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A Slice of the Moon (#1) by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: A Slice of the Moon
Because of the potato me and my family left our home and travelled 6,000 miles to find a new life ...Slim Hannigan and her family are poor but happy. Theirs is a life filled with love and laughter - and a pet pig called Hamlet. But things change overnight, and suddenly they find themselves facing hunger ...Show more
Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Biography
This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years, presenter of QI and GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF star - is an autobiography with a difference: as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it. 'BETWEEN THE STOP ...Show more
Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus: the long-awaited memoir from the star of QI and The Great British Bake Off by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Performing Arts
Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London where I was living, to where I sometimes work at the BB ...Show more
Peas & Queues - The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Gift
How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there's a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught - and getting it wrong is the stuff of comedy at best and humiliation ...Show more
Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Non-Fiction
How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there's a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught - and getting it wrong is the stuff of comedy at best and humiliation ...Show more
Super-Saver Mouse (Colour First Reader) by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Colour First Reader
"We've got to stop the first train!" Boris is a "tube" mouse, living in the London Underground. His best friend is Heavy Duty, the station cleaner. One morning Boris discovers that Heavy Duty has had an accident. Bories has to think fast. He has seen trains come and go all his life but never before has ...Show more
The Chain of Curiosity by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Biography
Sandi Toksvig - broadcaster, writer, actor, and seeker of all things whimsical, has turned her probing mind to many of the most intriguing questions of our times in the pages of the Sunday Telegraph for many years. Now, for the very first time, these musings have been collected in one hilarious collecti ...Show more
The Tricky Art of Co-Existing - How to Behave Decently No Matter What Life Throws Your Way by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Self-Help
"If you do it right, being a grown-up is just like being a kid . . . but without people telling you off." No one learns "etiquette" anymore (except by embarrassing trial and error). But manners are more than a dusty tradition: Done right, they make life easier--for everyone! That's why Sandi Toksvig ...Show more
Toksvig's Almanac 2021 - An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year by Sandi Toksvig by Sandi Toksvig
Category: History
'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveries. Find a fabulous (or infamous) woman mentioned and, please, go looking for more of her story. The names mentioned are merely temptations. Amuse-bouches for the mind, if you like. How I would have loved to have written out ...Show more
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