Lack of funds force Trisha, an unsentimental lonely boozer Iving in Glasgow, to return to her previous profession as a pharmaceutical rep, pouring tea and telling jokes to sad burnt-out GPs. The only good news is that Steven, her increasingly distant teenage son, is about to move back in with her. The bad news is that Bob, her ex-husband, wants the house. Trisha's mind is unexpectedly made up when she inherits a place in the Highlands. Having pictured a rural idyll, she finds rain, sheep, a jaywalking dog and kamikaze midges. And more rain. Her social life is so limited that she even contemplates joining the Inversnechty Mental Health Awareness Group just for the craic. Then three nurses on holiday leave from Saudi invite Trisha to a ceilidh. A night of whisky-fuelled high jinks with a frozen salmon ensues which leads to a significant encounter with Spider, the local Lothario, and a dramatic discovery that will change Trisha's future forever.

No Wonder I Take a Drink

Laura Marney

Black Swan Books

Set in Stone Paperback Linda Newbery

Literature & Fiction

NEWBERY, LINDA

Genre Fiction

trade edition paperback, vg++ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Queen Lucia

E.F. BENSON

The Right Stuff

WOLFE, Tom.

Biographies & Memoirs

Black Swan trade 2001 edition paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Best A Man Can Get

O'FARRELL, JOHN.

Humor & Satire

This Is Your Life (LARGE PRINT)

It's a big night at the London Palladium. As Jimmy Conway steps out blinking into the spotlights live on national television, he can't help wondering whether he should have perhaps shared his little secret with someone by now. Jimmy has never done any performing of any sort ever before...Just as 'bogus doctors' are occasionally discovered working in hospitals, Jimmy Conway has become a 'bogus celebrity'; winning an award for something he never did, being photographed in Hello! in someone else's house, and ultimately making a fool of the entire mad and shallow celebrity merry-go-round.

This Is Your Life

Contemporary

Next of Kin

Joanna, Trollope

Hedylus

First published in 1928. Dedicated to her daughter, Perdita, who contributed to this copy a "Sketch of H.D.: The Eyptian Cat." H.D.'s second novel is set in ancient Greece. There is a handsome frontispiece photograph of H.D. by Man Ray, circa 1922.

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Poetry

The Ikons and Other Poems

DURRELL, LAWRENCE

Letters

Theobald, John

Pound, Ezra.

Pearce, Donald

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