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Parthian Books Salacia
Book SynopsisIn these poems, women raise their voices and subvert the age-old tales told on their behalf: Roman goddess Salacia explores her tumultuous relationship with Neptune; Gwen Ellis, the first woman hanged for witchcraft in Wales, reflects on her impending fate; a Queen bee is usurped by her daughter and depression visits in the emaciated form of an old and forgotten friend.Trade Review`I am particularly struck by the musicality of Salacia, where the poems chime and echo with the enchantment of spells. The poems are allusive with Plathean bell jars and “sticky pearls”, yet the subject matter is usually rooted in Welsh wild spaces and mythologies. Ultimately, Salacia coaxes sublimity from pain, reminding us that though we may be hurt, we can still be powerful.’ – Zoë Brigley `A unique and urgent voice plotted against a rich lyricism. These poems are visceral, inventive, with every riff packed to the brim with awe.’ – Rhian Edwards `Mari Ellis Dunning writes with honesty about mental disorder and the intricacies of depression, but her poetry is charged by the body and the senses. This tension between mind and matter gives the poems a dark energy.’ – Anna Lewis
£7.60
Smith|Doorstop Books Have a nice weekend I think you're interesting
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£4.75
Valley Press Sampler
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£10.80
Valley Press Beyond the Walls 2020: New Writing from York St
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£7.49
Valley Press The Peregrine Falcons of York Minster
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£10.44
Verve Poetry Press Sometimes Angry
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Verve Poetry Press Shield
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Verve Poetry Press Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body
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Verve Poetry Press the dew point
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£8.99
Inkandescent Homography
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£10.44
Parthian Books Small
Book SynopsisWe all have our favourite demons. A desperate Romeo circles the bushes below Juliet's balcony, hoping for a glimpse of her bare body, 'nipples stiffening on powdered ribs'. Adamant of his own sanity, Hamlet chatters away to his oldest friend - the squat skull grinning in his palm. Andromache screams for her only child, 'spiralling like sycamore' from the walls of Troy, her husband brutally dragged to death in the dirt that rises around her. All the while, weaved throughout this collection, the narrator is haunted by her biggest demon of all: the gargantuan Small. Told with a rawness and honesty that sears, the secretive nature of living with an eating disorder is yanked out into the open and given the voice that only ever hisses darkly inside the skull. Through relationship breakdowns, bath-times, the cacophonous dazzle of Delhi and the fug of hospital waiting rooms, Small is always, there slyly riding on the shoulders of a woman running for miles to get away - yet forever haunted by hunger.
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Mensch Publishing Little Women: The contemporary dramatisation of
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£11.40
Mount Orleans Press Shakespeare: Selected Sonnets
Book SynopsisPoetry selection in the popular Cranes Classics series, well known poets produced in small 64 page hardbacks with attractive covers.
£9.49
Mount Orleans Press Shelley: Selected Poems
Book SynopsisA collection of classic poems that provides an accessible introduction to Shelley''s poetry. Printed in a high quality cloth edition, this volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.
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Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd Locating Strongwoman
Book SynopsisLocating Strongwoman is a portrait of unperformed femininity. Eschewing the stereotypical portrayal of the "Strong Woman" and the even more loaded "Strong Black Woman", these poems invite the reader to interrogate the protagonists and find in their stories a quiet strength."...This is a book filled with want, love and the lack thereof, with striking lines like, 'As if he wasn't a bed of nails your love/laid on' and 'The factory of my body works overtime'. It teeters between violence and the razor-blade threat thereof. Straddling the inside and outside worlds on the head of a 'bobbing sewing needle', Locating Strongwoman is visceral and raw, vulnerable and strong. It will leave you thinking and feeling long after you turn its last page".Peter Kahn, author of Little Kings and co-editor of The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks"Through Locating Strongwoman, Tolu Agbelusi hosts a black women's sleepover. Where we drink wine and share stories, about the many complexities of navigating our hearts, how we are our mother's daughters and how our mothers are complex women. Strongwoman... The chilling truth behind this collection is that to be woman is to be silent... or silenced.Both in form and content, Locating Strongwoman is a trace of our mothers' silences and the inevitable release of our own voices. Tolu paints in a language that is familiar and comforting. And how wonderful it is to find yourself, over and over in poetry! As the woman who cannot be pinned into a box and doesn't want to be. To be seen."Vangile Gantsho, author of Red Cotton and Undressing in Front of the Window; co-founder of Impepho Press
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Bad Betty Press Ghost Lives Cursed Edition
Book SynopsisAlex Mazey's playful text art sequence follows Ghost through a hyperreal metropolis of both capitalist and eschatological peril. Woven between the visuals are virtuosic lyric poems: poignant, philosophical and irreverent.
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Bad Betty Press Treasure
Book SynopsisJemima Foxtrot's Treasure is a shining work of alchemy and liberation which explores power dynamics, sex work, desire, and female friendship with a fresh, playful perspective. The poems of Treasure live up to its name: showing us where the gold is-the joy-how to feed it into the soil of our lives.
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Bad Betty Press Green
Book SynopsisSuzannah Evans' new pamphlet introduces us to Green, half human, half angry nature spirit. Green serves as a stunt double for our own rage and complicity in nature's destruction. He shows us nature's delights so we may mourn their loss more deeply.
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Bad Betty Press Pulling Faces
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Stairwell Books STRIKE
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Nine Arches Press Tormentil
Book Synopsis‘I can’t face the big stuff so I comb the moors for a tiny yellow flower’ – so begins Tormentil, the second poetry collection by Ian Humphreys. Set largely in the starkly beautiful West Yorkshire moorlands, these poems creep and bloom across geographies and time. Isolated by grief in the first months of the pandemic, Humphreys goes in search of hope and blessings among the burnt heather, tumbledown mills and canal locks near his home in the Calder Valley. He unearths a landscape of wildflowers and wildlife, a soundscape of rain and birdsong, at once healing, threatening and under threat. These are richly textured poems of living and resisting, anchored by connections to family, food, community – and an acknowledgement of the precarious root-holds of hard-won freedoms. A soaring, defiant hymn to recovery, this vital book contemplates migration, otherness, and all the internal and external elements that bind us, make us unique.
£999.99
Prototype Publishing Ltd. Monochords
Book SynopsisReturning to the island of Samos during the summer of 1979, where he had spent long periods of exile throughout his life, Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed a remarkable collection of 336 single-line poems, written at a rate of about 10 a day: the Monochords, each line an essential observation of a moment; a personal archive of time past, present and future.In London in 2020, during a period of Covid confinement, artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio began responding to Ritsos’ words through linocut images: an experiment in entering the space opened by each poem, rendering it in line and shape; a daily ritual that accompanied her along a strange year of exile from life.'Yannis Ritsos composed monochorda, single-line poems, as antidotes to the concocted complexities silencing truth. Chiara Ambrosio’s linocuts, beautifully intermingled with Ritsos' words, add their own ascetic harmony to his monochorda thus boosting their pertinence to our dissonant age.' – Yanis Varoufakis'This meditative book is an inspiring act of repair twice over, for ordeals of seclusion, threat, and tedium past and present.' – Marina Warner'A major poem by one of the greatest European poets of the past 100 years, in an exemplary translation & with a further superb expansion into a year's journey of linocuts make this book a vessel that holds urgently needed communal life-force.' - Stephen Watts
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Prototype Publishing Ltd. Virgula
Book SynopsisVirgula is an award-winning collection by acclaimed Dutch poet Sasja Janssen, and her second collection to be published in English. Taking as its title the latin word for ’comma’, the poems in Virgula reveal the stories hidden in the spaces in-between: the unending and the unresolved; memories that refuse to be contained. In Janssen’s poetry, the comma becomes much more than a punctuation mark, and is invoked as a muse and companion; she calls on her in every poem, as if she were a goddess, a friend or lover, someone who offers space when the emptiness becomes too heavy. In Janssen’s poetry, painful stories often unfold, events that never came to pass, but which leave traces and scars. Virgula strikes a balance between mystery and razor-sharp intent, through constant shifts and contrasts in perspective. The comma stops the stillness, and allows thoughts and language to move forward. Virgula was awarded the Awater Poetry Prize and was nominated for the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize and the Herman de Coninck Prize and De Grote Poëzieprijs (Grand Poetry Prize) for best poetry collection of the year.Table of ContentsVIRGULA the night I was impregnated talk to me there where he has a student sing we go deeper there is eternity in height you leave me here with that dingy room I love birch trees I IMPLORE YOU because the jackdaws are ignoring me now I’m less able to handle the little things as I drive a spade because the chestnut tree in front of the prison now I’m climbing out of the ditch and I have risen from my first murder because each day begins now the little things are big and I see them fly off again VIRGULA the morning is a wound the metal under the mattress I still need to teach the horse to swim when the hours fall through the ceiling my new husband has a dead wife a drop falls into my glass of milk there’s no wind
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Eyewear Publishing Dancing Under A Bloodless Moon
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Candlestick Press By Bus to Christmas
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Candlestick Press Ten Poems from the Peak District
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Salamander Street Limited Can’t Believe I’m Saying This to My Mum: Mark
Book SynopsisA varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller's plays. Compiled at a time when social distancing is a consideration, these duologues all lend themselves to Zoom/Social Distance friendly performances. It includes duologues from: Too Much Punch For Judy Hard To Swallow Missing Dan Nolan I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die Game Over ... and many more of Mark's plays... and musicals. It also includes a previously unpublished self-contained short Sibling Saviours. All these duologues are suitable for young people to use for classroom or audition use. Despite many being ostensibly for adult performers they are all tried and tested for young people to use with amazing results. There has never before been a collection of exclusively Mark Wheeller duologues.
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Broken Sleep Books Springing from the Pews
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Arachne Press A470: Poems for the Road/ Cerddi'r Ffordd: 2022
Book SynopsisArguably the most famous road in Wales, the A470 is 186 miles from shore to shore through the backbone of Wales, linking north to south. Peaceful and picturesque or slow and never-ending: the road out of here, the road home, the beginnings of devolution? Glorious national parks, bypasses, being stuck behind a certain lorry firm or worse, a caravan, the road to the Royal Welsh? From the seashore to slates, from nuclear power stations and fighter plane flypasts to forests and mountains: Bwlch yr Oerddrws, Pen Y Fan. On the road or on a journey, there's no need to take the A470 too literally. Be ydi'r A470 i chi - siwrne dawel trwy harddwch Cymru neu daith araf a diddiwedd? Ai hon yw'r ffordd i adael, neu'r ffordd adref, neu ddechrau datganoli? Parciau Cenedlaethol, ffyrdd osgoi, llusgo mynd tu ol i lori neu waeth fyth garafan, y ffordd i'r Sioe Frenhinol? Traethau, chwareli, pwerdai niwclear, awyrennau rhyfel, coedwigoedd, mynyddoedd, Bwlch yr Oerddrws, Pen y Fan? Taith ddiriaethol ar y tarmac neu daith o fath gwahanol? Does dim rhaid dehongli'r A470 yn llythrennol. 51 original poems, translated into and out of Welsh, to create an entirely bilingual poetry collection. Edited by and translated by Sian Northey and Ness Owen, with additional translations from Sion Aled, and the authors.
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Arachne Press A Pocketful of Chalk
Book SynopsisThe South Downs lie at the heart of this collection - the sunsets and huge skies, cliffs and fossils, fishing vessels and windmills, people and sheep. Past, present and future collide within geological and emotional landscapes. Life erupts magically out of plum trees. Love is as friable as chalk, and as deeply underpinned. A lost father is redeemed through the gift of a chocolate rabbit, a loved one returns in the shape of a trombone. Mothers, both human and animal, prove their strength. Not just another 'nature poem' collection, Claire's poems are vigorous, challenging, uncompromising. She ties urban landscape and life in Brighton into a discourse on the way the ground under our feet impacts on how we live our lives - chalk downland is an unquestionably specific ecology, which is of course why South Downs is a National Park. A Pocketful of Chalk bursts with myth and metaphor, energy and originality. The giant of Wilmington leaves his hillside in an apocalyptic vision of global warming. Herons and Ospreys take flight, and a boy releases monsters from the sea shore. A cow really does jump over the moon. Claire Booker offers moving and memorable poetry from an iconic corner of England.
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Arachne Press Unmothered
Book SynopsisIn an intimate and unflinching collection, A J Akoto tracks the complex bind of mother-daughter relationships. Through separation and attempts to mend, longing, and the fluidity of myth/story-telling in defining histories and identities, she collapses the elision between womanhood and motherhood/daughterhood, bringing to the forefront that which usually remains unspoken.
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Renard Press Ltd Saint Joan
Book SynopsisThe life of fifteenth-century heroine Joan of Arc is the stuff of legend, and her cruel death (burnt at the stake aged just nineteen) led to her being declared a martyr, granting her an impressive legacy. Following her canonisation in 1920, and against a history of overly romanticised retellings of the story, Bernard Shaw put pen to paper to give a more accurate account, without resorting to demonising her persecutors; as he writes in his preface, 'there are no villains in the piece'. It was an immediate success, securing him the Nobel Prize for Literature, although critics were initially divided by this frank approach - T.S. Eliot was outraged, saying, 'instead of the saint or the strumpet of the legends... he has turned her into a great middle-class reformer.' Nonetheless - or perhaps even because of this controversy - Saint Joan is considered one of Bernard Shaw's finest and most important plays. This edition has an introduction by Simon Mundy, who has spent several years as Vice-President of PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee, and extensive explanatory notes.Trade Review'He was a Tolstoy with jokes, a modern Dr Johnson, a universal genius who on his own modest reckoning put even Shakespeare in the shade.' (The Independent)Table of ContentsIntroduction by Simon Mundy, Preface by the author, Saint Joan, Note on the Text, Notes
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Renard Press Ltd Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman
Book SynopsisAs recounted by the Roman poet Ovid, a young nymph, Salmacis, one day spied Hermaphroditus bathing; consumed with passion, she entered the water and, begging the gods to allow them to stay together, the two became one - part man, part woman. An Eclectic Pagan, for Elizabeth Ovid's fables are more than fiction, and form a framework for exploring identity. Drawing on the rich mythological history associated with the tale of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, and re-examining the tale through the lens of metaphor, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman is a stirringly relatable and powerful exploration of gender, love and identity. this is my lake salmacis, and i am the wild nymph with a hollow in her belly and nothing between her legs
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Tippermuir Books Limited Beyond the Swelkie: A Collection of New Poems &
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Penned in the Margins Panic Response
Book Synopsis*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM* From the mercurial mind of award-winning poet John McCullough comes his darkest and most experimental book to date. Panic Response puts personal and cultural anxiety under the microscope. It is full of things that shimmer, quiver and fizz: plankton glowing at low tide; brain tissue turning to glass; a basketball emerging from the waves, covered in barnacles. These are poems of uncertainty but also of hope, which move beyond the breathlessness of panic towards luminescence and solidarity.Trade Review'John McCullough's fully alive new book experiments with every unit of expression - word, phrase, sentence, line break - as if trying to work out the physics of poetry after the death of John Ashbery. The experience of language here is an intense hallucination, in which the anxious world of the 2020s is both distinctly real and almost weightless, and love and friendship as hard to hold as the 'salt, dust and recycled breath' that blows through the poet's Brighton. But line after line here shines out with its own shape and meaning, and through the unreality runs real feeling, sincere desire for the shared emotion of poetry: 'to be lost in a new and beautiful manner'.'; JEREMY NOEL-TOD; 'I read these poems like a child reads anything for the first time, 'oohing' and 'ahhing' and laughing and being surprised and saddened and enriched and getting zapped with each poem's unique electrical charge. Queerness, years of COVID-19, tropes of panic, are all themes which arise again and again across this collection, but most satisfying is the point of view of the poet; McCullough is a visionary, a genius polymath. His worlds and miniature observations are deeply satisfying to stumble into. McCullough's writing feels tender, intimate, zany and yes ... cool. A book for our troubled times.'; MONIQUE ROFFEY
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Verve Poetry Press Testaments to Life & Death: The Repeat Beat Poet
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Verve Poetry Press the small manoeuvres
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Verve Poetry Press Farewell Tour
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Verve Poetry Press Same Story
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Verve Poetry Press Rustlings
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Verve Poetry Press How to Make a Paper Grenade
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Verve Poetry Press The Language Is A Queer Thing Omnibus
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Burning Eye Books This Is Not Therapy
Book SynopsisTina Sederholm is a pathfinder, scouting out the best ways to thrive in our confusing and overwrought world. Fuelled by a passionate belief in the healing power of art, and the contention that no person or day is exempt from an interesting story, she uses her finely honed wit to confront complex questions such as, ‘How do you live a meaningful life?’, ‘What sort of God is worth believing in?’ and ‘How do you best fold your socks?’ The result is an infectious rebel shout-out to finding joy even in difficult circumstances, hope and solace for those traversing any transition in their life.Trade Review‘Instantly accessible, provocative and fun, Tina Sederholm’s poems are depth charges of insight and emotion.’ JP Delaney, author of The Girl Before, Sunday Times Thriller of the Month.; ‘Having reached the end of this beautiful collection of Tina Sederholm’s poetry, I turned back to the beginning to read them all again. Some poets impress you with their insights, some make you laugh with their wit, some move you to tears with their vulnerability and some bring consolation with their humanity. Tina Sederholm does them all.’ Isabel Losada, author of The Joyful Environmentalist.; ‘I love Tina's writing. She's both funny and surprising even when writing about the familiar and everyday. Her poems are like a joyous, witty friend you can't wait to hang out with.’ Jess Green
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Burning Eye Books I don't know what language I dream in
Book SynopsisIn this earnest debut Taher Adel draws from his own life, heritage, religion and culture to map a remarkable journey. The poems in I don't know what language I dream in operate in the lost spaces between language and identity where the poet wrestles with himself in order to understand who he really is and where he stands in the confusing world around him.Trade Review"Taher Adels' book 'I Don't Know What Language I Dream In' illustrates the subtle moments where someone may realise that a part of their identity has been lost. And like a man losing his existence by degrees is trying to write it all down before the hourglass runs out. Taher Adels' poems feel urgent and important not just for those losing their identity but for all who need reminding of who they are. A fine debut get it." - Roger Robinson (Winner of T.S Eliot Prize 2019)
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Tangent Books Between The Cracks
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Parthian Books Saints and Lodgers
Book SynopsisFamous for his prose memoir The Autiobiography of a Super-tramp, Davies is best-known as a poet for 'Leisure', a hymn to living slow and having 'time to stand and stare'. Saints and Lodgers offers an introduction to the wide range of Davies's poetry which lies beyond his famous reputation.
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Parthian Books This Common Uncommon
Book SynopsisWhen a local common is threatened with development, one poet explores its secrets, discovering extraordinary natural treasures and wonderful people fighting to defend them. Can they save this uncommon common?
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The Conrad Press More Poems for Young and Old... and their Dog
Book Synopsis‘More Poems for Young and Old… and Their Dog’ is a collection of engaging poems taking the reader on an excursion into humour, nonsense, and even downright hilarity, with an occasional more serious direction. I hope these pages will bring you joy, Whether you’re young or old, girl or boy, I also wish that in just a while Something in them will make you smile.Table of ContentsPreface 13 Timothy Platt Part 4 14 Drummer 15 Penelope Klopp Part 3 16 Wisdom 17 The pirate 18 Mum 19 Sleep 20 The gnu 21 The world 22 Talent 23 The Vicar Part 3 24 Jock McRae 25 Nelson 27 I saw 28 Henry 29 Breakdown 30 Cake 31 Pie 32 Duties 34 Timothy Platt Part 5 36 Vitamin D 38 Snow 39 The hat 40 Shoes 41 Rearrangement 42 Confusion 43 Stairs 44 The vet 45 The canoe 46 The coat 47 Cleaning 48 Taps 49 Shredder 50 Walking boots 51 Supermarket 52 Doormat 53 Lessons 54 Injury 56 The highwayman 57 Scrap yard 59 Poppy 61 Milk 62 Shadow 63 Snoring 64 The office 65 The postman 66 Poet 67 Washing machine 68 The pet 69 The café 70 Uncle Seth 71 Directions 72 Glasses 73 Jake 75 Oscar 76 Climbing 77 Newspaper 79 Gerald’s socks 80 Decorating 81 Grandad’s fears 82 Vision 83 Money 84 King Canute 85 Grandma’s chair 87 The library 89 Time 90 Victor 91 Eyes 93 Christmas Eve 94 Car sales 95 Floxton Moor 97 Centipede 98 Drink 99 Age 100 Photo 101 Friendship 102 Water 103 Identity 104 Career 105 Flat pack 106 Watching 107 Heating 108 Haircut 109 The bicycle 110 A&E 112 Decisions 114 Ancestry 115 Tax 116 Shrinkage 117 Groceries 119 The insurance man 121 A slice of cake 123 Supporter 124 Mother 126 Reading or writing 127 Judgement 128
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