On its first appearance The Screwtape Letters was immediately recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology. Now in its 70th Anniversary Year & having sold over half a million copies it is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare & the power of the devil. This profound & striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service to his nephew Wormwood a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian. Although the young man initially looks to be a willing victim he changes his ways & is lost to the young devil. Dedicated to Lewiss friend & colleague J.R.R. Tolkien The Screwtape Letters is a timeless classic on spiritual warfare & the invisible realities which are part of our religious experience. ...

On its first appearance The Screwtape Letters was immediately recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology. Now 60 years old it is stunningly repackaged & both cassette & CD. A masterpiece of satire this classic has entertained & enlightened readers the world overwith its sly & ironic portrayal of human life & foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape a highly placed assistant to ' Our Father Below'. At once wildly comic deadly serious & strikingly original C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. Dedicated to Lewis's friend & colleague J.R.R. Tolkien The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation
- & triumph over it
- ever written.

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He has no literary precedent & he also appears to have no imitators. He mines a seam that no one else touches on every sentence in every book having a Magnus Mills ring to it that no other writer could produce
- Independent". In " Hark the Herald" a guest stays at an eerie guesthouse over Christmas without encountering any other residents despite constant reassurance from the landlord that he would see them if only he arrived for breakfast slightly earlier; in " Only When the Sun Shines Brightly" Aesops fable about a competition between the Sun & the Wind to get a man to take his coat off gets a new look involving a railway arch a builder & a piece of plastic sheeting; & in " Once in a Blue Moon" a man arrives home to find the family house under siege with his mother armed dangerous & firing at the police with a shotgun & attempts to appease her with an invitation to seasonal hospitality. In the title story rivalry between three cousins over a faulty toy gets out of hand as the cousins unwittingly imitate the toy theyre fighting over. Magnus Mills has published two collections of stories
- " Only When the Sun Shines Brightly" & " Once in a Blue Moon"
- which are collected here together with four new stories for the first time to make a set of twelve."


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Herve Tullet is one of the best-known & best-loved childrens authors & illustrators working today. He has enchanted devotees of his unique style in previous award-winning books including Night & Day" " The Five Senses" & " Imagine"." The Scribble Book" is an entirely new venture one in which his young readers are invited to participate! Encouraged by Herve to pick up a crayon & scribble alongside him they will lose all inhibitions & unlock their own creativity. They will feed scribbles to a hungry monster scribble water to put out a fire scribble flames coming out of a volcano spaghetti for lunch & ski-tracks in the snow." The Scribble Book" does away with the traditional rules of the pre-school colouring book encouraging children to cross boundaries & experiment for themselves. Gradually as the book unfolds the scribbles evolve into puzzles to be solved & finally into genuine drawings. Full of wit & humour irreverent & enchanting " The Scribble Book" is destined to become the latest success from the colourful mind of Herve Tullet." ...

Bailey arrives in a new neighbourhood with his extraordinary family. He has no friends but receives a mysterious invitation to join the Scribbleboy Fan Club. The one & only founder member is Ziggy Fuzz. His vital mission is to spread the word about Scribbleboy & his amazing scribbles which years ago transformed the gloomy grey concrete of the neighbourhood. Swept along in plans to discover the identity of the mythical artist Bailey carries on his work so the scribbles start again & eventually he discovers the scribbleboy is in fact a scribblegirl! ...

Noel Fieldings book channels the creative influences of Henri Rousseau Roy Lichtenstein & Salvador Dali through the comedians strange & singular not to say surreal mind. Hilarious & beautifully produced the book is a visual feast which will delight & entertain Noels millions of fans. Growing up in the jungles of India there was no need for drawing or painting. I would sometimes arrange ants into primitive still lives or scratch out portraits onto the trunks of trees. Things changed when I was 11 a lame tiger who owned a stationery shop gave me the keys to his stock room I would roll around in acrylic & oil pastels in reverie licking canvases & tucking coloured pencils into my wild hair. It was here I learned how to draw & paint well enough to be accepted into Croyden Art College. There Dexter Dalwood (Turner Prize nominee) taught me & after two years under his supreme tutelage & much hard graft he adviced me to become a comedian." Noel Fielding" ...

A desperate quest begins in the port of Alexandria: site of the great lighthouse the famous Library & the tomb of Alexander the Great. Codes riddles anagrams & hieroglyphics lead the young detectives down the river Nile to pyramids & sphinxes temples & tombs crocodiles & hippos. But what lies at the end of the journey? Treasure? Or death? ...

From wedding announcements to IOUs there are hundreds perhaps thousands of scripts some classic others eccentric. Derived from handwriting these are typefaces that are stylized to suggest imply or symbolize certain traits linked to writing. Drawn from the Golden Age of scripts from the 19th to the mid-20th century this is the first compilation of popular rare & forgotten scripts from Britain Italy France Germany & the USA. This title is filled with examples from a broad spectrum of sources advertising street signs invitations type-specimen books & personal letters. This collection is a delightful trove of long-overlooked material & will be an invaluable sourcebook for anyone with an interest in graphic design. ...

A collection of material from theatre radio & TV playwrights that are short enough for use in a single lesson or literacy hour for reading or performance. The scripts & sketches expose students to a wide range of genres & styles & help students explore dramatic forms & issues. ...