100 Things for Little Children to Do on A TripGreat write on/wipe off activity cards in a handy box, marker included. Fun cards that are age appropriate and loads of fun. Many of the cards can be reused in different ways which keeps the game fresh. Wonderful to take on a car, train, plane or just fo..
Feeling restless in the years after World War I, Scottish gentry wife Dandy Gilver investigates the whereabouts of a cache of stolen diamonds, a case that tests Dandy's scruples and is complicated by the untimely death of a young woman. Author: McPherson, Catriona Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub Bindi..
One of The Boston Globe's Best Mysteries of 2011 “Guaranteed to appeal to those who have never got over the death of Dorothy L. Sayers.” -Financial Times (UK)Welcome to Edinburgh, 1926. Dandy Gilver, a wealthy and witty aristocrat (and sometimes amateur sleuth) receives a letter from Lollie Balfour,..
This collection of original essays explores the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge and enrich contemporary philosophical debates about age..
Verity Drummond-florist by trade and a fantasist by nature-deals with the end of her marriage by writing Straight Up, a novel in which a man on a mountaineering expedition (bearing a striking resemblance to her ex) dies all alone in a hole in the ice, starving, wretched, and with his broken bones po..
The festivities at the annual Ferry Fair in 1923 are thrown into turmoil when the ubiquitous Burry Man, a pagan-dressed, whiskey-nipping character who routinely offends the stricter members of the community, from the minister to the temperance pamphleteer, falls dead from poisoning while handing out..
Why should we be tolerant What does it mean to ‘live and let live’ What ought to be tolerated and what not Catriona McKinnon presents a comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to toleration in her new book. Divided into two parts, the first clearly introduces and assesses the major theoretical ..