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When the family business
collapses, Beauty and
her two sisters are
forced to leave the city
and begin a new life in
the countryside. However,
when their father
accepts hospitality from
the elusive and magical
Beast, he is forced to
make a terrible promise -
to send one daughter to
the Beast's castle, with
no guarantee that she
will be seen again.
Beauty accepts the
challenge, and there
begins an extraordinary
story of magic and love
that overcomes all
boundaries. This is
another spellbinding and
emotional tale
embroidered around a
fairytale from Robin
McKinley, an
award-winning American
author.
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When the family business
collapses, Beauty and
her two sisters are
forced to leave the city
and begin a new life in
the countryside. However,
when their father
accepts hospitality from
the elusive and magical
Beast, he is forced to
make a terrible promise -
to send one daughter to
the Beast's castle, with
no guarantee that she
will be seen again.
Beauty accepts the
challenge, and there
begins an extraordinary
story of magic and love
that overcomes all
boundaries. This is
another spellbinding and
emotional tale
embroidered around a
fairytale from Robin
McKinley, an
award-winning American
author.
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When the family business
collapses, Beauty and
her two sisters are
forced to leave the city
and begin a new life in
the countryside. However,
when their father
accepts hospitality from
the elusive and magical
Beast, he is forced to
make a terrible promise -
to send one daughter to
the Beast's castle, with
no guarantee that she
will be seen again.
Beauty accepts the
challenge, and there
begins an extraordinary
story of magic and love
that overcomes all
boundaries. This is
another spellbinding and
emotional tale
embroidered around a
fairytale from Robin
McKinley, an
award-winning American
author.
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In the year 2300 London
is in ruins and in the
hands of two warring
families of ganglords,
the Volsons and the
Conors. To cement a truce
Val Volson offers Conor
the hand of his daughter
Silivia, to her horror.
The wedding is disrupted
a msterious one-eyed
prisoner who has been
hanging upside down in a
glass elevator shaft
overlooking the banquet.
The superstitious people
are in no doubt that he
is the god Odin and they
watch in terror as he
challenges themto see who
can remove the special
knife from the lift
shaft. It is Silvia's
twin brother who claims
the knife and then
returns to Conor. Val is
killed and the three sons
perish but Siggy is saved
by Melanie, a pigwoman,
though he has lsot Odin's
knife to Conor in battle.
In order to stop Silvia
avenging her family's
death, Conor has her
legs broken to keep her
prisoner, But Silvia has
an ally in Cherry, a cat
and shape-changer devoted
to her mistress and
together they plan the
downfall of Conor, a
plan that will also
involve Siggy in taking a
terrible revenge....
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Sigurd has a fabulous but
frightening future
predicted: even to start,
he must leave everything
he knows to go and fight
a dragon, and from there
descend into the
Underworld. Sounds bad
enough, but when you
know that the dragon
lives on a futuristic,
industrially-ruined
moonscape that was once
Hampstead Heath, the
scene is set for a
staggeringly brutal fight
on an epic scale.
Unhappily for him, he
meets the love of his
life in the underworld,
and Sigurd's efforts to
rescue his lover will
cause huge heartache and
grief for both of them,
and also for everyone who
ever meets them.
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The first major retelling
of the Greek myths and
legends, A WONDER-BOOK
was published in 1852.
The American novelist
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a
friend of the poet
Longfellow and had much
earlier suggested they
collaborate on a story
for children based on the
legend of Pandora's Box,
but this never
materialized. Hawthorne
went ahead on his own,
adding five other myths
which he adapted very
freely in a romantic and
readable style, used
deliberately to remove
the classical tales from
what he called 'cold
moonshine. ' Hawthorne's
book was criticized by
adults for his
bowdlerization, but it
has always been popular
with children and has
attracted many
illustrators, none more
distinguished than Arthur
Rackham who made his
pictorial contribution in
1922.
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Everyone in Kinvara is
conscious that time is
flying past, faster and
faster - to such an
extent that when JJ asks
his mother what she would
like as a birthday
present she ask for more
time. JJ dismisses this
as mere wishful thinking,
an impossibility, for
who know where the time
goes?
The Liddys
have been musicians for
generations and JJ is no
exception but what he
discovers is that a
shadow from the past
hangs over their family
-did his
great-grandfather murder
the village priest? When
he sets out to buy his
mother time, he
discovers the fate of a
flute which will provide
the key to both problems
- it is the vital clue.
He makes the transition
to Tir na n'Og, the land
of eternal youth, where
the fairy people are also
having a problem with
time and it falls to his
lot to locate the leak
between the two parallel
worlds. JJ finds where
time goes!
Music
proves to be the
touchstone for
communication between the
fairy and the human
domains and the book is
saturated with the lure
of Irish music for JJ`s
whole existence is built
round the ceili and each
chapter relates to a
tune, printed out as a
heading so that the
reader can also become a
performer. As for the New
Policeman, Larry
O'Dwyer, he is an
enigmatic figure who has
a significant bearing on
the plot but whose
identity is kept a
superbly guarded secret
to the very last
surprising
moment.
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Everyone in Kinvara is
conscious that time is
flying past, faster and
faster - to such an
extent that when JJ asks
his mother what she would
like as a birthday
present she ask for more
time. JJ dismisses this
as mere wishful thinking,
an impossibility, for
who know where the time
goes?
The Liddys
have been musicians for
generations and JJ is no
exception but what he
discovers is that a
shadow from the past
hangs over their family
-did his
great-grandfather murder
the village priest? When
he sets out to buy his
mother time, he
discovers the fate of a
flute which will provide
the key to both problems
- it is the vital clue.
He makes the transition
to Tir na n'Og, the land
of eternal youth, where
the fairy people are also
having a problem with
time and it falls to his
lot to locate the leak
between the two parallel
worlds. JJ finds where
time goes!
Music
proves to be the
touchstone for
communication between the
fairy and the human
domains and the book is
saturated with the lure
of Irish music for JJ`s
whole existence is built
round the ceili and each
chapter relates to a
tune, printed out as a
heading so that the
reader can also become a
performer. As for the New
Policeman, Larry
O'Dwyer, he is an
enigmatic figure who has
a significant bearing on
the plot but whose
identity is kept a
superbly guarded secret
to the very last
surprising
moment.
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A chilling, beautiful
debut novel inspired by a
haunting folk song about
murder, witchcraft and
revenge.
Beware
of Long Lankin, that
lives in the moss...
When Cora and
her little sister Mimi
are sent to stay with
their elderly aunt in the
isolated village of
Bryers Guerdon, they
receive a less than warm
welcome, and are
desperate to go back to
London. But Auntie Ida's
life was devastated the
last time two young girls
were at Guerdon Hall,
and now her nieces'
arrival has reawoken an
evil that has lain
waiting for
years.
A haunting
voice in an empty room.
.. A strange, scarred
man lurking in the
graveyard.. . A
mysterious warning,
scrawled on the walls of
the abandoned church...
Along with Roger and
Peter, two young village
boys, Cora must uncover
the horrifying truth that
has held Bryers Guerdon
in its dark grip for
centuries - before it is
too late for
Mimi.
Intensely
atmospheric and truly
compelling, this is a
stunning
debut.
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I am the great and mighty
Zeus, mortal- give me
one good reason why I
shouldn't smite you here
and now!'Alex's class are
learning about the
Ancient Greeks. That's
why Alex makes a temple
(out of loo rolls and a
cornflakes box) for the
Greek god Zeus. He
doesn't expect the god
himself to turn up,
borrow his mum's nightie
and demand a sacrifice at
half-past five in the
morning. Even worse,
Zeus reckons it's time
for another Trojan War -
in the school playground!
Zeus is on the loose-
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JJ Liddy sometimes blames
his unreliable
temperament on the visit
he made to Tir na n'Og,
the land of eternal
youth, when he was
fifteen years old. It's
perhaps not surprising
that his children have
also turned out to be a
little eccentric,
especially
eleven-year-old Jenny.
She forgets to go to
school, can't bear to
wear shoes, and spends
entire days roaming the
mountainside.
It's
up there that she meets
the ghost. He is guarding
a pile of rocks known as
the beacon, and when
some archaeologists
arrive to excavate it,
they run into the
strangest kind of
obstruction.
But
it is not people the
ghost fears, and when
the real enemy finally
reveals itself, the
future of the entire
human race is threatened.
Only Aengus Og and his
fairy kin can help
now.
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Bansi O'Hara is visiting
her granny in Ireland,
when very strange things
start to happen. First
there is the swan that
seems to be following
them from the ferry,
then the strange little
man who appears in her
bedroom and says he's a
brownie called
Pogo.
Things get
even stranger when Bansi
finds out that her birth
fulfilled an ancient
prophecy from Tir na
n'Og, the land of the
faeries, and that the
wicked Lord of the Dark
Sidhe wants to spill her
blood on faery
soil.
Bansi, Pogo
and Tam, a handsome
faery who can change into
animal form, cross
through the gate that
separates the two worlds
to try and make the
prophecy come true for
the good faery peoples.
But the Dark Lord is
waiting for them...
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In this collection of
fifty-one tales from the
land of galloway, Alan
Temperley pays tribute to
the great Scottish
tradition of
storytelling.The tales
are wide-ranging:heros,
ghosts and solway
smugglers;witches,
martyrs, mermaids and
fairies;reivers, monsters
and colourful rogues.
Here are Billy Marshall,
King of the
tinklers;Sawney Bean, the
murderouscannibal;young
Robert the Brube on the
run in the heather;Trost,
last of the Picts, who
kept the secret of
heather ale;the legend of
Mons Meg;Claverhouse and
Lagg, persecutors of the
Covenanters;the famous
poterguist of Rerrick;and
many more. Simply told
and unadorned, the
stories bear the flavour
of the region- mountain
and forest, silver rivers
and lochs, the wild
Solway Firth, and some of
the most beautiful
rolling countryside in
Britain. Origionally
these traditional
tales-ranging from rustic
comedy to horrific
murder-were told in
crofts and rural
cottages.They grew
naturally out of the rich
past and the land and the
lives of the
people-wonderful
stories.And they are
still as alive today as
when they were first
told.
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The story of Robin Hood,
said Roger Lancelyn Green
can never die, nor cease
to fire the imagination.
Like the old fairy tales
it must be told and told
again, for it is touched
with enchantment. Placing
his hero's legendary
history in the reign of
Richard I of England.
Roger Lancelyn Green has
used as his sources the
ballads, romances and
plays, as well as the
literary retellings of
Noyes, Tennyson,
Peacock and Scott. In
this literary mosiac he
has brought to life a
character who is the
archetypal outlaw and
popular champion of the
poor. Walter Crane, one
of the masters of
children's book
illustration, created
the drawing for a
retelling of the Robin
Hood story by Henry
Gilbert. published in
1912.
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Megan, Bella and Alice
inhabit the isolated
world of a girl's
boarding school, Egerton
Hall, buried deep in the
English countryside. The
Tower Room which they
share is remote and high,
and from it the three
survey the everyday drama
of school life. With only
months to go until their
final exams they are
already sensing the
dangerous delights
awaiting them in the
grown-up world. Megan
feels a special poignancy
about leaving school;
orphaned soon after she
came to Egerton Hall,
she has virtually been
brought up there as the
ward of the science
mistress.But it is Megan
who looks down from the
Tower Room that
unforgettable morning,
to meet Simon's
inquisitive gaze. As
Megan rushes to embrace
her fate, her safe,
cocooned world is
transformed forever...
Loosely based on
the Rapunzel fairytale,
this highly original
novel is the story of a
sudden, unexpected,
passionate relationship
and the unforseen yet
inevitable results of
defying
convention.
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When the book opens Eve,
who is the narrator, is
just coming into
consciousness. She has
been given by God to the
Serpent to raise. Her
sense of wonder as the
Serpent introduces her to
life in Paradise is a
strength of the book; she
learns about nature,
love and the way that the
new and fascinating world
works. When she comes
into contact with God -
who rears Adam - she is
wary of his dominance and
egotism.One day,
becoming impatient to
discover whether or not
he`s designed the male
and female to procreate
properly, God rushes
Adam and Eve into
intercourse.The Serpent
alone regcognizes the
consequences of God`s
act. `Until today Eve has
felt...that the world was
good...' but ' Adam as
good as raped her.' Eve
is devastated by the
experience.
Eve leaves
the Garden to gain some
distance from God and to
discover what exists in
the outside world; the
Serpent accompanies her.
They make several
journeys - one to a
volcano, one to a
desert, one to a
mountain range and one to
the sea (where Eve swims
out to sea against the
instructions of the
Serpent and nearly
drowns.) On their return
to the Garden, the roots
of the apple tree of the
Knowledge of Good and
Evil begin to grow; the
Serpent sensing that time
is running out to teach
Eve that love making is
good, changes into a man
and makes love to her
with great sensitivity.
After this she is
prepared to accept her
role as the mother of
humankind.
God is
outraged by Eve's - and
also Adams's - interest
in the tree of knowledge.
He is at his capricious
worst: everything must
bow to his wishes. They
realise that if they are
to have any freedom of
will they must leave God
and the garden. The
Serpent warns them that
this will involve future
suffering but Eve feels
she must develop and be
her own person.They go
forth...
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The Tower Room: Loosely
based on Rapunzel, this
is the story of a sudden,
unexpected, passionate
relationship and the
unforessen yet inevitable
results of defying
convention. When Megan
glimpses Simon from her
tower room, their worlds
are changed forever.
Watching the
Roses: A modern version
of Sleeping Beauty, this
is a haunting tale of
treachery and betrayal.
An ill-wishing has been
placed on Alice, and it
seems to be coming true.
Pictures of the
Night: A retelling of the
Snow White fairytale,
this is a thirlling story
of jealousy and
enchantment. Is Bella's
stepmother really as
wicked as she
believes?
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The Tower Room: Loosely
based on Rapunzel, this
is the story of a sudden,
unexpected, passionate
relationship and the
unforessen yet inevitable
results of defying
convention. When Megan
glimpses Simon from her
tower room, their worlds
are changed forever.
Watching the
Roses: A modern version
of Sleeping Beauty, this
is a haunting tale of
treachery and betrayal.
An ill-wishing has been
placed on Alice, and it
seems to be coming true.
Pictures of the
Night: A retelling of the
Snow White fairytale,
this is a thirlling story
of jealousy and
enchantment. Is Bella's
stepmother really as
wicked as she
believes?
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The legends of King
Arthur - the most revered
hero of British Mythology
- have been retold many
times, but Roger
Lancelyn Green's version
has become a classic
since its first
publication in 1953.
Using as his sources not
only Malory's MORTE
D'ARTHUR but other
chronicles, poems and
romances, he has made
each adventure of
Arthur's knights part of
an overall pattern - the
struggle of Arthur's
kingdom, the realm of
Logress, the model of
chivalry and right,
against the barbarism and
evil that surrounded and
at length engulfed it. So
here are the stories of
the sword in the stone,
of the Green Knight, of
the fatal love between
Launcelot and Guinevere,
of the quest for the Holy
Grail, and of the final
departing of Arthur to
the Vale of Avalon. The
illustrations are taken
from an edition of MORTE
D'ARTHUR published in
1893 with which Aubrey
Beardsley first made a
name for himself at the
age of twenty.
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Bansi O'Hara is visiting
her granny in Ireland,
when very strange things
start to happen. First
there is the swan that
seems to be following
them from the ferry,
then the strange little
man who appears in her
bedroom and says he's a
brownie called
Pogo.
Things get
even stranger when Bansi
finds out that her birth
fulfilled an ancient
prophecy from Tir na
n'Og, the land of the
faeries, and that the
wicked Lord of the Dark
Sidhe wants to spill her
blood on faery
soil.
Bansi, Pogo
and Tam, a handsome
faery who can change into
animal form, cross
through the gate that
separates the two worlds
to try and make the
prophecy come true for
the good faery peoples.
But the Dark Lord is
waiting for them...
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