Social Policy Review: 7

Politics & Social Sciences

John Baldock

Sociology

Policy Press

Product Description A charming account of Gerald Durrell's first job as a student keeper in Whipsnade Park in 1945.'A hilarious record that no Durrell fan will want to miss.' Sunday Telegraph'A loving chronicle of jitter-bugging gnus, singing duets with a bear, stealing eggs to feed the Arctic foxes, practising tiger sniffs...Highly entertaining and informative.' The Times'Durrell manages to convey not only that he loves animals, but that he enjoys lie too - and wants you to enjoy it with him.' Daily Mirror About the Author Gerald Durrell was one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists. His books, such as the bestselling My Family and Other Animals which celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2006, continue to entertain generations of children and adults alike.The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is an international conservation charity with headquarters in Jersey, UK.'A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time' Sir David Attenborough

Beasts in My Belfry

Biographies & Memoirs

Gerald Malcolm Durrell

Professionals & Academics

'Even the most cautious of travellers would, I think,be thrilled at the idea of visiting a remote tropical island. There seems to be something about tropical islands that stirs the blood of even the most unadventurous souls.' Lying in the Indian Ocean, the islands of Mauritius and Madagascar - where millions of years of evolutionary isolation created a flora and fauna unique in the world - provide the exotic setting for Gerald Durrell's expeditionary rescue work with animals. In his personal and delightful way he entertains, educates and makes a dramatic appeal to us all about the distressing state of these beautiful and endangered species around the world and shows us the serious consequences to life and its future on this earth. This exciting journey also inspired an international television series based on the author's rescue and breeding operations.

Ark on the Move

GERALD DURRELL

The Survival of the Fittest

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Product Description A Summer To Decide concludes Pamela Hansford Johnson's highly acclaimed trilogy, the first two volumes of which are Too Dear For My Possessing and An Avenue Of Stone.Helena, the presiding genius of the trilogy, dies near the outset of this book, leaving only her indomitable spirit to help her children struggle on without her. For her daughter, Charmian, having just given birth to a daughter herself, and trapped in a marriage to the now drunken and womanizing Evan, it is truly a struggle; one which is relieved only by her absorption in her child, by Evan's inevitable downfall, and by the passionate concern of her half-brother, Claud.Pamela Hansford Johnson is in confident control of her art and in all her characters - in Evan and his pathetic mother, in Charmian and Claud - she gives us the true and deep understanding of human nature which enriches all her novels.'A most impressive achievement' Isabel Quigley, Biographer About the Author Pamela Hansford Johnson was born in 1912 and gained recognition with her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935. She wrote 27 novels. Her themes centred on the moral responsibility of the individual in their personal and social relations. The fictional genres she used ranged from romantic comedy (Night and Silence, Who Is Here?) and high comedy (The Unspeakable Skipton) to tragedy (The Holiday Friend) and the psychological study of cruelty (An Error of Judgement). Her last novel, A Bonfire, was published in the year of her death, 1981.She was a critic as well as a novelist and wrote books on Thomas Wolfe and Ivy Compton-Burnett; Six Proust Reconstructions (1958) confirmed her reputation as a leading Proustian scholar. She also wrote a play, Corinth House (1954), a work of social criticism arising out of the Moors Trial, On Iniquity (1967), and a book of essays, Important to Me (1974). She received honorary degrees from six universities and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded the C.B.E. in 1975.Pamela Hansford Johnson, who had two children by her first marriage with journalist Gordon Neil Stewart, later married C. P. Snow. Their son Philip was born in 1952.

A Summer to Decide

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Two in the Bush

Coronation Summer

Margaret Pemberton

An Unsuitable Attachment

Set in St Basil's, an undistinguished North London parish, An Unsuitable Attachment is indeed full of the high comedy for which Barbara Pym is famed. There is Mark Ainger, the vicar, who introduces his sermons with remarks like 'Those of you who are familiar with the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.' His wife Sophia with her cat, 'I feel sometimes that I can't reach Faustina as I've reached other cats.' Rupert Stonebird, anthropologist and eligible bachelor. The well-bred Ianthe Broome who works at the library and forms an unsuitable attachment with a young man there. The sharp-tongue Mervyn Cantrell, chief librarian, who complains that 'when books have things spilt on them it is always bottled sauce or gravy of the thickest and most repellent kind rather than something utterly exquisite and delicious.' There is also Daisy Pettigrew, the vet's sister, another obsessional cat person, and Sister Dew who bears a strong resemblance to Sister Blatt in Excellent Women.

PYM, Barbara

Humor & Satire

Into the cauldron of war went the Nostradamus operation . . . out of it came an even deadlier threat than the Nazis: The Nostradamus TraitorBritain's psychological warfare executive knew all about the Nazi belief in the occult. They hatched up a top secret plot to drive a rift between Himmler's SS and the Wehrmacht by infilitrating phony Nostradamus quatrains into Germany. Thirty years later then unbelievable truth began to trickle out: Herbie Kruger of British Intelligence was given the delicate task of keeping the past well and truly buried . . .'A superbly crafted thriller full of startling twists and turns . . . compulsively gripping' Daily Express'John Gardner has a first-rate intelligence chief in Big Herbie Kruger' Daily Telegraph'John Gardner, at his best, is very good, and so he has been in his Kruger trilogy which began with The Nostradamus Traitor and ends with The Quiet Dogs. Here is a series that would surely film as effectively as Smiley's story has done' Marghanita Laski, The Listener

The Nostradamus Traitor

JOHN GARDNER

Genre Fiction

"In our world we live on lies." When Big Herbie Kruger used those words to break the KGB defector, he didn't realize just how much his own life had been built on a lie. In his world, though, where love is just another conduit for information, it could be no other way.Now the lies planted when Herbie created his network in East Berlin have borne their bitter fruit. The lives of men and women who trusted him are in danger and his masters in British Intelligence won't let him go back to Berlin to help them.Herbie Kruger has no choice, then. He must tell what may be his final lie . . .'Gardner writes with authenticity . . . he is one of the best writers of espionage fiction . . .' Booklist' . . . a crackerjack story, well worth the investment in both time and money.' San Diego Union'Skillfully crafted . . . sustains a high level of suspense from start to finish.' Washington Post

The Garden of Weapons

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