 : 0394810406 : 01 Oct 1990 : "While other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick seems to daydream the summer away. When dreary weather comes, it is…

Lets you swim along with the pout-pout fish as he discovers that being glum and spreading "dreary-wearies" isn't really his destiny. In this title, bright ocean colours and playful rhyme come together to turn even the…

After six years in the idyllic Loire Valley, comedian Ian Moore, his family and their ever-expanding menagerie feel like they're on the cusp of the peace and tranquillity they hoped for when they moved from dreary…

BBC adaptation of Gerald Durrell's bestselling autobiography, telling the story of the naturalist's childhood years spent on the island of Corfu. Escaping the dreary weather of 1930s England, the eccentric Durrell family…

George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times -…

'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le Carre The Third Man, Graham Greene's most iconic…

The Misadventures of Dreary and Naughty introduces two new icons to the world of children's and teen literature. In a world where everyday is Halloween, this is a cautionary tale about the son of the Grim Reaper (Dreary)…

At Elizabeth David's Table : Hardback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780718154752 : 0718154754 : 16 Jun 2011 : Introduces a dreary post-war Britain to the sun-drenched culinary delights of the Mediterranean; to foods like olive…

A notice in "The Times" addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April'. Four very…

Set high up on the cliffs in the grounds of a ruined monastery, overlooking the dreary town of Blinkton-on-Sea, is the otherwise unremarkable Blinkton High School. Here resides the enigmatic Inky Stevens - a talented and…

Set high up on the cliffs in the grounds of a ruined monastery, overlooking the dreary town of Blinkton-on-Sea, is the otherwise unremarkable Blinkton High School. Here resides the enigmatic Inky Stevens - a talented and…

It's time to chuck away your dreary science textbooks and explore the grim gruesome and grizzly side of science. Leave your test tubes and bar charts at home - we don't like boring science here. But it might be worth…

Explores a mans desperate desire for freedom. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn, as he…

Ages 9 to 12 years It's time to chuck away your dreary science textbooks and explore the grim, gruesome and grizzly side of science. Leave your test tubes and bar charts at home - we don't like boring science here. But…

Introduces a dreary post-war Britain to the sun-drenched culinary delights of the Mediterranean; to foods like olive oil and pasta, artichokes and fresh herbs - foods that have become the staples of our diets today. This…

Coming Up for Air : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141185699 : 0141185694 : 25 Jan 2001 : George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set…

The Pout-pout Fish : Board book : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc : 9780374360979 : 0374360979 : 29 Aug 2013 : Lets you swim along with the pout-pout fish as he discovers that being glum and spreading `dreary-wearies` isn't…

I held a party. It was my birthday. How was I supposed to know it wouldn't be the only party around town on that dark and dreary Halloween night? So things ended up in a bit of a mess. (Well, more than a mess, really. It…

Philadelphia, Here I Come : Paperback : Faber & Faber : 9780571085866 : 0571085865 : 01 Mar 1994 : Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and his humiliating job in his father's…

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to…

The Killer Cat's Birthday Bash : Paperback : Penguin Random House Children's UK : 9780141324364 : 0141324368 : 07 May 2009 : I held a party. It was my birthday. How was I supposed to know it wouldn't be the only party…

The Petal Fairies have a very important job - together with their magic petals they help to make sure that flowers grow and bloom in the human world. But after Jack Frost sent his goblins to steal the magic petals in the…

When Dreary Inkling Primary School's headmistress buys some new vending machines, she never imagined that a freak electrical storm would turn them into killer robots... Suddenly, the vending machines are on the rampage!…

'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.' With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous…

A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the Year SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE Emerging from the jazz clubs of the early 1950s, skiffle - a uniquely British take on American folk and blues - caused a sensation…

'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le Carre The Third Man, Graham Greene's most iconic…

When Arthur Kipps, a young up-and-coming solicitor, was sent up north to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, he imagined that a dreary, formal visit lay before him. Nothing prepared him for the terrible events he…

Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful…

Emerging from the jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle - a uniquely British take on American folk and blues - caused a sensation among a generation of kids who had grown up during the dreary post-war years. These were…

In this sophomore tale of our otherworldly duo, Dreary and Naughty get off to an unlucky start on Valentine's Day weekend. All the boys of Whispering Hills High have a crush on Naughty, which drives a wedge between them…

Escaping a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium, the hero gets entangled with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, which complicates his affections for a penniless…

"Sometimes Bipolar Bear finds himself at the bright North Pole or the dreary South Pole. Using tools he finds either on his own or with the help of his family, he's able to make his way back to his home. Cut out the…

Ages 9 to 12 years It's time to chuck away your dreary science textbooks and explore the grim, gruesome and grizzly side of science. Leave your test tubes and bar charts at home - we don't like boring science here. But…

George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times -…

Ages 9 to 12 years It's time to chuck away your dreary science textbooks and explore the grim, gruesome and grizzly side of science. Leave your test tubes and bar charts at home - we don't like boring science here. But…

Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his prejudice, self-doubts and dreary existence - his Christmas gifts…

The transformation of museums from the 'dreary, dusty places' they used to be to places that people want to be in, alongside objects they want to be near and ideas they want to understand and then share has been…

In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the far-reaching consequences of their actions.

Ricky France-Lynch is moody, macho, and magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of…