Kingsley Amis's witty campus novel Lucky Jim is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies & vanities of 1950s academic life This Penguin Modern Classics edition contains an introduction by David Lodge Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons
- as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's deliver a lecture on ' Merrie England' & resist Christine the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand Inspired by Amis's friend the poet Philip Larkin Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character adrift in a hopelessly gauche & pretentious world Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) born in London wrote poetry criticism & short stories but is best remembered as the novelist whose works offered a comic deconstruction of post-war Britain Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as Lucky Jim (1954) & That Uncertain Feeling (1955); his other works include The Green Man (1970) Stanley & the Women (1984) & The Old Devils (1986) which won the Booker Prize If you enjoyed Lucky Jim you might like Amis's The King's English also available in Penguin Modern Classics'A flawless comic novel I loved it then as I do now It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore The Times'A brilliantly & preposterously funny book' Guardian
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& His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night & then as a mausoleum During the night too he&d somehow been on a cross-country run & then been expertly beaten up by secret police He felt bad& Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university His life is full of things he could happily do without the tedious & ridiculous Professor Welch a neurotic & unstable girlfriend Margaret burnt sheets medieval recorder music & over-enthusiastic students If he can just deliver a lecture on & Merrie England& a moderately successful career surely awaits him But without luck life is never simple ...

In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians By 1942 he was a soldier surrendering to the Japanese at the siege of Singapore Taken prisoner he was sent to a POW camp deep in the heart of the Thai jungle where he was starved beaten & forced to build the notorious 'railway of death' on the River Kwai Johnny kept his & his men's spirits up with tales of his footballing past even organising matches until he & the other prisoners became too weak to play One day he even encountered a brutal Japanese guard & was shocked to recognise him as a Japanese footballer Johnny had played against Many years after Johnny's death his grandson Michael discovered an old manuscript hidden in the attic of his mother's house It was Johnny's own account of his wartime experiences
- the story too horrific to reveal in full to his loved ones In the tradition of bestselling memoirs like The Railway Man Lucky Johnny is an inspirational tale of survival against the odds
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From Steve Light the creator of Have You Seen My Dragon? Have You Seen My Monster? & Swap! comes a riotous romp backstage at the theatre! Lazlo is in love So with the perfect red rose in hand he sets off to the theatre where the girl of his dreams is starring in Alice in Wonderland But when a cat snatches the flower & dashes backstage Lazlo is in for a bit of bad luck & it's no wonder since at the Peacock Theatre they've broken every superstitious rule in the book The chase is on
- past the tailor into the orchestra over the prop table even through the Mad Hatter's tea party! Will Lazlo catch the cheeky kitty in time to present the flower to his lady love?
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Dick Digger an old pal of Lucky Luke's has struck gold in the hills Spending the night in a hotel on his way home to stake his claim a careless display of his new-found wealth attracts the attention of two bandits who knock him out & rob him
- unwittingly taking the map to his mine with them as well! With Digger injured it's up to Lucky Luke & Jolly Jumper to chase the thieves & recover the map
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Calamity Jane saves Lucky Luke from a delicate situation A friendship is quickly formed & they arrive together in El Plomowhere Calamity Jane proves her strength by winning the local saloon in an arm-wrestling match! Its ex-owner August Oyster is hopping mad & has only one obsession to send her packing During this time Lucky Luke tries to clear up a dark affair involving arms traffic ...

Austrian Professor Otto von Himbeergeist arrives in the New World with some very strange ideas Criminals are victims of their past & can be cured of their lawlessness To prove his theories the scientist intends to travel to the Wild West & attempt to reform the worst possible outlaws of the land What better targets than the baddest dumbest bandits ever the Dalton brothers? & who will be tasked with keeping a close watch on the experiment with some unexpected but always hilarious results? Why Lucky Luke of course! ...

Horace Greeley is heading west with his printing press & his rock-solid belief in the power of the press printing issues of his Daily Star as he goes But his insistence on publishing the truth isn't making him universally loved When Lucky Luke meets the quirky journalist he agrees to help him settle in Dead End Gulch-and protect him against those who would rather not see their dirty deeds in print ...