When Noah goes Christmas shopping with his mum & baby sister, he has a brilliant time with his toy elephant, Oliver, playing peekaboo, hiding in a doll`s house & dancing Oliver on tables. But suddenly disaster strikes
- Oliver goes missing! &
- oh dear
- the department store is VERY big. Will Noah ever find his favourite toy again?


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The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens` tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid & memorable characters
- the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes & the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel & popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, & pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat & mystery.
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Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty & hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. In ” Oliver Twist”, Dickens graphically conjures up the capital`s underworld, full of prostitutes, thieves & lost & homeless children, & gives a voice to the disadvantaged & abused. ...

Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced & strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes
- grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation & the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy & 'the Artful Dodger'. For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title.
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` Look here! Here`s a jolly life! What`s the odds where it comes from?` Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering & swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you`ll run down the dirty backstreets of London to be entertained by the Respectable Old Gentleman & his brood of thieves & pickpockets. Fagin will bring you to `the trade`, & make something of you, something profitable. But there`s something about the young orphan Oliver that`s too good for this dark & dangerous world
- can he ever escape its clutches?

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Material: In ` The Backstory` you can learn more about Oliver Twist`s London! Vintage Children`s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds & the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book & Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.




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Charles Dickens` classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London. After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin & his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison & finds himself in the care of kind Mr Brownlow. But Fagin & the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan, determined to drag him back... With an inspirational & light-hearted introduction by Garth Nix. ...

A comic fable from one of the masters of twentieth-century prose ” Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century” Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph The bored young ruler of an idyllic Central European country plots a coup against himself & escapes to Venice in search of `real` experience. There he falls in with a team of ambitious con-men & ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself. In this wonderfully droll tale the king`s journey through successive levels of illusion & reality teaches him much about the world, his foreordained role in it, & himself. Once again Szerb`s gentle irony is brought to bear on some uncomfortable paradoxes of self & the human condition. Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Though of Jewish descent, he was baptised at an early age & remained a lifelong Catholic. He rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, through studies of Ibsen & Blake & histories of English, Hungarian & world literature. He was a prolific essayist & reviewer, ranging across all the major European languages. Debarred by successive Jewish laws from working in a university, he was subjected to increasing persecution, & finally murdered in a forced labour camp in 1945. Pushkin Press publishes his novels The Pendragon Legend, Oliver VII & his masterpiece Journey by Moonlight, as well as the historical study The Queen`s Necklace & Love in a Bottle & Other Stories. ...

Tangy lemony tabbouleh, smoky, rich baba ghanouj, beautifully spiced lamb shank...the recipes in Olives, Lemons & Za`atar provide something irresistible for every occasion. These dishes represent the flavours of Rawia`s Middle Eastern childhood with recipes copied faithfully from family cookbooks (her mother`s most treasured harissa), & then developed with a creative flourish of her own. Her food is deeply personal & so she

Includes:: the classics but also the Mediterranean influences that come from summer holidays in Spain & living in Bay Ridge, the old Italian neighbourhood in Brooklyn. The result is a sensational cross-cultural mix & provides you with everything you need
- pickles, yogurt, bread, mezze, salads, stews etc
- to enjoy the best home cooking & share the most convivial Middle Eastern hospitality.



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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

In her newest hilarious endeavour, Olivia embarks upon a quest for identity & individuality. It seems there are far too many pink & sparkly princesses around these days & Olivia has had quite enough! She needs to stand out. & so, in typical ' Olivia' style, she sets about creating a whole array of fantastically dressed princesses...and shows us that everyone can be individual & special. ...