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"Spelling Quick Quizzes Ages 7-9"
"Fun and engaging quizzes to test children's spelling skills A fun and easy way to test key skills taught at school Simple clear layout with colourful illustrations Includes a motivating colour in your score' chart for every quiz Handy hints to help guide children through the quizzes Answers are included to help you to support children's learning at home"
Price: 4.49

"Beren and Luthien Hardcover"
"Painstakingly restored from Tolkien&39;s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story the epic tale of Beren and Luthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien&39;s Middle-earth The tale of Beren and Luthien was or became an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by JRR Tolkien Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916 he wrote the tale in the following year Essential to the story and never changed is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Luthien for Beren was a mortal man but Luthien was an immortal Elf Her father a great Elvish lord in deep opposition to Beren imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Luthien This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Luthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings Melkor called Morgoth the Black Enemy of a Silmaril In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Luthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years he has told the story in his father&39;s own words by giving first its original form and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed Presented together for the first time they reveal aspects of the story both in event and in narrative immediacy that were afterwards lost"
Price: 14.49

"Dragon Paperback"
"The tenth action-packed thriller in the Dirk Pitt series where the adventurer must foil the deadly conspiracy of a group of Japanese nationalist fanatics A NUCLEAR PEARL HARBOURBuried in the depths of the Pacific Ocean lies one of the greatest secrets of World War Two – a crashed B-29 Bomber that was carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan in 1945 Its deadly cargo lost in the sea for nearly fifty years could be Dirk Pitt’s only hope of stopping the conspiracy of a group of Japanese nationalist fanatics They’re hell-bent on neutralizing and blackmailing the USA – with nuclear weapons planted strategically in the country’s major cities – and only he can stop them…"
Price: 7.99

"Hillbilly Elegy : A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis"
"A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones nonfiction Book of the Month (June) A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The political book of the year' Sunday Times You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans The decline of this group a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside J D Vance tells the true story of what a social regional and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war America J D's grandparents were dirt poor and in love and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them They raised a middle-class family and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out we learn that this is only the short superficial version Vance's grandparents aunt uncle sister and most of all his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse alcoholism poverty and trauma so characteristic of their part of America Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history A deeply moving memoir with its share of humour and vividly colourful figures Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country"
Price: 7.49

"All About Spot"
"Join Spot for a busy bouncy day from waking up to bedtime as he has lots of fun at nursery the park and just playing at home Spot's everyday adventures fill the pages of this big puppy-shaped board book children will love"
Price: 6.49

"The Young Magicians and the Thieves' Almanac"
"On a London street four unlikely friends stand before the astonishingly ordinary-looking blue door of the Magic Circle Alex doesn't say much and once jumped when handed a satsuma but wow is he amazing with a deck of cards Zack is undoubtedly one of the best pickpockets in the country (but always puts things back) Sophie once convinced her Brown Owl that all the other Brownies were jellyfish thanks to her nifty hypnosis skills - and then never returned Jonny - who is quite possibly the tallest boy in the universe - mixes science and magic with spectacular consequences (mostly explosions) Join these young magicians as they step inside the world-famous conjuring club in an adventure that may or may not involve the search for a secret book a set of impossible crimes and oh yes - a flock of very confused pigeonsIntrigued? Confused? Well you're just going to have to decide for yourself AREN'T YOU?"
Price: 6.99

Krindlekrax
"A very funny school story with weird and wonderful characters by the award-winning author Philip RidleyRuskin Splinter is small and thin with knock-knees thick glasses and a squeaky voice and the idea of him taming a dragon makes the whole class laugh Big strong Elvis is stupid but he looks like a hero So who is more likely to get the big part in the school play? But when the mysterious beast Krindlekrax threatens Lizard Street and everyone who lives there it is Ruskin who saves the day and proves he is the stuff that heros are made of after all"
Price: 6.49

"William Morris 123"
"With this beautifully illustrated board book learn your numbers with William Morris and his lovely designs Starting with one tree and ending with 10 butterflies this is the perfect introduction to counting for very young children"
Price: 5.49

"Dick King-Smith's Book of Pets : Five classic tales from the master of animal adventures"
"In this collection of stories you will meet a guinea-pig that can do clever tricks the Queen's favourite Corgi pup a secret mouse hiding in a tree-house a chick that wants to be a duck AND you'll learn how to look after all kinds of pets!A delightful anthology from the master of animal adventures Dick King-Smith featuring a never-before-published story"
Price: 7.49

"The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Hardback, 2012)"
"A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas&39; classic novel of wrongful imprisonment adventure and revenge Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Chateau d&39;If There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarcerationA huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s Dumas was inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment when writing his epic tale of suffering and retribution"
Price: 13.49

"Keep the Aspidistra Flying"
"Gordon Comstock loathes dull middle-class respectability and worship of money He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop giving him more time to write But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit Only Rosemary ever-faithful Rosemary has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life Through the character of Gordon Comstock Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renouncedEnlivened with vivid autobiographical detail George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics"
Price: 6.49

"Shakespeare's Sonnets"
"'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovelyand more temperate 'Shakespeare's 154 sonnets contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written dealing with eternal themes such as love and infidelity memory and mortality and the destruction wreaked by time This new edition collects them in a pocket-sized volume perfect for gifting William Shakespeare was born some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and died in 1616 He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist"
Price: 5.49

"The Nose by Nikolay Gogol (Paperback, 2015)"
"'Strangely enough I mistook it for a gentleman at first Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose'With this pair of absurd comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination and delights readersIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsNikolay Gogol (1809-1852) Gogol's works available in Penguin Classics are Dead Souls Diary of a Madman The Government Inspector & Selected Stories and The Night Before Christmas"
Price: 1.99

"The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Paperback, 2015)"
"'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew a flash of lightning? This is so sad so sad'Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-tellingIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsRyunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories is also available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 1.99

"The Old Man of the Moon by Shen Fu (Paperback, 2015)"
"'Our passion was so great Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?'The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great enduring love for his wife in eighteenth-century China Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsShen Fu (born c 1763) Shen Fu's work is available in Penguin Classics in Six Records of a Floating Life"
Price: 1.99

"How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog by Johann Peter Hebel (Paperback, 2015)"
"'The devil gave the woman a nudge Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher's shirt!'Written for a local German journal and published in 1811 these fabulous funny jewel-like miniature tales describe con men tricksters disasters murders rascals and lovers and include Franz Kafka's favourite storyIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsJohann Peter Hebel (1760-1826) Hebel's The Treasure Chest is available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 1.99

"Traffic by John Ruskin (Paperback, 2015)"
"'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold where will you keep them?'Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsJohn Ruskin (1819-1900) Ruskin's Unto This Last and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 1.99

"Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling (Paperback, 2015)"
"'revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long'Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories including 'The Golden Goblet' 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsPu Songling (1640-1715) Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 2.49

"Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls"
"'You will hear it for yourselves and it will surely fill you with wonder'In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve diamonds from snake-infested cavesIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsMarco Polo (1254-1324) Polo's Travels are available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 1.99

"The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe"
"'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful as nutmegs ginger long pepper lemons cucumbers cocos sago with divers other sorts'Scholar spy diplomat and supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the size and strangeness of the world - and determined to dominate itIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsRichard Hakluyt (c 1552-1616) Hakluyt's Voyages and Discoveries is available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 1.99

"A Slip Under the Microscope"
"'I will go in out of this dust and heat out of this dry glitter of vanity out of these toilsome futilities I will go and never return'Three disturbing mysterious and moving stories from Wells science-fiction pioneerIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsH G Wells (1866-1946) Wells's works available in Penguin Classics are Ann Veronica The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories The First Men in the Moon The Invisible Man The Island of Doctor Moreau Kipps Love and Mr Lewisham A Modern Utopia The New Machiavelli The Shape of Things to Come A Short History of the World The Sleeper Awakes The Time Machine Tono-Bungay The War in the Air and The War of the Worlds"
Price: 1.99

"The Madness of Cambyses"
"'Do you see your son standing over there in the antechamber? Well I am going to shoot him'The story of the great and mad Cambyses King of Persia told by part-historian part-mythmaker Herodotus of HalicarnassusIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsHerodotus (c484-425 BCE) Herodotus's The Histories is also available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 1.99

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Paperback, 2003)"
"Mark Twain's witty satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is edited with a critical introduction by Peter CoveneyMark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before When Huck escapes from his drunken abusive 'Pap' and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with runaway slave Jim he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin' Beneath the exploits however are more serious undercurrents - of slavery adult control and above all of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with JimBased on the first edition of 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn includes a chronology and list of further reading by Richard MaxwellSamuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river; 'Mark Twain' a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep became the pseudonym by which he was best known After the Civil War Twain turned to journalism publishing his first short story in 1865 Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner Twain led a colourful life of travelling bankruptcy and great literary successIf you enjoyed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn you may like Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer also available in Penguin Classics'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn There has been nothing as good since'Ernest Hemingway'Huckleberry Finn like other great works of imagination can give to every reader whatever he is capable of taking from it'TS Eliot"
Price: 4.99

"Silas Marner by George Eliot (Paperback, 2003)"
"George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin ClassicsWrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe living only for work and his precious hoard of money But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house Silas is given the chance to transform his life His fate and that of Eppie the little girl he adopts is entwined with Godfrey Cass son of the village Squire who like Silas is trapped by his past Silas Marner George Eliot's favourite of her novels combines humour rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural lifeThis text uses the Cabinet edition revised by George Eliot in 1878 David Carroll's introduction is complemented by the original Penguin Classics edition introduction by QD LeavisMary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator and later editor of the Westminster Review In 1857 she published Scenes of Clerical Life the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of 'George Eliot' including The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch and Daniel DerondaIf you enjoyed Silas Marner you might like Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter also available in Penguin Classics'I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author's works It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple rounded consummate aspect which marks a classical work'Henry James"
Price: 4.99

"Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome (Paperback, 2004)"
"A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889 Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis in Penguin ClassicsMartyrs to hypochondria and general seediness J and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T' But when they set off they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes unreliable weather forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J's small fox-terrier Montmorency Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889 and with its benign escapism authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes' it hilariously captured the spirit of its ageIn his introduction Jeremy Lewis examines Jerome K Jerome's life and times and the changing world of Victorian England he depicts - from the rise of a new mass-culture of tabloids and bestselling novels to crazes for daytripping and bicyclingJerome K Jerome (1859-1927) was born in Walstall Staffordshire and educated at Marylebone Grammar School He left school at fourteen to become a railway clerk the first in a long line of jobs that included actor teacher and journalist His first book On Stage and Off a collection of humorous pieces about the theatre was published in 1885 and was followed the year after with the more commercially-successful The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; but it was with Three Men in a Boat (1889) that Jerome achieved lasting fame He later went on to become one of the founders of the humorous magazine The Idler and continued to write articles and plays If you enjoyed Three Men in a Boat you might like Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm also available in Penguin Classics"
Price: 5.49

"Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Paperback, 2007)"
"This compact novel completed in 1900 as with so many of the great novels of the time is at its baseline a book of the sea An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero"
Price: 6.99

"The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Hardback, 2008)"
"Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence The novel was a succes de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895 It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb"
Price: 11.49

"How to Run A Government : So That Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy"
"Billions of citizens around the world are frustrated with their governments Why is this? And what can we do about it? In this groundbreaking book Michael Barber draws on his wealth of international experience advising political leaders to show how those in power can make good on their promises 'Refreshingly ruthless has an uplifting brio to it' Economist'Michael Barber is a source of inspiration and wisdom' Andrew Adonis New Statesman'Excellent there is a lot of common sense and practical wisdom a breath of fresh air' David WillettsStandpoint'Barber is the global overlord of public policy a record around the world of actually achieving change' Philip Collins Prospect"
Price: 7.49

"Lost Japan"
"An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape culture history and future Originally written in Japanese this passionate vividly personal book draws on the author&39;s experiences in Japan over thirty years Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki retraces his initiation into Tokyo&39;s boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years and tells the story of the hidden valley that became his homeBut the book is not just a love letterHaunted throughout by nostalgia for the Japan of old Kerr&39;s book is part paean to that great country and culture part epitaph in the face of contemporary Japan&39;s environmental and cultural destructionWinner of Japan&39;s Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize and now fully revised in a new edition Alex Kerr is an American writer antiques collector and Japanologist Lost Japan is his most famous work He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan"
Price: 7.49

"To Explain the World : The Discovery of Modern Science"
"In To Explain the World pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London he shows that the scientists of the past not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there is to understand Yet eventually through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of tides the modern discipline of science emerged"
Price: 8.49