George Orwell: Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback PBFIC while John Steinbeck's poodle accompanied

while John Steinbeck's poodle accompanied him on his 1960 US road trip

'French Comedy of Horrors' takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen-year-old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group

The Old Kingdom awaits in Terciel & Elinor

satisfying dinners and brilliant batch-cook basics

a witty and irreverent musical romp

George Orwell: Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback PBFIC while John Steinbeck's poodle accompaniedGeorge Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon. George Bowling, forty five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent