Warm, witty, and perceptive, this debut novel by a renowned gardening writer tells a charming story in the grand tradition of Rosamunde Pilcher. Laura’s life seems idyllic. She has all that money can buy and a husband who indulges her every whim. But Laura is soon to realize just how much she has taken for granted when all that is important to her becomes threatened.
First Pubished in 1995
I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me.’
​In the first instalment of Clive James’s memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various relatives and the occasional snake, in the suburbs of post-war Sydney.
​First published 1980 by Jonathan Cape.
The Revue politique et littéraire, commonly known as the Revue bleue, was a French centre-left political magazine published from 1871 to 1939.[1] It was founded by Eugène Yung (1827-1887).[2] The in-house nickname “revue bleue” was a reference to La Revue scientifique from the same publishers, a scientific magazine which was established 8 years earlier, known from its pink cover as the “revue rose”. The headquarters was in Paris.[3][4] The magazine was published bi-monthly and then monthly.[4]
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