So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Volume Four in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Volume Four in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Blurb: There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It's not an easy thing to do and Arthur Dent thinks he's the only human who's been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the girl of his dreams.

Fenchurch knows how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately she's forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God's Final Message to His Creation they go in search of it.

And in a dramatic break with tradition - actually find it...

ISBN: 9780330508605 (Paperback)

Year: 1984

Publisher: Pan Books

Pages: 167 (Fiction)

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Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes (Martha Long)

Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes

Martha Long

Blurb: Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.

As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. But just when it seems things can't get any worse, her mother meets Jackser.

Despite her trials, Martha is a child with an irrepressible spirit and a wit beyond her years. She tells the story of her early life without an ounce of self-pity and manages to recreate a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't work, you didn't eat.

Martha never stops believing she is worth more than the hand she has been dealt, and her remarkable voice will remain with you long after you've finished the last line.

ISBN: 9781845965433 (Paperback)

Year: 2007

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing

Pages: 479 (Non-Fiction)

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To Cut a Long Story Short (Jeffrey Archer)

To Cut a Long Story Short

Jeffrey Archer

Blurb: The latest short-story collection from the master storyteller. The fourteen - all new - stories show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tail.

Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service - but for a good cause. The last story, 'The Grass is Always Greener', is possibly the best piece Archer has written, and will haunt you for the rest of your life.

ISBN: 9780007841936 (Paperback)

Year: 2000

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Pages: 419 (Fiction)

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