Chocky

John Wyndham

first published 1968 Penguin, 1988

A Lythway book

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. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the...

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Editions we hold

Chocky paperback · 2018 · Deli Dolu · 200 pages · 9786052349311
Chocky paperback · 2015 · New York Review of Books · 161 pages · 9781590178522
Chocky edition · 2010 · Penguin Group UK · 9780141928432
Chocky edition · 2010 · Penguin Publishing · 9780141964720
Chocky edition · 2010 · Penguin Books, Limited · 154 pages · 9780141191492
Chocky paperback · 2009 · Penguin Books · 9780141042183
Chocky edition · 1988 · Penguin
Chocky hardcover · 1984 · Chivers · 203 pages
Chocky. edition · 1984 · Puffin
Chocky. edition · 1973 · M. Joseph
Chocky edition · 1970 · Pergamon Press · 183 pages
Chocky paperback · 1968 · Joseph · 184 pages · 9780140031218

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