The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin & Sadie books set in Belfast during the Troubles It is one of The Originals from Penguin
- iconic outspoken first Sadie is Protestant Kevin is Catholic
- & on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide It starts with a dare
- kids fooling around
- but soon becomes something dangerous Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever But will the world around them change too? The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults From political awakening war & unrequited love to addiction teenage pregnancy & nuclear holocaust The Originals confront big issues & articulate difficult truths The collection

Includes:: The Outsiders
- SE Hinton I Capture the Castle
- Dodie Smith Postcards from No Man's Land
- Aidan Chambers After the First Death
- Robert Cormier Dear Nobody
- Berlie Doherty The Endless Steppe
- Esther Hautzig Buddy
- Nigel Hinton Across the Barricades
- Joan Lingard The Twelfth Day of July
- Joan Lingard No Turning Back
- Beverley Naidoo Z for Zachariah
- Richard C O' Brien The Wave
- Morton Rhue The Red Pony
- John Steinbeck The Pearl
- John Steinbeck Stone Cold
- Robert Swindells




















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The Twelfth Insight is the fourth book in the hugely successful Celestine series It is an adventure tale that is both suspenseful & contemplative & builds on the insights introduced in Redfield's previous books It describes a new wave of tolerance & integrity that is emerging in reaction to years of conflict warfare & political corruption With unsurpassed insight James Redfield continues the astounding spiritual journey that is the Celestine series Through deep intuition of the world within & without he moves the series into the future showing us that 2012 is not about the end of the world
- but about the unifying life of everyday miracles In this book the familiar character of Wil returns along with our narrator ' The Hero' Wil has found a fragment of a mysterious ancient document which seems to be the first part of a guide to spiritual experience Each step of the guide offers an expanded clarity about the larger picture of human life & purpose But Wil & our Hero have only one part of the old document & must systematically find the remaining parts A global search has been unleashed to find the message & meaning of the document in its entirety
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Sooner or later everybody pays Gerry Fegan a former paramilitary contract killer is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered Every night on the point of losing his mind he drowns their screams in drink His solution is to kill those who engineered their deaths From the greedy politicians to the corrupt security forces the street thugs to the complacent bystanders who let it happen all are called to account But when Fegan's vendetta threatens to derail a hard-won truce & destabilise the government old comrades & enemies alike want him dead Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Thriller ...

The eagerly anticipated sequel to the global bestseller The Passage soon to be an epic drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens & executive producer Ridley Scott THE TWELVEDeath-row prisoners with nightmare pasts & no future THE TWELVEUntil they were selected for a secret experiment THE TWELVETo create something more than human THE TWELVENow they are the future & humanity's worst nightmare has begun THE TWELVEThe epic sequel to THE PASSAGE ...

An essential primary source on Roman history Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars is a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin by Robert Graves author of I Claudius revised with an introduction & notes by James B Rives As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives & used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers & private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar & Augustus to the decline into depravity & civil war under Nero & the recovery that came with his successors A masterpiece of observation anecdote & detailed physical description The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn
- & all too human
- individuals James B Rives has sensitively updated Robert Graves's now classic translation reinstating Latin terms & updating vocabulary while retaining the liveliness of the original This edition contains a new chronology further reading glossaries maps notes & an introduction discussing Suetonius' life & works Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born in AD69
- the famous 'year of the four Emperors' From the letters of Suetonius' close friend Pliny the Younger we learn that he practiced briefly at the bar avoided political life & became chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian (AD117-38) Suetonius seems to have lived to a good age & probably died around the year AD140 If you enjoyed The Twelve Caesars you might like Tacitus's The Annals of Imperial Rome also available in Penguin Classics' Suetonius in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend reflects not only them but ourselves half-tempted creatures whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel & the monster within' Gore Vidal


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My dearest darling- That partridge in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting romantic poetic present! Bless you & thank you Your deeply loving Emily Everyone knows the ' Twelve Days of Christmas' but not as rewritten by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer & who but Quentin Blake could exploit the full comic possibilities of this hilarious debacle as first birds then maids & finally the full percussion section of the Liverpool Philharmonic bring mayhem to the calm of an English country Christmas? ...

Introduce children to the traditional song The Twelve Days of Christmas in this beautiful new book featuring illustrations by Britta Teckentrup The peep-through pages reveal each new Christmas gift creating a stunning layered effect A perfect gift for your true love! ...

The ultimate children's gift edition of everyone's favourite festive song The Twelve Days of Christmas Find partridges in pear trees turtle doves gold rings maids a-milking ladies a-dancing & lords a-leaping & more in this glorious adaptation of the popular Christmas rhyme beloved of carol singers! Children will love the counting element while revelling in the wonderfully detailed Christmas scenes Jane Ray's sparkling gift edition captures all the magic of the festive season
- it is truly a book to be cherished year after year
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' After reading this I wanted to read it all over again'
- Zoe Sugg aka Zoella This glorious new collaboration from the New York
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The big day has almost arrived & one little puppy is very excited about his first EVER Christmas But with three drooling Dalmatians six sausage-snaffling Scotties & every dog in town helping out the festive season is a shambles! Will everything be ready in time for Christmas Day? Children will love picking their favourite dogs & spotting the puppy in busy scenes This hilarious picture book is a great way to introduce children to Christmas traditions ' Just the thing for dog lovers this charming picture book gives the old Christmas favourite a canine makeover & great fun it is too' Love Reading ' Festive scenes adorn every page & there's plenty here to help children build up anticipation But with all these dogs on the scene will anything get done? Great fun with vibrant illustrations by Marisa Morea' Parents in Touch ...