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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a…from Kay, Adam, ISBN: 9781509858637
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: Debut…Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything.
from Honeyman, Gail, ISBN: 9780008172145
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Do You Know What?: Life According to Freddie…from Flintoff, Andrew, ISBN: 9781788700467
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Pensioners - Haynes Explains (Owners' Workshop…This practical guide provides a new take on lifestyle topics from Haynes, famous for their car and motorcycle manuals. Written especially for families, this humorous guide provides all the information you need to know about pensions and the elderly.
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If You’d Just Let Me Finish (World According to…from Clarkson, Jeremy, ISBN: 9780241366738
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You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your…Practical, funny, implementable advice and stories that will help you understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to be a badass all the time. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT YOU ARE A BADASS IS THE SELF-HELP BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES BUT DON'T WANT TO GET BUSTED DOING IT In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bitesized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word, helping you to:- Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviours that stop you from getting what you want- Create a life you totally love. And create it NOW- Make some damn money already. The kind you've never made before. By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.
from Sincero, Jen, ISBN: 9781473649521
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The Story of Brexit (Ladybirds for Grown-Ups)from Hazeley, Jason, ISBN: 9780241386569
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The Cactus: a Richard & Judy Autumn Book Club…from Haywood, Sarah, ISBN: 9781473660632
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East of Croydon: Blunderings through India and…from Perkins, Sue, ISBN: 9780241360279
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Oi Dog! (Oi Frog and Friends)The hilarious sequel to the bestselling Oi Frog! will have children rolling around with laughter. Winner of the 2017 Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award. Shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award 2016.Frog's had enough, he's the changing the status quo! Cat insists that there are rules - only mules sit on stools, no one but hares should sit on chairs and however irritating, dogs MUST sit on frogs., 'Well, I'm changing the rules,' said the frog.'From now on, dogs sit on logs, not frogs!'And everyone else is going to have to sit somewhere else too. Will Cat want to sit on gnats instead of cushy mats? Will spiders like sitting on gliders? Will whales be happy to sit on nails? And, most importantly, where is FROG going to sit?Praise for Oi Frog!: 'An absolute treat.' - Daily Mail'Everyone will love it.' - The GuardianCan't get enough? Find out what cat's got to say in Oi Cat!, coming out autumn 2017.Kes Gray is a bestselling, multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast, spreads silliness on his toast and lives in a place called Different., Jim Field is a lead-driven, pencil-pushing, 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan. He is also a hugely talented illustrator and animation director. His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.Oi Frog!, Oi Dog! and Oi Cat! are a top ten bestselling series., Oi Dog! won the 2017 Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award and was shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and the British Book Awards in 2016, amongst others. It also won the Teach Primary New Children's Fiction Award, MadeForMums Award, Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award and Portsmouth Picture Book Award. Oi Cat! was the Independent Booksellers Children's Book of the Season and Oi Goat! is a World Book Day book in 2018.
from Gray, Kes, ISBN: 9781444919592
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Have You Eaten Grandma?from Brandreth, Gyles, ISBN: 9780241352632
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Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 2019 (Annuals 2019)Ripley's is back with another compendium of mind-boggling facts that will delight anyone drawn to the weirder side of life on Earth. Read about the scariest, grossest and funniest stories from around the world, including: the huge spider that spins webs that are stronger than steel; the woman who can smash 920 roof tiles every minute - with her bare hands; the Japanese crab that grows as much as six metres long... and much, much more! Crammed with incredible photos and fascinating stories, and complete with an out-of-this-world 3D-effect cover, Ripley's Believe It or Not 2019 is the perfect Christmas gift for kids who are fascinated by the disgusting, the scary and the peculiar. Product Information: ISBN: 9781847948335 Author: Geoff Tibballs Publisher: Ripley Publishing Format: Hardback Pages: 255 Dimensions: 30.5 x 23.5 x 2.5cm
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The Book of the Year 2018: Your Definitive Guide…from No Such Thing As A Fish, ISBN: 9781847948397
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Beano Annual 2019 (Annuals 2019)from DC Thompson, ISBN: 9781845356798
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd…From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans’ strangest questions. The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical: • What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool? • Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns? • What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City? • Are fire tornadoes possible? His responses are masterpieces of clarity and wit, gleefully and accurately explaining everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements. The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.
from Munroe, Randall, ISBN: 1848549563
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Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant…from Golby, Joel, ISBN: 9780008265403
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The Hidden Power of F*cking Upfrom Try Guys, The, ISBN: 9780062879615
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down (Diary of a…Get ready, Book 11 in the phenomenally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is coming!The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his 'creative side'.As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea., Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . ., and will he become rich and famous in the process? Or will doubling down on this plan just double Greg's troubles?Praise for Jeff Kinney:'The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid' - Sun'Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet' - Independent'The most hotly anticipated children's book of the year is here - Diary of a Wimpy Kid' - Big Issue'Hilarious' - Telegraph
from Kinney, Jeff, ISBN: 9780141376660
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My Favorite Recipes: Blank Recipe Book to Write…from Happy Books Hub, ISBN: 9781987514100
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The Grand Tour Guide to the WorldJeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May welcome, everyone, to The Grand Tour Guide to The World.In this indispensable guide, you will find an abundance of information, most of which is probably wrong and possibly dangerous. As well as occasionally accurate guides to the places visited on the show, you'll find exclusive interviews with the presenters and discover their favourite locations for car-based cocking about.As well as being a factually dubious encyclopaedia, The Grand Tour Guide to the World is also a travel companion for those of you who have been inspired by the Grand Tour circus. You'll find tips on how to sing like a native in the Bahamas, how to speak Welsh (wrongly), and how to navigate the magic roundabout in Swindon. On top of all this, we reveal the world's fastest cop cars and the greatest car makers. And there's a picture of James May in an anorak.Publisher: HarperCollinsISBN: 9780008257859
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Bluffer's Guide To Etiquettefrom William Hanson, ISBN: 9781785212383
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a…from Kay, Adam, ISBN: 9781509858637
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The Midnight Gangfrom Walliams, David, ISBN: 9780008164621
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Wreck This Journal: To Create is to Destroy, Now…Wreck This Journal
from Smith, Keri, ISBN: 9780141976143
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The Guilty Feminist: From our noble goals to our…from Frances-White, Deborah, ISBN: 9780349010144
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I’m Absolutely Fine!: A Manual for Imperfect Womenfrom Midult, Annabel Rivkin &…, ISBN: 9781788400671
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: Debut…from Honeyman, Gail, ISBN: 9780008172145
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The Wonky Donkeyfrom Smith, Craig, ISBN: 9781407195575
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The Wonky DonkeyThe book behind the viral internet sensation of a granny reading this story to her grandchild, viewed over 3 million times! Who ever heard of a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey? This hilarious picture book will have children - and adults - braying with laughter! Product Information: ISBN: 9781407195575 Author: Craig Smith Publisher: Scholastic Format: paperback Dimensions: 15 x 21cm
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The Ice MonsterFrom No. 1 bestselling children's author, David Walliams comes his 11th novel and his biggest and most epic adventure yet!Illustrated by the artistic genius Tony Ross.This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth...Read all about it! Read all about it!ICE MONSTER FOUND IN ARCTIC!When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to discover more...A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime - from London to the heart of the Arctic!Walliams’ most thrilling and epic novel yet sees him take to the wintry wilds of the arctic. Here one lost woolly mammoth and an intrepid Victorian orphan are about to venture on the expedition of a lifetime. Wrap up warm, it’ll blow your socks off!Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780008164690
from Walliams, David, ISBN: 9780008164690
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown (book 13)…Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown (book 13)The 13th hilarious book in Jeff Kinney's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. When snow shuts down Greg Heffley's middle school, his neighbourhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights. And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend, Rowley Jefferson. It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighbourhood meltdown. When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as heroes? Or will they even survive to see another day? With millions of books sold around the world in 65 editions and 56 languages, Wimpy Kid has turned millions of kids into readers.
from Kinney, Jeff, ISBN: 9780241321980
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The Wonky DonkeyThe book behind the viral internet sensation of a granny reading this story to her grandchild, viewed over 3 million times! Who ever heard of a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey? This hilarious picture book will have children - and adults - braying with laughter! Product Information: ISBN: 9781407195575 Author: Craig Smith Publisher: Scholastic Format: paperback Dimensions: 15 x 21cm
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Stick Man"Stick Man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three." But it's dangerous being a Stick Man. A dog wants to play with him, a swan builds her nest with him. He even ends up on a fire! Will he ever get back to the family tree?
from Donaldson, Julia, ISBN: 9781407170718
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2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracksfrom Lloyd, John, ISBN: 9780571348961
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Roald Dahl: Whizzpopping Joke Book (Dahl Fiction)Roald Dahl's Whizzpopping Joke Book is a collection of hundreds of great jokes would make even the Trunchbull laugh! Inspired by Roald Dahl's wonderful world, these gigglesome gags are guaranteed to raise a chuckle from human beans young and old.
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Awesome Jokes That Every 8 Year Old Should…from Waugh, Mat, ISBN: 9781999914745
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Difficult Riddles For Smart Kids: 300 Difficult…from Prefontaine, M, ISBN: 9781546595908
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The Cactus: a Richard & Judy Autumn Book Club…from Haywood, Sarah, ISBN: 9781473660632
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My Sister, the Serial Killerfrom Braithwaite, Oyinkan, ISBN: 9781786495976
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The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trumpfrom Sears, Rob, ISBN: 9781786892270
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Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis'Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems.'
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You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian…You Took the Last Bus Home is the first and long-awaited collection of ingeniously hilarious and surprisingly touching poems from Brian Bilston, the mysterious `Poet Laureate of Twitter'. With endless wit, imaginative wordplay and underlying heartache, he offers profound insights into modern life, exploring themes as diverse as love, death, the inestimable value of a mobile phone charger, the unbearable torment of forgetting to put the rubbish out, and the improbable nuances of the English language. Constantly experimenting with literary form, Bilston's words have been known to float off the page, take the shape of the subjects they explore, and reflect our contemporary world in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Venn diagrams and Scrabble tiles., This irresistibly charming collection of his best-loved poems will make you question the very essence of the human condition in the twenty-first century. YOU TOOK THE LAST BUS HOMEyou tookthe last bus homedon't know howyou got it through the dooryou're always doing amazing stufflike the timewhen you caught that train
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Everything I Know About Love***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER***'A wonderful writer, who will surely inspire a generation the way that Caitlin Moran did before her' Julie Burchill'I loved it so much, I wanted it to go on forever, Dolly Alderton is so gifted at making people care. A rare talent' Marian Keyes'I can say with absolute certainty that you have to add it to your 2018 book list' The PoolWhen it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out., It's a book about bad dates, good friends and - above all else - about recognising that you and you alone are enough.Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humour, Dolly Alderton's powerful debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age - while making you laugh until you fall over. Everything I know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty.A spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating all kinds of love along the wayPraise for Everything I Know About Love'With courageous honesty, Alderton documents her life up to now, the highs and the lows - the sex, the drugs, the nightmare landlords, the heartaches and the humiliations. Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, and admirably open-hearted and optimistic., Only this writer, in this time, could have made such a mesmerising pattern from mess and colour. A brilliant debut.' Daily Telegraph'It's so full
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Why Mummy Drinks: The Sunday Times Number One…Brand New!! Re-check ISBN before Purchase
from Sims, Gill, ISBN: 9780008241094
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (Penguin Modern…'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless lite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic. This Penguin Modern classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.
from Orwell, George, ISBN: 9780141182704
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The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k:…The bestselling book everyone is talking about, revealing the surprising art of caring less and getting more.Are you stressed out, overbooked and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Then it's time to stop giving a f**k. This irreverent and practical book explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt - and give your f**ks instead to people and things that make you happy. From family dramas to having a bikini body, the simple 'NotSorry Method' for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f**k and will free you to spend your time, energy and money on the things that really matter.'The anti-guru' Observer'Absolutely blinding., Read it. Do it.' Mail on Sunday'Genius' Cosmopolitan'I love Knight's book even before I start reading . ., . Works a charm' Sunday Times Magazine'Life-affirming . ., . The key practice she advocates is devising for yourself a "fuck budget" . ., . It's a beautiful way of streamlining your psyche' Lucy Mangan, GuardianALSO AVAILABLE FROM SARAH KNIGHT:YOU DO YOU: how to be who you are and use what you've got to get what you want ANDGet Your Sh*t Together - the New York Times bestseller helping you organise the f**ks you want and need to give
from Knight, Sarah, ISBN: 9781784298463
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The Story of Brexit (Ladybirds for Grown-Ups)from Hazeley, Jason, ISBN: 9780241386569
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The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trumpfrom Sears, Rob, ISBN: 9781786892270
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Dad Jokes: The very best of @DadSaysJokesfrom Jokes, Dad Says, ISBN: 9781788401029
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Dad Jokes: Pocket-Sized (Gifts for Dad)from Thomas, Ben, ISBN: 9781981614424
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A Snarky Adult Colouring Book: I Run on Coffee,…from Papeterie Bleu, ISBN: 9781640010703
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The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diaryfrom Mitchell, Emma, ISBN: 9781789290424
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Three Things About Elsie: A Richard and Judy…from Cannon, Joanna, ISBN: 9780008196943
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A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy.Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's masterful comic novel takes its title, as well asfrom Jonathan Swift A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius j. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged., Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with...John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969) was born in New Orleans., He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get the novel published; depressed, at least in part by his failure to place the book, he committed suicide in 1969. It was only through the tenacity of his mother that her son's book was eventually published and found the audience it deserved, winning the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction., His long-suppressed novel The Neon Bible, written when he was only sixteen, was eventually published as well.If you enjoyed A Confederacy of Dunces, you might like Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'The New York Times
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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (Penguin Modern…'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless lite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic. This Penguin Modern classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.
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Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A…Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.Amazon Review:It took Vonnegut more than 20 years to put his Dresden experiences into words. He explained, "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again." Slaughterhouse Five is a powerful novel incorporating a number of genres. Only those who have fought in wars can say whether it represents the experience well. However, what the novel does do is invite the reader to look at the absurdity of war. Human versus human, hedonist politicians pressing buttons and ordering millions to their deaths all for ideologies many cannot even comprehend. Flicking between the US, 1940's Germany and Tralfamadore, Vonnegut's semi- autobiographical protagonist Billy Pilgrim finds himself very lost. One minute he is being viewed as a specimen in a Tralfamadorian Zoo, the next he is wandering a post-apocalyptic city looking for corpses. Slaughterhouse Five-Or The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance with Death is a remarkable blend of black humour, irony, the truth and the absurd. The author regards his work a "failure", millions of readers do not. Released the same time bombs were falling on South East Asia, this title caused controversy and awakening. Essential reading for all. So it goes. --Jon Smith
from Vonnegut, Kurt, ISBN: 9780099800200
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Central Perk: notebook for friends watchers,…from MovieNotebooks, ISBN: 9781729383087
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The Highly Sensitive: How to Stop Emotional…from Dyer, Judy, ISBN: 9781720622499
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Bad Soldier: Danny Black Thriller 4from Ryan, Chris, ISBN: 9781444783377
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Overshare: Love, Laughs, Sexuality and Secretsfrom Rose Ellen Dix, ISBN: 9781409176411
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