At last a brand new Penny Pollard adventure! When Penny is given a school assignment about saints, she doesn t realise what she might be getting herself into Penny Pollard is one of Australia s most popular and enduring characters for children (and adults) everywhere. Written by award-winning and successful author, Robin Klein, and with amusing illustrations and photographs by Ann James, Penny Pollard s Scrapbook is guaranteed to join the ranks of the Penny Pollard classics, and delight a whole new generation of readers.

In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.

Penny Pollard hates: pink dresses, Simone, twitty lavender bags, Annette Smurton (who has her own horse) and Jason Taylor. But she likes: horses, Mrs B (who is her 81-year-old best friend), collecting things (including horse shoes and swap cards), visiting cemeteries, and writing!You can read all about Penny s hilarious adventures in the six books that make up this award-winning, best-selling, ever-popular series. From travels around the UK to a project on good manners, trying to avoid being a bridesmaid to finding ways to save her family home, Penny does it all!The Penny Pollard series of books has been read and loved by thousands of children around the world since Penny Pollard s Diary was first published in 1983. Now Hodder Headline Australia is re-releasing the complete series with a new range of up-to-the-minute, fun and appealing jackets. A whole new generation of readers will be introduced to this funny, feisty girl who knows her own mind at all times and isn t afraid of anything.

A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune). During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class—the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England’s greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E. P. Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class. It remains incredibly relevant to the social and economic issues of current times, with the Guardian saying upon the book’s fiftieth anniversary that it “continues to delight and inspire new readers.”