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From ARNIE to DOLLY, BLACKADDER to SCORSESE; GRAHAM NORTON to HARRY POTTER; the VAGINA MONOLOGUES to ZOOM, welcome back to the irrepressible and unstoppable world of Miriam Margolyes. Packed with her wit, wisdom and unfiltered stories, The Little Book of Miriam is a memory palace of Miriam's...

The Hebrews call me prophetess, the Egyptians a seer. But I am neither. I am simply a watcher of Israel and the messenger of El Shaddai. When He speaks to me in dreams, I interpret. When He whispers a melody, I sing. At eighty-six, Miriam had devoted her entire life to loving El Shaddai and...

Have you ever wished you could fill your pantry with safe, delicious, long-lasting homemade foods—but felt too intimidated to start? Do you dream of reducing waste, saving money, and feeding your family healthier meals made with your own hands? If so, this Complete 3‑Book Collection is exactly what you’ve been looking for. The Self-Sufficient Pantry Bible brings together three powerful guides—Water Bath Canning, Fermentation, and Amish Preserving—into one comprehensive resource designed to take you from nervous beginner to confident home preserver. Whether you want to stop ...

Our naughtiest national treasure and Number 1 bestselling author takes on Britain and the British In Miriam's Full English, she turns her documentary-maker's eye on her own backyard. After exploring the rest of the world through her much-loved BBC series, she's bringing her trademark wit to get...

In her eventful lifetime, Miriam was many things to many people: protective older sister, song leader, prophetess, leper. But between the highs and the lows, she was a girl who dreamed of freedom, a woman who longed for love, a leader who made mistakes, and a friend who valued connection.

Fearsome Scots laird Gabriel MacLachlan must take a bride, but not just any bride. Magdalene, his liege lord's younger sister, is known to be as bonny as any Highland lass but as mad as a loon. Mad Maggie, they call her - and Gabriel has no choice. Not if he wants to put food in his clansmen's bellies, clothes on their backs, and repair the crumbling castle he calls home. A fat dowry in exchange for a madwoman, whose life will be in danger from the MacLachlan family curse the instant she becomes his wife.

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also revealing, shocking and touching. Miriam is an icon, a cocksucker - and the star of her show' ROBERT McCRUM, Independent 'Our naughtiest national treasure...

From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had -- this is (at last) her extraordinary life story and it's well worth the wait. 'There is no one on earth quite so...

London. A city drowning in fog. Amid that fog, a man with no name dies above a strange junkshop. Threads of mist and intrigue weave around a court case with no resolution, linking great country houses with the lowest slum in the city, mingling the high-born with a boy who sweeps the filthy streets, enshrouding devious plots and sudden murder, bringing together two extraordinary women – Lady Dedlock and Esther Summerson - who seem to have nothing whatsoever in common but who will find themselves inextricably linked.

Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and assaulted in the night by what they were told (by the men of the colony) were "ghosts" or "demons", Miriam Toews' bold and affecting novel Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events.  

She buried her heart with her husband. Now a stranger's kindness threatens to awaken what she thought was gone forever. Miriam Yoder's buggy wheel shatters on her last chance to reach the market. Without these quilt sales, she'll lose the farm. When widowed carpenter Josiah Troyer stops to help, her young son Eli speaks his first words in two years to a stranger. Josiah fled to Lancaster County to escape the loss of his wife and stillborn son. He's not looking to care again. But Eli's trust and Miriam's fierce independence crack something open in his chest. Storm repairs become daily visits...

Eigentlich ist der Fall abgeschlossen: Vor fünf Jahren wurde die Schülerin Andie Bell von ihrem Freund Sal Singh ermordet. Die Polizei ist sich sicher, dass es so war. Die ganze Stadt ist sich sicher. Alle - außer Pippa. Für ein Schulprojekt will sie den Fall noch einmal aufrollen. Bewaffnet mit ihrem Laptop, einer Diktiergerät-App und viel Mut beginnt Pippa, Fragen zu stellen. Doch bald merkt sie, dass nicht alle wollen, dass die dunklen Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit gelüftet werden ..

In the years after WWII, Miriam faces family upheavals, new beginnings, and the dawn of the swinging sixties in this moving continuation of her life story. The war is over, but the battles of family life, love, and change are just beginning. By 1948, Miriam Barker (née Baxter) has come through war, hardship, and personal upheaval with humour, resilience, and quiet strength. But peace brings its own challenges. Britain is still rationing, and the East End is a place in flux—full of tight-knit communities and uncertain futures. As her children grow and her sisters’ lives take surprising ...

She’s running from heartbreak. He’s guarding his heart. Can they risk love before it’s too late? After scandal and humiliation forced Anna Schwartz to leave her Indiana community, she’s determined to rebuild her life as the new schoolteacher in Lancaster County. Focused on her students and desperate to prove she belongs, the last thing she expects is to grow close to widowed father Benjamin Miller and his four struggling children. Benjamin vowed never to open his heart again after losing his wife. But Anna’s gentle patience and quiet strength bring healing to his family—and ...

Giving her baby brother a kiss, brave little Miriam places Moses' basket into the river. With one quick push, she sends him into the water, hoping her wish will come true and her brother will be saved from Pharaoh's orders. But will Pharaoh's daughter arrive in time to rescue him?

Read by the author. A step-by-step guide for creatives to transform your passion into a profitable business. Whether you’re a musician, photographer, painter, writer, dancer, singer, or any other creative with aspirations of making a living from your art, this is the perfect time to turn your...

Widowed and weary of mourning, Evelyn Warrington receives an anonymous invitation to a masked ball—a chance to reclaim her desire, if only for one night. But the masked stranger who captures her heart may hold more secrets than she ever imagined. Behind every chandelier’s glow and velvet-draped corridor lies temptation, betrayal... and a passion too wild for the daylight.

Brought to you by Penguin. I started writing this book as an exclusively work memoir but the work and the personal kept overlapping. I don’t know if that’s because I’m a woman or a mother or both, or none of those reasons. I just know that for my story to be authentic and truthful, I...

Background: Miriam began the day I met a girl for a date in the Indeogwon subway in South Korea (I was a teacher there). She was a Filipina of very small stature. Smaller than a dwarf, and thinner too. She could tell I was shocked; probably nothing new to her. And as she held my hand I was worried people in my neighborhood would think I was a perv holding hands with a student. I brushed off the feeling and we conversed. She told me she was small because when she was young in the Philippines her parents went to a big city so they could make better money for the family. Tragically, the money ...

Mary Bennet - overlooked, laughed at, despised - married a missionary and vanished into a life of service out in Africa. But now Miriam, her daughter, is coming to England, disliking everything she has been told about her family. Her aunts and cousins are expecting someone quiet, dull and bookish, just like her mother, not the quick-tempered, impulsive girl who arrives. How can this adventurous girl with her desire for freedom possibly fit into their well ordered world? And what havoc will she cause as she tries?