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Libby Purves is a well-known British radio presenter, journalist, author and critic. A long-time sailor, she writes a column in Yachting Monthly and in 1982 edited an anthology drawn from Tilman's sailing books.




23 Ebooks por Libby Purves

H.W. Tilman: Mischief among the Penguins
‘Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.’ So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman in the spring of …
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Libby Purves: How Not to Be a Perfect Mother
A fresh new look brings this parenting classic up-to-date for a new generation of mothers and mothers-to-be. Taking an irreverent and humorous look at the trials and tribulations of motherhood, Radio …
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Libby Purves: Little Learning
This lively selection brings together journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves’ experiences as journalist, parent, governor and former pupil of half a dozen assorted schools from Bangkok to Tunbridge …
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Libby Purves: Little Learning
This lively selection brings together journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves’ experiences as journalist, parent, governor and former pupil of half a dozen assorted schools from Bangkok to Tunbridge …
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€28.16
Libby Purves: Little Learning
This lively selection brings together journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves’ experiences as journalist, parent, governor and former pupil of half a dozen assorted schools from Bangkok to Tunbridge …
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€28.17
Libby Purves & Libby Purves: One Summer’s Grace
In the summer of 1988, Libby Purves set sail with her family on a voyage round the entire coastline of Britain, from the soft, sandy South-East, to the wilder shores of Orkney. They travelled in the …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: Free Woman
Sarah Penn and Maggie Reave are sisters, as different as a tabby and a tiger. Sarah has married kind, reliable Leo and settled contentedly into small-town life. Maggie, light-hearted and footloose, …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: Mother Country
Even her closest friend agreed that Shark Grayson wasn’t fit to keep her baby. A heroin addict, living in a sordid London squat, she was already close to death when her American lover took charge of …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: Nature’s Masterpiece
The family is nature’s masterpiece’ – George Santayana A compendium of practical advice and reflections on modern family life in the age of computer gaming, ever younger drug and drink problems, …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: How Not to be A Perfect Family
Perfect Families: * Tick off museums in the guidebook* Tidy everything away neatly* Work hard and play fair* Show respect for one another Real Families: * Start fights in the Louvre * Keep all their …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: Long Walk in Wintertime
Alice Mc Donald has escaped all the obvious traps that lie in wait for women. She loves her job but enjoys her clever, spirited children too; her husband (Dan the New Man) does his share at home, and …
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Libby Purves: Shadow Child
A powerful novel from Radio 4 presenter and Times columnist Libby Purves, inspired by the loss of her own son.’Family love is one of the most powerful elemental forces on earth, and at that moment, …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: Regatta
Sheila Harrison always looks forward to the descent of the summer visitors onto ‘Seafret’, her tall brick house right on the front at Blythney, in East Anglia. She loves the way her spare bedrooms …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: Passing Go
A funny, startling but ultimately hopeful novel of twenty-first century city lives. On the high ground above the great city, Roy and Helen live in brittle affluence inside a weary marriage. Of their …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: More Lives than One
Kit Milcourt – impatient, quirky, idealistic and brilliant – has been a climber, diver in exotic waters and affluent young city banker. Now, because of his beloved Anna, he is a teacher. Glumly …
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Libby Purves: Love Songs and Lies
A story about coming of age in 1970s Oxford. Politics and the Pill. Pot and poetry. Glamrock and groupies. The way we were. Love isn’t always the answer.Have you ever fallen for the wrong man?Sally …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: Home Leave
A perceptive novel from our favourite chronicler of the dilemmas of modern family life.Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings: British ‘diplo-brats’, whose childhood homes …
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Libby Purves: Continental Drift
Sometimes it takes a fresh pair of eyes to see yourselves clearly . . . Henry is a young, hip, radio DJ; Philip is an ex-MP ruined by scandal and disowned by his party; Diana, his long-suffering …
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Libby Purves & Libby Purves: Casting Off
What makes a wife and mother, pillar of the community and partner in a cosy tea-shop (The Bun in the Oven) suddenly run away to sea, alone?Joanna Gurney hardly knows herself. But as she moves along …
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Libby Purves: Acting Up
The Andersons are a military family with honours and traditions stretching back two hundred years. When the second Iraq war breaks out, it is only natural that their newest generations should be …
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Stella Gibbons: Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
Robert Poste’s child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled ‘Quiete …
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John Farndon & Libby Purves: Do You Think You’re Clever?
What happens if I drop an ant? What books are bad for you? What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow? The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their …
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Henry James & Libby Purves: In the Cage
Henry James’s 1898 novella In the Cage (written in the same year as the more well-known The Turn of the Screw) is a sly, slight, vaguely sentimental work but one that acts as a fine introduction to …
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