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Colin West
Although Monty’s glasses don’t actually help him to see any better, he finds he gets a lot of attention wearing them. He tries to be helpful, but generally ends up…
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Monty the dog who wears glasses is up to his old tricks again. There are five Monty stories in this book.
Monty, the dog who wears glasses, is about to be put through his paces - running relays, performing cartwheels and testing his sea legs - but when Monty tries his…
Monty, the dog who wears glasses, is back in another collection of gently humorous anecdotes.
When I went to stay with Uncle-and-Auntie Pat on their farm I had a brilliant time, but I couldn’t help noticing that hardly anyone visited the farm shop. So I…
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Fashion designing is the application of creative ideas in clothing and accessories. This book on fashion designing provides all the essentials for understanding the designing process of an outfit. The…
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Batty Ballads is a crazy collection of funny story-poems with many full colour illustrations by Colin West himself. The characters you can meet include Freda, a flat-footed fairy, a dirty…
Age group 7-10. The third Jet collection of adventures to feature the accident-prone doggy hero, Monty.
A Jets title featuring the famous Monty, the spec-wearing dog.
Helen Cresswell
Everyone knows about owls: they sit in trees, fly around at night and are very wise. But not Big Hoot and Little Hoot - they were daft as coots.
Mark Cohen
A collection of tongue twisters, zany poems and jingles from many countries, for stumbling and stuttering, singing and savouring.
Judy Hindley
An amusing picture book for younger children, telling the story of how the friendly rivalry between Jim and Pete leads them to find something they can do together.
An amusing picture book for younger children, telling the story of how two friends Jim and Pete play at being explorers.
Colin Alexander
Colin Alexander takes the reader on a delightfully nostalgic cross-country trip by rail in the 1980s.
Colin Maggs
The second of two lavishly illustrated titles from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Devon’s branch lines.
Colin Ruthven
Colin Ruthven grew up in Vancouver’s lively West End in the years during and following World War II.
He shares stories that are humorously light and others that are stirringly…
Colin Morris
What was the impact of the tomb of Christ in Jerusalem on the history of western Europe? This book shows that the Holy Sepulchre had a vital influence on pilgrimage…
Colin Campbell
Assembles a powerful range of evidence to show how Easternization has been building throughout the last century.
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Colin Turbett
Provides an extensively illustrated history of the 1945-91 period - as witnessed and told though the lives of ordinary people from both sides of the East/West divide.
Colin Dexter
Morse’s most challenging case with a new introduction by Barry Forshaw.
On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse has decided to go without newspapers. But in the hotel he finds himself seated opposite a woman who is anxious to conceal…
Anne Scott’s address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse’s smartest suit. Inspector Morse turned the corner of Canal Street, Jericho, on Wednesday afternoon. He hadn’t…
An early mystery in the popular Inspector Morse series, now republished and repackaged. He meets her at a party, they share a flirtation, and he doesn’t see her again. It’s…
Chief Inspector Morse investigates a long solved Victorian murder from his hospital bed.
Inspector Morse takes on another intriguing case in Colin Dexter’s detective mystery series.
The first Inspector Morse mystery - Highly effective… exceptionally clever Sunday Times
Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia’s bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in WOodstock, near Oxford. Inspector Morse…
A year after the murder of Mrs. Yvonne Harrison at her home, the CID are still baffled. Morse refused to become involved, even after new evidence and a fresh murder…
The very last Inspector Morse novel … how will Morse bid his final farewell?
Morse finds himself with rather too many suspects, including Brooks’ long-suffering wife, his estranged step-daughter, and an enigmatic schoolmistress, although each of these would appear to have an unimpeachable alibi…
Inspector Morse takes on another curious case in Colin Dexter’s detective mystery series.
For those who already adore this quixotic, uniquely compassionate character, this is the best ever Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday.
Wily, convoluted and elegant Observer
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s, c1980.
An early mystery in the popular Inspector Morse series, now republished. Valerie Taylor had been missing since she was 17 years old, more than two years. Morse is sure she’s…
Excellent multi-layered whodunnit Guardian
Chief Inspector Morse is called in to investigate the murder of an Oxford academic, and finds the dons in uproar. The code of integrity had been breached and Quinn’s death…
Morse’s status is reinforced by an ending that no ordinary mortal could possibly have unravelled Financial Times
A collection of clever short stories from Inspector Morse’s creator, Colin Dexter.
For Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary…until one of their number is found dead in Room 310 at the Randolph hotel. Then, two…
Runs the gamut of brain-racking unputdownability Observer
