Les Tuniques bleues 42/Qui veut la peau du general
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‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’. This is a lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of the story – a black man charged with raping a white girl in the 30s.
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
Big, bullying tom cat, Scarface Claw, Hairy Maclary’s arch-enemy, is at the centre of this story. But like most bullies, Scarface turns out to be not as tough as he and the other animals think, when he is scared by his own reflection.
‘The Summer Book’ is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds and sudden storms.
This work paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Amidst the tragedy, Marjane’s child’s eye view adds immediacy and humour, and her story of a childhood at once outrageous and ordinary, is immensely moving.
The story of an adventurous love affair that took place at the beginning of the 20th century, between an innocent Scottish girl, far away from home, and a Japanese count.
Emma is a nervous flyer and she can’t help but tell the man next to her – quite a dishy American, but she’s too frightened to notice – all her innermost secrets. At least, she thought he was a stranger.
192 pages on acid-free, ivory coloured paper. Expandable inner pocket. Size: 14 x 9cm.
192 pages on acid-free, ivory coloured paper. Expandable inner pocket. Size: 14 x 9cm.
80ápages on acid-free, ivory-coloured paper. Expandable inner pocket. Size: 14 x 9cm.
240 pages of acid-free paper. Bookmark, elastic closure and expandable inner pocket. Size: 21 x 13cm.
This is the story of a very hungry caterpillar growing into a beautiful butterfly.
Ast̩rix and Obelix are celebrating their joint birthday party in the Gaulish village Рand some surprising guests have been invited. Julius Caesar has to deal with his old enemy Pompey, who is looking for supporters among the legions in Gaul.
Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music, of something fundamental to his own creative gift.
Les Tuniques bleues 42/Qui veut la peau du general
1 × £14.95 Vintage Classics Death In Afternoon
1 × £10.99 Large Ruled Hardcover Notebook Black
1 × £23.00 Subtotal: £48.94