Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only...
Jemima Puddle-Duck My First Little Library
This is a perfect introduction to the wonderful world of Peter Rabbit for babies and young children. Jemima Puddle-Duck: My First Little Library contains four small, chunky board books that gently introduce early...
Jemima Puddle-Duck: Hello Jemima!
Hello Jemima! introduces very young children to Jemima Puddle-Duck, one of Beatrix Potter`s most delightful characters. The padded style is perfect for little hands, and children will love learning about Jemima as she...
Journey to the Centre of Earth
An ancient parchment bearing a mysterious cryptogram maps the most hazardous journey of Professor Lidenbrock`s career. With his nephew and a guide the Professor travels to Iceland. Their journey to the centre of the...
Jude Fawley, a stone-mason, has already suffered. His academic ambitions were thwarted by his poverty and class: trapped into a loveless marriage, he is now alone but not free. He comes to love his cousin Sue who,...
Living in a tiny apartment in New York and trapped in a job she hates, Julie Powell sees life passing her by. Then one night, she notices that the few items she`s grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very...
Annie and Duncan fit together naturally, like jigsaw pieces, though Duncan`s passionate obsession with Tucker Crowe, the reclusive, tortured-genius songwriter, has never left much time for anything more meaningful -...
This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the "Penguin Popular Classics" series.
The stories of the man-cub Mowgli's boyhood in the jungle have an imaginative power that has appealed to generations of children and adults. Brought up by wolves among the unforgettable characters of the jungle,...
`Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.` Thus, one of the creative visionaries of the Beat movement recites the junk equation, the calculus...
Junky, Burroughs, William S. (PMC)
Burroughs` first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk...
‘Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life’. This is the junk equation, the way in which heroin redefines the addict’s world. Burroughs’s cult...
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a `good job` in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a...
Kidnapped is a classic adventure story, as thrilling today as when it was first published. As he sets off into the world to seek his last remaining kinsman, Uncle Ebenezer, young David Balfour has no idea of the...
Orphan sahib and bazaar-boy, Kim lives by his wits. His chameleon`s talent for disguise draws him into the Great Game - British intelligence in India - and on a mission to thwart foreign agents on the North-West...
One of the later plays, "King Lear" is such a powerful depiction of suffering and redemption it is now thought by many to be Shakespeare's greatest creation. When King Lear abdicates his throne and divides his...
King Solomon's Mines has gripped generations of readers, young and old alike, ever since it first appeared in 1885. The whereabouts o{ King Solomon's legendary diamond mines had been inscribed in blood on an...
