Dodger is a tosher
- a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone
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Dodger is a tosher
- a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone
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Dodger is a tosher
- a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone
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London 1850s. After five years in an Australian penal colony the Artful Dodger returns to London in search of a hidden fortune. Unaware of the fate that befell Twist Fagin & Sikes Dodger revisits the criminal underworld of Dickensian London to seek out his old comrades any of whom might possess the key to the treasure. He finds the city a changed place from his youth: with law & order upheld by a new police force Fagin gone to the gallows his old gang scattered & danger around every corner. ...

The Dodger" is the long-awaited story of Johnny Dodge a wartime hero & a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film " The Great Escape". Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Gorings escape proof camp in the famous episode of March 1944 Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing. American-born Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill. When the Second World War broke out he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war & an inveterate escapologist & troublemaker
- eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the Great Escape. Surviving the murderous Gestapo he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler
- but escaped once more. After recapture Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitlers interpreter who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland & freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnnys adventurous life. " The Dodger" draws upon Dodges voluminous private papers including photographs taken inside prison camps & letters home casting revealing new light on the myth of the Great Escape."

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From time to time mankind takes a sudden leap forward & invents something which makes life so much simpler that people soon begin to wonder how they ever survived without it. The Wheel the Printing Press the Self-Dribbling Seed Dispenser & now- THE DODO BOOK OF GARDEN CUTTINGS. This handy quirky garden journal contains amongst other things: -A Garden Planner-Monthly dividers with pockets-A section for notes-Lots of great illustrations "es Typical"e: Sowing Beans One for the mouse One for the crow One to rot And one to grow ...

From time to time mankind takes a sudden leap forward & invents something which makes life so much simpler that people soon begin to wonder how they ever survived without it. The Wheel the Printing Press the Post Partum Pregnancy Checker & now- THE DODO BOOK OF THE BIG BUMP. This hilarious quirky gift is perfect for that scattered mum-to-be in your life. A combined organiser-list-planner-memo-filing book. Sections include:-Hospital Stuff-Names & Naming-Nursery needs-Big essentials-Birth plan-Antenatal classes-Complimentary therapies-Birth announcements-Childcare-Articles & tips-Product information Typical"e: &8216; Somewhere on this planet every ten seconds there is a woman giving birth. She must be stopped.&8217;SAM LEVENSON ...

From time to time mankind takes a sudden leap forward & invents something which makes life so much simpler that people soon begin to wonder how they ever survived without it. The Wheel the Printing Press the Self-Replenishing Refrigerator & now- the DODO HOUSEHOLD STUFF BOOK. This hilarious quirky gift is perfect for that scattered house keeper in your life. A combined organiser-list-information jotting-filing book. Sections include:-Vital Information-Important numbers-Weekly activities-Annual Reminders-Bills-Household information-Holidays-Christmas-Birthdays & anniversaries-Conversion tables Each divider has a handy pocket on the back for bits & pieces & there&8217;s a couple of plastic pockets at the back for miscellaneous items. Typical"e: &8216; Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.&8217;GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ...

From time to time mankind takes a sudden leap forward & invents something which makes travelling so much simpler that people soon begin to wonder how they survived without it. The wheel the rickshaw the self inflating dirigible & now the Dodo travel log. Just some of the handy features of this book are:
- A tear off cover for non-logoists out there- A wipe clean journey jotter for wanderers & ponderers-Useful travel websites-Handy dividers with pockets for stuff-Free travel pouch & photo corners-lots of pages for notes & things
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How long can I live on beer alone? Why do people have eyebrows? Has nature invented any wheels? Plus 99 other questions answered. Every year readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist" the worlds best-selling science weekly in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the Last Word column
- regularly voted the most popular section of the magazine. " Does Anything Eat Wasps?" is a collection of the best that have appeared including: why cant we eat green potatoes; why do airliners suddenly plummet; does a compass work in space; why do all the local dogs howl at emergency sirens; how can a tree grow out of a chimney stack; why do bruises go through a range of colours; & why is the sea blue inside caves. Many seemingly simple questions are actually very complex to answer. & some that seem difficult have a very simple explanation. " New Scientist"s Last Word celebrates all questions
- the trivial the idiosyncratic the baffling & the strange. This selection of the best is popular science at its most entertaining & enlightening."

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