Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes introduces Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece Parade's End"
- now a major new BBC/HBO TV adaptation
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Praise for Katie Price 'A fabulous guilty holiday pleasure'
- heat Unabashedly laden with sex & OTT with glitz... Go on run yourself
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This is an emotionally compelling teen novel from Joanna Nadin
- twice nominated Queen of Teen
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Chris Sutton is one of the finest centre-forwards of his generation. He played for Norwich Blackburn Chelsea & Celtic for combined transfer fees of more than GBP 20million. His career is littered with prizes & controversy from refusing to play for England & his disastrous season at Chelsea to making history with Celtic & Blackburn. In his candid autobiography Paradise & Beyond" he lifts the lid on it all
- the family torment the gambling debts the incident that led to him being arrested the night before his GBP 5million record transfer fee from Norwich to Blackburn & much more. He gives his honest assessment of managers he played under such as Glenn Hoddle Kenny Dalglish Martin ONeill & Luca Vialli. Sutton also opens his heart on the truth behind his controversial departure from Celtic & how he holds Gordon Strachan responsible. This book is not to be missed."
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It's not as if Nel hadn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in the picturesque Paradise Fields & keeping track of her unnervingly beautiful teenage daughter
- plus sorting out a houseful of animals
- are quite enough to keep her busy. The last thing she needs is another complication in her life but when her old friend Sir Gerald dies & his son Pierce
- accompanied by his glamorous American wife
- takes possession of The Big House it seems that preserving the Fields is not on his list of priorities. Nel takes up arms determined to fight for the meadow & the market she loves. But whom can she trust? She's pretty sure her friends Sacha & Vivian are on her side but her sensible boyfriend Simon an estate agent is less encouraging. & then there's Jake the exaspering yet attractive stranger who kissed her under the mistletoe. Maybe she's been a not-so-merry widow for far too long.



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John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological moral & spiritual origins of man's existence Paradise Lost" has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in " Penguin Classics". In " Paradise Lost" Milton produced poem of epic scale conjuring up a vast awe-inspiring cosmos & ranging across huge tracts of space & time populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. & yet in putting a charismatic Satan & naked innocent Adam & Eve at the centre of this story he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties
- blind bitterly disappointed by the Restoration & in danger of execution
- " Paradise Lost's" apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men' or exposes the cruelty of Christianity. John Leonard's revised edition of " Paradise Lost" contains full notes which elucidates Milton's biblical classical & historical allusions & discuss his vivid highly original use of language & blank verse. John Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit. In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth defending the English revolution both in English & Latin
- & sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his life by publishing " The Ready & Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth" on the eve of the Restoration (1660). His great poems were published after this political defeat. If you enjoyed " Paradise Lost" you might like Dante's " Inferno" also available in " Penguin Classics". " An endless moral maze introducing literature's first Romantic Satan". (John Carey). "" Paradise Lost" is to my mind the greatest poem in English". (Philip Pullman author of " His Dark Materials" trilogy)."


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Of mans first disobedience & the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world... Sing heavenly muse From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667 Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult now to appreciate both how audacious an undertaking it represents & how astonishing its immediate & continued success was. Over the course of twelve books Milton wrote an epic poem that would justify the ways of God to men a mission that required a complex drama whose source is both historical & deeply personal. The struggle for ascendancy between God & Satan is played out across hell heaven & earth but the consequences of the Fall are all too humanly tragic
- pride ambition & aspiration the motivating forces. In this new edition derived from their acclaimed Oxford Authors text Stephen Orgel & Jonathan Goldberg discuss the complexity of Miltons poem in a new introduction & on-page notes explain its language & allusions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.
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First published in 1968 Alastair Fowlers annotated edition of Paradise Lost is acknowledged as the most authoritative guide to this major work. It is the only recent edition of Paradise Lost to be based on the text of the first (1667) edition now widely accepted to be closer to Miltons intention than that of 1674. ...

On Saturday 9th September 1922 the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna the richest & most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in a disaster of truly epic proportions. PARADISE LOST is told with the narrative verve that has made Giles Milton a bestselling historian. It unfolds through the memories of the survivors many of them interviewed for the first time & the eyewitness accounts of those who found themselves caught up in one of the greatest catastrophes of the modern age. ...

When Amber Peppers jeweller boyfriend Hugh asks her to join him on a business trip to the paradise islands of Tahiti shes not keen
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