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











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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.

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Details: Lucile Garrett is just 13 when she meets Clint Palmer, a charismatic stranger who will forever change her life.
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Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street & drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher's job is to make sure it all turns out right
- money paid, family safely returned. But Reacher is in the middle of a nasty little war where nothing is simple.
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Presents a narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey & Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls & voracious librarians, John Coltrane & Lord Jim. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, this title unites East & West, tragedy & farce, compassion & detachment, slang & philosophy. ...

Louis L' Amour is the world's best-selling frontier novelist. Amour wrote about what he knew: he had lived an exciting, & sometimes hard, life, he knew the West, & his stories were all the more captivating because of the historical accuracy. This title pays homage to this one of the greatest Western story-tellers. ...

DDI Ernest Hardcastle, head of the CID, is called to investigate the murder of a very senior civil servant, Sir Nigel Strang, in his office. Then another murder, of a man on a bus near Scotland Yard, leads Hardcastle to a woman working at Woolwich Arsenal ...

Have hours of fun piecing together this stunning Hardware Shop image from your living room. This picture perfect puzzle

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