The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle

The Giggler Treatment by Roddy DoyleGloriously silly comedy from Booker prize winner and bestseller Roddy Doyle. If adults are mean to children, they get the Giggler Treatment. It's smelly. It's squishy. And it sticks to your shoe. But sometimes, just sometimes, the Gigglers make a mistake Can anyone come to Mr Mack's rescue before the poo hits the shoe?

(Text taken from the publishers Penguin/ Random House)

the fates of the twins remain intertwined

Booker Prize winning novel by Northern Irish author Anna Burns

and the question of the future

But they don't know this yet

undemonstrative mastery

after she is kidnapped by criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II for a large ransom of 24-karat gold

What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter

This Akutagawa-prize winning novel follows the everyday activities of an unconventional woman who finds happiness in convenience store work

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an unexpected future

In the present