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Surgically Enhanced - Gift Edition by Pam Ayres
Category: Poetry
This new gift edition is a must-have for Pam's many fans - and for anyone who enjoys beautifully crafted stories and poems to make you laugh and make you think. Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. Her work is popular with f ...Show more
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
Category: Poetry
'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that most beloved inhabitant of the British countrysid ...Show more
The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir by Pam Ayres
Category: Biography
'Next, I applied to work in the accounts department, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. After I had catastrophically and erroneously applied all the wrong information to several trolley loads of documents and lumbered the staff with weeks of corrective work ...Show more
The Necessary Aptitude : A Memoir by Pam Ayres
Category: Biography
Author Tour 1 - 6 November 2011. An eagerly-awaited country childhood memoir by one of Britain's most-loved personalities. Pam Ayres is one of Britain's best-loved personalities. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and has her own Radio 4 programme Ayres on the Air. She performs her solo stage show ...Show more
The Necessary Aptitude : A Memoir by Pam Ayres
Category: Audio Books
Author Tour 1 - 6 November 2011. 'I never once attended a Sunday morning church service in Stanford. There was always the feeling that they weren't aimed at families like ours'. Pam Ayres was the sixth child in a hard-up family who lived in a council house, her parents' generation were harrowed by the ...Show more
Up in the Attic by Pam Ayres
Category: Poetry
Sunday Times Bestseller The brand new collection of verse from the nation's favourite poet, Pam Ayres. With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four decades, Pam's new collection is by turns hilarious, reflective and profound. From the dubious joy of being an exhausted, panic-stri ...Show more
Up in the Attic by Pam Ayres
Category: Poetry
The brand new collection of verse from the nation's favourite poet, Pam Ayres.With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four decades, Pam's new collection is by turns side-splittingly funny, at others so reflective and profound that it moves whole audiences to tears.From the horror o ...Show more
Who Are You Calling Vermin? by Pam Ayres
Category: Poetry
A poetic satire on country life, full of Pam Ayres's characteristic charm and wit, and beautifully illustrated by Joel Stewart.'Nature, red in tooth and claw,One goes down the other one's maw,Fox and badger, owl and stoat,We all disappear down the other one's throat.'Pam Ayres has lived in the countrysi ...Show more
With These Hands by Pam Ayres
Category: Poetry
'Pam Ayres is absolutely essential to British humour' Mail on Sunday 'A national treasure' Daily Express With These Hands is the classic collection of witty monologues and poems from Pam's early life in the 1950s, through four years in the WRAF, and marriage and motherhood, to her busy career as a write ...Show more
With These Hands (2nd Edition) by Pam Ayres
Category: Fiction
A hilarious collection of work from Pam Ayres. Mum would get the pudding. She would fish it out of the saucepan, lower it on the big oval platter and whip off the cloth, matador fashion. There it would lie, this great smoking suet duff. You could always tell when it was done because it used to turn a ...Show more
You Made Me Late Again! by Pam Ayres
Category: Humour
With over fifty new poems from Britain?s favourite poet, You Made Me Late Again! is an essential addition to Pam Ayres? incomparable collection of works.Pam?s poems are observant, witty and poignant in equal measure. In 'The Swifts? and 'The Pyracantha Anthem? she marvels at nature, while 'A Patient?s P ...Show more