Thanks to the letters and recipes you'd shared with us over the years, we got the idea of bringing it all together into one special Christmas cookbook, full of memories, tips and of course, tried & true recipes.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to growing gooseberries, and includes information on propagation, planting, pruning, pests, varieties, and much more. Profusely illustrated and full of interesting and useful information, this timeless guide will be of considerable utility to the modern fruit grower, and would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this text include: 'Introduction to Fruit Growing', 'Propagation', 'Seedlings', 'Cuttings', 'Layers', 'Soil and Planting', 'Currants and Gooseberries', 'Gooseberries', 'Dessert and Cooking Gooseberries', 'Black Currants', 'Red and White Currants', 'Red and Black Currants', 'Currants of all Kinds', etcetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on fruit growing.

As Gooseberry Goose practices flying on a beautiful fall morning, his friends are preparing for winter, causing Gooseberry to wonder if there is something else he should be doing.

"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia by Chekhov, the great master of the short story form. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Chekhov's works available in Penguin Classics are The Steppe and Other Stories, Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, The Shooting Party, Plays and A Life in Letters.