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Rectors Wife
£9.99For 20 years Anna Bouverie, as a priest’s wife had served God and the parish in a diversity of ways. When her husband failed to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreated into isolated bitterness, Anna suddenly rebelled and took a job at the local supermarket.
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Breakfast Of Champions PB
£9.99In a frolic of cartoons and comic outbursts against rule and reason, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations at the same time.
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Going to Meet the Man: The Rockpile; the Outing; the Man Child; Previous Conditi
£12.00A collection of short stories concerned with the subject of racial conflict. The title story is of a man whose hatred has its origins in a scene from his childhood, where his parents and others watch with jubilation, the mutilation and lynching of a black ‘criminal’.
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Slaughterhouse 5
£9.99The destruction of Dresden by bombs and a fire storm was a catastrophe that Vonnegut himself witnessed as a prisoner of war and forms the basis of this modern classic.
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Prayer For Owen Meany
£9.99Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend’s mother. Owen doesn’t believe in accidents; he believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.
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Please Mrs Butler
£7.99With a fresh new look for a brand new generation of school children to take to its heart, every teacher, parent and child should have a copy. Nobody leave the room. Everyone listen to me. We had ten pairs of scissors At half-past two, And now there’s only three. This title offers a collection of school poems.
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The Road to Lichfield
£10.99Anne Linton’s life is split in two when her dying father is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. Leaving her family behind, she sets up camp in her father’s house. As she shares his last weeks, Anne finds herself falling in love.
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Ha Ha Bonk Book
£6.99Jam-packed with brilliant jokes to tell your Mum, your Dad, your dog or even your teacher!