Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marie browne”
Skip side bar filters

  • Narrow Minds

    The Narrow Boat Books

    by Marie Browne ...
    Series series The Narrow Boat Books
    In her debut memoir Narrow Margins Marie Browne saved her family from financial ruin by moving her long-suffering husband, three children and a dog on to a houseboat called Happy Go Lucky in search of a less stressful, alternative way of life.Now in Narrow Minds the family find themselves sucked back into normality, they're pretty much back where they started, horrible house, no boat and the kids ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Narrow Escape

    The Narrow Boat Books

    by Marie Browne ...
    Series series The Narrow Boat Books
    "Oh, you live on a boat? That must be really cold in the winter. . ." Or, "Oh, you live on a boat? It must be great being so close to nature . . ." Or, "Oh, you live on a boat? It must be fantastic to be able to go wherever you like, whenever you like . . ."Narrow Escape sets out to dispel these commonly held public myths.From how to avoid assassination by ninja stealth ducklings, through ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Narrow Margins

    The Narrow Boat Books

    by Marie Browne ...
    Series series The Narrow Boat Books
    Narrow Margins – a laugh-out-loud book which proves that lean times can sometimes be a very positive thing.Faced with the loss of everything following the collapse of the Rover Group, Marie Browne moved her long-suffering husband Geoff, chaotic children and smelly, narcoleptic dog on to a houseboat in search of a less stressful, healthier, alternative way of life.Strapped for cash, the family buy ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Narrow Focus

    The Narrow Boat Books

    by Marie Browne ...
    Series series The Narrow Boat Books
    Peace and tranquillity. For once nothing terrible is happening. After years of dodgy moorings, ankle-deep mud, exploding toilets and all the other normalities of live-aboard life, the Brownes now seem to have found the perfect spot in which to park Minerva, their aging narrowboat. Marie and family finally find the time to work on the outside of the boat and even take a holiday or two. It looks as ... Read more

    Was $3.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Little Peace, Big Planet

    by Peace-Marie Browne, Mur B ...
    Little Peace, Big Planet is a joyful rhyming story that invites young readers to discover the beauty of animals and the importance of caring for the world around them.Through playful verses and charming illustrations, Peace explores forests, oceans, and skies while meeting animals from different habitats. Along the way, she learns that even small acts of kindness: protecting nature, helping ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Narrowboat Nomads

    Living the Dream on the English Waterways

    by Steve Haywood ...
    We were aware of a dreamlike quality to our trip. There was something far-fetched about it, something out of this world.Austerity might be getting everyone else down, but Steve is waving his worries goodbye on another of his light-hearted trips around the picturesque English waterways.This time it’s a bit different, though. This time he’s not just cruising with his cat, Kit, but with his long ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • So You Returned to Sark

    by Christine Davies Curtis ...
    In her previous books Chris tells of her move to the tiny Feudal Island of Sark, in the British Channel Isles with her husband Ken, to run their guest house and smallholding. They then journey out to New Zealand to explore and finally settle there. Over the years the marriage starts to falter and in the opening chapter of 'So You Returned to Sark' it comes to a dramatic head. Chris returns to Sark ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long and Whining Road

    A man and a van, a wife and three kids, and their round-the-world road trip as the world's worst Beatles tribute band.

    by Simeon Courtie, Sim Courtie ...
    Series series A man and a van, a wife and three kids, and their round-the-world road trip as the world's worst Beatles tribute band.
    London Book Festival Grand Prize Winner 2012‘I’d convinced her we should travel the world. She imagined posh flights and swanky hotels. Then I said the three words every girl longs to hear: Volkswagen camper van.’This frank and funny true story of a 'family gap year' like no other shows how the passing comment of a bored 9-year-old can snowball into an absurd expedition into strange lands, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Queens Nurse to Godzone

    by Christine Davies Curtis ...
    Chris tells of her years as a district nurse, first in London in the early sixties and then New Zealand in the late seventies. She tells of the rough living conditions in London, where we meet people like the solo mother dying of cancer and longing to give her children a good Christmas and the 90 year old blind lady who refuses a proposal of marriage. In New Zealand she has a large area, is on ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Katie Pulled Boris - Travels with an American Motorhome (RV) in Europe

    by Keith Mashiter ...
    Keith’s wife Gail is looking forward to travelling the world and staying in comfortable hotels when Keith takes early retirement from his high-pressure job. But he has a shock in store for her. He unexpectedly decides to buy a huge American Winnebago-type motorhome (RV), tow a car behind ‘so they can bugger off for months on end around Europe’. Their only experience a brief episode 30 years ... Read more

    $4.01 USD

  • So You Want to Live on Sark

    by Christine Davies Curtis ...
    In 1965,Londoners Chris and Ken Davies went looking for fresh air and a different lifestyle.They bought two windswept acres on the tiny Feudal Island of Sark in the British Channel Islands, just off the French coast.Chris and Ken quickly mastered new rules of survival; they learned to milk goats, establish bee hives, grow vegetables and ran a 200 hen chicken farm to supply eggs to the residents ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Italian Village: a perspective on life beside Lake Como (Italian Trilogy Series Volume Two)

    by Paul Wright ...
    "An insightful and often funny depiction of Italian Life" Hannah McIntyre, The Italian Insider MagazineIn this, the follow up to his successful debut book, 'An Italian Home', artist Paul Wright describes Italian village life and his regular dialogue with a group of retired men who are mostly from the catering trade. Punctuated with work adventures beyond the village boundaries for all manner of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus