J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, Paperback - Humphrey Carpenter

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Class 3 get a new computer, and soon get trapped in the school website. Young Puffin. Confident reader with b/w illustrations by Frank Rodgers. Rea...

When Class Three and Mr Majeika go to the circus, it's definitely not as fun as they imagined. Everyone's a bit old, creaky and rubbish really! So ...

'Oh, don't be cowards, ' said Jody. 'I'm sure it's perfectly safe.' Mysteriously stranded in the fog at night, Mr. Majeika and Class Three find the...

Latest adventure with Mr Majeka, the wizard turned teacher at St Barty's School. Class Three see something green, scaly and with eyes like light bu...

New magical story featuring Mr Majeika, the popular wizard-turned-teacher. }Mr Majeika{ titles have sales of over 725, 000 in the UK. B/w line illu...

Poor Mr Majeika goes to the bottom of the class when the school inspector comes to call. Things don't get any easier when Mr Majeika turns himself ...

When old Mr Jenks retires, St Barty's School advertises for a new caretaker. Unfortunately there's only one applicant - Hamish Bigmore's Uncle Wilf...

'I really am quite useless as a wizard.' But Class Three thinks Mr Majeika is an excellent wizard, particularly when his spells go wrong! First Ham...

Mrs Chipchase, the nasty dinner lady, makes lunch hour at St Barty's really unpleasant. That is, for everyone but her 'favourite friend', Hamish Bi...

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Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898. His father was a Jew of German origin who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who passed himself off...

Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the ...

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