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| "Elizabeth, The Queen" |
| "In her highly praised The Six Wives of Henry VIII and its sequel Children of England Alison Weir examined the private lives of the early Tudor kings and queens and chronicled the childhood and youth of one of England's most successful monarchs Elizabeth I This book begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign Elizabeth is portrayed as both a woman and a queen an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age Alison Weir writes of Elizabeth's intriguing long-standing affair with Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester of her dealings - sometimes comical sometimes poignant - with her many suitors of her rivalry with Mary Queen of Scots and of her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex thirty years her junior Rich in detail vivid and colourful this book comes as close as we shall ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person"
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| "The Lemon Table" |
| "Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman who reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex to the woman 'incarcerated' in an old people's home beginning a correspondence with an author that enriches both their lives - all Barnes' characters in their different ways square up to death and rage against the dying light"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Home Paperback" |
| "BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his shattered sense of self he unearths the courage he thought he’d lost forever It is with incantatory power that Morrison’s language reveals an apparently defeated man finding his manhood – and finally his home Winner of the PENSaul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction"
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| "Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "A missing woman A missing boy Detective Erlendur returns - for the last time A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland never to be seen again But Matthildur leaves in her wake rumours of lies betrayal and revenge Decades later somewhere in the same wilderness Detective Erlendur is on the hunt He is looking for Matthildur but also for a long-lost brother whose disappearance in a snow-storm when they were children has coloured his entire life He is looking for answers Slowly the past begins to surrender its secrets But as Erlendur uncovers a story about the limits of human endurance he realises that many people would prefer their crimes to stay buried"
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| "Police by Jo Nesbo (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "36 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDEThe police urgently need Harry HoleA killer is stalking Oslo's streets Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated but failed to solve The murders are brutal the media reaction hysterical But this time Harry can't help anyoneFor years detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people But now with those he loves most facing terrible danger Harry can't protect anyone Least of all himself"
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| "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "'There comes a time in every boy's life when when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure'Impish daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations For wherever there is mischief or adventure Tom is at the heart of it During one hot summer Tom witnesses a murder runs away to be a pirate attends his own funeral rescues an innocent man from the gallows searches for treasure in a haunted house foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold But can he escape his nemesis the villainous Injun Joe?BACKSTORY Find out some fascinating facts about the author and have a go at a game of marbles!"
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| "Invisible Monsters Remix" |
| "She's a catwalk model who has everything a boyfriend a career a loyal best friend But a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her an 'invisible monster' so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists Enter Brandy Alexander Queen Supreme who will teach her that reinventing yourself sometimes means erasing your past and making up something better Injected with new material and special design elements Invisible Monsters Remix is a radically refashioned 'director's cut' of a favourite Chuck Palahniuk novel turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience"
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| "A House Full of Daughters" |
| "All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson's was no different her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita her mother's Tory-conventional background A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington DC an English boarding school during the Second World War Chelsea in the 1960s these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right but also as part of who she is and where she has come from"
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| "Winners : And How They Succeed" |
| "The Sunday Times no 1 bestseller How people succeed - and how you can too Alastair Campbell knows all about winning As Tony Blair's chief spokesman and strategist he helped guide the Labour Party to victory in three successive general elections and he's fascinated by what it takes to win How do sports stars excel entrepreneurs thrive or individuals achieve their ambition? Is their ability to win innate? Or is the winning mindset something we can all develop? Drawing on the wisdom of an astonishing array of talented people - from elite athletes to top managers from rulers of countries to rulers of global business empires - Alastair Campbell uses his forensic skills as well as his own experience of politics and sport to get to the heart of success He examines how winners tick He considers how they build great teams He analyses how they deal with unexpected setbacks and new challenges He judges what the very different worlds of politics business and sport can learn from one another And he sets out a blueprint for winning that we can all follow"
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| "Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Rennie Wilford a young jounalist running from her life takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks no strings affair she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Girl At The Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks (Paperback, 1990)" |
| "A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience will and desire which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up the post at the seedy Hotel du Lion D'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930s"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Lords Of The Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long strong pull on Western minds and hearts For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe But its decline was prodigious protracted and total Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling history; dramatic detailed and alive - a journey and a world all in one"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Lies Of Silence by Brian Moore (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him with absolutely nowhere to turn He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people But he also knows that if he doesn't his wife will be killed"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Guidelines by Jeff Johnson (Paperback,..." |
| "In this completely updated and revised edition of Designing with the Mind in Mind Jeff Johnson provides you with just enough background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that user interface (UI) design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a list or rules to follow Early UI practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology and developed UI design rules based on it But as the field has evolved since the first edition of this book designers enter the field from many disciplines Practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that they have been exposed to design rules but it is essential that they understand the psychology behind the rules in order to effectively apply them In this new edition you'll find new chapters on human choice and decision making hand-eye coordination and attention as well as new examples figures and explanations throughout"
Price: 30.99 |
| "The Historical Figure of Jesus by E. Sanders (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "A biography of the historical figure of Jesus The book studies the relationship between Judaism and Christianity distinguishing the certain from the improbable and assessing the historical and religious context of Christ's time The spread of Christianity is also discussed"
Price: 7.99 |
| "A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders (Paperback,..." |
| "The Macdonald sisters -- Alice Georgiana Agnes and Louisa -- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes with little prospect of social advancement But as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones Edward Poynter President of the Royal Academy and the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin In telling their remarkable story Judith Flanders displays the fluidity of Victorian society and explores the life of the family in the 19th century"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Thirteen Unpredictable Tales by Paul Jennings (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "A selection of the best short stories from Paul Jennings' earlier Puffin titles Everyone is entirely different but all are wacky and extraordinary Subjects range from the longest kiss ever to a boy who becomes transparent - and the stories are all unpredictable!"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Annals of Imperial Rome by Cornelius Tacitus (Paperback, 1956)" |
| "His last work regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century AD This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael GrantTacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68 With clarity and vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero and the wars poisonings scandals conspiracies and murders that were part of imperial life Despite his claim that the Annals were written objectively Tacitus' account is sharply critical of the emperors' excesses and fearful for the future of Imperial Rome while also filled with a longing for its past gloriesMichael Grant's translation vividly captures the emotional patriotism of Tacitus' moral tone offset by a lucid understanding that Rome is doomed and conveys with cinematic vigour the lives of the great Emperors who laid the foundations of modern EuropeTacitus (56-117) studied rhetoric in Rome and rose to eminence as a pleader at the Roman Bar In 77 he married the daughter of Agricola conqueror of Britain of whom he later wrote a biography Agricola His other works all available in Penguin Classics include the Germania and the The HistoriesIf you enjoyed The Annals of Imperial Rome you might like Herodotus' The Histories also available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Histories by Herodotus (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "The work that established the study of history in the western world Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account of the ancient world translated from the Greek by Aubrey de Selincourt revised with an introduction and notes by John Marincola in Penguin Classics 'No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace - in peace sons bury fathers but in war fathers bury sons'One of the masterpieces of classical literature the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian Empire But while this epic struggle forms the core of his work Herodotus' natural curiosity frequently gives rise to colourful digressions - a description of the natural wonders of Egypt; an account of European lake-dwellers; and far-fetched accounts of dog-headed men and gold-digging ants With its kaleidoscopic blend of fact and legend The Histories offers a compelling Greek view of the world of the fifth century BCThis celebrated translation of The Histories has been extensively revised and includes an updated bibliography chronology glossary and additional notesA Greek historian Herodotus (c485-25 BC) left his native town of Halicarnassus a Greek colony to travel extensively He collected historical geographical ethnological mythological and archaeological material for his historiesIf you enjoyed The Histories you might like Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness by Lynley Dodd (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "In Riverside Hall on Cabbage Tree Row the Cat Club were having their Annual Show When Hairy Maclary bounces and pounces his way into the cat show his flustering and blustering bring a very unexpected result Another rollicking rhyming adventure with Hairy Maclary (from Donaldson's Dairy) and friends!"
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| "Slinky Malinki Catflaps by Lynley Dodd (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Slinky Malinki Catflaps is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley DoddSlinky Malinki wakes from a cosy sleep stretches and slips out through the catflap and into the night He's soon joined by his friends Greywacke Jones Butterball Brown the Poppadum kittens and the rest of the gang Hobnobbing happily on the wallten in a row the cats are disturbed by the crotchety Scarface Claw The cats hiss and yowl until all the neighbours complain Scarface slopes off and Slinky Malinki invites his friends home to sit in front of the fire hobnobbing happily ten in a rowLynley Dodd is an award-winning authorillustrator who lives in New Zealand She is enormously popular for her rhyming stories of the unforgettable HAIRY MACLARY and his friends She worked as a teacher before beginning to write her own books in 1974Read all the Hairy Maclary and Friends books by Lynley Dodd!Hairy Maclary's Bone; Hairy Maclary Scattercat; Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper; Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet; Slinky Malinki; Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness; Slinky Malinki Open the Door; Sniff-Snuff-Snap!; Schnitzel Von Krumm Forget-Me-Not; Slinky Malinki Catflaps; Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers; Hairy Maclary's Hat Tricks; Scarface Claw; Schnitzel Von Krumm Dog's Never Climb Tress; Hairy Maclary Sit; Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack; Magnet Fun with Hairy Maclary; Hairy Maclary Shoo; Hairy Maclary and Friends Little Library; Slinky Malinki Open the Door; Slinky Malinki Early Bird; Where is Hairy Maclary?; Sticker Fun with Hairy Maclary; My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes"
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| "Funnybones: Give the Dog a Bone by Allan Ahlberg (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Give the Dog a Bone is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons Funnybones Despite being set in a dark dark house this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers!The dog skeleton is falling apart - bits of him are dropping off - bone by bone! Who will pick up the pieces and put him back together again?'By far our best writer for the young'- Daily TelegraphAllan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet created many award-winning children's picture books including Peepo! Each Peach Pear Plum and the Kate Greenaway Medal winning The Jolly Postman Other titles in the Funnybones series include Funnybones The Ghost Train The Black Cat The Pet Shop Bumps in the Night Dinosaur Dreams Skeleton Crew Mystery Tour and A Brilliant Bone Rattling Collection all of which are available from Puffin"
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| "Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 by Antony Beevor (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'RECOUNTS IN HARROWING DETAIL AND WITH FORMIDABLE SKILL THE BRUTAL DEATH-THROES OF HITLER'S REICH AT THE HANDS OF THE RAMPAGING RED ARMY' Boyd Tonkin Independent'Makes us feel the chaos and the fear as if every drop of blood was our own compellingly readable deeply researched and beautifully written' Simon Sebag Montefiore Spectator'An irresistibly compelling narrative of events so terrible that they still have the power to provoke wonder and awe' Adam Sisman Observer'A masterpiece' Michael Burleigh Guardian'Brilliant Combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with a novelist's eye for detail' Orlando Figes Sunday Times'Startling chilling compelling Beevor's writing burns like a torch at night in a landscape of ruins' LiteraryReview'Powerful diligently researched and beautifully written even better than Stalingrad' Andrew Roberts Mail on SundayThe Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945 Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks mass rape pillage and destruction Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs refusing to face defeat had forbidden the evacuation of civilians Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red ArmyAntony Beevor reconstructs the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse telling a terrible story of pride stupidity fanatacism revenge and savagery but also one of astonishing endurance self-sacrifice and survival against all odds"
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| "The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Ever wish you could trade your life in for a better one?The Woman Who Stole My Life is a story full of wit and charm from the international bestselling author Marian Keyes 'Name Stella SweeneyHeight averageRecent life events dramatic'One day sitting in traffic married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed The resulting car crash changes her lifeFor she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance it turns out) That's okay She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car)But this chance meeting sparks a chain of events which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life turning an ordinary woman into a superstar and along the way wrenching her whole family apartIs this all because of one ill-advised act of goodwill? Was meeting Mr Range Rover destiny or karma? Should she be grateful or hopping mad? For the first time real honest-to-goodness happiness is just within her reach But is Stella Sweeney Dublin housewife ready to grasp it?'When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think Keyes is in a class of her own' Daily Express'Gloriously funny' The Sunday Times'Keyes manages to have you alternately blubbing and belly-laughing to the final page' Company'Not only is it a great story with funny loveable characters it made me laugh out loud' Stylist 'One of those rare books that will swallow up your day without realising it Romantic and uplifting it won't fail to put a smile on your face Marian Keyes is back to her best' The Daily Express 'A warm and hilarious page turner' Good Housekeeping'Funny but poignant' Marie Claire'A smart new drama from the awesome Marian Keyes' Heat 'Full of twists and turns with warmth and humour on every page it doesn't disappoint' Closer 'A modern fairy tale it's full of Keyes's self-deprecating wit' The Sunday Mirror"
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| "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole seriesSunday July 18thMy father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy I pushed my sausages away untouched In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades'Funny moving and a poke in the eye for adult morality' Sunday Express 'Written with great verve and showing an uncanny understanding of the young Sue Townsend holds the balance between innocence and precocity and the result is both hilarious and salutary' Daily Telegraph 'Life's no fun for an adolescent intellectual For the reader it's a hoot' New StatesmanSue Townsend is one of Britain's favourite comic authors 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 Sue passed away in 2014 and is survived by her husband four children ten grandchildren and millions of avid readers"
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| "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "In sixty-four bite-sized pieces of advice Michael Pollan&39;s Food Rules tells you everything you need to know to eat healthily dine happily and live well Eat food Mostly plants Not too much Using those seven simple words as his guide internationally-acclaimed food journalist Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food Sensible easy to use and written in plain English Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or designed to help you eat real food in reasonable amounts gathered from a wide variety of sources nutritionists anthropologists ancient cultures - and grandmothers Whether at the supermarket a restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet this handy pocket-size resource is the perfect manual for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat &39;In more than four decades I have come across nothing more intelligent sensible and simple to follow than these principles&39;The New York Times&39;Instantly makes redundant all diet books and 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating Sense at last&39; Daily Mail praise for In Defence of Food&39;Pollan invites us to grab our pots and pans and cook some real food for dinner&39; Time Out praise for In Defence of Food&39;Read this witty book for a healthier life and diet&39; The Times praise for In Defence of FoodMichael Pollan has been writing for over twenty years about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect food agriculture gardens drugs and architecture The Omnivore&39;s Dilemma about the ethics and ecology of eating was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post He is also the author of The Botany of Desire A Place of My Own and Second Nature and most recently In Defence of Food"
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| "Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me' Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual to give voice to the experience of an entire generation of black AmericansThis edition includes Ralph Ellison's introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Invisible Man a fascinating account of the novel's seven-year gestationWith an Introduction by John F Callahan'Brilliant' Saul Bellow"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery published in Penguin Modern ClassicsAs he roams the US Mexico Morocco Paris and London Kerouac records in prose of pure poetry life on the road Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacre-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment'Piquant writing the best part of its flavour being the hunt for the big experience a touch of Hemingway and Whitman'Guardian'Full of startling and beautiful things one sees hears and feels'Sunday Times"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life by Richard Hoggart (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "When a society becomes more affluent does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good?When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence and power today Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England&39;s vanishing working-class communities and weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new homogenous &39;mass&39; US-influenced culture His headline-grabbing bestseller opened up a whole new area of cultural study and remains essential reading both as a historical document and as a commentary on class poverty and the media"
Price: 7.99 |
| "A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author Robert Louis Stevenson From make-believe to climbing trees bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothersHere is a very special collection to be treasured for ever"
Price: 4.99 |
