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    <![CDATA[The Boys Are Back]]>
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    <![CDATA[<em>&quot;So there we are, a father and two sons in a household without role models, males together in a home different from anything I'd known—an idyllic Lost Boys' world with a house full of children and as few rules as possible.&quot;</em><br/><br/>When Simon Carr's wife Susie lost her battle to cancer, Carr was left to raise his 5-year old son, Alexander, on his own.  Soon after, Hugo, his 11-year old son from a previous marriage comes to live with them.  Now, this motley crew of boys have to learn how to be a family.  Along the way, Carr reveals some illuminating truths about parenting and the differences between mothers and fathers.  His messy household bears no similarity to the immaculate home his wife kept; his response to mothers on the playground fretting about his son's safety on the handlebars is, &quot;If he falls, at least he'll know not to do it again.&quot;  Emotionally honest and sharply witty, Carr's story is at once heartbreaking and wonderfully life-affirming.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Boys Are Back in Town]]>
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    <![CDATA[How do you talk to a five-year-old boy when his mother&#8217;s just died ? How do you look after him, and how do you cope when your eleven-year-old son by a previous marriage comes to live with you too? This account of an all-male family experience is, by turns, funny, tender, anarchic, moving and very instructive about how three males of different ages and character learn from each other about how to live their lives.]]>
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    <![CDATA[To be Franc: Why We Love to Hate the French]]>
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    <![CDATA[Even though we've been at each other's throats for hundreds of years, we still love nothing better than having a good go at our frog-legged friends across the Channel. Here, acerbic satirist and dedicated Francophile Simon Carr casts his sympathetic yet determined eye over the main bones of contention - from philosophy and war to language and sexual deviance. Without ever resorting to cheap tricks or playground tactics, Carr elegantly points out that by the time we'd developed our famous justice system the French were still putting animals on trial; that in France's golden military age, the eighteenth century, we won 39 out of 45 of all battles fought between us; and, that the world's language, English, has more words, nuance and flexibility than French, the language of philosophy, could ever begin to express. In short, when it comes down to it, we win against the French on almost every score. For anyone looking for an unbeatable arsenal of ammunition to use against our supercilious neighbours - on holiday, while renovating a farmhouse or round the dinner table - or just a jolly good laugh at their expense, this is the book.  Praise for &quot;The Boys Are Back in Town&quot;: 'Achingly funny and almost unbearably moving' - &quot;Daily Mail&quot;. 'Carr's brilliantly written account of life as a single parent should become a required manual on parenting' - &quot;The Sunday Times&quot;. 'Both men and women need his confident, politically incorrect but thoroughly realistic assertions' - &quot;Independent&quot;.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Sour Gripes]]>
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    <![CDATA[Asbestos Claims: Law, Practice and Procedure]]>
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