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By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141191492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780241983928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141181479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nuclear war has devastated the world, bringing with it a host of genetic mutations. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign of deviation, no matter how small, is ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141045436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780241284674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141185415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see. This title expresses many of the political concerns of its time: the Cold War, the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780241970577
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen - one of the lucky few to keep his sight - finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780143566533
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Bill Masen awakes blindfolded in hospital and carefully removes his bandages, he realises he is one of the few who can see; almost everyone else has been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their day.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141033013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the English village of Midwich, a silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed - except that all the women in the village are pregnant. This book offers a tale of aliens, exploring how we respond when confronted by those who are innately superior to us in every way.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9781473230729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of man's leap into the seas of space, from the author of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141042183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things. Who is Chocky And what could it want with a 11-year-old boy


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780241972175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a collection of author's short tales.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141048772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancee looks identical to the victims too - and then she disappears.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780241977026
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141032979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that his own son, and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret abberation which would label them as mutants.


(Hardback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9781473212688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2016
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The disturbing post-apocalyptic masterpiece from the author of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141033006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop their spread the Triffids, mobile plants with stingers and carnivorous appetites, seem set to take control.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141032993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people. This book narrates how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780241977019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780241972168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In Chronoclasm a man is pursued by his own future. We meet a robot with an overactive compassion circuit. And what happens when the citizens of the future turn the past into a giant theme park


(Paperback)

By: John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141032986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Francis and Diana, two scientists investigating a lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implications for the world of a youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo by using the lichen to inspire a feminist revolution.