Staples: 140 books

A simple and concise writing companion that explains the most common pitfalls made in writing today. It is just as useful for the beginning writing student as it is for a professional writer and includes sections on Structure and Form, punctuation and grammar.

Boots Adams celebrates his 60th birthday in style with an old-fashioned Cockney knees-up, even if Gemma, James and the rest of the younger people insist that the music has to be rock and roll. The new generation of the family are growing up quickly - Philip and Phoebe are spending a lot of time together,...

Die unfreiwillige Reise des gelehrten Helden Ransom geht zunächst nach Malakranda (Mars) und Perelandra (Venus), wo aufstrebende, rücksichtslose Forscher Anregungen für die Fortentwicklung der Menschheit zu finden hoffen. Zuletzt wird die Erde selbst zum Zentrum des apokalyptischen Endkampfs zwischen...

Unterteufel Wormwood hat den Auftrag, Mister Spike, einen jungen englischen Gentleman, auf die schiefe Bahn zu bringen. Dabei übermittelt er den Stand seiner Bemühungen regelmäßig seinem Onkel, dem höllischen Unterstaatssekretär Screwtape. In seinen 31 Briefen gibt Onkel Screwtape seinem unerfahrenen...

Die unfreiwillige Reise des gelehrten Helden Ransom geht zunächst nach Malakranda (Mars) und Perelandra (Venus), wo aufstrebende, rücksichtslose Forscher Anregungen für die Fortentwicklung der Menschheit zu finden hoffen. Zuletzt wird die Erde selbst zum Zentrum des apokalyptischen Endkampfs zwischen...

Die unfreiwillige Reise des gelehrten Helden Ransom geht zunächst nach Malakranda (Mars) und Perelandra (Venus), wo aufstrebende, rücksichtslose Forscher Anregungen für die Fortentwicklung der Menschheit zu finden hoffen. Zuletzt wird die Erde selbst zum Zentrum des apokalyptischen Endkampfs zwischen...

By the year 1949, life in Walworth has almost returned to normal. Sammy and Boots, now in a highly successful partnership, are rebuilding the old family firm. But an old enemy resurfaces - Mr Ben Ford, better known as the Fat Man, who seems determined to ruin the various branches of this growing business....

1926 was the year of the General Strike, but Adams Enterprises, under the wily management of Sammy Adams, youngest entrepreneur in Walworth and Lambeth, was doing very well. All the Adams brothers worked in the business, and so did two of the wives, Emily and Susie. There was just one dark cloud on...

1925, a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson, in Germany to seek the answers to a tantalising mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia, witnesses an attack on Natasha, a young woman who has fled from Russia. When Philip takes the fragile, lonely Natasha in to help her...

Charming, handsome Edward Somers has been recovering from his wartime injuries in a small hotel in the South of France where he is an extremely popular guest. One day, he happens upon a nearby villa, within which lives a mysterious and beautiful countess, Katerina, who does not appear to be...

Sammy was the sharp one of the Adams family.Since he was nine-years-old - when he'd charged his mother interest on a loan to make up the rent money - he'd been busy setting up deals and expanding the family business - a china stall in East Street market. But as his mighty empire grew - two shops and...

Horace was ten, Ethel seven, when Jim Cooper, home from the trenches, minus an arm and just about managing on his own, found them huddled in a doorway on a wet night in Walworth. Slightly against his better judgement he took them in, fed them cocoa, and put them to sleep in his bed. A few days later...

The 1950s are in full swing, and the Adams family is blessed with many new additions. Chinese Lady now has so many grandchildren that even she can sometimes scarcely remember them all. Boots and Sammy are kept up-to-date by the Adams youngsters , some of whom are now working in the family business....

There was a double wedding planned in Walworth. Sally Brown was marrying Horace Cooper, and her brother, Freddy, was at last getting hitched to his childhood sweetheart, Cassie Ford. But the wedding wasn't the only thing being planned, for Ginger Carstairs and Dusty Miller were working out a bank...