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A Bird in the Hand (#1 George and Molly Palmer-Jones) by Ann Cleeves
Category: No Category | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
Originally published in 1986, A Bird in the Hand announced Ann Cleeves, now the bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, as a brilliant new voice in contemporary crime fiction.Who could have known birdwatching was such a dangerous sport?Young Tom French has been found dead in a marsh ...Show more
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy: An Inspector Ramsay Novel 3 by Ann Cleeves
Category: No Category | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than an ...Show more
Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell
Category: Nature | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
"A loving chronicle of jitter-bugging gnus, singing duets with a bear, stealing eggs to feed the Arctic foxes, practising tiger sniffs . . . Highly entertaining and informative" The TimesOver a year at Whipsnade Zoo we encounter a typically absurd cast - including Albert the lion, who's a dab hand at ve ...Show more
Dr Finlay's Casebook by A. J. Cronin
Category: Fiction | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
"Dr Finlay's Casebook" is a delightful collection of episodic stories of Dr Finlay and his life in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years and based on A.J. Cronin's own experiences as a doctor. The BBC went on to dramatise these stories on both television and radio duri ...Show more
Marrying off Mother and Other Stories by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | Series: Pan Heritage Classics
'Which of these stories is true and which is semi-true I have, of course, not the slightest intention of telling you, but I hope this will not detract from your enjoyment ...' Gerald Durrell introduces an eccentric cast of characters in this entertaining collection of stories, first published in 1991. I ...Show more
Rosy is My Relative by Gerald Durrell
Category: Fiction | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
What does a young man bequeathed £500 and an elephant with a taste for liquor do? Adrian Whistle thinks he has the answer - he'll give her to the circus. But it isn't so easy. Together Adrian and Rosy cut a swathe of terror and destruction through the peaceful countryside of southern England. Drunk or s ...Show more
The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne
Category: Biography | Series: Pan Heritage Classics
Millions of readers throughout the world have grown up with the stories and verses of A. A. Milne; have envied Christopher Robin in his enchanted world; laughed at Pooh - a bear of very little brain - and worried about Piglet and his problems. But what was it like to be the small boy with the long hair, ...Show more
The Grove of Eagles: A Novel of Elizabethan England by Winston Graham
Category: Fiction | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
Set in the last years of Elizabeth I's reign, Winston Graham's The Grove of Eagles seamlessly blends historical fact and fiction in a rich tale full of unforgettable characters.In 1588 the Spanish Armada had been defeated in the English Channel and the whole of Elizabethan England was alert for the reve ...Show more
To War with Whitaker by Hermione Ranfurly
Category: Biography | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary all her life. To War with Whitaker is an account of the most adventurous, most defiant and most valiant of those years. Hermione and Dan Ranfurly married only months before the Second World War erupted. So when Dan was posted to the Middle East, taking their ...Show more
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