When Leah & Alan awaken in an enchanted forest they have only each other & their wits to guide them ...

Herge's classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most iconic characters in children's books These highly collectible editions of the original 24 adventures will delight Tintin fans old & new Perfect for lovers of graphic novels mysteries & historical adventures The world's most famous travelling reporter learns the secret of the Unicorn When Tintin stumbles across a model ship at the Old Street Market he buys it as a gift for his friend Captain Haddock But this isn't just any old model ship it's the Unicorn Built by one of Haddock's ancestors it holds a clue to finding the treasure of a notorious pirate The Adventures of Tintin are among the best books for readers aged 8 & up Herge (Georges Remi) was born in Brussels in 1907 Over the course of 54 years he completed over 20 titles in The Adventures of Tintin series which is now considered to be one of the greatest if not the greatest comics series of all time Have you collected all 24 graphic novel adventures? Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Tintin in the Congo Tintin in America Tintin Cigars of the Pharaoh Tintin The Blue Lotus Tintin The Broken Ear Tintin The Black Island Tintin King Ottakar's Sceptre Tintin The Crab with the Golden Claws Tintin The Shooting Star Tintin The Secret of the Unicorn Tintin Red Rackham's Treasure Tintin The Seven Crystal Balls Tintin Prisoners of the Sun Tintin Land of Black Gold Tintin Destination Moon Tintin Explorers of the Moon Tintin The Calculus Affair Tintin The Red Sea Sharks Tintin in Tibet Tintin The Castafiore Emerald Tintin Flight 714 to Sydney The Adventures of Tintin & the Picaros Tintin & Alph-Art ...

Herge's classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most iconic characters in children's books These highly collectible editions of the original 24 adventures will delight Tintin fans old & new Perfect for lovers of graphic novels mysteries & historical adventures The world's most famous travelling reporter learns the secret of the Unicorn When Tintin stumbles across a model ship at the Old Street Market he buys it as a gift for his friend Captain Haddock But this isn't just any old model ship it's the Unicorn Built by one of Haddock's ancestors it holds a clue to finding the treasure of a notorious pirate The Adventures of Tintin are among the best books for readers aged 8 & up Herge (Georges Remi) was born in Brussels in 1907 Over the course of 54 years he completed over 20 titles in The Adventures of Tintin series which is now considered to be one of the greatest if not the greatest comics series of all time Have you collected all 24 graphic novel adventures? Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Tintin in the Congo Tintin in America Tintin Cigars of the Pharaoh Tintin The Blue Lotus Tintin The Broken Ear Tintin The Black Island Tintin King Ottakar's Sceptre Tintin The Crab with the Golden Claws Tintin The Shooting Star Tintin The Secret of the Unicorn Tintin Red Rackham's Treasure Tintin The Seven Crystal Balls Tintin Prisoners of the Sun Tintin Land of Black Gold Tintin Destination Moon Tintin Explorers of the Moon Tintin The Calculus Affair Tintin The Red Sea Sharks Tintin in Tibet Tintin The Castafiore Emerald Tintin Flight 714 to Sydney The Adventures of Tintin & the Picaros Tintin & Alph-Art ...

The world's most famous travelling reporter learns the secret of the Unicorn When Tintin stumbles across a model ship at the Old Street Market he buys it as a gift for his friend Captain Haddock But this isn't just any old model ship it's the Unicorn Built by one of Haddock's ancestors it holds a clue to finding the treasure of a notorious pirate Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical & political events & thrilling mysteries Still selling over 100000 copies every year in the UK & having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson in 2011 Herge's The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children & adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th ...

Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona Daniel Amat has left Spain & all that happened there behind him Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University & an even more advantageous engagement the arrival of a letter
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- stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind He arrives back in that old labyrinthine & near-mythic city a few days before the great 1888 World Fair amid dread whispers of murders
- the injuries reminiscent of an ancient curse & bearing signs of the genius 16th century anatomist Vesalius Daniel is soon pulled into the depths of the crime & eventually into the tunnels below Barcelona where his own dark past & the future of science are joined in a terrible venture
- to bring the secret of Vesalius to life Gothic & gripping this historical thriller makes of Barcelona a diabolical character
- emerging out of the dark into a new electrical age aflame with spirit superstition & science Published in eighteen countries Jordi Llobregat's bestselling first novel mixes a passionate setting & cryptic mystery into a genre-crossing phenomenon




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Percy the Park Keeper is in for a surprise in this funny story from highly-regarded bestselling author-illustrator Nick Butterworth

Includes:: a fabulous fold-out maze It's a beautiful spring morning & a perfect opportunity for Percy to trim the overgrown maze The animals decide to have some fun hiding on the stone lion in the middle of the maze to surprise Percy But the suprise is on them when they fall asleep & Percy finding them hides behind the statue & pretends his voice is the lion's telling them to wake up Percy has unravelled some string through the maze to help him find the way out but the squirrel thinking he is helping has wound the string into a ball Help Percy & his friends find the way out of the park guiding them through the fold-out maze at the back of the book

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The last of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring & well-loved character George Smiley & a gripping feat of narrative brilliance The Secret Pilgrim is published in Penguin Modern Classics with an afterword by the author The Cold War is over & Ned has been demoted to the training academy He asks his old mentor George Smiley to address his passing-out class There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth
- perhaps the last the students will ever hear As they listen Ned recalls his own painful triumphs & inglorious failures in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg & from Israel to Cambodia He asks himself Did it do any good? What did it do to me? & what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel the great spy gives his own humane & unexpected answers If you enjoyed The Secret Pilgrim you might like le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Consummate & enthralling' Observer
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Lil is a pirate a good sort of pirate & when there is someone to save she'll do what is right (if it takes her all night) Yes she'll always be bold & be brave When evil pirate Stinkbeard tries to kidnap Lil's teacher it's up to schoolgirl & secret pirate Lil to come to the rescue In story two it's sports day but there's a very hungry croc on the loose Can Lil & her trusty parrot Carrot scare Stinkbeard & his pet croc awayswashbuckle Lil The Secret Pirate by author Elli Woollard & illustrator Laura Ellen Anderson is the first in an exciting series with two rip-roaringly rhyming brilliantly illustrated stories in each book which make the perfect transition from parent-led to independent reading ...

'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago The caption says 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM' Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place Now she's sixteen & she's shown up outside his squad room with a photograph & a story Even in her exclusive boarding school in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for bad things happen & people have secrets The previous year Christopher Harper from the neighbouring boys' school was found murdered on the grounds & today in the Secret Place
- the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously
- Holly found the card Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad But to get it solved he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway
- tough prickly an outsider everything Stephen doesn't want in a partner & he will have to find a way into the strange charged mysterious world that Holly & her three closest friends inhabit & disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets even as he starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want to hear From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller In the Woods The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense


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The Kingdom of Izzambard is in trouble Big trouble Griselda the Master Clockmaker has stopped time & released her mechanical birds to spread chaos & misery They spy on anyone who might believe in the old ways of magic & laughter & the whole kingdom lives in fear Brother & sister Leo & Ella Leggit are clever enough & brave enough to stop Griselda & her birds
- they just don't know it yet But when a magical train puffs into their lives driven by the mysterious Bartholomew Buckle all that changes Will Leo & Ella be able to bring magic back to Izzambard once again & get home in time for fish fingers? Hop on board The Secret Railway to find out!
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