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Author: Tom Oliver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A thought-provoking and worthwhile read' THE TIMES 'A timely, challenging book' GUARDIAN '[A] rich, intriguing book' NATURE WE ARE MUCH MORE...

The power of imagination and the strength of friendship is celebrated in this Kate Greenaway shortlisted and Amnesty Endorsed book from a rising star of picture book making. Shortlisted for...

From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Olive Morris, the social justice activist and campaigner. Olive was a child when she moved...

In the heart of teeming nineteenth-century London, Owen Oliver walks out of his gloomy, unwelcoming lodgings - and he doesn't stop his travels until he reaches Kent. There, Owen's life...

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They...

'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver BulloughOn 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand...

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament In 1647, the Parliamentarians were divided. They...

From the founding of the club in 1892 to present day, bestselling author and football expert Tom Palmer picks ONE HUNDRED of the most thrilling and significant goals, games, players...

Emmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. In Emmy's soul, despite the space and time between them,...

Packed with action, love and betrayal, Tom Grass's electrifying heist thriller is a gripping reinvention of the Dickens classic, OLIVER TWIST.Now a major film starring Michael Caine, Lena Headey, Rita...

Author: E. Lockhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From E. Lockhart, author of the New York Times bestseller and Zoella Book Club 2016 title, We Were Liars,...

Author: Tom Parfitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver Bullough On 1...

Featuring Eric Kincaid's marvellous illustrations, this series of books has been especially written to introduce the younger reader to the great classics of children's literature. These abridged versions feature all...

Oliver Twist- orphan, trainee pickpocket, good boy. Elbow your way through the streets of Victorian London with Dicken's most enduring child character 'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting' Oliver Burkeman 'A remarkable book about a remarkable theorem' Will Storr 'Witty, lively and best of...

The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts- fenland farmer and humble backbencher;...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics,...

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics,...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...

Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear,...

Author: Oliver Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Anti-hero Nick Belsey, a policeman so maverick as to make Rebus look like a jobsworth, has burnt his bridges and fled...

Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street...

Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in England in the mid-19th century.

The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in...

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Edition: 1st ed., 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Scarce DJ - chipped with some...

The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.-a figure more important to the creation of the modern world than Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Morgan Nearly fifty years into IBM's existence, Thomas Watson...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Please, sir, I want some more.' An...

Author: Tom Stoddard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 242 The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz George Murphy Pops Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the grimy underworld of Victorian London, a young...

'This ain't the shop for justice' The Artful Dodger, Oliver Twist 'The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsOliver Twist chronicles the harrowing journey of an innocent orphan navigating the brutal realities of Victorian London. This classic work of...

Author: Mari Hannah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The truth can be hidden . . . but secrets always surface The peace of Kielder Water is shattered when tourists...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of Victorian literature, Oliver Twist chronicles the...

Author: Walter Mosley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A BRAND NEW KING OLIVER NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA Joe King Oliver is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon have captured the brutal realities of Victorian poverty with such unflinching moral force as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. Published...

Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines there is no better...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE** "Idiosyncratic and entertaining," Sunday Times "A fascinating family and social history," Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time...

Author: Roy Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Carol Danvers has one of comics' most richly varied careers - both in and out of costume! She's been...

____________________________ A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the...