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Alice Through the Looking-Glass | |||
| and What She Found There | Miscellaneous | |||
| Lewis Carroll; Helen Oxenbury | ||||
| Ted Smart 2005 228 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 074455778X 233x190mm | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| One snowy winter afternoon Alice climbed through the mirror above the drawing-draw fireplce into a back-to-front, topsy-turvy world where flowers talk, chess pieces walk and the faster you run, the more you end up in the same place. In this edition, the much-loved characters of Lewis Carroll's Looking-Glass world - Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpy Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, the Jabberwock, the Red Queen and the rest - are brought to life by one of today's foremost illustrators, Helen Oxenbury. | ||||
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |||
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| Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake | ||||
| Puffin 2004 146 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0670914533 280x190mm | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| The adventures of Charlie Bucket, who only got chocolate once a year, but ended up with all the sweets he could eat, is a modern classic of children's literature. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, here is the story of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, his Golden Tickets and the five children who compete for a lifetime's supply of free chocolate - Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregard, Mike Teavee and Charlie - in a beautiful hardback edition with Quentin Blake's inimitable illustrations. | ||||
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The Compulsive Spike Milligan | |||
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| Norma Farnes (Edited by) | ||||
| Fourth Estate 2004 455 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0007193335 | ||||
| Published Price £18.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Spike's agent Norma Farnes has assembled this selection of the best bits from his prolific output, based around the personal favourites he included in his one-man show. In addition to excerpts from his war memoirs, novels and rewriting of the Bible, the book includes some of Spike's drawings and poems, typewritten television and radio scripts and letters to recipients as diverse as Margaret Thatcher, Lew Grade, Marty Feldman, George Martin and Cliff Morgan. | ||||
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Criminal London | |||
| A Pictorial History from Medieval Times to 1939 | Miscellaneous | |||
| Mark Herber | ||||
| Phillimore 2002 208 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1860771998 274x203mm | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Crime has always been an integral part of London life and the capital has seen more than its fair share of murder, rape, theft, conspiracy and confidence trickery. With illustrations ranging from engravings of beheadings to modern police mugshots, all with detailed explanatory texts, Mark Herber's book examines the history of London's criminal world in chapters on criminals in action, thieftakers and police, riots, the courts, the criminals and their victims, famous executions, punishments and London prisons from the Clink to Borstal. | ||||
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