FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP. Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo

Fergus Crane has an almost

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Jack is lost in the forest
- a forest that his mum has told him is full of ferocious wild beasts! But the creatures that
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Jack is lost in the forest
- a forest that his mum has told him is full of ferocious wild beasts! But the creatures that
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Oscar's mum moves the family to Planet Nine hoping for a quiet life. But it's not to be...
Mum is soon called back to her very
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The great theoretical physicist & Nobel Prize winnder, Richard Feynman, left an indelible imprint on scientific thought. On 14 March 1964 he delivered a remarkable lecture which, until now, was believed to be lost. His lecture was about a single fact, though by no means a small one. When a planet or a comet or any other body arcs through space under the influence of gravity, it traces out one of a very special set of mathematical curves, known as the conic sections. But why does nature choose to describe those, & only those, elegant geometrical constructions ? In this book Feynman's lost lecture has been reconstructed & explained in meticulous, accessible detail, together with a history of ideas of the planets' motions. It can be enjoyed by the specialist & non-specialist alike & provides us all with an invaluable insight into the mind of one of this century's greatest scientists. ...

FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious & extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson & Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry logical puzzles in to enchanting fables. The Pieces in this volume represent his most accomplished work. ...

Fiction & the Reading Public provoked fierce controvers when first published in 1932, & it has since come to be recognised as a classic in its field. In her fascinating study, Q D Leavis investigates what has happened to the public taste in the last three centuries & what effect this has had on both the life of the nation & the equality of living for the individual. A brilliant piece of literary exegesis & an illuminating anthropological commentary
- DAILY MAIL An illuminating study... it offers a rich store of interest, not only in its vigorous scrutiny of the novel & the influences which have shaped it, but also in its study of changing attitudes & tempos of life amont the general public who read novels... An achievement of distinguished quality & high value. New Republic. She has performed a noble office by inquiring into the case of the bestseller. The result is no less entertaining than instructive -SATURDAY REVIEW.
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Mc Anally had sworn his oath to the IRA. But he quit & went south into the Republic, until they came for him, made him fire the deadly rocket launcher one last time. Then he played his final card & most terrifying role
- Supergrass.

Ferris, the young British lieutenant, hadn


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