THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwaters colourful & often dangerous journey in search of the routes that olive cultivation has taken over the centuries. Set during a springtime Mediterranean that is evocative & perennial it is above all a tale of our time. Troubled by challenges her own South of France farm is experiencing Carol realises new approaches to farming are becoming essential. Her quest takes her south through Spain Morocco Algeria & Italy before she finally returns to her farm. Through her travels & vivid encounters Carol confronts some of the critical issues of our time
- l&-care & the harsh realities of diminishing water reserves
- & ends her momentous journey in the company of olive growers whose vision for the future is remarkable & ingenious.

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Hi! Im Oliver Tibbs (some people call me Oliver Fibbs) & everyone in my family is super-brilliant at something
- chess ballet brain
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Hi! Im Oliver Tibbs (some people call me Oliver Fibbs) & sometimes my life gets a little DAB
- Dull & Boring. So from time to time
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Enter the world of Oliver Moon Junior Wizard in these fun illustrated adventures full of gruesome details extraordinary characters & a massive dose of magic. Oliver Moon is the hardest working wizard at Magic School & now hes been nominated for Young Wizard of the Year. But at home he has to cope with his seriously embarrassing unmagical parents. What will the judges say when they find out that the Moons use a microwave instead of a cauldron & a car instead of a broomstick? ...

Its embarrassing enough that Olivers dad has a new job at Magic School but then smug new boy Casper starts showing Oliver up too. So when Casper challenges Oliver to a magical duel Oliver agrees. Can he really beat clever Casper & avoid the scary forfeit? ...

Oliver is fed up when he finds out hes going to be spending Christmas with his bullying cousins Thug & Thugette & things just go from bad to worse when they play a nasty trick on him. But with a little inspiration from a magical Christmas cracker he comes up with a plan to save the day. ...

Enter the magical world of Oliver Moon Junior Wizard in these fun illustrated adventures full of gruesome details & extraordinary characters. Oliver is really looking forward to his summer holiday in the haunted forest. He cant wait to go ghost hunting & hed love to meet the werewolves that are rumoured to live there. But his parents are not happy about the noisy howling that goes on in the forest at night. Could Olivers hairy new friend Wilf have anything to do with it? ...

Enjoy magical mayhem hi-jinx & hocus-pocus in the illustrated adventures of Oliver Moon Junior Wizard
- full of gruesome details
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If you love a good story then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure & return to again & again. When Oliver Twist asks for more food it changes his life for ever. He flees his dreary life in the workhouse but enters a much more dangerous place-the dark streets of London. Oliver is soon in the clutches of Fagin & his gang of pickpockets before eventually finding a true friend. But his happiness is short-lived as Fagin & the violent Bill Sykes are determined to drag Oliver back into a life of crime.. . ...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist" is a gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly published in " Penguin Classics" with an introduction by Philip Horne. The story of Oliver Twist
- orphaned & set upon by evil & adversity from his first breath
- shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse & pompous beadle Mr Bumble Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid & memorable characters
- the Artful Dodger vicious burglar Bill Sikes his dog Bull's Eye & prostitute Nancy all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of " Gothic Romance" the " Newgate Novel" & popular melodrama Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction scathing in its indictment of a cruel society & pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat & mystery. This " Penguin Classics" edition of " Oliver Twist" is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany &

Includes:: an introduction by Philip Horne a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang a chronology of Dickens' life a map of contemporary London & all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations. Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books including " Oliver Twist" " Great Expectations" "A Tale of Two Cities" " David Copperfield" & " The Pickwick Papers" have been adapted for stage & screen & read by millions. If you enjoyed " Oliver Twist" you may like " Nicholas Nickleby" & " Little Dorrit" also available in " Penguin Classics". " His novels will endure as long as the language itself". (Peter Ackroyd). " He is our greatest novelist
- every reread reveals more riches". (Melvyn Bragg). " When Dickens has once described something you see it for the rest of your life". (George Orwell)."





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