Rose & Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister Peggy. She is the sensible reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother Grace Booth & their mother Mary Sylvester. When war is declared in 1939 they must face the hardships together & huge changes in their lives are inevitable. For Rose there is the chance to fulfil her dream of becoming a clippie on Sheffield's trams like Peggy. But for Myrtle the studious clever one in the family war may shatter her ambitions. When the tram on which Peggy is a conductress is caught in a bomb blast she bravely helps to rescue her passengers. One of them is a young soldier Terry Price & he & Peggy begin courting. They meet every time he can get leave but eventually Terry is posted abroad & she hears nothing from him. Worse still Peggy must break the devastating news to her family that she is pregnant. The shock waves that ripple through the family will affect each & every one of them & life will never be the same again. ...

Get ready for more girly games giggles & gossip in this bestselling series featuring a group of girls brought together by the boys & bunk warfare fun & sun of one cool summer camp. Its time for Colour War at Camp Lakeview & Tori is less than thrilled to be captain of the Blue team
- but at least her best friend Nat has offered to help her out. But Nat gets distracted when Lainie an older cooler girl starts getting chummy with her leaving Tori in the lurch & causing the Blue team to slip. Although at first Nats flattered it seems like Lainie may have ulterior motives as Nat finds out theyre crushing on the same boy. But it isnt until Lainie finds out that the boy likes Nat more that the gang sees Lainies true colours. Girls will be lining up to share all the latest secrets in the next batch of Summer Camp Secrets which are sure to attract new fans everywhere!
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Gabriel Chevalliers delightful novel Clochemerle satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular & religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais. The eruption begins when the socialist mayor decides that he wants to leave behind a monument to his administrations achievements. He takes as his model the ancient Romans who were famous for two things: hygiene & noble edifices. Thus he decides to unite the two concepts...by constructing a public urinal in the centre of town. There is one problem however. The chosen locale is next to the village church & this outrages the ecclesiastical party. ...

Rocco Klein veteran homicide detective has had enough of life on the edge. When a warm summer night brings yet another drug-related murder he has no sense that the case is anything special. A young black man steps forward to confess but a little digging reveals that hes never been in any kind of trouble whereas his half-brother Strike runs a crew of street-corner coke dealers clockers in a nearby housing project. Soon Rocco is sure that Strike is the real killer & suddenly Roccos appetite for the job is back. With a vengeance. ...

A typist uncovers a mans body from behind the sofa... As instructed stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three oclock. Yet the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strangely only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house... ...

Tick tock tick tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them up nothing will stop them.. .A tormented apprentice clock-maker a deadly mechanical knight in armour
- & the sinister Dr Kalmenius who some say is the devil.. . Wind up these characters fit them into a story on a cold winter's evening with the snow swirling down & suddenly life & the story begin to merge in a peculiarly macabre
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Tessa is soon caught in a dangerous love triangle where a wrong decision could prove fatal. She will need all her strength to save her brother & stay alive as she learns the chilling truth of what really lurks on London's streets after dark. Discover more about the mysterious & sexy Shadowhunters in this thrilling prequel trilogy to the bestselling Mortal Instruments" sequence. It is supported by a major marketing & publicity campaign. " The Mortal Instruments" series has been translated into 19 languages & has appeared on bestseller lists in the US Germany Ireland Australia New Zealand & Canada." ...

Anthony Burgess' nightmare vision of a society overrun by nihilistic violence & governed by a menacing totalitarian state A Clockwork Orange"

Includes:: an introduction by Blake Morrison in " Penguin Modern Classics". Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence
- he also enjoys rape drugs & Beethoven's ninth. He & his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state & subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky & the mind-altering treatment of the Ludovico Technique he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the day. The basis for Stanley Kubrick's notorious 1971 film A Clockwork Orange is both a virtuoso performance from an electrifying prose stylist & a serious exploration of the morality of free will. In his introduction Blake Morrison situates "A Clockwork Orange" within the context of Anthony Burgess' many other works explores the author's unhappiness with the Stanley Kubrick film version analyses the composition of the Nadsat argot spoken by Alex & his droogs & examines the influences on Burgess' unique eternally original style. Anthony Burgess (1917-93) was born in Manchester in 1917. From 1954 to 1960 he was stationed in Malaysia as an education officer
- during this time he started writing The Malayan Trilogy. Diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in 1959 Burgess became a full-time writer & went on to write a book a year up until his death in 1993. His many works include: " The Complete Enderby" " Tremor of Intent" " The Kingdom of the Wicked" & "A Clockwork Orange". If you enjoyed "A Clockwork Orange" you might like Ken Kesey's " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" also available in " Penguin Modern Classics". "I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language...a very funny book." (William S. Burroughs)."



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This is the fully restored fiftieth anniversary edition. It

Includes:: a foreword by Martin Amis. First published

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