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BOOK OF THE WEEK with Charlie Richards. Roald Dahl 15 Book Collection Pack, Roald Dahl, ISBN 978-3200327788 (Penguin) BD32.200 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Never fear we have something that will keep those trogglehumpers at bay.
To mark Roald Dahl’s 100th year anniversary don’t miss out on our half price phizz-whizzing, whoopsy-wiffling offer on the special Roald Dahl Collectors pack.
It is jam-packed full of your favourite Dahl stories and other classics. Reach new heights with the BFG, or for the more cunning among you, you may want to join Fantastic Mr Fox on his sly and exciting adventures. However, if The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is more your cup of tea, or you need to teach a grown-up a thing or two, then this is the pack for you as ‘no book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends’.
Don’t hesitate to pick up a story and turn that page for ‘even a little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men’.
All paperback Roald Dahl individual children’s books will be available to our GulfWeekly members at half price up until the end of October. If you are not already a member you can join today.
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The Forgetting Time , Sharon Guskin, ISBN 978- 1509806812 (Pan)
BD3.900 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Noah is a little boy who knows things he shouldn’t and remembers things he should have forgotten because as well as being a four-year-old called Noah, he remembers being a nine-year-old called Tommy.
He remembers his house, his family and his mother. And now he wants to go home - two boys, two mothers and one unforgettable story.
My favourite read of the week
Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, ISBN 978-1594746031 (Quirk Books) BD4.400 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
A mysterious island, an abandoned orphanage and a strange collection of very curious photographs all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
This is an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling, reading experience.
As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets 16-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And, somehow impossible though it seems, they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
