Rachel Johnson's hilarious take on life as a yummy mummy in West London and on Exmoor has been making her newspaper readers chortle for the last couple of years: now they are seamlessly turned into a diary of her year, from the dog's birthday party in January (games of Paws-the-Parcel) to the June sports days (where the mummies turn up at the school sports day in sports bras and running shorts with little back packs containing high energy drinks - and that's just for them) to summer on Exmoor hosting demanding visiting ponies.

Mummy Diaries, Or, How to Lose Your Husband, Children and Dog in Twelve Months

Literature & Fiction

RACHEL JOHNSON

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

'Our neighbours divide into the haves ... and the have yachts.' Meet Mimi and Clare, two married women making the most of their Notting Hill postcode. New best friends, and close neighbours, that doesn't stop them being rivals, in fact it compels it. Both are aspiring Notting Hill Mummies (Clare needs the baby, Mimi needs the six figure income) and, keeping up with all the area's fads, fashions and fabulousness is a full-time job. But the arrival of sexy billionaire Si in their exclusive communal garden strains loyalty to friends, family, spouse and feng-shui guru alike ... and only one of them can win. But who will that be? Clare or Mimi? Are they friends, or just...neighbours?

Notting Hell: Sex, Lies and Real Estate

Humor & Satire

Shire Hell is the hilarious sequel to Rachel Johnson's brilliant novel Notting Hell in which Mimi and Ralph have managed to escape the city and move to the idyllic Dorset countryside, but have they moved out of the frying pan and into the fire? **Winner of the Literary Review's infamous Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 2008**Mimi and Ralph have left social climbing, pushy parenting and their marital problems behind them in London, and moved west to the bucolic green depths of the country.Or so they though. Yes, there's mud and masses of fresh air, plenty of handsome hayseeds and there's Rose, Mimi's new best friend and Dorset's answer to Martha Stewart. But what should be Shire Heaven is, it turns out, just as tricky to navigate as Notting Hell.There's low-level conflict between the racehorses in vintage/Diesel/Ralph Lauren and the brood mares in Barbour/Boden, there's guerrilla warfare between the landowners and eco-warriors and naked hostility between Old Money, New Money and No Money.Yes, in Honeybourne, if you don't have:1. A landscaped garden with 1,000 acres (minimum) of prime land2. A helipad for your trophy guests3. An organic farm shop selling sixteen sorts of home-made sausages4. Four pony-mad polo-playing children5. A Literary Festival in your mini-stately6. A bottom that looks smackable in jodhpursThen, well...you're Mimi, basically.And that's just the start of her problems. Mimi also has a secret. But can she keep it?Rachel Johnson is known for her wickedly funny novels The Mummy Diaries and Notting Hell; also available from Penguin is her first non-fiction book A Diary of a Lady.

Shire Hell

Penguin

Winter Games

Moving between 1930s Germany and pre-crunch London, winter games is a dazzling tale of secrets, betrayal and two women, both caught up in the moment. She doesn't know it, but eighteen-year old Daphne Linden has a seat in the front row of history. Along with her best friend, Betsy Barton-Hill and a whole bevy of other young english upper class girls, Daphne is in Bavaria to improve her German, to go to the opera, to be 'finished'. It may be the Third Reich but another war is unthinkable and the girls are having the time of their lives. Aren't they? London, 2006, Seventy years later and Daphne's granddaughter, Francie Fitzsimon has all the boxes ticked: large flat, successful husband, cushy job writing up holistic spas etc. The hardest decision she has to make is where to go for brunch, until, that is, events conspire to send her on a quest to discover what really happened to her grandmother in Germany, all those years ago.

Genre Fiction

Fresh Hell

Literary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

One of the hazards of living in Notting Hill (apart from catfights between alpha mummies in the communal garden) is not so much the smiling Japanese tourists who ask one for directions to the Travel Bookshop, it's the trend for men with working wives to take on more domestic responsibility while they are 'between opportunities' (i.e. laid off from their City jobs). Rachel Johnson's brilliant take on life as a yummy mummy in West London and on Exmoor has been making readers of the Telegraph and the Evening Standard chortle for the last couple of years. Here, running through the social, school and holiday calendar year is a chance to share her favourite treats and pet peeves in all their glory, from the delights of the new puppy and the lost hamster under the floorboards, to the horrors of the school run or of having your duvet removed by the beautician (don't ask). Whatever the weather you can rely on Rachel to be opinionated - whether it's advice on how to be the perfect hostess at the dog's birthday party (arrange pass the pawcel), or whether it's the irritation she feels at the professionalism of the mummies at the school sports day who pitch up in sports bras with little back packs containing high energy drinks and glucose 'power' bars (and that's just for them).

The Mummy Diaries : Or How to Lose Your Husband, Children and Dog and Twelve Months

Viking Adult

Time to Think 2: The things that stop our teams and what to do about them

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

John Catt Educational Ltd

NOTTING HELL LARGE PRINT

Chivers Large Print

Petro Pete and friends return for book two of the Petro Pete's Adventure series in What's the Risk? The Story of a Fuelless Boy. In this book, Pete's classmate Freddie Fuelless learns all about well site safety and why we need petroleum in our everyday lives.

What's the Risk? The Story of a Fuelless Boy (Petro Pete's Adventure)

Romance

Landi Thompson

Okalahoma Energy Resources Board

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44 colour cards & 72pp guidebook

Goddess Spirit Oracle Deck: 44 colour cards & 72pp guidebook

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Blue Angel Gallery

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