The Third Wheel is the hilarious seventh book in the brilliant, bestselling & award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. This book is perfect for readers of 8+ & all the millions of Wimpy Kid fans. Also now a box office-busting major motion franchise with the third Wimpy Kid movie, Dog Days released in the UK in August 2012! Love is in the air, but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine`s Day dance at Greg`s school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he`s worried he`ll be left out in the cold on the big night. His bestfriend, Rowley, doesn`t have any prospects either but that`s small consolation. Then an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance & leaves Rowley the odd man out. But a lot can happen in one night, & in the end, you never know who`s going to be lucky in love... Share in the hilarious adventures of everyone`s favourite wimpy kid, Greg Heffley, in the highly-anticipated seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Praise for Jeff Kinney: ” The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney`s Diary of a Wimpy Kid”. (Sun).” Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children`s authors on the planet”. (Independent). ” The most hotly anticipated children`s book of the year is here
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid”. (Big Issue). ” Hilarious”. (Telegraph). Winner of Blue Peter`s Best Book of the Last 10 Years award. Jeff Kinney is an online game developer & designer, & a number 1 New York Times bestselling author. Jeff has been named one of Time magazine`s 100 Most Powerful People in the World. Jeff is also creator of Poptropica.com, which was names one of Time magazine`s 50 Best Websites. He lives in Massachusetts, USA.
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This hilarious new book records the tongue-in-cheek journey of an expat in Singapore, told through vignettes, snapshots & Top 10 lists: ”10 sure signs you`re in a Singapore taxi”; ” Things first-time visitors to Singapore say”; ”10 signs you`ve overstayed”; ” Politically-incorrect expat profiling by nationality”; & many more. Based on the author Jennifer Gargiulo`s popular blog of the same name, Diary of an Expat in Singapore packs in a wealth of quirky observations, witty one-liners, & laugh-out-loud misunderstandings as the author tries to adjust to life in a strange new land & raise two kids while at it. You may marvel as Jennifer enlists the help of her young son, Alexander (who learns Chinese at school), to find out what her hairdressers are saying about her at the salon! Expats will share many of the experiences of the author told in this book, but few will have heard them told with more humour & flair. & Singaporeans will also find much to enjoy & laugh over, when local customs & foibles are seen anew through the author`s eyes. ...

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic & Lolita was a photographer`s assistant &, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He`s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, & heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other & what we allow to have done to us. ...

Originally produced in 1933 by the Kynoch Press, this perpetual week-to-view diary features beautiful wood block engravings by Eric Ravilious on each spread. Delightful illustrations represent the changing seasons, from roaring fires & snowy vignettes for the winter months to strawberries in the summer, bringing to life the simplicity of English rural countryside. Beautifully designed, this is the perfect gift for gardeners & nature lovers as well as fans of Ravilious` work. ...

Dibra Prefecture at 1:100, 000 in a series of handy size, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible road maps from the Tirana-based publishers Vektor. Landscape is presented by altitude colouring & contours lines at 100m intervals, with spot heights & a few more names of topographic features than found on Vektor’s 200K road maps of the country. National parks & nature reserves are prominently highlighted. The prefecture maps appear to show the same small local dirt roads as in the 200K series, but given the increase in scale do so with greater clarity & also provide more detailed GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals), useful when travelling across the more remote parts of the country. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols highlight campsites, beaches, archaeological & historical sites, caves, etc. The maps also show subdivisions of prefectures & names of the communes, & indicate administrative status of towns. Map legend

Includes:: English. Please note: border crossings are prominently marked but beyond topographic colouring no road or other information is provided outside the country’s borders.

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A fascinating portrait of the river at the height of its Victorian prosperity. On the upper Thames it was the carefree era of regattas & riverside picnics, while London's tideway & great docks were busy with the comings & goings of barges, steamers & sailing ships servicing the world's largest port & the Empire on which the sun never set. This treasure trove of a book has descriptions of the villages & towns along the river from its source near Cricklade to the Nore Lightship. It is packed with practical advice, maps of popular destinations, locations of angling & bathing spots. Riverside inns to accommodate oarsmen are listed with details of how to return boats by train at a time when an annual season ticket between Windsor & Paddington cost as little as GBP18. ...

A breathtaking feat of scholarship` The Times. `I can do no more than praise, recommend, insist that you buy & read this book. It supersedes all other Dickens biographies` Anthony Burgess, Independent. In Peter Ackroyd`s abridged edition of his classic biography of Charles Dickens, the acclaimed biographer takes us to the heart of one of the world`s greatest writers. From Dickens`s birth in Portsmouth to his death at the age of just fifty-eight, Ackroyd explores the life of this renowned author & the hundreds of characters who were born with Dickens but didn`t die with him, living on for ever in the pages of his books, on the radio & the television & film screens. ...

Five story books, each a classic Dickens novel retold for younger readers, presented in a beautifully designed gift box. The stories are: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities & Great Expectations. All titles are taken from the Usborne Reading Programme. ...

” Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris.” This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life & culture & a sense of affinity with the country that would take him back often & that would find expression in some of his finest work. ” Dickens on France” brings together short stories, extracts from novels & travel writing. Among its journalistic highlights, are accounts of a train journey from London to Paris, a rough Channel crossing, the pleasures of Boulogne, & Parisian life in the 1850s & 1860s. Extracts from the travelogue Pictures from Italy, take us by coach from Paris to Marseille. The selected short stories include ” His Boots”, a section of ” Mrs Lirriper`s Legacy” & ” The Boy at Mugby”, & there are extracts from ”A Tale of Two Cities”, ” Little Dorrit”, ” Dombey & Son”, ” Nicholas Nickleby”, & ” Our Mutual Friend”. Dickens was interested primarily in the character of places he visited, the behaviour of people he observed in them, & in the sensation & psychology of travelling. These preoccupations keep the writing fresh & accessible. It requires no leap through time to appreciate his musings on his fellow passengers, his reflections on sitting in a Paris cafe, his random exploration of city streets or small country towns, or his opposition to cultural bigotry. Infused with energy, perception & open-mindedness, this collection vividly evokes life in France & Britain in the nineteenth century & reminds us, however much progress we make, how little we change. ” Dickens on France” is extensively annotated to provide historical & autobiographical contexts, & to highlight literary & other allusions. Brief chapter introductions & a general introduction to the volume, highlight key aspects of the selections & discuss the nature of Dickens`s enduring relationship with France. ...

The sense of place was of the utmost importance for Dickens, & nowhere is more synonymous with his name than London. The most splendid of all his characters, the city was the subject of scrupulous research: Dickens spent several hours a day exploring its streets & inhabitants. The pieces collected here reveal London to be the primary inspiration for one of the geniuses of English literature. ...