To celebrate 70 years of the Famous Five Quentin Blake has created br&-new cover artwork for the original book in the series
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There's a ruined castle on Finniston Farm but only the dungeons remain
- & nobody knows where they are! The Famous Five are determined
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What is Uncle Quentin up to on Kirrin Island? He won't let anyone visit
- not even the Famous Five! But he's not alone on George's
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Uncle Quentin is working on a top-secret project so he moves to Kirrin Island for safety with Timmy the dog to guard him. When Timmy disappers Enid Blyton's The Famous Five know something is wrong. Julian Dick Anne & George have to stop the spies from stealing Uncle Quentin's secret formula! This edition features a new cover & revised text to bring the dialogue up to date for a whole new generation of readers. ...

THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that addresses the meaning of life & life after death in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE such an astonishing book. The novels protagonist is an elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who while operating a ride called the Free Fall dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart that hurtles to earth. Eddie goes to heaven where he meets five people who were unexpectedly instrumental in some way in his life. While each guide takes him through heaven Eddie learns a little bit more about what his time on earth meant what he was supposed to have learned & what his true purpose on earth was. Throughout there are dramatic flashbacks where we see scenes from his troubled childhood his years in the army in the Philippines jungle & with his first & only love his wife Marguerite. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is the perfect book to follow TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. Its compellingly affecting themes & lyrical writing will fascinate Mitch Alboms huge readership. ...

Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire smooth & brown as a sunning snake
- but hiding a deadly undertow beneath
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Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back the stagger the fall down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident
- or murder? Six members of the close-knit Galloway artists' colony do not regret Campbell's death. Five of them are red herrings. ' She combined literary prose with powerful suspense & it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller.' Minette Walters
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Who's been on George's island? & what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they're on the trail of smugglers
- until they hear a child scream.. . These classic editions feature Enid Blyton's unchanged text & Eileen A. Soper's original illustrations.
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Emma Chichester Clark joins Quentin Blake Oliver Jeffers Chris Riddell & Helen Oxenbury who have all reimagined Blytons characters for todays readers. These anniversary editions of the classic texts of Enid Blytons best-known series benefit the House of Illustration the worlds first dedicated home for the art of illustration. (www.houseofillustration.org.uk) Whos been on Georges island? & what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think theyre on the trail of smugglers
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Five Run Away Together Who's been on Kirrin Island?! The Famous Five think that it could be smugglers. Things are looking more sinister by the minute. Five on Finniston Farm The Famous Five want to explore the ruined castle & find the mysterious old dungeons! But someone else is searching too. Can they find the dungeons & whatever is hidden there first? ...