Paul Gallico

Coronation Day, 2 June 1953. The Claggs, a humble, working class family from Sheffield, are offered tickets to a once-in-a-lifetime-event - the Queen's coronation. Forsaking their annual seaside holiday for the promise of a prime viewing spot of the procession route and luxurious champagne, the Clagg family take the plunge and buy tickets for the momentous day. But in true Gallico fashion, not everything goes smoothly.

Will their tickets be everything they hoped and dreamed? Will granny stop grumbling that it's all a waste of money? Most importantly, will they ever get to see their beloved Queen? 

Jean-Pierre the guinea-pig finds new adventures in a trip round the world.

The story of Peter Brown, a small boy who is changed into a stray cat and befriended by Jennie, a tabby, who teaches him how to cope in his new life.

The indomitable Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. She befriends a little boy, whose father was a GI, and he is being ill-treated. So when she is asked to go to New York with one of her clients to keep house for her, she smuggles the lad with her to try to find his father.

Mrs Harris, working for a rich London family, covets a Dior gown. This is the story of her trip to Paris in search of her dream and what happened when she returned home.

In Mrs Harris MP, the honest as-ever old char impresses her employer with her no-nonsense political views to such an extent that he - an MP, no less - encourages her to become a voice for the people of Battersea and stand for election herself. The world of local politics, however, soon proves a test for a lady as straight-laced as Mrs Harris; political skulduggery, the glare of the media and the apparent betrayal of a trusted friend all becoming issues she just hadn't bargained on...

Responsible for cleaning the homes of the rich, Mrs Harris is a humble charlady with a knack for putting things in order wherever she goes. When, much to her surprise, she wins a trip for two beyond the Iron Curtain, she has no idea of the adventure that lies ahead of her.

A book written, supposedly from a cat’s point of view, on how to train your humans and to manipulate them to do exactly as you want. A must for cat lovers!

The story of the best known Christmas carol in the world.

Mary dotes on her cat, Thomasina, but her embittered father, a widower, orders the cat to be destroyed when she sustains a slight leg injury. Thomasina then comes back to live as Bast Ra, a cat goddess.

"The Snow Goose" centres on Philip, a hunchback, who lives alone in a lighthouse. One day Fritha, a young girl from the nearby village, brings him a snow goose wounded by a gun shot. Rhyader sets sail for Dunkirk to help rescue the trapped soldiers and soon the tale of the man with the snow goose is passed from one soldier to another.