The Dice Was Loaded From the Start School stories (Children's / Teenage) but it doesn't have to

but it doesn't have to be

That's the annoying thing about big thoughts - they don't always tell the truth

The fight for control of the village between Vitalstatistix and his rival is bound to be a knockout

A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years

it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else

The Dice Was Loaded From the Start School stories (Children's / Teenage) but it doesn't have toSummer, 2018. Max, in his early 40s, has been living in Berlin for the past decade failing to become the filmmaker he was once tipped to be. But his wife's career is taking off, and with a generous relocation package they've moved back to London, into a rented home in a tree lined street near Hampstead Heath. Pemberton Place is populated by couples who have lived there since the 70s, who bought their houses for a song, raised their families, and now