Dodie Smith: I Capture The Castle [2004] paperback Condition:Very Good played host to the most

played host to the most extreme form of warfare

featuring trouble-prone bookseller Bruce Cable

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons

bed-bound mother is the survivor of a private disaster no one will speak about

Annie Reed

Dodie Smith: I Capture The Castle [2004] paperback Condition:Very Good played host to the most'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met' J K Rowling 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fading glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas