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1	I'll Go to Bed at Noon more books like this by Gerard Woodward Colette Jones has had drink problems in the past, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job behind the counter in a builders' merchants, and his drinking sprees with his brother-in-law Bill, a pseudo-Marxist supermarket butcher who seems to ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	August more books like this by Gerard Woodward Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans's first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. At Easter, Mrs Evans writes to ask if he, Colette and their four children require the third field for the summer; in August, their Bukta tent is brought ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £2.49! \| first editions
3	A Curious Earth more books like this by Gerard Woodward Left after the death of his wife and one of his sons with an empty house and cupboards full of hoarded odds and ends that seem to have nothing to do with him, Aldous Jones is tempted to spend the whole day sitting in his chair in the kitchen. But with admirable determination, he resolutely resumes old pastimes until, one day, wandering through ... see all copies from £1.93! new only from £6.42!
4	Gerard's herbal : the history of plants more books like this by John Gerard, Marcus Woodward see all copies from £5.89! new only from £34.59!
5	Gerard's herball more books like this by John Gerard see all copies from £2.08! new only from £26.86! \| first editions
6	Gerard's Herball; the essence thereof more books like this by John Gerard, Marcus Woodward see all copies from £5.63!
7	Householder by Gerard Woodward The materials of these poems - milk, potatoes, dogs, coats and bathrooms - are those of ordinary, old-fashioned domesticity, but the poet transforms them into profound symbols of ownership and loss. see all copies from £2.08! first editions
8	After the Deafening more books like this by Gerard Woodward A collection of poetry by the author of "Householder", which won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the J.L. Rhys/"Mail on Sunday" Prize. Woodward's imagination and the details of everyday life take on an extraordinary and exotic significance. see all copies from £11.30! first editions
9	Caravan Thieves by Gerard Woodward Most of these vivid and unsettling stories are rooted in apparently everyday lives and situations, but suddenly become surreal or disturbing - reading them feels sometimes as though you're walking along in the real world and suddenly step off an edge into a void, where rules of gravity and normality have disappeared but life carries on ...They're ... see all copies from £16.76! new only from £16.76!
10	We Were Pedestrians by Gerard Woodward In a return to poetry after his two highly acclaimed novels, "August" and "I'll Go To Bed At Noon", Gerard Woodward has written a wonderfully inventive, witty and moving collection of poetry about the way we try to domesticate the world. In poems full of rooms and houses, where wily nature eludes the instinct to tame, Woodward combines the ... see all copies from £10.07! new only from £10.07!
11	Island to Island more books like this by Gerard Woodward This collection marks Gerard Woodward's first publication after a space of 5 years. With characteristic exuberance and the ability to stand the world on its head, he combines poems about half-invented lands with those that transform the ordinary into the fantastical. see all copies from £3.65!
12	Leaves from Gerard's Herball more books like this by John Gerard, Marcus Woodward see all copies from £11.30! first editions

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