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| "Dubliners by James Joyce (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners by James Joyce&39;Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis It had always sounded strangely in my ears But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being It filled me with fear and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work&39;From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest to a young woman&39;s dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce&39;s native Dublin to life With Dubliners James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction using a scrupulous deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Alice&39;s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll&39;"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English) "Now I&39;m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye feet!"&39;&39;I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards&39; wrote Lewis Carroll describing how Alice was conjured up one &39;golden afternoon&39; in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down a baby turns into a pig time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play puzzles and riddles are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens&39;Liberty equality fraternity or death; - the last much the easiest to bestow O Guillotine!&39;Described by Dickens as &39;the best story I have written&39; A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood and a London where the poor starve In the midst of the chaos two men - an exiled French aristocrat and a dissolute English lawyer - are both redeemed and condemned by their love for the same woman as the shadow of La Guillotine draws closer The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle'He is the Napoleon of crime Watson He sits motionless like a spider in the centre of its web but that web has a thousand radiations and he knows well every quiver of each of them'Sherlock Holmes scourge of criminals everywhere whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve these breathtaking and perplexing mysteries In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problemsThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad&39;The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as all the future What was there after all? Joy fear sorrow devotion rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows and can look on without a wink&39;Marlow a seaman tells of a journey up the Congo His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives Kurtz has become a godlike figure his presence pervading the jungle like a thick obscuring mist As his boat labours further upstream closer and closer to Kurtz&39;s extraordinary and terrible domain so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling Conrad&39;s Heart of Darkness has been considered the most important indictment of the evils of imperialism written to date The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas HardyI would be content ay glad to live with you as your servant if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you and get glimpses of you and think of you as mine I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth to meet you my own dear! Come to me - come to me and save me from what threatens me!When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall A very different man Angel Clare seems to offer her love and salvation but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novelsThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Heroes by Robert Cormier (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "&39;What if I told him I am not the hero he thinks I am ?&39;Maimed and disfigured whilst fighting in the World War Two young Francis Cassavant must hide both his face and his identity when he goes back home to Frenchtown For his past holds a bitter secret one which he has vowed to revenge and which he can resolve only through his final desperate plan to destroy the man who betrayed him as a boy Left without a face or a future but sustained by his deep sense of shame Francis watches He thinks of the gun in his duffel bag and waits alone for the return of another supposed hero Praise for Robert CormierThe Chocolate War&39;This is a tour de force and tour de force of realism&39; - TimesThe Bumblebee Flies Away&39;A novel you are unlikely to forget&39; - Times"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "The story begins with a mysterious egg washed up on a Scottish beach the morning after a great storm Kirstie and her brother Angus find the egg and take it home The next day it has hatched into a tiny greeny-grey creature with a horse's head warty skin four flippers and a crocodile's tail The baby sea monster soon becomes the family pet - but the trouble is it just doesn't stop growing!"
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| "Mr Majeika and the School Trip by Humphrey Carpenter (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "More amazing adventures with Mr Majeika the ex-wizard turned teacher and his class at St Barty's School This time there's a trip down a magic river a battle to save St Barty's from the wrecking ball and work experience for Class Three"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Magic Carpet Slippers by Dick King-Smith (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "The great thing about being 75 years old is that you can wear your slippers everywhere - Percy Sloggett wears his in the garden and to the shops as well as in the house In time his battered old slippers need to be replaced and he gets something of a surprise when he discovers that his new pair are magic They make him feel years younger and also make him strong and clever Percy is desperate to tell someone his secret and so tells his friend's grand-daughter Lollie - for of course children understand magic better than adults do Percy's slippers turn out to be life-savers as they enable him to leap across the road to save Lollie from being knocked over by a car"
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| "Tribes by Catherine MacPhail (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Kevin is determined that he'll never join a gang but his path crosses the Tribe's when he saves one of them from a rival gang Invited to take their initiation test Kevin plans to break the oath of secrecy and tell everyone But he falls under the spell of the gang leader Salom and becomes a member Kevin then discovers how hard it is to break away from the Tribe's rules and Salom's power for when he's challenged Salom always makes you sorry In this case he fastens on to Kevin's little sister Glory and Kevin is forced to take the initiation test again as his sister freezes with horror crossing a beam high above a ruined building"
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| "Natasha's Will by Joan Lingard (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Natasha's story is set against the background of the Russian Revolution as she and her family flee persecution Her story is dramatically and cleverly linked with the present as her heirs search for her will The will can only be found through a trail of literary clues from classic children's books"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems by June Crebbin (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems edited by June Crebbin will absorb and delight girls and boys aged 5A great first poetry book; the poems span time from Robert Louis Stevenson and Walter de la Mare right up to date with Roger McGough and Michael Rosen Themes covered such as mealtimes playtime animals family and bedtime really appeal to youngreaders A truly lovely collection of all-time favourite poems June Crebbin is an ex-primary teacher now a full-time writer She is in great demand for author visits and runs very successful writing workshops in schools June has written a wide range of children's books and writes poetry for children and adults She lives in Leicester"
Price: 7.49 |
| "100 Best Poems for Children by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "A collection of the very best poems for children edited by Roger McGoughA wonderful collection of contemporary and classic poems chosen by children from schools around the UK Roger McGough made the final selection and wrote the introductionRoger McGough was born in Liverpool and educated at the University of Hull He came to prominence in the 1960s with the publication of THE MERSEY SOUND and is one of today's most popular poets He writes for children and adults and performs his poetry all over the world He was honoured with an OBE in 1997 and won the Signal Poetry Award in 1998 Roger now lives in LondonSheila Moxley is gaining a powerful reputation for her multi-cultural illustration She lives in London"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Pirate School: Just a Bit of Wind by Jeremy Strong (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "It's the first day at PIRATE SCHOOL for Ziggy Smudge Carkella and Flo and they have lots of new things to contend with Their headteacher is the scary Patagonia Clasterbotton and they have to take lessons include walking the plank and hand-to-hand fighting When out on the pirate ship a storm blows up resulting in the children having to rescue Patagonia when she's swept overboard and they learn that really Patagonia is not so scary after all!"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Dumpling by Dick King-Smith (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Dumpling wishes she was long and sausage-shaped like her two brothers and other dachshunds instead of being short and stumpy One day she goes to the woods and meets a witch's cat who grants Dumpling her wish but the spell goes wrong and Dumpling gets longer and longer! She's very happy to return to her own shape again"
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| "Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society: By the Author of Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "During her lonely childhood in Shanghai Adeline Yen Mah wrote adventure stories to escape from her terrible step-mother and cruel siblings The characters she created often became more real to her than her own family In Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society Adeline tells the story of Chinese Cinderella a young girl who after being thrown out of her home has no choice but to go out and seek her own destiny Soon she meets up with a group of children all orphaned but each from a different background who live with an old lady called Grandma Wu Chinese Cinderella or CC for short decides her future after consulting an ancient book which helps to show her the way forward And her choice takes her on a mission to save the lives of others Based on a true-life incident during World War II CC and the others bravely rescue a group of American pilots whose plane crashed after a bombing raid on Japan Although her father is looking for her CC knows that she can never go back to live with her cruel stepmother and now there is no turning back"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "In July 1942 thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse Over the next two years Anne vividly describes not only the daily frustrations of living in such close quarters but also her thoughts feelings and longings as she grows up Her diary ends abruptly and tragically when in August 1944 Anne and her family were all finally betrayed"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 34 is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series Friday January 2ndI felt rotten today It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs Just my luck to have a mother like her There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics Next year I could be in a children's homeMeet Adrian Mole a hapless teenager providing an unabashed pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles the dog his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual' Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appearedBestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades'I not only wept I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe'A satire of our times Very funny indeed' Sunday Times 'We laugh both at Mole and with him A wonderful comic read that like all the best comedy says something rather meaningful' HeatSue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 5534) Number Ten Ghost Children The Queen and I Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers She has also written numerous well-received plays She lives in Leicester where she was born and grew up"
Price: 5.49 |
| "George Speaks by Dick King-Smith (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Laura is amazed when her baby brother George starts talking to her when he's only four weeks old particularly as he sounds like a grown-up! It's a big secret to keep from their parents and the rest of the family and leads to all sorts of comic confusion until George's first birthday - when he makes a speech to his startled family"
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| "My Very First Joke Book by Kaye Umansky (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "My Very First Joke Book is full of the very funniest and best jokes!An excellent introduction to jokes and joke-telling Over 60 jokes and rhymes each with their own hilarious illustration - perfect for playground comediansThere are 'Knock knock!' jokes 'Doctor doctor' jokes monster jokes and plain daft jokes There are silly rhymes crazy crossbreeds and a whole library of joke titles Each one is in a large easy-to-read typeface and has its own humorous illustration to make it even funnier!Kaye Umansky is best known as the creator of Pongwiffy (Puffin) - hugely popular with children because of the irreverent humour Kaye's trademark humour is evident in all her books and she is well qualified to write a joke book for very young children"
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| "Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Set in China in 1900s the story of a young girl who defied tradition by refusing to have her feet bound and in doing so changed the course of her life forever"
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| "The Return of the Killer Cat by Anne Fine (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "'Okay okay So slap my teensy little paws I messed up - big time'Tuffy can't wait for Ellie and the family to go away on holiday He and the gang plan to ignore the grumpy new cat-sitter and run wild all night But could that furry bundle suddenly flying through the air put a stop to all the fun?"
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| "How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg RosoffHow I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond torn apart as war breaks out in London from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff How I Live Now has been adapted for the big screen by Kevin Macdonald starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy and releases in 2013Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love Her mother died giving birth to her and now her dad has sent her away for the summer to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even metThere she'll discover what real love is something violent mysterious and wonderful There her world will be turned upside down and a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering piecesHow will Daisy live then?'Fresh honest rude funny I put it down with tears on my face' - Julie Myerson Guardian 'Assured powerful engaging you will want to read everything that Rosoff is capable of writing' - Observer 'An unforgettable adventure' - Sunday TimesBestselling author Meg Rosoff has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her first novel How I Live Now (winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize) Her other novels Just in Case (winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal) The Bride's Farewell and What I Was which was described by The Times as 'Samuel Beckett on ecstasy' are also available from Puffin Follow Meg on Twitter megrosoffAlso by Meg RosoffHow I Live Now; Just In Case; What I Was; The Bride's Farewell; There is No Dog"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Queen's Nose by Dick King-Smith (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Harmony's uncle sends her on a treasure trail - which ends in finding a 50p piece But the coin is a magic one and when you rub the queen's nose your wishes will come true"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Dinosaur Trouble by Dick King-Smith (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "'T rex! T rex! Run!'The terrible Tyrannosaurus rex is scaring all the dinosaur families that live on the Great Plain Nosy the little pterodactyl and his great friend Banty the apatosaurus agree that T rex has got to be stopped But how?Luckily Nosy has a plan"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Spy Dog by Andrew Cope (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Spy Dog by Andrew Cope is the first book in the brilliant series about the loveable Lara - Spy Dog extroadinaire! Forget 007 It's time to meet GM451 a Spy Dog - the first of her kind!Agent's ID GM451 or LARA or Licensed Assault and Rescue Animal or that pesky muttDistinguishing Features Black and white mongrel appears ordinary when working undercover one black ear sticks up and the other flops down over one eyeSkills Whistling computer skills unarmed combat five languages PlayStation grandmaster and many others Employer The Secret ServiceHates Villains injustice and crimeCurrent Mission Escape an evil drug baron go undercover await retrieval by the Secret Service and try not to get too fond of the family she has chosen to looks after her Fun exciting books for boys and girls aged 7'We love Lara! ' - Kraze Club'An imaginative creative feast' - Radio TimesAndrew Cope was born in Derby in 1966 He is a teacher writer and a huge fan of Derby County football club He really does have a dog called Lara who has one sticky-up ear and came from the RSPCA but he's not sure if she is actually a highly trained secret agent Andrew lives with his wife and two children This is his first book"
Price: 4.99 |
| "The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth by Eoin Colfer (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Will's brother Marty is always playing practical jokes But when he tells the bloodcurdling story of the cutthroat pirate Captain Crow Will is terrified Is it another one of Marty's tricks or could Captain Crow's ghost really be out to get him?Spooky funny fiction - brilliant for boys and girls aged 7-9 Now available in paperback!Fabulous witty illustrations by Tony Ross throughout"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World by Eoin Colfer (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Will is desperate to win the Giant Jelly Baby competition and be named 'the best boy in the world' But his big brother Marty always beats him to it Then one day Will's wish comes true - he's the best boy in the world at last! Marty is not happy and decides that something must be done Funny quirky fiction with brilliant black-and-white illustrations by Tony Ross throughout Boys and girls aged 7 will love this!"
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| "The Killer Cat Strikes Back by Anne Fine (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'Okay okay So stick my head in a holly bush'Tuffy knows what he likes And he doesn't like the 'art' that Ellie's mum brings home from her new classes So what's a cat to do?A few scratches here just happen to shred a painting A nudge there somehow slips a vase off a shelf Dad hope a horribly lumpy clay pot will be next but Tuffy's having none of it The killer cat will go his own sweet way!"
Price: 4.49 |
