Wicked Words
- a collection of saucy & compelling short stories. Wicked Words 9 is the latest in our ever-popular series of Black
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This book features a brand new brilliant collection from the ground-breaking poet Benjamin Zephaniah. His verse explores people & places cultures nationalities & tribes.

Includes:: poems about Inuits Celts the history of Britain Maories the Dalai Lama the North & South Poles & much more
- a real tour of the world.


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At Bagley Hall a notoriously wild but increasingly academic independent crammed with the children of the famous trouble is afoot. The ambitious & fatally attractive headmaster Hengist Brett-Taylor hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive
- known locally as Larks. His reasons for doing so are purely financial but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis the dynamic new head of Larks who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Janna is young pretty enthusiastic & vastly brave
- & she will do anything to rescue her demoralised run-down & cash-strapped school. Neither parents nor staff of either school are too keen on this radical move although some can see the possible financial advantages. For the students however it offers great opportunities to get up to even more mayhem than usual.

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Whether or not you can tell your dibbly-dobblies from your nurdles this marvellous offering from the popular Wit" series is bound to bowl you over. Crammed full of hilarious"ations from cricket capers worldwide it's the perfect all-rounder for any fan of the gentleman's game. From run-out rebuttals to wicket wisecracks oval orations to howzat humiliations this side-splitting book will ensure you'll never be stumped for a return again." ...

Every great place has its own special spirit & each of the 260 marvellous photographs in Wide Angle" embodies that spirit captured brilliantly on film. Encompassing all seven continents & more than a century of superb photography this wonderful collection invites the reader to share the magic of discovery. Whether showing crowded city streets alive with energy or vast & still wilderness landscapes bright colors & sparkling highlights or softer quieter scenes in muted hues all of these arresting pictures share one compelling quality: a sure sense of place that pulls the reader into the frame & turns an image into an experience." ...

Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's" 'madwoman in the attic' Bertha Rochester Jean Rhys' " Wide Sargasso Sea" is edited with an introduction & notes by Angela Smith in " Penguin Classics". Born into the oppressive colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty & sensuality. After their marriage however disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands & her own precarious sense of belonging Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness & her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal a seminal work of postcolonial literature is Jean Rhys' brief beautiful masterpiece. Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica. Coming to England aged 16 she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris where she began writing & was 'discovered' by Ford Madox Ford. Her novels often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time & only modestly successful. From 1939 (when " Good Morning Midnight" was written) onwards she lived reclusively & was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre's Bertha Rochester " Wide Sargasso Sea" in 1966. If you enjoyed " Wide Sargasso Sea" you might like Charlotte Bronte's " Jane Eyre" also available in " Penguin Classics". " She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century & turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century". (Michele Roberts " The Times")." ...

Jean Rhys spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea" inspired by Jane Eyre & winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. There is no looking glass here & I dont know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place & who am I? If Antoinette Cosway a spirited Creole heiress could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty & sensuality he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness. Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica Jean Rhys powerful haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs Rochester the mad wife in Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre. " Compelling painful & exquisite". (" Guardian"). " Brilliant. A tale of dislocation & dispossession which Rhys writes with a kind of romantic cynicism desperate & pungent". (" The Times"). " Rhys turns a menacing cipher into a grieving plausible young woman & one whose story says whole worlds about global mixtures about the misunderstandings between the colonized the colonizers & the people who cant easily say which they are". (" Time"). Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1890 the daughter of a Welsh doctor & a white Creole mother & came to England when she was sixteen. Her first book a collection of stories called " The Left Bank" was published in 1927. This was followed by Quartet (originally Postures 1928) " After Leaving Mr Mackenzie" (1930) " Voyage in the Dark" (1934) & " Good Morning Midnight" (1939). None of these books was particularly successful & with the outbreak of war they went out of print. Jean Rhys dropped from sight until nearly twenty years later she was discovered living reclusively in Cornwall. During those years she had accumulated the stories collected in Tigers are Better-Looking. In 1966 she made a sensational reappearance with Wide Sargasso Sea which won the Royal Society of Literature Award & the W. H. Smith Award. Her final collection of stories " Sleep It Off Lady" appeared in 1976 & " Smile Please" her unfinished autobiography was published posthumously in 1979. Jean Rhys died in 1979." ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on...A story that

Includes:: a hurricane a signalling device hungry leaches cold cucumber soup a horrible villain & a doll named Pretty Penny. Then again why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? Avoid these books in Lemony Snickets international bestselling series & youll never have to know what happens!

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here is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on...A story that

Includes:: a hurricane a signalling device hungry leaches cold cucumber soup a horrible villain & a doll named Pretty Penny. Then again why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? Avoid these books in Lemony Snicket's international bestselling series & you'll never have to know what happens!

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In 1987 the Tour was won by Irishman Stephen Roche. It was the first time the champion had hailed from outside the Continent or the States & the first time in 20 years a British team
- ANC Halfords
- had competed in the world's toughest & craziest race. Jeff Connor not only stayed with the British team but also found himself an unofficial team member. In this long-awaited new edition of Wide-Eyed & Legless" now widely regarded as a classic Connor describes what it takes to compete survive & win during those 26 days of gruelling effort. Alongside the heroism & athleticism he reveals the extraordinary amounts of chicanery from pulling riders along to illicit drug use. Time has not dimmed the impact of this eye-opening & entertaining close-up look at the supreme endurance event & " Wide-Eyed & Legless" is destined to be acclaimed by a new generation of cycling enthusiasts."

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