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A policeman on a mission of mercy is shot dead at point-blank range by a sweet old granny on a frosty morning. Maniacally inventive - some have called it deranged - Pennac's creations in The Fairy Gunmother have achieved cult status all over Europe.

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Benjamin Malaussne, the Belleville scapegoat, and his family of half sisters and brothers are once again the target for a series of increasingly catastrophic mishaps which culminate in his imprisonment on 21 counts of murder.

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Benjamin Malaussne and family are far from happy when his fortune teller younger sister Thrse marries the aristocratic Count Marie-Colbert de Roberval at a televised wedding a ceremony from which Marie-Colbert has unceremoniously banned the madcap Malaussne clan.

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Pathetic, contrite and hapless, Benjamin is nonetheless the scapegoat at The Store: there is nothing for which he cannot be blamed. With his girlfriend Julie by his side, Benjamin thrusts himself into uncovering the mystery, delving deep into underground Paris and pursuing the truth through a maze of bizarre criminality and oppressive shadows.

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Manuel Pereira da Ponte Martins, beloved dictator of the state of Teresina in Brazil, develops agoraphobia the day a fortune-teller predicts he will die being torn limb from limb by an angry mob.

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Benjamin Malaussne is a downtrodden publisher at Vendetta Press. Treated as a scapegoat by Queen Zabo, doyenne of publishing, he finally resigns, only for Zabo to offer him a starring role. All he has to do is to impersonate the world's best-loved, but hitherto anonymous author, J.L.B.

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A French counterpart to Adrian Mole, by one of Europe's best-loved comic writers

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A humorous and incisive reflection on education - the autobiography of a dunce who became a brilliant teacher and a bestselling author.

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A classic, essential read by master storyteller Daniel Pennac, with a new foreword written by Michael Morpurgo.

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Humane, humorous and deeply felt, this is a unique book about reading.