” This table, ” said the man. ” What about the table?” said the woman. ” It`s wearing me out, ” said the man. What to do? The man makes a decision. He finds a tablewood tree, cuts it down, saws it up & makes a new table. There`s nothing like a new table. This one is strong enough for elephants to dance on! But...” Where would we get the elephants?” said the woman. ” Advertise in the Classified Section, ” said the man. ” Elephants wanted for table work. Must be agile.” It looks as if the man & the woman might need some more tables! ” We could open a restaurant, ” said the man. A restaurant with dancing elephants.. .where will it all lead? ...

Mr & Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys & the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve! A full colour edition of the hilarious bestselling Roald Dahl story, plus a fantastic audio reading by Richard Ayoade, star of The IT Crowd. ...

A splendiferous new hardback of THE TWITS, part of a collection of truly delumptious classic Roald Dahl titles with stylish jackets over surprise printed colour cases, & exquisite endpaper designs. Mr Twit is a foul & smelly man with bits of cornflake & sardine in his beard. Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet. Down in their garden, the Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey & his family locked in a cage. But not for much longer, because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits, once & for all.. . And now you can listen to THE TWITS & other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams & Steven Fry
- plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Also look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store & Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! & HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.
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This is a brilliant new hardback edition of Roald Dahl`s. The Twits with a hairy beard cover! Touch-&-feel Mr Twit`s straggly old beard & even stick bits of food in it to make it even more disgusting...! The Twits are possibly the nastiest & most disgusting of all Roald Dahl`s characters. They smell because they never wash, they fight because they play tricks on each other, & they hate children. But worst of all, they keep monkeys in their back garden. In cages. It`s time for the monkeys to get their revenge on these two most revolting creatures... The Twits is the most-read book in primary schools & you can also listen to The Twits & other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams & Steven Fry
- plus there are added squelchy sound effects from Pinewood Studios! & look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store & Google Play- including the disgusting bestseller, Twit Or Miss! inspired by the revolting Twits.
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”A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero.” (David Walliams). Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world`s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold & instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake`s inimitable artwork. Mr Twit is a foul & smelly man with bits of cornflake & sardine in his beard. Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet. Down in their garden, the Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey & his family locked in a cage. But not for much longer, because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits, once & for all... And now you can listen to The Twits & other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams & Steven Fry
- plus there are added squelchy sound effects from Pinewood Studios! Also look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store & Google Play- including the disgusting Twit or Miss! & House of Twits inspired by the revolting Twits.
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75 key moments from history are picked & reported in tweets
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The Two Houses sit grey & brooding beneath a pale sky. They cling to the hillside, cowering from the wind, because always, before everything up here, there is the wind. In the not-quite-light of a November afternoon, this whole strange world is beaten by it; the spindly trees, the long sedge grasses, even the houses themselves seem to bend under its assault. The Two Houses were not always two. But if it is human to build
- even up here, in this blasted northern hinterland
- it is human to break, too. After an acclaimed career in ceramics making things & breaking things, it is now Jay herself who has cracked. Recovering from a breakdown, she & her husband Simon move to the desolate edges of the Yorkshire moors, where they find & fall in love with the Two Houses: a crumbling Victorian property whose central rooms were supposedly so haunted that a previous owner had them cut out from the building entirely. But on uprooting their city life & moving to the sheltered grey village of Hestle, Jay & Simon discover it`s not only the Two Houses that seems to be haunted by an obscure past. It becomes increasingly clear that the villagers don`t want them there at all
- & when building work to make the two houses whole again starts, a discovery is made that will unearth decades-old secrets... ` Fine writing... Cooper`s expertly realised characters, both sympathetic & not, have stories interwoven with aplomb` Daily Mail` Confident & brilliant` Lisa O` Donnell


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On one side of the sheet is a 59x 91cm physical map of the region showing towns, cities, the DMZ & major communications of North & South Korea. Relief is depicted by hill shading & altitude tinting. Annotated with information panels & thematic maps on various themes eg. geography, name changes, demography, economy, military spending. On the reverse, the theme is the Korean War of 1950-1953, the progress & key stages of which are briefly described & illustrated with the aid of several small maps. ...

Building on the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the second part of Tolkien`s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien`s own design, the definitive text, & a detailed map of Middle-earth. Frodo & the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; & at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo & Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin
- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.
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This is previously published as The Bar on the Seine. A forgotten crime comes to light in the Parisian summer in Georges Simenon`s twisted tale. Book eleven in the new Penguin Maigret series. `A radiant late afternoon. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank.. .there are days like this, when ordinary life seems heightened, when the people walking down the street, the trams & cars all seem to exist in a fairy tale.` A story told by a condemned man leads Maigret to a bar by the Seine & into the sleazy underside of respectable Parisian life. In the oppressive heat of summer, a forgotten crime comes to light. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels. ” Compelling, remorseless, brilliant”. (John Gray). ” One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century... Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories”. (Guardian). ”A supreme writer.. .unforgettable vividness”. (Independent). Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels & short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerl&, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. ...