Illusions: A Sam Fields Novel

On each double-page it looks as though they've spotted an egg, but when they turn the page the egg turns out to be something else. At the end, of course, they finally find what they've been hunting for. Spiral bound Release Date: Fill Apple Tree Farm with beautiful colours using the inkpad attached to this book. Join Poppy and Sam and all your favourite animals as you decorate the scenes with fingerprints in seven different shades. There are lots of helpful tips, and the activities include giving the hens some chicks, putting pigs in a pen, and adding spots to cows.

Use the special brush that comes with this book to fill the scenes of Apple Tree Farm with amazing, vibrant colours. Poppy and Sam are shown having various adventures, including riding on a tractor, having a picnic, flying kites and going camping. This delightful book has touchy-feely patches to stroke and flaps to lift, as we follow Poppy and Sam around Apple Tree Farm after a busy day.

They say goodnight to each of their favourite animals, including Clucky the hen, Woolly the sheep and Daisy the cow, and at the end they snuggle up and fall asleep. Press the buttons in this charming sound book to hear the animals on Apple Tree Farm come to life.

Join Poppy and Sam as they make their way around the farm, and hear Curly the pig, Woolly the sheep, Rusty the dog and Pippin the pony. At the end, accompanied by a jolly tune, you'll hear all the noisy animals at the same time. Little unicorn is hiding! Children will love searching for the elusive little unicorn as they peep through the holes in the pages of this magical book. There are fairies and mermaids and butterflies to meet along the way, until they finally find the unicorn at the end. Learn to play ten of the best-known tunes in classical music on the keyboard built into this beautifully illustrated book, including music from Beethoven, Vivaldi, Verdi and Dvorak.

A great introduction to the world of classical music and playing the piano.

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Includes a link to a virtual keyboard to listen to the tunes. Children - and adults - will love the twinkly lights that light up as you turn the pages and follow the story in this book. Mouse has no Christmas lights, so she sets out with her friend Mole and together they discover the twinkliest Christmas tree sparkling with lights.

A beautiful gift and a delightful book to share during the festive season. Where's the birthday cake? Where's the hungry dog? This adorable book is full of rhyming questions for little children to answer by looking at and talking about the charming illustrations. A lovely way to encourage young children to talk and form sentences, and a delightful book to enjoy together.

This stylishly illustrated reference book probably contains every type of vehicle you've ever seen - and lots that you haven't. There's everything from rockets, racing cars and planes to tanks, trucks and Roman chariots. Every picture is labelled with its name, and there's an index of all the names at the back of the book. Learn how to play a drum kit by pressing the buttons in this exciting book.

There are six different tunes to drum along to and seven drum buttons, including a snare, bass and cymbal, arranged in the shape of a drum kit. With links to Quicklinks to hear all the tunes and drum parts, this is a fun introduction for beginner drummers. Little children will love hearing the woods come to life as they press the pages of this enchanting book, and hear cuckoos and woodpeckers, rustling leaves and rippling streams. The colourful pages show birds in the treetops, animals playing beside a river and more, with simple text, beautiful illustrations and cut-out shapes to discover.

Little reindeer is hiding! Very young children will love peeping through the holes and touching the textured pages in this festive hide-and-seek board book, spotting a fox, squirrel and snowman as they search for the elusive little reindeer. Part of a gorgeous series for babies and toddlers, perfect for fans of That's not my A luxurious new treasury of poetry for older children, featuring a selection of work from classic and modern poets including Shakespeare, Byron, Ted Hughes and Wendy Cope, alongside all new original poetry by Sam Taplin.

Who's driving the train? Who's wet in the rain? A lovely way to encourage young children form sentences and improve their language skills, and a delightful book to enjoy together. Young football fans will enjoy bringing the game to life in this colouring book full of players, kit, team badges and exciting match action.

Scenes to colour include a corner kick, training session, cheering fans and a victory parade. The backgrounds are already coloured, so children can focus on the really interesting details on each page. Who's wearing blue socks? Who's friends with the fox? Little ones will love bringing the farmyard to life with this adorable sound book. Press the pages and hear hens clucking, cows mooing and much more, and pore over colourful scenes include a sheepdog rounding up sheep, a piglet playing in the mud and ducks splashing in the pond.

With simple text, holes to peep through and fingertrails to explore. Little bunny is hiding! Very young children will love peeping through the holes and touching the textured pages in this beautiful hide-and-seek board book, spotting a badger, chick and other animals as they search for the elusive little bunny. A lovely Easter gift for a baby or toddler, sure to be read many times. This adorable book for babies and toddlers is full of fun rhyming questions to answer and charming illustrations.

Little ones will love looking at the pictures and discovering which animal is wearing a hat, which dog is chasing a ball and much more. A lovely book to enjoy together. A sturdy xylophone attached to a book of well-known tunes, with colour-coded notes so that anyone can play them. With delightful illustrations, this is a lovely gift that can be taken anywhere, and there's an online virtual xylophone to see how to play the tunes. A delightful sticker and colouring book for little children, featuring a range of scenes showing Santa's preparations for Christmas, from his busy workshop to delivering presents for Christmas Day.

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Contains over stickers. Not suitable for children under 36 months because of small parts. A soundchip book with a difference! By pressing the big buttons in this unique and charming book, children can drum along to a variety of different tunes. The lively artwork and simple step-by-step instructions make learning the basics great fun, and then they can press a button to activate the music and drum along with it.

A swashbuckling colouring book packed with pirates, parrots and treasure. With exciting scenes of Captain Crayfish and his crew as they set off in search of buried treasure; scenes include the pirate ship on the high seas, rowing to a desert island, digging for gold, a pirate party and a pirate treasure map. Brush water over the black and white illustrations and watch the jungle magically burst into life! There are 16 scenes to paint with elephants having a bath, parrots flying high in the sky, a tiger and her cubs and lots more. With a handy flap at the back of the book to stop paint seeping through to the page beneath.

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Learn to play simple, well-known tunes on the sturdy keyboard attached to this book. Each note is represented with a different colour, which corresponds to the same colour on the keyboard, allowing even very young children to pick out the tunes. Sam Taplin, Phillip Clarke Format: Sam Taplin, Mairi Mackinnon Format: The words are written under each picture in English, in the Chinese characters and also spelled phonetically. A really useful item that will encourage an early love of languages.

A bumper activity book providing hours of creative fun, packed full of prehistoric scenes to colour and over stickers. There are dozens of fun dinosaur activities in this exciting book, featuring lots of dinosaurs to colour in, as well as scenes to fill with dinosaur stickers. Hours of fun for young dinosaur fans. A very simple colouring book for little children, featuring a range of scenes showing football players, matches and fans. Includes stickers to add to every page. This looks like a book but it's actually a clever sound panel that allows children to hear German words spoken by a native speaker.

Simply take one of the 4 cards each features 16 words and pictures on each side out of the envelope and insert into the slot as instructed.

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It is dedicated to George Lyttleton. The novel is highly organized, despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned. A Suicide Note is a novel by Martin Amis. In Time magazine included the novel in its " best English-language novels from to the present".

The novel was dramatised by the BBC in Plot summary Money tells the story of, and is narrated by, John Self, a successful director of adverts who is invited to New York City by Fielding Goodney, a film producer, to shoot his first film. Self is an archetypal hedonist and slob; he is usually drunk, an avid consumer of pornography and prostitutes, eats too much and, above all, spends too much, encouraged by Goodney.

The actors in the film, which Self originally titles Good Money but which he eventually wants to rename Bad Money, all have some kind of emotional issue which clashes with fellow cast members and with their roles — the principal casting having already been done by Goodney. Londinium was founded by the Romans. Helen Fielding born is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love.

Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy was published in autumn with record-breaking first-day sales in the UK exceeding 46, copies. In her review for The New York Times review, Sarah Lyall called the novel "sharp and humorous" and said that Fielding had "allowed her heroine to grow up into someone funnie It has been translated into 20 languages and was also made into a four-part drama series by the BBC in , with a soundtrack by David Bowie.

Style Due to the orality in The Buddha, the historical events, and the many dialogues full of colloquialism, the reader gets the impression of realism. The novel is highly episodic; Kureishi uses juxtaposition and collage. The suburbs are "a leaving place" from which Kureishi's characters must move away. To Karim, London—even though it is geographically not far away from his home—seems like a completely different world. Therefore, his expectations of the city are great.

In The Buddha the move into and later through the city is like an odyssey or pilgrimage. On the first page Karim introduces himself as follows: A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

The entire genre has been seen as having "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years",[1] with its origins in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella. Since the 18th century, the term "novella", or "novelle" in German, has been used in English and other European languages to describe a long short story or a short novel.

Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji has been described as the world's first novel. Spread of printed books in China led to the appearance of classical Chinese novels by the Ming dynasty — Parallel European developments occurred after the invention of the printing press. Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote the first part of which was published in , is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era. Blind Justice is a historical mystery novel by Bruce Alexander.

When Sir John investigates the apparent suicide of Lord Goodhope, it is Jeremy's eyes which note the crucial clue. Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England. The English novel is an important part of English literature. This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, or Scotland, or Wales, or Northern Ireland or Ireland before However, given the nature of the subject, this guideline has been applied with common sense, and reference is made to novels in other languages or novelists who are not primarily British where appropriate.

He was an undiscovered bigamist who lied to many people who only discovered some of his secrets after he died. The truth of some of his life is still as of only documented in files regarded as 'sensitive' under section 3 4 of the Public Records Act by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. His father had had a year career in the British Army from year-old boy bugler to Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps when he died in He was mentioned in despatches for his managing and supplying of hospital ships and trains from the Western Front. In the final year of World War I he was responsible Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the English author Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language.

Published in and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams. The novel represents the coming together of the two competing aesthetics of 18th-century literature: The novel draws on a variety of inspirations. Written "in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote" see title page on right , the work owes much of its humour to the techniques developed by Cervantes The Casual Vacancy is a novel written by J.

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Factions develop, particularly concerning whether to dissociate with a local council estate, 'the Fields', with which Barry supported an alliance. However, those running for a place soon find their darkest secrets revealed on the Parish Council online forum, ruining their campaign and leaving the election in turmoil. Major themes in the novel are class, politics, and social issues such as drugs, prostitution and rape. Bridget Jones is a franchise based on a fictional character of the same name created by British writer Helen Fielding. Jones first appeared in Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary column in The Independent in , which - crucially - did not carry any byline.

Thus it seemed to be an actual personal diary chronicling the life of Jones as a thirtysomething single woman in London as she tries to make sense of life and love with the help of a surrogate "urban family" of friends in the s. The column in fact lampooned the obsession of women with women's magazines such as Cosmopolitan and wider social trends in Britain at the time.

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Fielding published the novelisation of the column in , followed by a sequel in called Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy, respectively. After Fielding had ceased to work for The Daily Telegr In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman German pronunciation: Plot summary A string of daring and vicious robberies strike the great houses of central London. Even Sir John is laid low, and young Jeremy Proctor must take a significant role in the investigation. It was laid out in the s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, "the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in developing London", as Sir Nikolaus Pevsner observes.

It is today managed by the London Borough of Camden and forms part of the southern boundary of that borough with the City of Westminster. Lincoln's Inn Fields takes its name from the adjacent Lincoln's Inn, of which the private gardens are separated from the Fields by a perimeter wall and a large gatehouse. The grassed area in the centre of the Fields contains a court Plot summary Sir John and Jeremy are drawn deep into the notorious Seven Dials area of London, where they must contend with the most sordid inclinations of both the working class and the aristocracy.

When the body of a young girl is pulled from the Thames, the search for the girl's mother takes Jeremy to the races. See also A subplot is based on the notorious case of Elizabeth Canning. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.

These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsoph The social novel, also known as the social problem or social protest novel, is a "work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized through its effect on the characters of a novel". It is also referred to as the sociological novel. The social protest novel is a form of social novel which places an emphasis on the idea of social change, while the proletarian novel is a political form of the social protest novel which may emphasize revolution.

Henry Fielding 22 April — 8 October was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones. Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found with his half-brother John what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners.

His younger sister, Sarah, also became a successful writer. A suit for custody was brought by his grandmother against his charming but irresponsible father, Lt. The settlement placed Henry in his grandmother's care, although he continued to see his father in London. Set in , it follows the adventures of an idealistic young coal miner from Scotland who believes there must be more to life than working down the pit. The miner, Mack McAsh, eventually runs away in order to find work and a new life in London. Eventually McAsh becomes a leader amongst the working classes of the city and becomes a target for those vested interest groups who do not share his point of view.

McAsh is framed for a crime he did not commit and sent to serve seven years hard labour in the Colony of Virginia where he is forced to find a new life. Historical events from the novel The novel initially deals with subject of the Payment of Arles, a form of serfdom for miners in the 18th century which meant that once a miner started work in a coal mine he was bound to the mine for the rest of his life.

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U. Hesse dedicated the first part of it to Romain Rolland[1] and the second part to Wilhelm Gundert, his cousin. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama".

Siddhartha decides to leave behind his home in the hope of gaining spiritual illumination by becoming an ascetic wandering beggar of the Shraman Titlepage of Aphra Behn's Love-Letters An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used.

Recently, electronic "documents" such as recordings and radio, blogs, and e-mails have also come into use. The epistolary form can add greater realism to a story, because it mimics the workings of real life. It is thus able to demonstrate differing points of view without recourse to the device of an omniscient narrator. Early works There are two theories on the genesis of the epistolary novel. The first claims that the genre originated from novels with inserted letters, in which the portion containing the third person narrative in between the letters was gradually reduced. The London Underground also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

The 11 lines collectively handle approximately 4. The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th-century literary genre which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. Sentimentalism, which is to be distinguished from sensibility, was a fashion in both poetry and prose fiction beginning in the eighteenth century in reaction to the rationalism of the Augustan Age.

Sentimental novels relied on emotional response, both from their readers and characters. They feature scenes of distress and tenderness, and the plot is arranged to advance both emotions and actions. The result is a valorization of "fine feeling," displaying the characters as a model for refined, sensitive emotional effect.

The ability to display feelings was thought to show character and experience, and to shape social life and relations. The Citadel is a novel by A. Cronin, first published in , which was groundbreaking in its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later. Cronin drew on his experiences practising medicine in the coal mining communities of the South Wales Valleys, as he had for The Stars Look Down two years earlier.

Specifically, he had researched and reported on the correlation between coal dust inhalation and lung disease in the town of Tredegar. Cronin once stated in an interview, "I have written in The Citadel all I feel about the medical profession, its injustices, its hide-bound unscientifi Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer.

She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in , and they lived together in the United States and then in England. They had two children, Frieda and Nicholas, before separating in Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy ECT. She died by suicide in Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. The shape of the magnetic field produced by a horseshoe magnet is revealed by the orientation of iron filings sprinkled on a piece of paper above the magnet.

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