Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her. Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens having murdered the most perfect & popular girl at school. But the case is a mystery: no body has been found & Alison's condition is proving difficult to diagnose. Alison herself can't explain what happened: one minute she was fighting with Tori
- the next she disintegrated. Into nothing. But that's impossible. Right?
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At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwells soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried & promptly disappears an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wifes nose a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son a 1980s real estate company discover a soldiers skeleton dated to the time of Cromell... Told through diaries sermons letters drunken pub conversations & film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of Engl&. ...

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwells soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried & promptly disappears an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wifes nose a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son a 1980s real estate company discover a soldiers skeleton dated to the time of Cromell... Told through diaries sermons letters drunken pub conversations & film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of Engl&. Sometimes you forget that it is a novel & believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the dead". (Hilary Mantel)." ...

James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece Ulysses tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom & Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904 during which Bloom's voluptuous wife Molly commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England & the USA this richly-allusive novel revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats T. S. Eliot & Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank wittily erudite mercurially eloquent resourcefully comic & generously humane Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience. ...

Ulysses one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day 16 June 1904 the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom & Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its own literary style & the epic journey of Odysseus is only one of many correspondencies that add layers of meaning to the text. Ulysses has been the subject of controversy since copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York Post Office Authorities. Today critical interest centres on the authority of the text & this edition complete with an invaluable Introduction notes & appendices republishes for the first time without interference the original 1922 text. 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. ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community
- the so-called Concept House in Willesden
- maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London under a professional & a marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding controversy but then he encounters Audrey Dearth a working-class girl from Fulham born in 1890 who has been immured in Friern for decades. A socialist a feminist & a munitions worker at the Woolwich Arsenal Audrey fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the First World War & like one of the subjects in Oliver Sacks Awakenings has been in a coma ever since. Realising that Audrey is just one of a number of post-encephalitics scattered throughout the asylum Busner becomes involved in an attempt to bring them back to life
- with wholly unforeseen consequences. Is Audreys diseased brain in its nightmarish compulsion a microcosm of the technological revolutions of the twentieth century? & if Audrey is ill at all
- perhaps her illness is only modernity itself? & what of Audreys two brothers Stanley & Albert: at the time she fell ill Stanley was missing presumed dead on the Western Front while Albert was in charge of the Arsenal itself a coming man in the Imperial Civil Service. Now fifty years later when Audrey awakes from her pathological swoon which of the two is it who remains alive? Radical in its conception uncompromising in its style Umbrella is Will Selfs most extravagant & imaginative exercise in speculative fiction to date.



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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to Encephalitis lethargica she has languished in Friern Barnet Mental Hospital. Then in 1971 maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner arrives. Audrey's experiences of a bygone Edwardian London: her socialist lover her involvement with the Suffragists & her work in a munitions factory during the First World War alternate with Dr Busner's attempts to bring her back to life with a new & powerful drug. His investigations lead to revelations that are both shocking & tragic & which will return to haunt him decades later. ...

Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance" makes his comics writing debut in this outrageous superhero epic that Grant Morrison called " An ultraviolet psychedelic sherbet bomb of wit & ideas. The superheroes of the 21st century are here at last..." In an inexplicable worldwide event forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why his only explanation was " To save the world." These seven children form The Umbrella Academy a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic & deadly Eiffel Tower piloted by the fearsome zombie-robot Gustave Eiffel. Nearly a decade later the team disbands but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again." ...

Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. The maps also contain a comprehensive index & city plans of Ancona Perugia & Pascara. Map Scale
- 1: 200 000.

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Large black Umbro branded pencil case with two zipped pockets. The first zip goes the full length of the pencil case giving access to the wide barrel shape with plenty of room for storage & the smaller zipped pocket at the front of the pencil case is ideal for those little items you need to keep close to h&. Approximate

Dimensions 22x 10x 7.5. Main colour is black with turquoise highlights.

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