California Gold by Jodie Chapman #foliosociety and extracts from Charles Dickens'

and extracts from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows are perfect for reading around the Christmas tree or as a bedtime story

We do not really know about the world around him: how the events of the past decade in Egypt have impacted on his own life

was more akin to Sonny Liston—Black

ISBN: 9781398711266 | Extent: 464 pages

from ancient Babylon to the present day

California Gold by Jodie Chapman #foliosociety and extracts from Charles Dickens'Frank and Chrissy meet a few days into 70. Frank has been travelling around California when someone tells him about a house in the desert where the walls are steel and the glass shimmers. When Chrissy picks him up hitchhiking on the side of the road, all blond hair and oversized sunglasses, its love at first sight. Years later, as their shared dream of recreating a mid century masterpiece in Britain threatens to overwhelm them, Frank will often think