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| Author | : Isla Dewar |
| Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 1249 |
| Release | : 2023-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1788856295 |
Snap up a pair of Isla Dewar's feel-good novels in this exclusive bundle from Polygon. First, delve into a feel-good summer reading mystery with It Takes One to Know One, where Charlie Gavin, abducted as a baby, joins the Be Kindly Missing Persons Bureau to help lost souls like himself. Then indulge in the lifelong friendship of Anna and George in A Day Like Any Other, a novel that shows it's never too late to find yourself, packed with humour, insight, depth and honesty. 'A realist, observant and needle-sharp, Isla Dewar can be very funny' – The Times Titles included in this bundle are: It Takes One to Know One A Day Like Any Other
| Author | : Isla Dewar |
| Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2020-05-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1788852907 |
You can't change your past. You can only use the experiences you live through to make your future better, wiser. Anna and her best friend George meet every week to remember, to sigh, to laugh, to reminisce about their moments of glory, guilt and mischief and share their sorrows over a glass or three of wine. The things they've done still make them blush. Anna wanted to be a poet – a famous poet. George left home in a childish rage and years later returned with her baby. When Anna is asked to look after the boy across the road for a few hours each week, she isn't sure. She doesn't really do children. But she takes the job on and, gradually, a child's view of her world shows her a different place. George remembers a flat she stayed in when she ran away from home. It had the kitchen of all kitchens and, oh, how she'd love to see it again. Anna sets out to see if it still exists and discovers a cookbook full of recipes, intimates notes and drawings from George's life. Does all this mark an ending or the beginning of something new and marvellous for Anna and George?
| Author | : Isla Dewar |
| Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2018-07-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1788850777 |
Charlie Gavin was abducted as a baby. He didn't know who he was or where he came from. His mission was to find himself. And when he did, he decided to spend his life finding other lost souls by opening the Be Kindly Missing Persons Bureau. Martha Walters, his assistant, has had her fifteen minutes of almost fame and failed. Now, dealing with her guilt and pain, she lives with her mum and dotes on her young daughter. Charlie appears to be a man who is a loser and dreamer, but, hey, his office is near her house, she can lie in of a morning, take her kid to school and the work isn't too heart-breaking. Or is it . . . ?
| Author | : Jenny Colgan |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2004-02-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0743498607 |
Meet the Clanswomen... International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors. A sometimes wild, sometimes poignant romp through the lives of Scotswomen, Scottish Girls About Town revels in the universal hilarity and strife of being a girl! They're looking for something moor. In Jenny Colgan's "The Fringes," a hapless heroine heads to the Edinburgh "Fringe" -- a massive theatrical and musical festival -- for a night of her own disastrous drama. Isla Dewar offers up "In the Garden of Mrs. Pink," one woman's look back at her girlhood and the life lessons she learned from an eccentric neighbor. In Muriel Gray's "School-Gate Mums," a single mother with killer instincts settles the score with one of the mothers at her son's school. Whether they're racing their flatmates in a weight-loss contest, reconnecting with long-lost friends, or grappling with the men in their lives, these daughters of Scotland prove that no one can top their audacious spirit and Highland charm.
| Author | : Isla Dewar |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2006-12-26 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0312342268 |
This warm, perceptive, and dryly humorous romance novel from the acclaimed Isla Dewar is a wonderful, richly textured story focusing on several generations of one family through a year in their lives.
| Author | : Isla Dewar |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Courtship |
| ISBN | : 0091938155 |
While her mother regards the Locarno dancehall as a den of iniquity, for seventeen year old, shop girl, Nell mcClusky, it's the centre of the universe. Where else is she going to meet the man of her dreams who'll take her away from the hum-drum realities of life on a coucil estate in 1950s Edinburgh?
| Author | : Isla Dewar |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2011-05-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1409033708 |
Vicar's daughter Izzy feels hugely guilty that she's having a very good war. Having learned to fly in a travelling circus before the war, she's now joined the Air Transport Auxiliary as one of their few female pilots and is having the time of her life. The only cloud on the horizon is having to lie to her father about her exact role in the ATA. Her father is against the whole notion of women flying - he certainly wouldn't approve of her becoming a 'spitfire girl'. Izzy also feels distinctly out of place among the more upper class ladies of the ATA. She would love to be as worldly as her flighty housemate, Julia, or as sophisticated as society wife Clare. But when Izzy finds herself falling for the charms of a dashing American doctor it is to Julia and Clare that she turns for help...
| Author | : Isla Dewar |
| Publisher | : Review |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2012-06-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0755394836 |
In the Scottish fishing village of Mareth, everyone knows everything about each other - and what they don't know they assume; the villagers live against a constantly changing backdrop of elaborate scheming and sexual innuendo. At the hub of this world is the Ocean Cafe, run by tousle-haired, forty-something Magda, who makes grown men eat their greens, won't serve customers she doesn't like, and loves her children and their father with a passion. When Jessie Tate, devastated by recent tragedy, rents the flat above the cafe in an escape from the city, her dream of peace and solitude is shattered by the rock 'n' roll music that thuds through her floor. But perhaps a dose of life in an intimate, colourful and utterly self-absorbed community is just what Jessie needs to break free of her ghosts...
| Author | : Isla Dewar |
| Publisher | : Review |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2011-12-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0755391926 |
When James McElroy saw the ad for a lodger with 'Bibi Sanders' in a smart Edinburgh street, he pictured a glamorous young landlady with whom he would form a meaningful and deep relationship. But Bibi's in her seventies. She's led a full life, including marriage to the domineering and difficult Callum, now deceased, and raised six children.She's not sure what to make of James and suspects - rightly - a troubling secret in his past. When Bibi sets out to re-visit the past for the final time via a tour of Britain in her rather unexpected Volvo sports car, James decides to go with her. It's a journey full of surprises and revelations which will change them both - and, in Isla Dewar's inimitable way, entertain and enlighten every reader.
| Author | : Isla Dewar |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2006-04-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429937548 |
A warm and intelligent novel about a young teacher who throws herself into the lives of her students in the hopes of forgetting the past, only to find it returning more vividly than ever.When Iris Chisholm arrives in the tiny Scottish Highland community of Green Cairns, she's still in a state of shock--not so much from her husband's untimely death as from the discovery that he'd gambled away all their money and even their home. In addressing the problems of the children at the school where she works, Iris finds distractions from worries. Further distractions come in the shape of a honey-tongued lawyer and a gentle handyman. This is a novel with wit and heart from an author who is quickly rising in the ranks of international women's fiction authors.
