Clang and the School Play

It is nearly Christmas in the cold, snowy village of Much Moaning. Clang and the ladies of Sausage Cottage are all freezing! Big Brain school is getting ready for the school play. It has to be brilliant or Miss Clever Clogs will be in trouble with Miss Head Honcho the headteacher!

However, there is a big problem. Many children have a sick bug or chickenpox. The children supposed to play the animals in the manger are all away ill.

Miss Clever Clogs the teacher has a wonderful idea! She thinks she can save the play if Clang and his pals help her. Does it ever go right with Clang and Lady Wallopy?!

Clang thinks it is a terrible idea! He starts thinking about how to avoid the play!

Enjoy meeting Miss Head Honcho, Clarissa Clever Clogs and Penny Perfect Pants in this new story of Clang’s adventures with his pals Soot, Bodger, and Twinkle.

Will the play be a success? Will Clang find a way out of it?!

Enjoy more hilarious antics in Much Moaning and find out if Miss Clever Clogs gets her wish.

Clara Carrot Tired Of Being Orange

Clara Carrot feels the need for an adventure. Her dear friend Flutter, a beautiful Cabbage-white Butterfly, and Frizbee, her beautiful cat, have the same desire for adventure, so together they make their plans. Clara from the start wants everything to happen quickly – she wants to grow quickly, wants to be different to other carrots, she doesn’t want to be orange!

The story follows Clara and Flutter in their adventure where they meet many new veggies including the King of Plantplots.

With the help of Flutter and the King, Clara discovers many things about her Carrot family and Flutter discovers something life changing for Clara.

Clara loves Flutter and relies on him to be a good influence on her. She sometimes gets too excited and needs Flutter to guide her down the right path and calm her down.

During her journey, her life changes dramatically and she makes many new friends along the way.

Clara the Calf

Clara is the only calf born on the farm.

She doesn’t fit in with anyone else, doesn’t feel like she can play with the others and doesn’t have her own skills…

Or does she?

A charming children’s story that encourages young readers to believe in themselves and be proud of their own talents.

Clarence the Clumsy Monster

Poor Clarence!

He tries so hard and all he does is get into trouble because he is so clumsy.

What can he do?

But sometimes being clumsy can have a happy ending! Follow Clarence as he discovers he has got a very special talent... 

A delightful children’s story sure to amuse and entertain.

Class Act

Biggsy is an idealistic 50-year-old English teacher in a West London boys’ secondary school. A maverick head of department who battled against the educational establishment for twenty-five years, he’s beginning to crack. His departmental colleagues love him, but he suspects that the school’s management team is out to get rid of him.His wife, Myra, a medical secretary, is his mainstay. She patiently endures his total commitment to his calling without complaint. However, when she realises that his work is taking an inordinate emotional toll on his personality, her patience wears thin.Through his exchanges with teenage Ella, their only child, Biggsy reveals his beliefs about the connections between literary theory and the lives we all lead. But a violent assault on one of his students, an unexpected sexual encounter and professional betrayal expose the flaws in his philosophy. He discovers that trying to think one’s way through life is all very well, but the time comes when one has to act. 

Classic Motor Cartoon Book

Classic motorcars have been featured in movies and pop songs for over seven decades and contributed to the fun of driving historic cars.

This book of motor cartoons illustrates the adventure and romance of classic and vintage cars which also have been part of automobile racing history – from Louis Renault, Henry Ford and Enzo Ferrari to Kiichiro Toyoda today.

From Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Grandma Duck, Noddy and Big Ears to Bonnie and Clyde, Thelma & Louise and The Italian Job, comedy and tragedy have always been a big part of entertaining motoring history.

These cartoons are accompanied by anecdotes of motoring trivia complementing the extraordinary history of the automobile as we remember it before ‘self-drive’ electric cars will silently kill off the ‘internal combustion engine’.

Clavius: The Hapless Tooth Fairy

Clavius longs to be accepted by the tooth fairies on the highest hill. However, his appearance is less than 'enchanting'. With the help of his friend, Iron Gray, the bat, Clavius begins a journey to become a proper tooth fairy. But Clavius learns that it's not what you leave underneath pillows that will make children remember your name.

Cleaning Stories And Other Tails

Cleaning Stories And Other Tails is a broad sweep of mainly the underclass. Bread crumbs of prostitution, idyllic adoption and the mumblings of a white woman near an indigenous reserve make the reader ponder, lash out and albeit care for the various winners and losers that cross days and nights.

The characters drawn from a realm of healers, liars and ordinary Joes populate urban landscapes with self-deprecating wit, emotional shortcomings and identifiable crisis.

The first incarnation of this book was a rough sketch I did while working as a maid in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal, Quebec.

There have been many stained mattresses, unavailable rooms, and smoke-inhaled lobbies in the interim.

Clone Ladies

In Clone Ladies, dive into a near-future where medical advancements have made cloning not just possible, but commonplace. As technology evolves, it’s not just organs that are replicated – entire humans can now be duplicated, possessing the same abilities, thoughts, memories, and skills as their originals. While this brave new world promises enhanced happiness and longevity, it also introduces unprecedented challenges. What does it mean to be truly unique in a world of mirrors? This gripping exploration into the promises and pitfalls of cloning raises profound questions about identity, ethics, and the very essence of human existence.

Cocoa the Cat

‘I arm myself with an extra sweater and some garden gloves, fully expecting him to dig his killer claws into my chest, potentially infecting me with the coronavirus in the process. I have anxiety issues, you see.’

It is the spring of 2020: the world is in the grip of a pandemic. In the midst of the national lockdown, a lonely, anxious woman is self-isolating at home with no one for company but the bird-slaying tom cat terrorising her garden, whose violence she detests. Love at first sight it is not. Until one day Cocoa, the tom cat, manages to get inside her flat and all of a sudden shows his vulnerable side. Slowly, a friendship develops between these two unlikely bed fellows. Cocoa the Cat is a story about isolation, loneliness, friendship and acceptance. It is a homage to all those furry friends without whom lockdown would have been an even lonelier place.      

Coconut 100 Ways

I am so grateful that after many years of dreaming, I finally have the opportunity to have my own cookbook published. As a young girl I always dreamed of this and after a long time with many days spent walking around with notepads and jotting down all the recipes I could remember and those I created, I have finally reached the goal which seemed to be so elusive. Creating dishes has always been something which gave me a lot of joy and has always been and will always be my passion.

I have used coconut in nearly every recipe in some way. It is the most versatile fruit I have ever known. The coconut ‘meat’ is used for medicinal purposes, cooking and beauty products. The shell can be used to make decorative items. The husk for cleaning. So come with me to a small town in St. Thomas, Jamaica, surrounded by rivers and join my neighbourhood as we all get together and cook, drink and have a good time.

Coffee Time

The essence of a good writer is to find that ‘writer’s moment’ – that little piece of observable idiosyncratic behaviour where humour lives. How Susanna loves to discover those eccentricities in people’s characters that she can frame on her artist’s canvas.

Humour is found in the ordinary, the everyday, the awkward and the sublimely ridiculous events that grace our faces. When faced with the Covid-19 pandemic during 2020 Susanna’s pen had hardly time to rest between scenarios, furiously recording stories, such as the stupidity of the Tissue Issue – ‘Spare a Square,’ or about the sneaky company tricks in ‘Plays and Ploys’.

Other stories share precious family time with her little granddaughter, whilst many raise issues prevalent in all our lives. Instead of becoming exasperated by incompetence, or the folly of people’s foolishness, Susanna’s pen quickly slips into writing mode to create each immensely amusing saga.

‘That Perfect Little Writing Day’

Knock, knock.

“Who’s there?”

“Me,” a newly turned three-year-old gives her nanny a kiss.

“Where did you come from?”

“From the door.”

“How d’you get here?”

“I walked. Silly Nanny – I don’t drive!”

The stories and poems are written for entertainment. Coffee Time invites you into the coffee shop to sip one or more of the delicious brews on offer. Please stay a while and chat and share these little treasures with your family and friends.