Taking its title from TS Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence & social disintegration between the First & Second World Wars This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Robert Murray Davis After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey the Gothic mansion that is the pride & joy of her husband Tony She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver & forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set Brilliantly combining tragedy comedy & savage irony A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy & sterile generation' between the wars This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce & a symbol of the disintegration of society If you enjouyed A Handful of Dust you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies also available in Penguin Modern Classics' One of the twentieth century's most chilling & bitter novels; & one of its best' Nicholas Lezard Guardian' One of the most distinguished novels of the century' Frank Kermode' This is a masterpiece of stylish satire & is funny too a marvellous book' John Banville Irish Times ...

Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel published posthumously & greeted as a major literary event It tells the story of a young Algerian Mersault who defies society's rules by committing a murder & escaping punishment then experimenting with different ways of life & finally dying a happy man In many ways A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait drawing on Camus's memories of his youth travels & early relationships It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood
- the place where eventually Mersault is able to find peace & die 'without anger without hatred without regret'
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Go cruising on the most beautiful bike in the world! It&s the American Dream
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A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore a Jewish merchant a magistrate & a quack doctor bound together by sexual & financial greed Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives redeeming them for their cliched status as predators or victims The protagonist
- in Hogarth a black slave boy in Dabydeen London's oldest black inhabitant
- is forced to tell his story to the Abolitionists in return for their charity He refuses however to supply parade of grievances & to give a simplistic account of beatings sexual abuses etc He will not embark upon yet another fictional journey into the dark nature of slavery for the voyeuristic delight of the English reader Instead the old man ties the reader up in knots as deftly as a harlot her client he spins a tale of myths half-truths & fantasies; recreating Africa & eighteenth-century London in startlingly poetic ways What matters to him is the odyssey into poetry the rich texture of his narrative not its truthfulness In this his fourth novel David Dabydeen opens up history to myriad imaginary interpretations repopulating a vanished world with a strange defiantly vivid & compassionate humanity

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Tiffany Aching is going into service' to be a lady no less a maid in a big house At least this is what she tells her parents Really Tiffany is going away to learn magic But making friends with fellow witches is always difficult when an invisible-being-that-cannot-be-killed takes over your body
- stealing money & threatening violence Tiffany must use all her witchy cunning to reclaim what's hers Luckily she has a bit of help What's tiny Scottish & blue all over? A Nac Mac Feegle of course
- the rudest type of fairy & handy to have in a tight spot Oodles of dry wit imagination & shrewdly observed characters' Independent on Sunday

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WE SEE YOU NOW WE ARE YOU No real witch would casually step out of their body leaving it empty Tiffany Aching does & there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over Something ancient & horrible which can't die To deal with it Tiffany has to go to the very heart of what makes her a witch Fantastically inventive' Sunday Times ...

A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3d platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers A little girl & her spaceship In A Hat in Time you play as a tiny space-travelling girl with a big top hat Her adventure is halted when all her fuel the time pieces are lost & scattered across a nearby planet Hat kid must now jump fight & stitch new hats to make her way into every nook & cranny of this new world in order to restore her fuel & resume her journey On her way she'll bump into the menacing mafia of cooks the goofy birds of dead bird studio the spooky shadows of subcon forest & more Murder on a train Parades Trespassing in a movie studio? Every mission in A Hat in Time is unique At one moment you'll be solving the murder on the owl express by finding clues & interrogating the locals the next moment you'll be the band marshal in the big parade or sneaking through the bird-run dead bird studio Small child giant worlds Jump freely around in 5 massive worlds with new adventures to discover around every corner Just like any child hat kid loves to climb & explore no mountain is too big for her sense of adventure She can do multiple jump moves as well as climb walls & swing over gaps Cute hats magical yarn & snappy badges by finding & collecting rare magical yarn hat kid can stitch new cute hats with a variety of abilities including a witch hat that allows her to cook explosive concoctions & a wooden ghost mask that allows her to peek into other

Dimensions Hats can become even more powerful by attaching badges that are found sold & traded by the locals Nintendo switch version

Includes:: Seal the Deal dlc An all-new chapter the arctic cruise A new incredibly difficult mode death wish online co-op mode (free for everyone) 6 new time rifts A ton of outfits flairs dyes & even camera filters



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play When Jordan & her friends decide they need a weekend away they head towards Cypress Creek & sneak into an isolated cabin on the lookout for adventure As the lone moon rises in the dark sky the temperature suddenly drops & all goes silent Wondering if they are not alone the girls stumble across an abandoned bloodied doll & start to believe they are being watched Spooky objects loud creaking & the unexplained echoes of a baby crying get louder & louder as the friends realise there is a place where evil resides The question quickly becomes who has been possessed & who is still alive? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Desperate to reconnect with his wife & son after a violent attack leaves them fear-stricken & traumatized a father moves his family to a sleepy New England town & finds himself in a fight against supernatural forces hell-bent on tearing them apart ...

A braw wee book o' haverin'' A bonnie read on a dreich day' 192 pages 20 Illustrations black & white Ferguson Norman ...