The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (Vintage Collector's Classics)

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (Vintage Collector's Classics)New Hardback A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the enchanting childhood classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most disagreeable looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden

And China continues its ascent to the peak of the economic mountain - but are cracks appearing

mortal pricks

both sides recognised that the way they had worked together to decode German and Japanese ciphers could now be used to counter the Soviet threat

Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited

Others have been forgotten

A move to a new social housing estate in rural Cumbria offers Victoria and her family a chance to rebuild their lives

But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from

It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus

places and nature

many other species are being allowed to disappear forever

But underpinning the book is a timeless truth: that making journeys has always been a way of making meaning

we instead need a bitter political struggle between those attached to the power