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| "Charlotte Sometimes (Vintage Childrens Classics) Paperback" |
| "&39;Suppose you got stuck in here and Clare there in your time Just suppose you did?’Charlotte Makepeace’s first day at boarding school is a bewildering blur of unfamiliar faces timetables rules and lists All the other girls know the routine – and each other No one invites her into their exclusive circles of whispers and giggles But on Charlotte’s very first night something mysterious starts to happen She wakes up in the same bed in the same dormitory in the same school But something has changed Somehow Charlotte has slipped forty years back in time Includes exclusive material In the Backstory you can learn what life was like during the First World WarVintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
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| "The Silent Twins" |
| "When identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with anyone but each other and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world As they grew up love hate and genius united to push them to the extreme margins of society and following a five week spree of vandalism and arson the silent twins were sentenced to a gruelling twelve-year detention in Broadmoor Award-winning investigative journalist Marjorie Wallace delves into the twins' silent world revealing their genius alienation and the mystic bond by which the extremes of good and evil ended in possession and death"
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| "Persuasion (Vintage Classics Austen Series)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSSThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans Alexander McCall Smith Lynne Truss Amanda Vickery Francesca Segal PD James and Andrew Motion 'It is a sort of private novel In the heroine Anne Elliot we have glimpses of Austen and what happened to her; the lost romance and the lost youth' Julian FellowesEight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved Captain Wentworth Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited However when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa In this her final novel Jane Austen tells the story of a love that endures the tests of time and society with humour insight and tenderness"
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| "The Moor's Last Sigh" |
| "Moraes Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile As we travel with him on a route that takes him from India to Spain he spins his labyrinthine family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave But does the India of his parents - populated by extravagant artists piratical gatekeepers and mysterious lost paintings - still exist? And will he ever discover what became of his fiery and tempestuous mother? Moraes' epic quest to uncover the truth of the past is a love story to a vanishing world and also its last hurrah"
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| Sand |
| "The new novel from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy The old world is buried A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand four siblings find themselves scattered and lost Palmer has never been the same since his father walked out twelve years ago His elder sister Vic is trying to run away from the past; his younger brothers Connor and Rob are risking their lives to embrace it His mother left with nothing but anger is just trying to forget Palmer wants to prove his worth not only to his family but to himself And in the barren dune-covered landscape of his home there is only one way to earn respect sand-diving Plunging deep below the desert floor in search of relics and scraps of the old world He is about to embark on the most dangerous dive of his young life aiming to become the first to discover the rumoured city below Deep within the sand lies the key to bringing his family together - and tearing their world apart"
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| "Midnight in Sicily" |
| "Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history painting literature and food to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime Taking the trial of seven-times Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti for alleged Mafia involvement as its starting point Midnight in Sicily combines a searching investigation with an exuberant sensual appreciation of this beautiful and bewildering island"
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| "I Found You Paperback / softback" |
| "Two women Twenty years of secrets And a man who doesn&39;t remember anything Or does he?&39;Fresh and intriguing with characters so real I ached for them I loved I Found You&39;Clare Mackintosh&39;I LOVED I Found You A proper thriller with wonderful characters&39;Sabine DurrantEveryone has secrets What if you can&39;t remember yours?&39;How long have you been sitting out here?&39;&39;I got here yesterday&39;&39;Where did you come from?&39;&39;I have no idea&39;Lily has only been married for three weeks When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one Alice finds a man on the beach outside her house He has no name no jacket no idea what he is doing there Against her better judgement she invites him into her home But who is he and how can she trust a man who has lost his memory?"
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| "The Little Red Train: To The Rescue" |
| "This is another charming tale in The Little Red Train series which will appeal to all little boys and girls obsessed with engines trains and things that go! There's a big surprise around every bend in the railway track to Birchcombe village - but Duffy Driver The Little Red Train and all their friends are ready to come to the rescue every time!"
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| "John Patrick Norman McHennessy : The Boy Who Was Always Late" |
| "Every day John Patrick sets off along the road to school and although he hurries strange and improbable happenings repeatedly make him late To make things worse his teacher never believes his story"
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| "Come Away From The Water, Shirley" |
| "On a day trip to the seaside Mum and Dad settle down in their deckchairs to snooze the day away while for Shirley it is a chance to set sail for uncharted seas adventure and buried treasure But not before her Mum has warned her off the dangers of tar stray dogs and cold water With the alternative pictures giving both sides of the story children and adults alike will appreciate the humour and observations from this well known children's author"
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| "An Evil Cradling" |
| "Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years For much of that time he was shut off from all news and contact with anyone other than his jailers and later his fellow hostages amongst them John McCarthy"
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| "Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 2 : Amphibians" |
| "This series of volumes represents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sorts through mammals It is designed to provide a readable coordinated description of reproductive basics in each group of vertebrates as well as an introduction to the latest trends in reproductive research and our understanding of reproductive events Whereas each chapter and each volume is intended to stand alone as a review of that topic or vertebrate group respectively the volumes are prepared so as to provide a thorough topical treatment across the vertebrates Terminology has been standardized across the volumes to reduce confusion where multiple names exist in the literature and a comprehensive glossary of these terms and their alternative names is provided"
Price: 64.99 |
| "Anti-Angiogenesis Strategies in Cancer Therapies" |
| "Anti-angiogenesis Strategies in Cancer Therapeutics provides a detailed look at the current status and future directions in the discovery and development of novel anti-angiogenesis strategies in oncology This book highlights the different mechanisms involved in the modulation of angiogenesis including inflammation thrombosis and microRNA and shows how nanotechnology can further enhance the potential of existing and new anti-angiogenesis approaches Written for industry scientists researchers oncologists hematologists and professors and students in the field this comprehensive book covers all aspects of anti-angiogenesis strategies and their differences"
Price: 49.99 |
| "Essays by Michel Montaigne (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane skeptical humorous and honest views of Montaigne revealing his thoughts on sexuality religion cannibals intellectuals and other unexpected themes Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude" "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die" and "On Experience""
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| "The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society Newland Archer an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland a pretty ingenue when May's cousin Countess Olenska is introduced into their circle The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal having left her husband and claimed her independence Her sorrowful eyes her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and almost against their will a passionate bond develops between them But Archer's life has no place for passion and with society on the side of May and all she stands for he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty"
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| "Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie compelling effect 'Disappearances' inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch' a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in 'The Old Nurse's Story' a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors Whether darkly surreal such as 'The Poor Clare' where an evil doppelganger is formed by a woman's bitter curse or mischievous like 'Curious if True' a playful reworking of fairy tales all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing"
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| "The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination to this day This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher FraylingCould the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense And immersed in another case he sends Dr Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and observe the suspects at close hand With its atmospheric setting on the ancient wild moorland and its savage apparition The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the greatest crime novels ever written Rationalism is pitted against the supernatural and good against evil as Sherlock Holmes sets out to defeat a foe almost his equalThis edition contains a full chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle's life and works an introduction by renowned horror scholar Professor Christopher Frayling discussing the background to the novel and the legends and events that inspired the story with further reading and explanatory notesSir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor but it was his writing which brought him fame with the creation of Sherlock Holmes the first scientific detective He was also a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals If you enjoyed The Hound of the Baskervilles you might enjoy Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes also available in Penguin Classics'Arthur Conan Doyle is unique Personally I would walk a mile in tight boots to read him to the milkman'Stephen Fry"
Price: 4.99 |
| "The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Paperback, 1989)" |
| "A key work in the German 'Sturm und Drang' movement Johann Goethe's autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann This Penguin Classics edition is translated from with an introduction by Michael HulseVisiting an idyllic German village Werther a sensitive young man meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Charlotte Although he realises that she is to marry Albert he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair The first great 'confessional' novel The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethe's own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it resulting in numerous imitations as well as violent criticism and suppression on the grounds of its apparent support of suicide Goethe's sensitive exploration of the mind of an artist at odds with society and ill-equipped to cope with life is now considered the first great tragic novel of European literatureThis edition includes notes and an introduction by Michael Hulse who explores the origins of the novel in the author's life and examines its impact on European cultureJohann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) was born in Frankfurt Germany Although he directed the German State Theatre dabbled in the occult and worked on scientific theories in evolutionary botany Goethe is best remembered for his great works The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust and his part in the 18th century 'Sturm and Drang' movementIf you enjoyed The Sorrows of Young Werther you might like Stendhal's Love also published in Penguin Classics"
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| "Aesop's Funky Fables by Unknown (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "A re-telling of Aesop's classic moral tales - some well-known and some almost unknown Rap your way through these wacky new versions of Aesop's classic fables supported by vibrant subversive illustations"
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| "The Confessor by Daniel Silva (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "A complex thriller of ancient and modern betrayal from the author of The English Assassin"
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| "Why I Write by George Orwell (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Whether puncturing the lies of politicians wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war Orwell's timeless uncompromising essays are more relevant entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin"
Price: 4.49 |
| "Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged fastidious college professor He also likes little girls And none more so than Lolita who he'll do anything to possess Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Stolen by Lesley Pearse (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "She's half-drowned her memory lost who is she? Shocking secrets will come out in the unputdownable Stolen This is just one of many thrilling novels from the international NO1 BESTSELLING author Lesley PearseA beautiful young woman is discovered half-drowned on a Sussex beach Where has she come from? Why can't she remember who she is - or what happened? She's wearing an old-fashioned dress and her hair has been hacked off She's obviously been bound by the wrists and ankles But without knowing her own name or who did this to her she can't begin to piece together who she is and what led her to this unfamiliar place The police are baffled but when the doctors examine her they make a shocking discovery she has recently given birth Who on earth is she? And where is her baby? Santa Montefiore and Penny Vincenzi fans will swiftly fall for Lesley Pearse's gripping novels - you'll want to read them again and again 'With characters it is impossible not to care about this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail'Lose yourself in this epic saga' Bella 'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry' Woman's Weekly"
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| "The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels -- an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the worldOn the airwaves all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable like our own 65 million years ago before we took it to the edge of destruction And off the air Billie and Spike are falling in love What will happen when their story combines with the world's story as they whirl towards Planet Blue into the future? Will they - and we - ever find a safe landing place?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Two families one terrible secret and a painting to die for Glastonbury an art restorer has been brutally murdered and the newly discovered Rembrandt he was working on has disappearedFor spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon it has been six months since his final showdown with the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov He has severed his ties with the Office with only one thing in mind recovery But this unspeakable act of violence once again draws Allon into a world of danger he thought he had left behind for everAllon is persuaded to use his unique skills to trace the painting and those responsible for the crimes As he investigates he discovers there are terrible secrets connected to the painting and terrible men behind them Before he is done he will have undertaken a journey through some of the twentieth century's darkest history - and come face to face with some of the same darkness within himself"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Trust Me by Lesley Pearse (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Trust Me is the gripping historical novel from bestselling author Lesley PearseShe lost her parents and then was sent far far away When their father tragically kills their mother Dulcie and her sister are sent to an orphanage Told that a 'better life' awaits them in another country they are shipped off to Australia But the promises made to the sisters turn out to be lies And it seems to Dulcie that everyone who ever said 'trust me' somehow betrayed that trust So when she meets Ross another orphanage survivor and finds he is a kindred spirit hope swells in her heart But can she ever get over the past betrayals and learn to trust again? And can she fight not only for herself but also for her sister?Based on a real life tragedy Trust Me is a powerful and moving story of vulnerable children torn from their families and banished from their homelands Lesley Pearse author of the UK and international best-sellers Belle and Charlie explores trust and betrayal in her thrilling historical novel Trust Me Fans of Susan Lewis should take note Praise for Lesley Pearse'With characters it is impossible not to care about this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail'Lose yourself in this epic saga' Bella'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry' Woman's WeeklyFind Lesley on Twitter LesleyPearse or find out more on her website wwwlesleypearsecouk"
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| "How Hard Can It Be?: The World According to Clarkson Volume 4 by Jeremy Clarkson (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "How Hard Can It Be? is the fourth hilarious volume in Jeremy Clarkson's The World According to Clarkson seriesHow hard can it beTo build a power station without upsetting the eco-mentalists? To seek world domination if you've been hit the ugly stick? For the Met Office to get yesterday's weather right?In volume four of The World According to Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson pours scorn on the nonsensical the dumb the idiotic and the plain foolish in his continuing quest to discover where exactly we've all gone wrongAlong the way he pondersWhether conquering France might solve the immigration problemWhat happens when you ignore proper warning labelsWhat would happen if we turned the internet offOften controversial frequently scathing but always funnier than James May Jeremy Clarkson shows us how we could so easily make the world a better place'Brilliant laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph'Outrageously funny will have you in stitches' Time OutNumber-one bestseller and presenter of the hugely popular Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars current affairs and anything else that annoys him in his sharp and funny collections Born To Be Riled Clarkson On Cars Don't Stop Me Now Driven To Distraction Round the Bend Motorworld and I Know You Got Soul are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App iClarkson The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store"
Price: 6.99 |
| "A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "A sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War JL Carr's A Month in the Country includes an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald author of Offshore in Penguin Modern ClassicsA damaged survivor of the First World War Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future Now an old man Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920 remembering a vanished place of blissful calm untouched by change a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years Adapted into a 1987 film starring Colin Firth Natasha Richardson and Kenneth Branagh A Month in the Country traces the slow revival of the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great WarJoseph Lloyd Carr (1912-1994) attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in the North Riding and Castleford Secondary School A head teacher publisher and novelist his books include A Day in Summer (1964); The Harpole Report (1972); A Month in the Country (1980) which won the Guardian Fiction prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Battle of Pollock's Crossing (1985) which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize; What Hetty Did (1988) and Harpole and Foxberrow General Publishers (1992)If you enjoyed A Month in the Country you might like Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End also available in Penguin Modern Classics'Unlike anything else in modern English literature'DJ Taylor Spectator"
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| "One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Equally tragic joyful and comical Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa in Penguin Modern Classics Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo the town they have built Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains Macondo has its wars and disasters even its wonders and miracles A microcosm of Columbian life its secrets lie hidden encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny Blending political reality with magic realism fantasy with comic invention One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b 1928) was born in Aracataca Colombia He is the author of several novels including Leaf Storm (1955) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 If you enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude you might like Love in the Time of Cholera also available in Penguin Modern Classics 'With a single bound Gabriel Garcia Marquez leaps on the stage with Gunter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov dazzling' The New York Times"
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| "Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Robert Baldick with an introduction by James WoodNausea is both the story of the troubled life of an introspective historian Antoine Roquentin and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism The book chronicles his struggle with the realisation that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose and then take total responsibility for his choices A seminal work of contemporary literary philosophy Nausea evokes and examines the dizzying angst that can come from simply trying to liveJean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was an iconoclastic French philosopher novelist playwright and widely regarded as the central figure in post-war European culture and political thinking Sartre famously refused the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 on the grounds that 'a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution' His most well-known works all of which are published by Penguin include The Age of Reason Nausea and Iron in the SoulIf you enjoyed Nausea you might like Albert Camus' The Outsider also available in Penguin Modern Classics'One of the very few successful members of the genre Philosophical Novel a young man's tour de force'Iris Murdoch"
Price: 7.49 |
