No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. & at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no eight-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life
- & still only be eight. & yet.. . there was something so vivid in the telling, that we were persuaded to send the journal for analysis.

The results were absolutely astonishing. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true. He really has wrestled a deadly river croc, ridden a steam-powered rhino & been tribal chief in a city of gorillas. & countless other things besides. &.. . not only that.. . even though Charlie Small is only eight, he must have lived for over four hundred years!


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No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. & at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no eight-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life
- & still only be eight. & yet.. . there was something so vivid in the telling, that we were persuaded to send the journal for analysis.

The results were absolutely astonishing. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true. He really has wrestled a deadly river croc, ridden a steam-powered rhino & been tribal chief in a city of gorillas. & countless other things besides. &.. . not only that.. . even though Charlie Small is only eight, he must have lived for over four hundred years!


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Something happened to Charlie when he was just eight years old. He went on a journey
- & he's been trying to get back for over
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FIRST PUBLISHED AS: THE PERFUMED PIRATES OF PERFIDY

No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His

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Something happened to Charlie when he was just eight years old. He went on a journey
- & he's been trying to get back for over
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No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His original battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore in the north of Engl&. & at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no eight-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life
- & still only be eight. & yet.. . there was something so vivid in the telling, that we were pursuaded, just enough, to send the journal & some of its boggling content for analysis.

The results were absolutely astonishing. & only one conclusion could be drawn. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true. He really has wrestled a deadly river croc, ridden a steam-powered rhino, been cabin boy for a band of desperate lady-pirates & tribal chief in a city of gorillas. & countless other things besides. &.. . not only that.. . even though Charlie Small is only eight, he must have lived for over four hundred years!

This second volume was found encased in ice, high on a glacial plateau in the Himalayas. It details even more remarkable deeds & thrilling acts aboard the Jolly Roger with the dastardly lady-pirates of perfidy
- & a lot more besides. It is guaranteed to delight readers as much as Charlie's first journal.

Note: At the time of writing we had just received unconfirmed reports of a third journal, found on a seat at a bus stop in Pimlico. If the diary proves to be further adventures of Charlie Small, rest assured that we will publish it very soon indeed. Meantime, do please continuing looking out for a young boy with a slightly perplexed look, a battered rucksack & an unlikely talent for swinging through trees...







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FIRST PUBLISHED AS: THE PUPPET MASTER

No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His original battered

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In the fifth journal found by us, the lucky & smug publisher, we learn that Charlie Small has become embroiled in an underworld from his nightmares...

Previously, Charlie had bumped into the infamous Jakeman -- but when the mad professor was dragged down into the Underworld, Charlie had to follow
- otherwise, how would he discover how to get back to his mum & dad? This latest adventure takes him into an unreal darkened world, where anything is possible.

But will Charlie Small ever find a way out, or will he be trapped underground forever... ?




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' If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed, 'wrote Charlotte Bront-, the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who had rarely met any men beyond those of the church or classroom by the time Jane Eyre was published in 1847. From the landscape of the Yorkshire moors, an appalling childhood & a family decimated by consumption, Jane Eyre came as an instant literary sensation. It also brought Charlotte Bront- the notoriety that was to remain with her for the rest of her short & tragic life. Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte's first biographer, attempted to clear Charlotte of the charges of passionate immorality that were levelled at a woman author
- & an unmarried one at that. Rebecca Fraser, 130 years later, placed Charlotte's life within the perceptual framework of contemporary attitudes to women. Her biography is an invaluable contribution to Bront- scholarship, which shares her admiration for a woman prepared to stand out against some of the cruellest Victorian ideas about her sex.
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