ISBN 978-0-141-04942-7 9 780141 049427 Cover design U.K.: £00.00 CAN.: $00.00 U.S.: $00.00 PENGUIN Fiction NEW B FORMAT.indd 1 22/09/2011 14:41 Dick King-Smith The Sheep - Pig When Babe, the little orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget, he is adopted by Fly, the kind-hearted sheep-dog. Babe is determined to learn everything he can from Fly. He knows he can't be a sheep-dog. But maybe, just maybe, he might be a sheep-pig. “ e fact is pigs don’t have a purpose, just likes ducks don’t have a purpose” Cat The Sheep - Pig Dick King - Smith
When Babe, the little orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget, he is adopted by Fly, the kind-hearted sheep-dog. Babe is determined to learn everything he can from Fly. He knows he can't be a sheep-dog. But maybe, just maybe, he might be a sheep-pig.
“ �e fact is pigs don’t have a purpose, just likes ducks don’t have a purpose” Cat
�is hard - hitting, powerful and moving tale based on the experiences of the late, great �ght manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X Toole. �e story reveals the struggle and consequence of one of the most dangerous sports, the �ghting hard of boxing.
“I remained a �ght fan through the years because I was fascinated with the science and the art of boxing as I was with the men who dared to put every ounce of body and soul on the line” Margaret
In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British plane crashes onto an isolated island. �e only survivors are male children below the age of 13. Two boys, the fair-haired Ralph and an overweight, bespectacled boy reluctantly nicknamed "Piggy" �nd a conch, which Ralph uses as a horn to bring all the survivors to one area. Two dominant boys emerge during the meeting: Ralph and Jack Merridew, a redhead who is the leader of a choir group that was among the survivors. Ralph is voted chief, losing only the votes of Jack's fellow choirboys. Ralph asserts two goals: have fun, and work towards a rescue by maintaining a constant �re signal. �ey create the �re with Piggy's glasses, nearly catching the whole island on �re. For a time, the boys work together.
“We've got to have rules and obey them. A�er all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.'” Ralph
Death Row, E block, at Cold Stone is tiled with a green linoleum, giving it the nickname �e Green Mile. Prisoners who walk that Green Mile �nish the walk at "Old Sparky", the electric chair. Five prisoners are incarcerated from August to October in. �e three most memorable prisoners include Edouard Delacroix, "Del", Wild Bill Wharton, and John Co�ey, the weeping giant, "like the drink, but spelled di�erently." �e assigned men to the area are Paul, Brutus "Brutal", Harry, Dean, and the governor's nephew, Percy.
“�ey usually call death row the Last Mile, but we called ours the Green Mile, because the �oor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair then. Old Sparky, we called it. I've lived a lot of years, Ellie, but that was the year of John Co�ey and the two dead girls. ” Old Paul
In 1948, Andy Dufresne arrives at Shawshank Prison. In contrast to most other convicts, Dufresne is not a hardened criminal but a so�-spoken young banker, convicted of killing his wife and her lover. Like almost everyone else in Shawshank, Dufresne insists on his innocence. Red, the narrator, has an ability to deliver contraband of almost any type (except, on his own principles, hard drugs and weapons) into Shawshank. �is makes him an important man within the prison's social structure — and it is also the reason that he �rst becomes acquainted with Andy.
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey’s extraordinary �rst novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey
“What are we doing in here, Chief? Huh? What's us two guys doing in this goddamn place? Let's get out of here. Out.”
