From Robert Eggers the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece The Witch comes this hypnotic & hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe & Robert Pattinson) on a remote & mysterious New England island in the 1890s As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock & strange apparitions emerge from the fog each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored ...

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs & in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean & polish the light When Hamish the lighthouse keeper's cat hears that Mr & Mrs Grinling are going to put him on a diet he decides to find somewhere else to live Soon though Hamish realises that there's no place like home The first Lighthouse Keeper story THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH published over thirty years ago It is now a modern picture book classic & his adventures have been loved by children ever since ...

When Mr Grinling the lighthouse keeper locks himself out of the lighthouse he tries everything to get back inside Not only is Hamish the cat trapped inside he also needs to switch on the light to warn the ships that they're near the rocks on the coast Luckily Mrs Grinling has an ingenious plan to get back in but will it work? ...

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs & in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean & polish the light Every day Mr Grinling tucks into delicious lunch prepared by his wife Mrs Grinling But Mr Grinling isn't the only one who enjoys the tasty food so Mrs Grinling has to think of a way to stop the greedy seagulls from stealing the lighthouse keeper's lunch First published forty years ago THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH has become a modern picture book classic & is loved by children everywhere ...

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs & in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean & polish the light The Lighthouse Inspectors have decided that it's time for Mr Grinling to retire But when a stranded whale desperately needs the Grinlings' help the Lighthouse Inspectors realise that Mr Grinling is still the best man for the job The first Lighthouse Keeper story THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH was published over thirty years ago & his adventures have been loved by children ever since It is now a modern picture book classic ...

An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors & the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds Whenever I smell salt water I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880 When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father!' Robert Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons but not by any means the most productive The Lighthouse Stevensons all four generations of them built every lighthouse round Scotland were responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction & optics & achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would be forbidding even today The same driven energy which Robert Louis Stevenson put into writing his ancestors put into lighting the darkness of the seas The Lighthouse Stevensons is a story of high endeavour beautifully told; indeed this is one of the most celebrated works of historical biography in recent memory ...

The perfect holiday read; 'A beautiful novelfull of unexpected twists' DAILY MAILElizabeth's eyes have failed She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings that move her but her mind remains sharp & music fills the vacancy left by her blindness When her father's journals are discovered on a shipwrecked boat she enlists the help of a delinquent teen Morgan to read to her As an unlikely friendship grows between them Elizabeth is carried back to her childhood home
- the isolated lighthouse on Porphyry Island Lake Superior
- & to the memory of her enigmatic twin sister Emily But for Elizabeth the faded pages of her father's journals reveal more secrets than she anticipates & provide the key to a moment she has never understood The day when she found a grave marked with her own name

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' To risk my life had to mean something Otherwise what was it all for?' Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of twelve after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US Army Smuggled into Iran Gulwali began a twelvemonth odyssey across Europe spending time in prisons suffering hunger making a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean in a tiny boat & enduring a desolate month in the camp at Calais Somehow he survived & made it to Britain no longer an innocent child but still a young boy alone In Britain he was fostered sent to a good school won a place at a top university & was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012 Gulwali wants to tell his story
- to bring to life the plight of the thousands of men women & children who are making this perilous journey every day One boy's experience is the central story of our times This memoir celebrates the triumph of courage & determination over adversity
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This is a story of two young people who fall in love
- & then life gets in the way Ursula is part dreamer part radical in the making
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Scarlet & Ivy's school trip takes a turn for the worse as another mystery begins to unfold The fourth book in the SCARLET & IVY series is perfect for fans of MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE It's summer & as a special treat after the horrors of last term Mrs Knight announces a school trip to Shady Pines Hotel on the shores of Lake Seren Scarlet & Ivy are thrilled to get away from Rookwood for a break! But the old hotel & the waters of the lake reservoir are covering up dark secrets & when mysterious things start happening to hotel guests it seems that a malicious new threat is haunting the girls Locals say that at night you can hear the ringing of the church bells & see lights under the lake that troubled souls buried in the flooded graveyard no longer rest ...