Happy Half-Hours – Signed Copy

Name: Happy Half-Hours – Signed Copy
SKU: 9781912559053-1
Price: 16.99 GBP
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Author: A. A. MilneFrank Cottrell-Boyce

£16.99

Introduced by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, award-winning children’s author and Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2024-2026

Signed copy version

A delightful selection of articles by the ever-popular A. A. Milne, many of which haven’t been in print for decades. Milne had a talent for regularly turning out a thousand whimsical words on lost hats and umbrellas, golf, married life, cheap cigars, and any amount of life’s other little difficulties. It also includes some of his fiercely argued writings on pacifism. Introduced by the prize-winning children’s author Frank Cottrell-Boyce, this volume features the very best of A. A. Milne in one delightful volume.

‘Opens our eyes to a much fuller A. A. Milne. Your common-or-urban psychogeographer could get much from the essay on Crusoeisms, and the book as a whole deepens all of our impressions of Milne as a person in history.’

Manchester Review of Books

‘One of this season’s hidden gems.’

Washington Post

‘Happy Half-Hours gathers his finest pieces from gossamer light reflections on lost hats to heartbreakingly candid pieces on the horrors of the First World War.’

Waterstones ‘Favourite Independently Published Books of 2020’

‘Milne’s gift to write amusingly about the most trivial things is a kind of blessing. The kind that can put you back together again when all else fails.’

Frank Cottrell-Boyce