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  • The Terror of St Trinian's and Other Drawings

    by Ronald Searle ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Ronald Searle takes us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in The Terror of St Trinian's. In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. The subject of many evergreen films, St Trinian's is synonymous with the sort of outrageous behaviour that would make a convict blench. This book also contains ... Read more

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  • Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole

    by Ronald Searle ...
    47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy.On New Year’s Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer. Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing ‘to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead’. Filled with light and illuminated in ... Read more

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  • The Will to Live

    A Japanese POWs Memoir of Captivity and the Railway

    by L.L. Baynes ...
    The Author kept a diary recording his 1,000 days of captivity at the hands of the Japanese army. The difficulties and risks involved in this task were immense, yet he persevered although it meant deliberately defacing and cutting up the small pieces of paper. As a result, his memoir is both contemporaneous and entirely reliable.Reading this account of life and death during the fruitless fighting ... Read more

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  • Railway of Hell

    War, Captivity and Forced Labour at the Arms of the Japanese

    A first-hand account from a British POW, "not so much about the building of the Burma-Siam railway as it is about the existence of the men who built it" (BiblioBuffet.com).A young captain in the Royal Norfolk Regiment, Reggie Burton was wounded in the closing stages of the disastrous defense of Malaya and Singapore. He vividly, yet calmly and with great dignity, describes the horror of captivity ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Down With Skool!

    A guide to school life for tiny pupils and their parents

    If headmasters were honest a prospectus would be a book which sa how many kanes he hav, contane a warning about the skool dog and the amount of prunes and rice served during the term.Nigel Molesworth may not be the best student St Custard's will ever have, but he is certainly able to express his feelings about his beloved school - not to mention botany walks and foopball. With his handy guide to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Molesworth

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and he has little time for such things as botany walks and cissy poetry with an assortment of swots, snekes and oiks. Instead he is very good at missing lessons, charming masters and putting down little brothers, ... Read more

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  • How to be Topp

    A guide to Success for tiny pupils, including all there is to kno about SPACE

    All skools make some sort at teaching the pupils things and the headmaster pin up a huge timetable of lessons ect. which make the heart sink when you look at it.Nigel Molesworth is back, this time taking the tinies in hand and showing that they can survive the first term - as long as you avoid the prefects and show all due respect to Molesworth 1. Back to Skool might be particularly hard on Mater ... Read more

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  • Whizz for Atomms

    A guide to survival in the 20th century for felow pupils, their doting maters, pompous paters and any other who are interested

    With one mad yell the mob, armed with stumps and bits torn from desks, surge away down the pasage, trampling the masters under foot. A buket of water fall on GRIMES and the term end in a series of wizard rags and japes. Cars arrive, driven by parents with drawn, white faces.Nigel Molesworth is dragging St. Custard's into the 20th century in the company of 'felow pupils, their doting maters, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Back in the Jug Agane

    I need hardly tell you the esential thing about a football i.e. nobody need tell me to get rid of it. i do not want it in the first place. Wot is the use of having a soaking wet piece of leather pushed at you? Give me a hadock every time, at least you can eat it.Poor Nigel Molesworth is back at St Custard's, being snarled at by Grimes and forced to endure the good old footer season. But despite ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Rape And Society

    Readings On The Problem Of Sexual Assault

    In the 1970s rape became the point of departure for an ongoing feminist examination of the subordination and sexual victimization of women. More recently, domestic violence, prostitution, sexual harassment, and pornography have come to the forefront of investigators' concerns. Rape and Society returns to the original focus on rape while also illuminating the interconnections among the many forms ... Read more

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  • Adolf Hitler

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