Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes & dreams of a young girl She suspects it might have arrived on a drift of debris from the 2011 tsunami With every turn of the page she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery In a small cafe in Tokyo sixteen-year-old Nao Yasutani is navigating the challenges thrown up by modern life In the face of cyberbullying the mysteries of a 104-year-old Buddhist nun & great-grandmother & the joy & heartbreak of family Nao is trying to find her own place
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- through a diary she hopes will find a reader & friend who finally understands her Weaving across continents & decades & exploring the relationship between reader & writer fact & fiction A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about our shared humanity & the search for home

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OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDELove & darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary moving story He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood & adolescence along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s & '50s & into the infernal marriage of two kind well-meaning people his fussy logical father & his dreamy romantic mother Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders & at the tragic heart of the story is the suicide of his mother when Amos was twelve-&-a-half years old Oz's story dives into 120 year of family history & paradox the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna & Odessa via Poland & Prague to Israel Farce & heartbreak history & humanity make up this magical portrait of the artist who saw the birth of a nation & came through its turbulent life as well as his own This is a memoir like no other & one that cries out to be read & wept over By the winner of the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize previous winners of which include Philip Roth Ivan Klima Elfriede Jelinek Harold Pinter & John Banville ...

Put on your captain&s hat & navigate the 3D pirate ship using sand timers in this unique real-time cooperative game As a member of an adventurous pirate crew your goal is to be crowned Admiral of the Black the most feared pirate ship in the Caribbean To earn this title you must complete dangerous scenarios in the shortest possible time frame The most innovative element of the game is that the player uses their own 30-second sand timer as a character to be placed on the ship to perform actions Each time a player places their own sand timer they have to wait for the sand to run out to be able to perform the action needed Each hole in the ship represents an area where you can perform a specific action turning the ship loading cannons shooting enemy ships repairing damage & so forth A Tale of Pirates (previously announced as Admiral of the Black) has ten different scenarios ranging from ordinary pirating activities like looking & shooting to kraken-hunting prison breaks treasure hunts & much more An app for any smartphone or tablet will lead the players along the missions assist with scenario data random events multiple paths upgrades & gamestate-saving for later sessions It also serves as a timer for the individual round as the typical scenario lasts 2-3 rounds each five minutes long The players have to react to events & maneuver the ship to fight enemy gunboats catch rich merchant vessels & avoid other obstacles They must communicate to agree & organize things to do but they have to be quick because time is always ticking A Tale of Pirates is swift playing with simple rules but it&s exciting & involving with great interactions among players Unlike some other real time coop games the stress is present but not dominating The thirty-second delays in addition to the intermittent rounds always allow you to catch your breath!2–4 Players 30 Min Playing Time Age 8 ...

We are a nation that loves its ancient woods & trees We prize our sturdy oaks craggy pines bluebells & primroses badgers & dormice We value the history & heritage of places that have been woodland since before the Norman Conquest But only a generation ago we were all set to wipe them out It was said that in the space of just 30 years nearly half of our ancient woods were destroyed How & why did this happen? & who prevented them all being lost? A Tale of Trees features the voices of those who cut down the woods & those who saved what was left It is a story full of tragedy & heroism ingenuity & blindness & it will inspire the reader to go out & explore more ancient woods & delight in our natural treasures ...

Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment & begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie There the gifted but dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton & the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find their lives increasingly intertwined with those of the Manettes Yet soon both men are drawn ineluctably from the peaceful English capital to the horror & bloodshed of the Paris Terror & the looming threat of the guillotine Representing a departure from the social satire of most of his other novels & deemed by Dickens himself to be "the best story I have written" A Tale of Two Cities is a powerful historical novel about the repercussions of epochal events on the personal lives of people on both sides of the Channel ...

A Tale of Two Cities a story of revolution revenge & sacrifice is one of Charles Dickens& most exciting novels Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past Dr Manette wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years is finally released & reunited with his daughter Lucie who despite her French ancestry has been brought up in London Lucie falls in love with Charles Darnay who has abandoned both wealth & title in France because of his political convictions When revolution breaks out in Paris Darnay returns to the city to help an old family servant but is soon arrested because of the crimes committed by his relations Lucie aided by young lawyer Sydney Carton follows him across the Channel thus putting all their lives in danger With an afterword by Sam Gilpin Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector&s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector&s Library are books to love & treasure ...

Part of Penguin&s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released & reunited with his daughter in England There two very different men Charles Darnay an exiled French aristocrat & Sydney Carton a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette From the tranquil lanes of London they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror & soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine ...

Based on Charles Dickens’ epic novel this critically acclaimed film version was adapted for the screen by TEB Clarke A tale of great sacrifices being made for the sake of principle Dickens’ original novel is notable for its vivid representation of France during the French Revolution Sidney Carton (Bogarde) a disillusioned heavy drinking London lawyer defends a young French aristocrat Charles Darnay (Paul Guer) when the informant Barsad (Donald Pleasence) accuses him of spying Carton finds himself falling in love with Darnay fiancee Lucie Manette (Tutin) & although he confesses his love to her they agree to keep it secret When Darnay returns to France in the grip of revolutionary terror he is imprisoned by a mob led by Madame Defarge (Rosalie Crutchley) on the orders of his corrupt uncle (Christopher Lee) Hearing Lucie pleas for help Carton seizes the opportunity for action & ultimately redemption ...

It was the best of times it was the worst of times Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison the Bastille Finally reunited the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men the heroic aristocrat Darnay & the dissolute lawyer Carton Their story which encompasses violence revenge love & redemption is grippingly played out against the backdrop of the terrifying brutality of the French Revolution Also in the Vintage Classics Dickens Series A Christmas Carol David Copperfield Great Expectations Hard Times Oliver Twist ...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Dickens& greatest historical novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution & the Terror Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle&s great work
- The French Revolution The best story I have written& was Dickens& own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities & the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author&s unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering self-sacrifice & redemption
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