Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe Bart.

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The Swallows return to the lake for another summer camping on their island alongside their allies, the Amazon pirates. But the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their boat. If they can't have the island, there's always Swallowdale, a secret valley, hidden from the world.

It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy, artist and instructor, returns to the class, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest. The model will never move again. It's a difficult case for Investigator Alleyn.

Presents an account of how the author fulfilled a lifelong ambition by founding his very own private zoo in Jersey. This book shows how, with the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff and a reluctant bank manager, the zoo grew. Illustrated by Ralph Thompson, it discusses the trials and wonders of living in the middle of a zoo.