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A Doll's House and Other Plays
Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social...
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Aw...
Hunwick's Egg (PB)
When a mysterious egg appears outside Hunwick's burrow, no one is quite certain what to think. And when it doesn't hatch right away, everyone is even more bewildered. Everyone except Hunwick, that is. Hunwick understands that the egg is his friend, and he is the only one who knows its secret. This treas...
Ballots Bullets and Kabulshit - An Afghan Election
Toby Ralph, described as one of the 'most powerful spinners and advisers in Australia', joined a UN team to assist with preparations for Afghanistan's 2009 presidential elections. Ballots, Bullets and Kabulshit offers a rare glimpse into the chaos and danger of attempting to deliver democracy in a war z...
Stuart Little
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. Stuart Little is the enchanting tale of the mouse who is small in size bu...
Little Tree
A stunningly heartfelt ode to the challenges of growing up and letting go, as poignant for parents as for their kids, from the creator of Otis the tractor and illustrator of The Little Engine that Could. "Long's gentle but powerful story about a young tree who holds tight to his leaves, even as everyone...
The Tax Inspector
The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Sixteen-year-old Benny dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empir...
The Sober Girl Society Handbook (HB)
Have you ever woken up feeling anxious after a night of drinking? Do you cringe with embarrassment when reminded of your wild antics at girls' night? Are blackouts increasingly becoming a problem?Whichever way you look at it, it's hard to avoid how alcohol really makes some of us feel: terrible. Whether...
A Total Waste of Space-Time!
Travel to planets unknown in book two of the Space-Time graphic novel series from the author of the New York Times bestselling Jedi Academy books Jide, Petra, and their intergalactic friends are back on the Potato (their orbiting classroom) for another out-of-this-world adventure. Their latest space mis...
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The original picture book written and illustrated by Tim Burton, a companion to the award-winning film, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack Skellington is the most important figure in Halloween Town and for years he has delighted in organising macabre tricks and frights for Halloween. But this year he ...
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