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An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is an unlucky colour for wedding dresses? In Scotland it was thought you could ward off fairies by hanging...
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"Published to coincide with the 125th anniversary of James Thurbers birth, this treasury combines, for the first time, Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time with Thurbers unpublished preface and ten previously uncollected or unpublished stories. Readers can savor 85 fables by the twentieth centurys preeminent humorist collected for the first time in a single anthology."--Goodreads.
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"Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision...
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"JOY, RESILIENCE AND THE ART OF GIVING. From the very first moment she set foot in South Korea, Barbara Zitwer, literary agent to some of the most celebrated Korean authors, fell head-over-heels in love, rediscovering a vitality for life. In this fascinating book, Zitwer shares all that she has learnt about this vibrant country forged by the philosophies of han, heung and jeong: resilience, joy and the art of giving. She takes us from the buzzing...
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