The definitive 70th anniversary edition of The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank & edited by Otto H. Frank & Mirjam Pressler the world's most famous diary & 'one of the greatest books of the century'. '12th June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you as I have never been able to confide in anyone & I hope you will be a great source of comfort & support.' In the summer of 1942 fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation Anne Frank & her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts & feelings movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery & death being cut off from the outside world petty misunderstandings & the unbearable strain of living like prisoners. An intimate record of tension & struggle adolescence & confinement anger & heartbreak this is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank. " One of the greatest books of the century". (" Guardian"). "A modern classic". (" The Times"). " Rings down the decades as the most moving testament to the persecution of innocence". (" Daily Mail"). " Astonishing & excruciating. Its gnaws at us still". (" New York Times Book Review"). "A monument to the human spirit". (" Mail on Sunday"). Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929. She died in Bergen-Belsen three months short of her sixteenth birthday." ...

Spencer's mate Zac has decided he wants to be a real teenager & Spencer is disgusted
- he's not interested in girls skateboards
...

Margaret Forster presents the edited diary of a woman born in 1901 whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War Millicent King begins to keep her journal & vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war tragedy & money troubles. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s her story moves on to social work & the build-up to another war in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London. Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up coping with the tragedies & upheavals of womens lives from WWI to Greenham Common & beyond. A triumph of resolution & evocation this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinary womans life
- a narrative where every word rings true.
...

Annies War tells the story of an Englishwoman held under virtual house arrest in Germany during the First World War. Annie Drummond Droege had moved from the United Kingdom to Germany when her husband Arthur inherited lands & estates in the Rhinel&. But their dream life turned into a nightmare when the Kaiser went to war with Britain. & Annies life was turned upside down as Arthur was interned & she was instructed to sign on daily at the police station. This is Annies story of the war years in her own words. ...

Wednesday May 7th Two of them came today dragged me out of my cage & put me in some kind of improvised maze made out of books & old toilet tubes. A labyrinth with no escape. They were treating it like some kind of game laughing & squealing as I desperately scrabbled from blind alley to blind alley but I knew it was no game. Theyre trying to crush my will to grind me down. They can take my freedom but they will never take my soul. My name is Edward & I AM A HAMSTER. Published in memory of Poet Thinker & noted rodent Edward the Hamster (1990-1990) this delightfully gothic hardback edition of his personal journals constitutes a celebration of his (very) short life. Its also very funny (Eight months old today. Oh the things Ive seen. The Wheel. The Tray. The Ball. The Whe- no I forget.). Complete with illustrations of our hard-smoking existential hero this is both a book for anyone who has loved & lost a beloved pet -- & a moving essay on the nature of suffering & the hamster condition. ...

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history & for the main events
- the Restoration the Dutch War the Great Plague the
...

Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady" Britain's oldest women's weekly in her hilarious diary "A Diary of The Lady: My First Year & a Half as Editor". ' The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty tatty disorganized & impossibly old-fashioned set in an age of doilies & flag-waving patriotism & jam still for tea some sunny day.' Appointed editor of " The Lady"
- the oldest women's weekly in the world
- Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start how do you become an editor when you've never well edited? How do you turn a venerable title full of ads for walk-in baths during the worst recession ever? & forget doubling the circulation in a year
- what on earth do you wear to work when you've spent the last fifteen years at home in sweatpants? Will Rachel save " The Lady"
- or sink it? " Action-packed entertaining marvellously indiscreet. Johnson is everything you want in a diarist & has a compulsive habit of saying the wrong thing". (" Sunday Times"). " She's a loose cannon. All she thinks of is sex. You can't get her away from a penis". (Mrs Julia Budworth co-owner " The Lady"). "A total romp wonderfully readable unflinchingly described". (" Guardian"). " Hysterical. For the first time everyone is talking about " The Lady" for reasons other than nannies". (Piers Morgan). Rachel Johnson is a journalist who has written two previous novels & two volumes of diaries. " The Mummy Diaries" " Notting Hell" " Shire Hell" & "A Diary of The Lady" are all available now from Penguin."



...

The cult classic that can still change your life! Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart -- & in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice anything can happen. Entertaining humorous scary shocking subversive The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time. ...

As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it modern science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying heartbeat of nature. In Dice World acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random universe uncovering the truths & lies behind probability & statistics explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every great success in business & demonstrating the possibilities quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers & undergoing teleportation. He explores how the 'clockwork universe' imagined by Newton in which everything could be predicted given enough data was disproved bit by bit to be supplanted by chaos theory & quantum physics. Clegg reveals a world in which not only is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things. Forget the clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World a unique portrait of a startlingly complex cosmos from the bizarre microscopic world of the quantum to the unfathomable mechanics of planetary movements where very little is as it seems... ...

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Venetia Fox is Londons most sought-after actress darling of the demi-monde & every noblemans desire. But shes about to face her toughest role yet
- seducing a confession from the devilishly handsome & very dangerous Lord Linwood to bring her fathers murderer to justice! She might have the whole of London fooled but Linwood can see through Venetias ardent attempts to persuade him to open up. His past is murky but hes no criminal. Her interest in him has Linwood intrigued
- he might just have to play Miss Fox at her own seductive game... Gentlemen of Disrepute Rebellious rule-breakers ready to wed!

...