Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts & presented for the first time as a fully continuous & standalone story this illustrated 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 ...

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 ...

Cavalier & Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war & provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity survival in the forest reconciliation & eventual forgiveness This is the first enduring historical novel for children which conjures up as much magic today as it did on first publication The freedom from adult constraint allied with the necessary disciplines to survive in a hostile world make for a gripping read ...

Tracklist Little Boy Mary Wyoming Kindness Of Strangers Anna The Lumberjack Song Adoption Day Nearby Room Lost Love Special King SOS JFKThe Chinese Song Going Home ...

This book lets you travel back in time & find out about the first weapons & their uses
- including stone clubs flint axes wooden
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A beautifully illustrated edition of the Bible created especially for children From the peak of Mount Sinai to the shores of the Sea of Galilee
- Old & New Testament stories are brought to life with photographs & maps to put the stories in context Perfect for sharing with your child or grandchild or for them to read & discover the Bible on their own
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Railway Children Three Edwardian children travel with their mother to live by a railway in Yorkshire when their father is wrongly imprisoned as a spy Based on the novel by Edith Nesbit (Dir Lionel Jeffries 1971) Swallows & Amazons Six young children experience a holiday in the Lake District during the peaceful summer of 1929 Based on the novel by Arthur Ransome (Dir Claude Whatham 1974) The Railway Children Three Edwardian children travel with their mother to live by a railway in Yorkshire when their father is wrongly imprisoned as a spy Based on the novel by Edith Nesbit (Dir Lionel Jeffries 1971) Swallows & Amazons Six young children experience a holiday in the Lake District during the peaceful summer of 1929 Based on the novel by Arthur Ransome (Dir Claude Whatham 1974) Actors Dinah Sheridan Bernard Cribbins William Mervyn Iain Cuthbertson Jenny Agutter Sally Thomsett Gary F Warren Virginia Mc Kenna Ronald Fraser Simon West Suzanna Hamilton Sophie Neville & Mike Pratt Director Lionel Jeffries & Claude Whatham Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1971 ; 1974 Languages English ...