The creator of the comic character Sir Humphrey Appleby (of "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister") provides an insight into the workings of the official mind and the behaviour of bureaucracies. The reader is Derek Fowlds, in his character from the series, Bernard Wooley.

How to Beat Sir Humphrey: Every Citizen's Guide to Fighting Officialdom

Literature & Fiction

Jay, Anthony

Contemporary

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Summerfolk a Celebration

Wells, Stanley, Ed.

Songs and Madrigals (English and Italian Edition)

Arts & Photography

Denis Stevens

Music

The Actors' Choosing: an Anthology

Wells, S.

The Day I Met Diana Princess of Wales: the People's Story

Susan Hill

Biographies & Memoirs

Stories of a British authors travels, the people and the places.

Going to Meet George and Other Outings

BLYTHE, Ronald

From the broken mountain, with its green rocks and running springs, to Hawbottom, with Catoctin on the right and South Mountain across the valley to the left, the Hollow Road turns past the silent stones of the old distillery, dropping away to the stream and past Mosker’s farm to The Corner, then up the little hill between the houses, around Orpha’s barn, to the first farm on the right. This is the road home – the road to Harmony – where a hog can root the mortgage off a farm faster than Hell can send a feather and four saddlebags of gold lie buried at Bootjack Spring ... Somewhere in these things there is the history of a people – small and poor, democratic and proud. It is a history that is part fiction, and part the determination of a community to believe in itself. It is the story of this community, in a recollection larger than my own, that this book seeks to tell.

The Road to Harmony: An Appalachian Childhood

J.D. Ballam

A unique window on an extraordinary life lived with tremendous zest, discrimination, and intelligence The Duchess of Devonshire is the youngest of the Mitford siblings, the famous brood that includes the writers Nancy and Jessica. Like them, she has lived an unusually full and remarkable life, and like them she has an inimitable expressive gift. In Counting My Chickens, she has gathered extracts from her diaries and other writings to create a multifaceted portrait of her life at Chatsworth, the home of the Dukes of Devonshire, that is pithy, hilarious, wise, and always richly rewarding. Under the Duchess's inspired supervision, Chatsworth has become one of England's most frequently visited great houses, welcoming over 400,000 visitors a year. The Duchess reveals what it takes to keep such an establishment alive and prospering, tells of transporting a goat by train from the Scottish island of Mull to London, discusses having her portrait painted by Lucian Freud, and provides rich reminisces of growing up a Mitford--along with telling anecdotes about friends from Evelyn Waugh to John F. Kennedy. From Tom Stoppard's adoring Introduction to the author's meditation on the beauty of Elvis Presley's voice, COUNTING MY CHICKENS offers continuous surprise and delight.

Counting my chickens and other home thoughts

DEVONSHIRE, Deborah

J.S. Bach: the Complete Cantatas in Parallel Translation

Reference

Stokes, Richard

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Counting My Chickens: And Other Home Thoughts

Deborah Mitford

History

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