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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 13 working days A transformative portrait of Churchill, whose love of history, theater, and reading was inextricably linked to his life as a statesman This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill's personal, carefully composed grand story and on the decisions he made throughout his political life. Rose provides in this expansive literary biography an analysis of Churchill's writings and their reception (he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and was a best-selling author), and a chronicle of his dealings with publishers, editors, literary agents, and censors. The book also identifies an array of authors who shaped Churchill's own writings and politics: George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Margaret Mitchell, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, and many more. Rose investigates the effect of Churchill's passion for theater on his approach to reportage, memoirs, and historical works. Perhaps most remarkably, Rose reveals the unmistakable influence of Churchill's reading on every important episode of his public life, including his championship of social reform, plans for the Gallipoli invasion, command during the Blitz, crusade for Zionism, and efforts to prevent a nuclear arms race. In a fascinating conclusion, Rose traces the significance of Churchill's writings to later generations of politicians, among them President John F. Kennedy as he struggled to extricate the U.S. from the Cuban Missile Crisis. Features Summary A transformative portrait of Churchill, whose love of history, theater, and reading was inextricably linked to his life as a statesman Author Jonathan Rose Publisher Yale University Press Release date 20140401 Pages 528 ISBN 0-300-20407-8 ISBN 13 978-0-300-20407-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Save the day with DK Reader: The LEGO(R) Batman(TM) Movie Level 1. Follow Batman and Robin as they save Gotham City from the hands of The Joker. With LEGO Batman(TM) your child will learn about their favourite Batman characters, vehicles, creatures and locations while becoming confident readers. DK Reader: LEGO(R) Batman(TM) Movie is a Level 1 reader. These books are great for children who are learning to read. Exciting stories with limited vocabulary and lots of word repetition engage young fans and build their literary skills. The winning combination of Batman(TM) and an engaging story packed full of exciting images is perfect for getting children hooked on reading. LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configuration and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. (c) 2017 The LEGO Group. Produced by Dorling Kindersley under license from the LEGO Group. THE LEGO BATMAN(TM) MOVIE (c) The LEGO Group & Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. BATMAN: TM &(c) DC Comics. (c) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.(s17) Features Summary Save the day with DK Reader: The LEGO(R) Batman(TM) Movie Level 1. Follow Batman and Robin as they save Gotham City from the hands of The Joker. With LEGO Batman(TM) your child will learn about their favourite Batman characters... Author Beth Davies Publisher DK Children Release date 20170215 Pages 24 ISBN 0-241-27961-5 ISBN 13 978-0-241-27961-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days These are four new titles in this burgeoning series, providing a great introduction to the remarkable lives of important historical figures. Each book describes a famous life, following the protagonist through their triumphs and tribulations. It has lively speech, colourful illustrations and photographs that bring the reader closer to the action as the story unfolds. Features Summary Provides introduction to the remarkable lives of important historical figures. Each book describes a famous life, following the protagonist through their triumphs and tribulations... Author Katie Daynes Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd Release date 20180301 Pages 62 ISBN 0-7460-6814-X ISBN 13 978-0-7460-6814-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Meet four amazing women - astronauts, scientists and mathematicians - who helped make space travel a reality. Illustrated with photography from the new LEGO® Ideas Women of NASA set, this book for children learning to read is a fun way to discover the achievements of some of space travel's greatest pioneers. Read about Mae Jemison, the first African American women to travel in space. Find out how Sally Ride inspired future scientists after her career as an astronaut. Discover how Margaret Hamilton created computer software for the Apollo mission, and see the stars with Nancy Grace Roman through the giant Hubble Telescope. Learn about NASA, and explore what life is like aboard the Endeavour Space Shuttle! Presented with fun images, simple vocabulary and lots of word repetition to engage young readers and help them build their literary skills, DK Reader LEGO Women of NASA reading book celebrates achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Features Summary Meet four amazing women - astronauts, scientists and mathematicians - who helped make space travel a reality. Illustrated with photography from the new LEGO® Ideas Women of NASA set... Author Dk Publisher DK Children Release date 20180129 Pages 24 ISBN 0-241-33140-4 ISBN 13 978-0-241-33140-8

We combine postage, so do look at our other items on offer. Postage prices outside of South African borders will differ. Please enquire before purchasing. Dispatched within 3 business days. Our books are protected with a removable plastic cover and sent with care. Condition: Good. In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memories—of her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.A. Suleri; of her tenacious grandmother Dadi and five siblings; and of her own passage to the West. "Nine autobiographical tales that move easily back and forth among Pakistan, Britain, and the United States.... She forays lightly into Pakistani history, and deeply into the history of her family and friends.... The Suleri women at home in Pakistan make this book sing." —Daniel Wolfe, New York Times Book Review "A jewel of insight and beauty.... Suleri's voice has the same authority when she speaks about Pakistani politics as it does in her literary interludes." —Rone Tempest, Los Angeles Times Book Review " The author has a gift for rendering her family with a few, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs." —Anita Desai, Washington Post Book World " Meatless Days takes the reader through a Third World that will surprise and confound him even as it records the author's similar perplexities while coming to terms with the West. Those voyages Suleri narrates in great strings of words and images so rich that they left this reader... hungering for more." —Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune "Dazzling.... Suleri is a postcolonial Proust to Rushdie's phantasmagorical Pynchon." —Henry Louise Gates, Jr., Voice Literary Supplement Bibliographic information: Title Meatless Days Authors Sara Suleri, Sara Suleri Goodyear Edition Hardback Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1990 ISBN 0002154080, 9780002154086 Length 186 pages Please Click ---> HERE PTO Books is selling.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority. At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but-dare he admit it?-strangely on target. In this landmark book, Nobel Prize-winning writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. Literature, philosophy, performance, and deep human conviction-Coetzee brings all these elements into play. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields. Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger, primatologist Barbara Smuts, literary theorist Marjorie Garber, and moral philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. Together the lecture-fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation. Features Summary The description for this book, The Lives of Animals, will be forthcoming. Author J. M. Coetzee (Author), Amy Gutmann (Editor), Amy Gutmann (Introduction by) Publisher Princeton University Press Release date 20160909 Pages 125 ISBN 0-691-17390-7 ISBN 13 978-0-691-17390-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A Herman Graf bookA gifty, beautifully designed pocket book of essential William Shakespeare quotes from Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, and more.Shakespeare is an eternally popular literary figure and inspiration with work that is constantly being revised, covered, reimagined, and performed. Part of the series that includes The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill (Spring 2017) and The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Jane Austen (Spring 2017). Features Summary A pocket quote book of the indispensable wisdoms from William Shakespeare. Author Max Morris Publisher Skyhorse Publishing Release date 20170831 Pages 160 ISBN 1-5107-1580-0 ISBN 13 978-1-5107-1580-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days `A riveting account of the pre-First World War years... The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times `A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.' Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface. In The Age of Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation's massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century's gravest constitutional crisis and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists' public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the nostalgia of A. E. Housman. And he concludes with the crisis that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the United Kingdom - a looming civil war in Ireland. He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great men and women of the day - including Gladstone, Parnell, Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb, Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw - creating a richly detailed panorama of a great power that, through both accident and arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges. `A devastating critique of prewar Britain... disturbingly relevant to the world in which we live.' Gerard DeGroot, The Times `You won't put it down... A really riveting read.' Rana Mitter, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Features Summary `A riveting account of the pre-First World War years... The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times `A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch... Author Simon Heffer Publisher Windmill Books Release date 20181030 Pages 912 ISBN 0-09-959224-X ISBN 13 978-0-09-959224-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The Ultimate Guide to The Munros is a guidebook with a difference. Rather than telling the reader which are the 'best' routes, it describes all practicable ascent routes up all the Munros, and rates them in terms of difficulty and quality (using comprehensive grading systems). This enables the reader to make his/her own choices from a range of route options. Providing everything a prospective hill walker could want, The Ultimate Guide to the Munros also makes extensive use of annotated digital photographs and OS maps and includes everything about a route from the amount of effort required to local history, weather conditions and the best tea-rooms in the vicinity. Features Summary This gripping tale of life, death, love and redemption appeals to fans of literary fiction and music lovers alike. Author Ralph Storer Publisher Luath Press Ltd Release date 20160531 Pages 160 ISBN 1-908373-64-4 ISBN 13 978-1-908373-64-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A new B-format edition of JRR Tolkien's legacy of short stories which inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century's most acclaimed popular author. The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf's lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan. Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien's son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father's writings. Features Summary A new B-format edition of JRR Tolkien's legacy of short stories which inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Author J. R. R. Tolkien Publisher HarperCollinsPublishers Release date 19920331 Pages 611 ISBN 0-261-10216-8 ISBN 13 978-0-261-10216-3

Unimportance During a night that turns out to be the longest in Zizi's memory, instead of writing the manifesto speech, the reader follows the anxiety-stricken politician in his race against time and cover of the night, as he searches the campus for his missing girlfriend. While Zizi is haunted by the fear that Pamodi might expose him for what he really is, forever damaging his pristine image as the favourite presidential candidate, Pamodi evades detection, and is nowhere to be found. In the morning, the speech he delivers is not anything anyone could have expected from an SRC star: it is a litany of confessions for his questionable integrity and violence. As Zizi's words fade, and a sense of shock lingers in the air, he is faced with the reality of his actions; as they realise that they may vote a highly flawed man into office, how will these students vote? What will it mean, either way? About the author Thando Mgqolozana is a graduate of the University of the Western Cape, a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a recipient of the Golden Key International Honour for scholastic achievement, and one of the Mail & Guardian 's Top 200 Young South Africans. He has previously worked as a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council and is now based at the University of Cape Town. A Man Who is Not a Man (2009) enjoyed critical success and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Hear Me Alone (Jacana Media, 2011) is a controversial allegory of the birth of the Messiah set in an Africanised Nazareth. Author Thando Mgqolozana ISBN 9781431409525 Format Paperback Pages 146p.

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) The popular paperback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, which continue the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century's most acclaimed popular author. The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf's lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan. Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien's son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father's writings. Format:Paperback Pages:624

High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, mother of twins Eliot and Miranda, and beloved wife of Luc. Miranda misses her with particular intensity. Their mazy, capricious house belonged to her mother's ancestors, and to Miranda, newly attuned to spirits, newly hungry for chalk, it seems they have never left. Forcing apples to grow in winter, revealing and concealing secret floors, the house is fiercely possessive of young Miranda. Joining voices with her brother and her best friend Ore, it tells her story: haunting in every sense, and a spine-tingling tribute to the power of magic, myth and memory. Miri I conjure you...'Superbly atmospheric. The dark tones of Poe in her haunting have the elasticity of Haruki Murakami's surreal mental landscapes' - Independent. 'The kind of prose that creeps off the page, crawls up the spine and burrows deep into the reader's paralysed mind' - Daily Mail. ' White is for Witching should establish Oyeyemi as an ambitious voice in modern macabre; master of the light, lyrical touch and dark, half-hinted suggestion' - The Times. 'Entrancing' - TLS. 'Helen Oyeyemi was a literary prodigy. Now, she is ready to make the transition from wunderkind to established author. Remarkable' - Daily Telegraph.