Three children & their mother live in a cottage shaped like a hat on a little island in a lake One day their mother goes to the mainland to find yarn to make the children new clothes While she's away the children try to help around the house but housework is much harder than they thought They have great fun sweeping the chimney -- but they get very dirty They wash their clothes in the lake & dry them over a fire -- but fires are hard to control Will Hat Cottage be standing by the time their mother returns?A charming story from Elsa Beskow about getting help from unexpected places with lively illustrations in her classic style ...

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts & presented for the first time as a fully continuous & standalone story the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings with Elves & Men dragons & Dwarves eagles & Orcs & the rich landscape & characters unique to Tolkien There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings & the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West lands where Treebeard once walked but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World In that remote time Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband the Hells of Iron in the North; & the tragedy of Turin & his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband & the war waged by Morgoth against the lands & secret cities of the Elves Their brief & passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin the man who had dared to defy & to scorn him to his face Against them he sent his most formidable servant Glaurung a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire Into this story of brutal conquest & flight of forest hiding-places & pursuit of resistance with lessening hope the Dark Lord & the Dragon enter in direly articulate form Sardonic & mocking Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin & Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning & guile & the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled The earliest versions of this story by JRR Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War & the years that followed; but long afterwards when The Lord of the Rings was finished he wrote it anew & greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive & character it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth But he could not bring it to a final & finished form In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed after long study of the manuscripts a coherent narrative without any editorial invention ...

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts & presented for the first time as a fully continuous & stand alone story the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings with Elves & Men dragons & Dwarves eagles & Orcs & the rich landscape & characters unique to Tolkien There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings & the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West lands where Treebeard once walked but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World In that remote time Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband the Hells of Iron in the North; & the tragedy of Turin & his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband & the war waged by Morgoth against the lands & secret cities of the Elves Their brief & passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin the man who had dared to defy & to scorn him to his face Against them he sent his most formidable servant Glaurung a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire Into this story of brutal conquest & flight of forest hiding-places & pursuit of resistance with lessening hope the Dark Lord & the Dragon enter in direly articulate form Sardonic & mocking Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin & Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning & guile & the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled The earliest versions of this story by JRR Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War & the years that followed; but long afterwards when The Lord of the Rings was finished he wrote it anew & greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive & character it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth But he could not bring it to a final & finished form In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed after long study of the manuscripts a coherent narrative without any editorial invention ...

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts & presented for the first time as a fully continuous & standalone story this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings with Elves dragons Dwarves & Orcs & the rich landscape & characters unique to Tolkien It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings & Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; & within the shadow of the fear of Angband & the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves the fates of Turin & his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined Their brief & passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin the man who dared to defy him to his face Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant Glaurung a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth & destroy the children of Hurin Begun by JRR Tolkien at the end of the First World War The Children of Hurin became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth But he could not bring it to a final & finished form In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed after long study of the manuscripts a coherent narrative without any editorial invention ...

This de luxe collector's edition features the first edition text & eight full-colour plates with an exclusive colour frontispiece illustration The book is quarterbound with a special gold motif stamped on the front board & is presented in a matching slipcase There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings & the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West lands where Treebeard once walked but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World In that remote time Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband the Hells of Iron in the North; & the tragedy of Turin & his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband & the war waged by Morgoth against the lands & secret cities of the Elves Their brief & passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin the man who had dared to defy & to scorn him to his face Against them he sent his most formidable servant Glaurung a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire Into this story of brutal conquest & flight of forest hiding-places & pursuit of resistance with lessening hope the Dark Lord & the Dragon enter in direly articulate form Sardonic & mocking Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin & Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning & guile & the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled The earliest versions of this story by JRR Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War & the years that followed; but long afterwards when The Lord of the Rings was finished he wrote it anew & greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive & character it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth But he could not bring it to a final & finished form In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed after long study of the manuscripts a coherent narrative without any editorial invention ...

In The Children of Jocasta Natalie Haynes takes a fresh perspective on an ancient story reimagining in gripping prose how the Oedipus & Antigone stories would look if the oft-overlooked female characters took centre stage Retelling the myth to reveal a new side of an ancient story My siblings & I have grown up in a cursed house children of cursed parents Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes an old man she has never met Her life has never been her own & nor will it be unless she outlives her strange absent husband Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has But with a single act of violence all that is about to change With the turn of these two events a tragedy is set in motion But not as you know it ...

The nurses of Lovely Lane
- Dana Victoria Pammy & Beth
- are now in their second year & are about to face some truly harrowing

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Award-winning PD James one of the masters of British crime fiction plots this atmospheric & disturbing novel in the year 2021 Children of Men is a brilliant mystery possessing all of the qualities which distinguish PD James as a novelist Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt the Warden of England the old are despairing & the young cruel Theo Faren a cousin of the Warden lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere That is until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind PD James is the world's pre-eminent crime writer most famous for her Adam Dalgliesh mysteries & for her bestselling titles Death Comes to Pemberley & The Murder Room Children of Men was adapted into a hit film in 2006 directed by Alfonso Cuaron the film starred Clive Owen Michael Caine & Julianne Moore ...

In the middle of the countryside there are three farms all in a row Everybody calls them Noisy Village because the children who live there are very noisy indeed! Join the adventures of Lisa & her friends where walking home from school turns into a pirate party looking for treasure a trip to the local shoemaker becomes a mission to save one lonely dog from his grumpy owner & a fishing trip ends with a night under the stars A charming collection of stories from one of the world's best-loved children's authors ...

A hauntingly beautiful wartime story with a ghostly twist
- this is set to become a modern classic It's the Second World War &
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