Try entering your search terms using  different parameters. For example, entering Thirkell as the author will result in a list of many wonderful books by Angela Thirkell. If you enter Thirkell as the description the result is a list of books related to AT and her world, including the biography by Margot Strickland. You may not always get such a varied response from your entries but it is worth a try. 

The books are listed alphabetically by author and then by title in the search results and the catalogues. The system does not understand that it should ignore 'A' and 'The' at the beginning of a title. This means that in some cases titles starting with A are listed first and titles beginning with The are listed down with the T's. We suppose without these quirks life might get boring... 

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