Paul Gallico
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life--a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs. Harris scrimps and saves...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
There is a superstition that if the Barbary Apes leave Gibraltar, the English will also leave. This story is set in Gibraltar at the start of the Second World War, and is the story of the efforts required to keep the apes in Gibraltar. The major problem is an ape called Harold (a.k.a. Scruffy), who is appallingly behaved, and who does his best to bring down the wrath of officialdom on all the apes and their keepers.
Author
Language
English
Description
An eight-year old London boy named Peter, with a distant nanny and neglectful parents, is injured while rescuing a stray cat named Jennie from being hit by a car. During the resultant coma, he is transformed into a cat, and taken care of by Jennie in spite of her contempt for humans.
14) Too many ghosts
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
Weird sights and sounds so disturb the occupants of a lovely old ancestral mansion that a London detective is hired to exorcise its its other-worldly visitors.