\"Home looks nice. Allus does though, don\"t it? Perfick\" And so the Larkins - Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose, Victoria and Montgomery - return from an outing for fish and chips and ice cream one May evening. There, amid the rustic charms of home, they discover a visitor: one Cedric Charlton, Her Majesty\"s inspector of taxes....

\"Home looks nice. Allus does though, don\"t it? Perfick\" One pleasant May evening, Pop and Ma Larkin and their six children - sated on fish, chips and ice cream - return to the rustic charms of their Kent farm. Waiting for them is a young man: Mr Cedric Charlton, an upstanding inspector of taxes, come to discover why they haven\"t paid any....

When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his mind - the safety of his crew and his own badly injured arm. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French farmer risk their lives to offer the airmen protection....

Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of May \"After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates as one of the best short-story writers of my time\" Graham Greene First published under the pseudonym of Flying Officer X, H. E....

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This is a first-hand account, with illustrations, of Henry Walter Bates\' Amazon expedition, which he undertook in 1848 with Alfred Russel Wallace. It records the astonishing range of natural life in the region and was, according to Darwin, \'the best work of natural history travels ever published in England.\'...

A set of four books from the Macmillan Literature Collection: Horror Stories: From a supernatural presence on a beach to a crazed underground beast, this collection has ghosts and spirits to frighten even the most hardened horror reader... Includes......

\"Teetotal!\" Ma said. \"It\"s a libel. He\"ll never live it down. He\"ll never be able to hold his head up again. Whatever will people think? What\"s he going to say when anybody asks him to have one?\" \"No,\" said Dr Conner. \"You\"ll have to strap him down,\" Ma said. \"You\"ll have to put the handcuffs on....

Contemporary / British English Meet the Larkin family! They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin\'s lives? Or is his life going to change forever?...

There! Pop said. There\"s the house. There\"s Gore Court for you. What about that, eh? How\"s that strike you? Better than St Paul\"s, ain\"t it, better than St Paul\"s? And so Pop Larkin - junk-dealer, family man and......

\"Christening? We never said nothing about no christening, Ma, did we?\" And so with the appearance of a letter announcing the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Pop and Ma Larkin learn that little Oscar and Blenheim - Charley and Mariette\"s new boy - are to be christened....

\"I should like to go to France,\" said Ma. \"God Almighty,\" Pop said. \"What for?\" \"For a holiday of course,\" Ma said. \"I think it would do us all good to get some sun....