The Little Town Where Time Stood StillFrom the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to smash when he's angry, Bohumil Hrabal creates a range of enchanting and memorable characters confirming his status as one of Europe's greatest writers

you can play with the designs to make garments exactly the way you want them

such as depression

Through the timeless wisdom unfolded in this sparkling narrative we can each discover the true pathway to success in our own lives

some are too heavy

Before Miss Marple there was Amelia Butterworth

Given a back-room computer job when the beloved Birmingham library she works in turns into a downsized retail complex

and her mother indeed in bed -- waiting to die

such as granite

victim of terrible abuse who is determined to better herself

For amusement she creates alternative fairy-tales - mixing glass slippers seven league boots and red dancing shoes - while submitting to her mother's strict Catholic upbringing

But now she's surrounded day and night by care

where Russian troops slowed Napoleon's Grande Arm�e before Moscow in 1812