Things haven't been going all that well for Greg Heffley recently.

For one thing, his best friend Rowley has a GIRLFRIEND,

...

Life on the NHS front line, working within a maternity system at breaking point, is more extreme than you could ever imagine.

...

Torrential rains & floods force local sheriff (Randy Quaid) & town residents of huntingburg to evacuate & abandon the town, Tension mounts when an armoured car, sent to transport $3 million from local banks, breaks down & drivers, Tom (Chritian Sl ...

It begins with the road...

Join Bruce Anstey, John Mc Guinness, Steve Plater & a host of other riders for an action-packed

...

Using a golf pencil sharpened on a cell wall, Shaun Attwood wrote one of the first prison blogs, Jon's Jail Journal, excerpts of which were published in The Guardian. This book gives an account of the time Shaun spent submerged in a nightmarish world of gang violence, insect infested cells & food unfit for animals. ...

The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, violet-dyed river & hordes of downtrodden mill hands.

Here headmaster Thomas Gradgrind sternly prepares his pupils for their pre-determined fate as industrial fodder. Facts & figures are all that he will tolerate, because he scorns fancy & forbids any use of the imagination. Gradgrinds own children are brought up on the same bleak doctrine.

There will be tragic consequences, both for his submissive daughter Louisa & degenerate son Tom, before their father acknowledges the value of the human heart. Hard Times is Dickens shortest novel, yet one of his most politically controversial & hard-hitting.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781788280495
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Publisher: Arcturus
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 253
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm











...

Louise & Tome Gradgrind are raised in the fictitious Coketown, England by their father. Thomas Gradgrind, is a pragmatic & harsh educator, influencing his children leading them to be lead adult lives that are lacking in all areas. Witnessing their plight, their father realises his own principles may have led to their downfall. ...

Undercover operative from future Earth Anton, travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages.

...

Details: Lucile Garrett is just 13 when she meets Clint Palmer, a charismatic stranger who will forever change her life.
...