Three Sheets in the Wind brings together a glorious collection of Thelwell’s sailing cartoons. Arriving on a summer weekend at any stretch of water without one’s own craft behind the…

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…do this because I am particular about my bras and underwear. I spent most of my childhood in near poverty, wearing scraggly underwear and fraying bras held together with safety…

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…was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was…

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Since her parents’ mysterious deaths many years ago, scientist Cora Sparks has spent her days in the safety of her university lab or at her grandmother Etta’s dress shop. Tucked…

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…own safety and forced to abandon her aspirations of a career. Escaping to nearby Dartmoor, Anna is reminded of the fond memories she has of that area following the evacuation…

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…on his mighty steed, vanquishes the pesky peasants with his noble knuckles, and escorts the now very-much-smitten spinster Mary to safety. Meanwhile at Russian army HQ, Mary’s brother Andrei is…

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…safety regulations. Yet like the most enjoyable books, I already feel welcomed into this world. Sitting in the office, beneath the shadow of the Post Office Tower (when presumably the…

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…post behind the safety of a pair of sunglasses. For it seems right to use the word ‘unleash’ for the cover and book I recently discovered and now present for…

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…bring him home to safety. As a young woman, on her way to find Tom, Iris discovers the old abbey of Royaumont, where a group of women work to set…

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…pilots, she finds it is part of a much larger operation involving Eleanor Roosevelt, the American president’s First Lady. To protect Eleanor’s life – and possibly the safety of all…

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…can help solve the crime. As he begins to investigate, a gruesome warning reveals dark and dangerous family secrets that threaten the safety of them all.     Recommend This:…

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…the route, is convinced this tragedy is a personal attack on him and fears for the safety of his shepherd, missing since the incident. Rydall has many enemies but, as…

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…is a price on his head and every cutthroat and desperate man in the area is after the bounty, Ross sends him to the frontlines for his own safety… Recommend…

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As a bustling crowd clambers aboard the Great Western Railway excursion train, taking them to an illegal prize-fight in Berkshire, the train guard fears for the safety of his rolling…

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…safety. Yet when I got there, being alone wasn’t my main cause for concern. It was the fact that I’d finished the only book that I had brought with me…

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…to safety across the Atlantic was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Read more in the Guardian here… As our little way of bringing this moment of history to the spotlight…

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Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tricking one of the officers, Hibbert makes an audacious escape. Inspector Marmion, the detective who…

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Richmond, 1806. Miss Dido Kent has developed rather a taste for mysteries. Having solved the riddle of her niece’s missing fiancé and the body in the bushes at Belsfield Hall,…

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…Holmes-ians can read between the lines of Doyles own handwriting and search for clues themselves. Read the full article in The Guardian, here: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/28/sherlock-holmes-story-museum-of-london-conan-doyle Visit the Museum of London http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/whats-on/exhibitions-displays/sherlock-holmes/…

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Disney has “Mickey Mouse”.  Lamaar Studios has “Rambunctious Rabbit”… but the man in the rabbit suit is dead. When the actor wearing the costume of the cherished mascot is murdered…

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…a theme which features in D E Meredith’s Victorian crime novel Devoured. Tickets are £7.50 and will go on sale in early October. Check back for updates and for more…

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