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Sophie Dahl
A timeless story celebrating friendship and imagination, from an exciting new voice in children’s literature.
Mabel lives with her parents in the Mermaid Hotel, by the sea. Mabel likes to…
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle’s gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one…
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A timeless story for readers aged 5+ celebrating friendship, imagination and adventure, with exquisite illustrations, from a bestselling author. Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the…
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A timeless story for readers aged 5+ celebrating friendship, imagination and adventure, with exquisite illustrations, from a bestselling author.
Mabel lives with her parents in the Mermaid Hotel, where she keeps an eye on all the guests, particularly her friend, the endlessly fascinating Madame Badobedah.
Madame Badobedah, who considers…
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The fabulously eccentric (and secretly kind) Madame Badobedah returns for another escapade in this call to adventure-and ode to female explorers and pioneers-from Sophie Dahl and Lauren O'Hara.
Mabel lives…
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The first full-length novel from the international supermodel and granddaughter of Roald Dahl
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A cookbook that interweaves personal anecdotes about food and the good life with 100 simple seasonal recipes –Provided by publisher.
Model, actress, and writer Dahl–granddaughter of Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal–loves food, and in this lush book, she shares secrets from her kitchen in funny stories and favorite recipes…
Eva-Sophie Dahl
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The Worst Sleepover in the World. Ramona is having her best friend, Gracie, to stay the night. It’s their first ever sleepover and she wants to make a den, read…
Stella Gibbons
Unavailable for decades, Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm. Includes a new Introduction by Sophie Dahl.
Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the sea. Mabel likes to keep an eye on the comings and goings of all the guests.
Then one day…
A playful picture book exploring the hilarious complications of first friendships, from an exciting new voice in children's literature. Ramona is having her best friend Gracie to stay the night…
A playful story exploring the hilarious complications of first friendships, from an exciting new voice in children’s literature.
Ramona is having her best friend Gracie to stay the night. It’s…
Who is Madame Badobedah? Mabel sets out to prove that an eccentric new hotel guest is really a supervillain in this witty storybook about an intergenerational friendship.
There’s a strange…
Nancy Mitford
Fanny is married to absent-minded Oxford don Alfred and content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife. But overnight her life changes when Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to…
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A modern, satirical fairytale that has been unavailable for decades, by the author of COLD COMFORD FARM
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