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A Slice of the Moon (#1) by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: A Slice of the Moon
Because of the potato me and my family left our home and travelled 6,000 miles to find a new life ...Slim Hannigan and her family are poor but happy. Theirs is a life filled with love and laughter - and a pet pig called Hamlet. But things change overnight, and suddenly they find themselves facing hunger ...Show more
Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Biography
This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years, presenter of QI and GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF star - is an autobiography with a difference: as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it. 'BETWEEN THE STOP ...Show more
Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus: the long-awaited memoir from the star of QI and The Great British Bake Off by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Biography
Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London where I was living, to where I sometimes work at the BB ...Show more
Flying Under Bridges by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Fiction
Inge and Eve are part of the same generation, grew up in the same town, went to the same school together. But adult life has left them with nothing in common apart from their past - until the summer when their lives become entwined again, when one becomes a killer, and the other approves.
Gladys Reunited by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Biography
Sandi Toksvig was thirteen and growing up in the American town of Mamaroneck when she fell in love with the theatre. One of three girls chosen to play Gladys Antrobus in the school play The Skin of Our Teeth, Sandi and her fellow 'Gladyses' soon became friends. By the time of the play's performance, the ...Show more
Heroines & Harridans - A Fanfare of Fabulous Females by Sandi Toksvig
Category: History
Heroines and Harridans is a tale of eccentricity (generally British), some bad behaviour (occasionally American) and rather odd love lives (some corking aristocrats). It is not by chance that the relation of matters in the past are called 'History'. It is, generally, 'his story' with many men doing gran ...Show more
Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Fiction
It's April 1940 and German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark. 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down and stay out of trouble. But Bamse and his daring friend Anton can't resist playing the occasional practical joke on the invading soldiers. When it becomes clear th ...Show more
Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Children's
It's April 1940 and German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark. 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down and stay out of trouble. But Bamse and his daring friend Anton can't resist playing the occasional practical joke on the invading soldiers. When it becomes clear th ...Show more
Littlest Viking by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Children's
When Amber, the littlest Viking, set out from Scandinavia to seek her fortune, she must have got lost on her way! Now she's in Pegwell Bay with no one but her pet squirrel for company. When Katie, Gary and Joshua find her stranded on the beach, they decide to look after her. Now there's a Viking living ...Show more
Melted Into Air by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Fiction
Frances Angel, drunk and disgruntled, arrives in Italy to attend the I Zingari Art School, leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario and returning to a distant and painful past. She falls in with an eclectic group of performance artists, ex soldiers and a housewife who rea ...Show more
Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig
Category: Fiction
How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there's a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught - and getting it wrong is the stuff of comedy at best and humiliation ...Show more