Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts begins, and it feels like a reassuring place to return to after the strange events of the summer. Disappearances, merder an ominous chilling mist which swirls through both the Muggle and wizarding worlds are harbingers of more sinister purpose. Voldemort's army is swelling, and with it the Death Easters are growing bolder and more deadly. Suspicions are rife, and …
Generous-hearted, smaartly comic, and wickedly insightful. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expetition through the perilous terrain of sex, love. relationships, and the treacherous waters of the workpalace. What is love, she
Lita and Rebecca are worlds apart. From the tough streets of the Bronx, Lita is determined to succeed- whatever the cost. Privileged Rebecca has never wanted for anything. And when she inherits an estate in England, it's just the start of a whole new life. Linked by betrayal, Rebecca and Lita are set against each other. Until they discover that revenge can be very sweet indeed......
Victor Frakenstein didn't mean to make a monster. But when he builds a man out of dead body parts ang brings him to life, he unleashes a horrible creature on the surrounding countryside. Can Frakenstein's monster he stopped?rnrnWith Classic Starts, young readers can experince the wonder of timeless stories from an early age. Abriged for easier reading carefully rewritten each classic novel is f…
The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased.rnThe Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other worldly - but they cannot yet…
'Elizabeth Jane Howard is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for .... She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts'rn-Hilary MantelrnrnIt is the 1950s and as the Duchy, the Cazalets'beloved matriarch, dies, she takes with her the last remnants of a disappearing world - of houses with servants, of class and tradition - in which the Caza…
In October 1492, an Italian-born Spanish-funded navigator thought he had discovered a new world, thousands of milesacross the Atlantic Ocean. In reality, though, Christopher Columbus had found the crucial link that would connect the globe for the first time in human history. In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson unfolds the story of the Caribbean from Columbus's first landing on the island he n…
Harry's second year at Hogwarts is rife with fresh torments and horrors, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gelderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the gilrs' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.rnrnBut these seeem minor when the real trouble begins, and someone - or something - starts turning Hogwarts students to stone…
Archeologist Murdered. Yesterday morning, an archeologist was found dead in a Cairo hotel. The archeologist was called Pearson. The police are making enquiries.
In his lifetime, Charles Dickens thrilled and entertained audiences by reading aloud extracts from his novels and tales of the supernatural. These two chilling short stories show Dickens to be a masterful writer of the mid nineteenth century ghost story.