Penguin books u k (60 resultados)

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Fine as New. First Paperback. An excellent copy of this book. The covers are uncreased. 343 tight, clean pages. ---- Castaway was Lucy Irvine's bestselling true story of a year spent on a desert island. This book is the astonishingly powerful and candid account of her life that led to that time. Her refusal to conform, from an early age, pitched her into unusual and sometimes shattering experiences - hitchhiking around Europe, a violent rape, a painful love affair - that were to push her to the limits of endurance. This remarkable book is both the compulsive story of a young girl's stormy passage to maturity and a desperate search for sexual identity after violation. It is an unflinching record of courage, honesty, rebellion and survival - and the price that can be paid for true independance. Paul Wakefield (ilustrador). Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. A neat clean copy of this book. No creases to the back cover or to the spine, one very small corner crease to the front bottom corner. 143 tight pages, browning gently. Elisabeth Novick (ilustrador). Romantic Fiction.

Mass Market p/back. Condición: Good. Revised and Updated. 403 clean pages. Illustrated with photographs. Reading creases to the spine. Corner crease to cover. pen numbers to ffep.this edition has been revised and updated with a new epilogue. Book.

Laminated Trade Paperback. Condición: Good. an ex-library book. FFEP missing. Some wear to cover edges. 259 clean pages including index. --- one in six couples have trouble in conceiving. The author of this book reviews the nature and significance of infertility and the reproductive revolution, including - investigations and causes, psychological and emotional factors, new treatment for women and men, the chances of sucess and the outlook for the children, adoption and fostering, bereavement and coping with childlessness, current controversies, the case for public provision. Positive and sympathetic, this book will guide infertile couples, questioning health workers and the concerned general reader. It frankly confronts all the painful medical and moral choices while celebrating dramatic new hopes for the childless. Book. …

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. A solid, clean copy of this book. Light reading crease to the spine. The covers are uncreased. Page edges browning. Book.

Condición: Very Good. No creases to the covers. Mild reading creases to the spine. Slight 'lean' to the book. Bright, clean pages. Horror Suspense.

Mass Market p/back. Condición: Very Good. A very good copy of this book. Very mild reading crease to the spine. No creases to the covers. Clean, tight pages.Small remains of price label to cover. Crime/mystery.

Mass Market p/back. Condición: Good. New Edition. Light reading creases to the spine. The front cover has some light surface creases. The back cover is uncreased. 425 pages - browning. Reading or study copy. lower postage. Music.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. First. 156 pages - browning to the edges. Two creases to the spine and a little rubbing along the spine edge. Very light corner crease to the top of the front cover. Illustrated. with excellent photographs. Ivan Holmes (ilustrador). Myth/ legend/biology.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Revised and Updated Edition. An excellent copy of this book. 272 clean pages. No creases to the spine or the covers. There is some light edge wear.Owners name to inner cover. Includes a number explanatory maps and tables, and gives a clear survey of Africa, its resources and problems and detailed studies of each region. Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Paperback. A very good copy of this book. One very mild reading crease to the spine. One small corner crease to the bottom corner of the front cover. The pages are clean and firm Illustrated. Film Tie-in.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Light reading creases to the spine. The covers are uncreased. lower postage. Caroline Williams (ilustrador). Classic Literature.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. First British. Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and to pray for their souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa - madman , sadista , rapist , even a Satan - who hold them in his tyrannical power.Here trapped in the wilderness , their terrifying battle for survival begins.The book is in excellent condition.One very slight reading crease to the spine otherwise no faults. A very good copy of this book. Whitebread novel of the Year. Kazuyoshi Nomachi (ilustrador). Book.…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** A very nice unread copy, pages tanned, black line on bottom edge, otherwise without flaw. 4.5 X 7" 231 pages. Here come Nora Batty, Arnold, Clegg and Compo, not to mention a certain resourceful Seymour Utterthwaite. It's Nora Batty's birthday, and Compo decides to give her a live peacock. Rank Arnold finds himself in a caravan with a woman whose size 20 biceps burst alarmingly from a size 18 dress, and Clegg wants only to return to his ironing. Fiascoes galore and fun in abundance by Britain's King of Comedy.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Cover has very light edgewear, pages lightly tanned, otherwise without flaw. 4.5 X 7" 203 pages. From 1971. The Argentine pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. With small map, illustrated by Ralph Thompson. …

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Cover has light shelf wear, name inside cover, pages lightly tanned, otherwise very clean and well bound. 4.5 X 7" 221 pages. From 1968. Racial tensions mount through a long hot summer: Black Muslims in Harlem build up an armory while non-violent Freedom Riders demonstrate down south.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Cover has light creasing, small sticker on front end page, otherwise clean and well bound. 4.5 X 7" 107 pages. From 1977. One Christmas Eve a mouse's appearance in an old widow's bedroom leads to a chance encounter with a small boy - a meeting that would be remembered by both of them for a long time. Into this neatly devised plot Miss Read weaves all her customary 'humour, charm and wisdom'. J. S. Goodall (ilustrador). …

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Spine edge has faded, slight shelf wear, pages tanned, otherwise a very nice unread copy. 4.5 X 7" 187 pages. Cover illustration by Len Deighton. In the gently rolling hills of the province of Moray, Loch Ruighi lay shining in its hollow. By its banks Tim King lived in a small cottage with a well-cultivated garden, his bees, and his nanny-goat. The Key Above the Door is the story of Tom King and his neighbours, of his love for Agnes de Bure, of his clashes with the newcomer Edward Leng, and of his poaching adventures with this friends.…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Pages lightly tanned at edges, otherwise without flaw, appears unread. 4.5 X 7" 234 pages. Mr. Pooter is one of the enduring figures of English fiction, his absurdity only increased by the primness with which he clutches his tattered dignity to him. There is a part of him in all of us, and thanks to the inventive wit of brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, in him we are all immortalized. First published in book form in 1892, this book is a treat to read. Weedon Grossmith (ilustrador).…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Pages have tanned, otherwise without flaw. 4.5 X 7" 236 pages. Orange Penguin 1527 first published in 1950. High spirited, irreverent, poking fun at the hoary old English taboos of sex and class, Scenes from Provincial Life was to be the immediate forerunner of a new school of young writers with a new attitude towards life.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Cover has light edgewear, pages tanned, otherwise without flaw . 4.5 X 7" 271 pages. From 1979. The Second book in the Reginald Perrin series.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Cover has light edgewear, pages tanned, otherwise without flaw 4.5 X 7" 287 pages. From 1979. The first of 3 books in the Reginald Perrin series.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Pages tanned, otherwise without flaw. 4.5 X 7" 271 pages from 1979. The Third book in the Reginald Perrin series. This is Reginald Iolanthe Perrin's most ambitious project yet - Perrins - the commune where middle-aged middle-class people can learn to live in peace and happiness, a therapy centre where clients - wit a little help from the staff - can find the love and goodness that lurk deep inside them. In this final episode in the hilarious Perrin trilogy, the indomitable RIP makes a last bid to create a Better World.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Reprint. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Cover has edge wear, creasing and circular mark, pages tanned, otherwise clean and well bound. 4.5 X 7" 237 pages From 1965.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Reprint. Cover has light edge wear, name on first page, pages lightly tanned with light foxing on top edge. 5 X 8" 414 pages, published 1984. A novel which evokes the tawny spirit of Africa with rare mastery. A Far-Off Place tells of the flight of Francois and Nonnie, pursued from the flames of Hunter's Drift by a band of terrorists, and of their journey through the Kalahari in the company of the Bushmen Xhabbo and Nui-Tara. Complete in itself, A Far-Off Place is also a sequel to A Story Like the Wind. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**. …

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Pages have tanned, name written on front cover, otherwise very clean and well bound. 4.5 X 7" 239 pages. From 1955. An examination of the economic issues which directly affect day-to-day life in post-war England (1950s) including the rise and fall of prices, the Dollar Gap, international trade, and the wages question.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Reprint. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Cover has wear, pages tanned, side edges lightly soiled, pages clean and well bound. 4.5 X 7" 233 pages. First published in 1948. The aircraft crashed miles from help in the Burmese wilderness. Assailed by heat, thirst and pain, three men set off on the long trek towards safety. …

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Pages lightly tanned, otherwise without flaw. 4.5 X 7" 124 pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. Pages have lightly tanned at edges, otherwise an unread copy. 4.5 X 7" 301 pages, With an introductory chapter by J.X.W.P.Corcoran. This book is a history of Celtic culture in Britain from its origins to its transformation under the Romans and Saxons. The Celts possessed a self-contained and remarkable culture whose influence is by no means restricted to those parts of Britain traditionally regarded as 'Celtic'. Nora Chadwick, a Celtic scholar of international repute, describes the rise and spread of the Celts and their arrival in the British Isles in about the eighth century BC. With chapters on their literature and art, their institutions and religion. Black & White Photographs (ilustrador).…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Pages lightly tanned, otherwise without flaw. 5 X 8" 224 pages. Professor Eysenck shows that pschoanalysis, unlike behavioural therapy, is strikingly unsuccessful at curing neurotic patients and argues that Freudian theories about dream interpretation and Oedipus Complex, anal personalities and slips of the tongue, are, at best implausible.…