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Nina Bawden was one of the UK's best writers for both adults and children. She often used her own childhood experiences in her books - Carrie's War is set in the mining valley in Wales where she lived as an evacuee in wartime. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford and finished her first novel the year after she took her degree. She won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for The Peppermint Pig.
Nina died in 2012, aged 87.
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 014030472X
- ISBN 13 9780140304725
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: VG/GD++. y 1st. Edn, rev, 1st. Imp. FNL. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1970 (1967)* Publisher: Puffin Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Single crease to spine not to hinge. Slight dish. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, slight age to paper throughout especially to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 140 pp. text. iv pp. author?s notes and advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- ?This is the story of how we became a gang of thieves. My sister Jinny says I shouldn?t start like this, giving away the story in the first sentence, but I think she?s wrong. If you?re writing a book, you?ve got to make sure the right sort of people read it, haven?t you?? So begins Nina Bawden?s children?s novel ?A Handful of Thieves?, a story narrated by Fred McAlpine who tells of his adventures with his four friends: Sid, Algy, Rosie and Rosie?s ?ghastly friend? Clio, all of whom congregate regularly at an abandoned motor racing track, where their meetings are held in an enormous old Humber saloon car.* This is a VG text copy of the 1st./1st thus. with minimal shelf wear reducing it to GD++.* 1970-01-01. n. Seller Inventory # 1507
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