Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. A sweet sixteen party & thirteen-year-old Nell is trying to keep her sister spoilt birthday-girl Gwen out of trouble. No chance. Trouble finds Gwen & drags her through the mist. Only Nell guesses whos behind the kidnap
- the boy she hoped was her friend the gorgeous but mysterious Evan River. Evan is no ordinary boy
- he has a secret which will lead Nell to question everything she has always learned from her grandmothers stories. Evan lives on the fringes of Nells world rarely glimpsed misunderstood & feared but a long-simmering showdown between the two worlds is looming.. .

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For the last twenty years Sir James Monmouth has been a gentleman adventurer journeying all over the globe in the footsteps of his hero the great pioneering traveller Conrad Vane. One rainy winter night Sir James returns to London. Orphaned at five it is now time to find out more about his family & origins & also to learn about the early years of Conrad Vane. But at every turn James is warned off his investigation into Conrad Vane. Do these warnings explain his flashes of intense fear & feelings of being watched? & what of the boy who has started haunting his every step & the mysterious mirror with its inexplicable reflections? Eventually Sir James quest leads him to the old lady of Kittiscar Hall & deep into a past that binds him to his hero in ways he never could have imagined. ...

Seventeenth century England is a place of superstition & fear. Deep in the Forest of Pendle people have been dying in mysterious circumstances. The locals whisper of witchcraft but Squire Roger Nowell in charge of investigating the deaths dismisses the claims as ridiculous. Until a series of hideous desecrations forces Roger & his cousin Margery to look further into the rumours. & what they discover brings them face to face with the horrifying possibility that a coven of witches is assembling preparing to unleash a campaign of evil & destruction... Robert Neills novel is a classic tale of witchcraft set in a wild inaccessible corner of Lancashire & in a time when the ancient fear of demons & witches was still a part of life...and death. ...

One of Lyn Andrews first eight novels transferring from the original publisher to Headline; already steady sellers they will be targeted for a huge increase in sales. The Chatterton family is far too posh for the Liverpool slums where theyve ended up. Nancy Butterworth & Abbie Kerrigan lifelong residents of the place tried to befriend Dee Chatterton but her mother wants her to have nothing to do with such rough children. The Burgess family looks forward to the arrival of their young cousin Sean from Dublin & Nancy is not the first to lose her heart to the Irish charmer. In 1914 things are to change dramatically & the families are to find that money & social position mean nothing when the horrors of the First World War invade their lives & take away their sons. ...

Autumn 1797. With Napoleons forces sweeping through Europe a young English woman travels to Paris risking her life on a secret mission that may buy Britain vital time... Mary Finch is no stranger to adventure but even she hesitates before accepting her new assignment travelling as the wife of an American artist into the very heart of enemy territory. The plan is so secret she cant even tell Captain Holland with whom she is supposed to have an understanding. After a terrifying journey through revolutionary France she arrives in Paris only to discover that her American husband is not quite what he appears. With the French chasing a deadly new weapon & an old nemesis threatening to unmask her as a spy Mary soon finds herself in mortal danger... Thrilling & deeply satisfying The Mistaken Wife is a spirited & gripping historical mystery from the author of the acclaimed The Blackstone Key. ...

Billy is a street urchin pickpocket & petty thief. Mister Creecher is a monstrous giant of a man who terrifies all he meets. Their relationship begins as pure convenience. But a bond swiftly develops between these two misfits as their bloody journey takes them ever northwards on the trail of their target.. . Victor Frankenstein. Friendship trust & betrayal combine to form a dangerous liaison in this moving & frightening new book from Chris Priestley. ...

Anna was four years old when Fynn then only 16 himself found her wandering round London's Docklands one foggy night in the 1930s. Badly neglected & abandoned by her parents he took her home to be cared for by his own family. The impact of this extraordinary child on Fynn his friends & the people in their neighbourhood was to be immense. Nobody who met Anna could remain the same: this intelligent lively precocious chatterbox had an outlook on life which completely undercut adult pretensions & illusions. Anna's influence continues today. Anyone dipping into her thought-processes falls under the spell of her luminous innocence wisdom & intimate relationship with ' Mister God'. ...

Mister Magnolia has only one boot
- he has an old trumpet two sisters a pond green parakeets some fat owls a scooter a swimming
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Breathtaking new magical adventure series from the author of Sabriel. Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world
- where one boy is about to venture & unlock a number of fantastical secrets. Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is supposed to die an early death. But then his life is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Arthur is safe
- but his world is not. Along with the key comes a plague brought by bizarre creatures from another realm. A stranger named Mister Monday his avenging messengers with bloodstained wings & an army of dog-faced Fetchers will stop at nothing to get the key back
- even if it means destroying Arthur & everything around him. Desperate Arthur escapes to the mysterious house that has appeared in town
- a house that only he can see. Maybe there he can unravel the secrets of the key
- & discover his true fate. PLUS!! Covermounted with FREE CD-rom featuring specially created screensavers wallpaper author biog & major consumer competition
- FIND THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM.





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You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight & a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matildas last day of school as quietly war is encroaching from the other end of the isl&. When the villagers safe predictable lives come to a halt Bougainvilles children are surprised to find the islands only white man a recluse re-opening the school. Pop Eye aka Mr Watts explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens. Matilda & the others think a foreigner is coming to the island & prepare a list of much needed items. They are shocked to discover their acquaintance with Mr Dickens will be through Mr Watts inspiring reading of Great Expectations. But on an island at war the power of fiction has dangerous consequences. Imagination & beliefs are challenged by guns. Mister Pip is an unforgettable tale of survival by story; a dazzling piece of writing that lives long in the mind after the last page is finished. ...