A classic Rendellian loner Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby
- a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive
- living her life through her library of books. Both landlady & lodger are caught up in their own psychologically twisted parallel worlds. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life a long pent-up violence explodes.

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While visiting her grandmother's house an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods nearby
- a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. Fabian the caretaker's son is tormented by the girl's disappearance. His grandfather was the last person to see her alive & has lived under suspicion ever since. Together Tanya & Fabian decide to find the truth. But Tanya has her own secret: the ability to see fairies. & after disturbing an intruder in the night it emerges that someone else shares her ability.. . The manor's sinister history is about to repeat itself.. .
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This title presents a selection of the best short stories from Paul Jennings earlier Puffin titles. Everyone is entirely different but all are wacky & extraordinary. Subjects range from the longest kiss ever to a boy who becomes transparent
- & the stories are all unpredictable.
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Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the thirteenth book in the series. For all Jack Aubrey's life he has triumphed often sensationally over the dangers of the sea & the violence of the enemy. But his rashness his guilelessness his indiscretion have time & time again enabled his rivals to prevent him reaping his just rewards. The nadir was reached in The Reverse of the Medal when the victim of a skilful frame-up he was convicted of fraud & struck off the Navy list just as he was coming within sight of flag rank. The subsequent exposure of the conspiracy coupled with his brilliant success in command of a privateer had brought him to a position where Their Lordships were more or less bound to reinstate him. This as the present book opens they have done & he & his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with a h&-picked crew most of them shipmates from the adventures & lucrative voyages of earlier years. ...

Imagine starting at the end & finishing back at the beginning. This is the story of a teenage girl called Valerie Saunders who is about to be thrown through time & space. Being bestowed with abilities beyond her wildest nightmares she discovers that she not only has to deal with turning eighteen her first job & an unwanted tattoo but also magical powers & intense urges to fall in love. She envisaged she would spend her life blending into the scenery not blowing it up! Val has a calling but which side is dialling her number? ...

As Wartime did for the 1940s this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan & provincial letters & diaries newspapers periodicals books & the range of rich material available in the British Library. J.B. Priestley famously described the three Englands he saw in the 1930s: Old England nineteenth-century England & the new post-war Engl&. Thirties Britain was indeed a land of contrasts at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression unemployment & international tensions yet also a place of complacent suburban home-owners with a baby Austin in every garage. Now Juliet Gardiner acclaimed author of the award-winning Wartime provides a fresh perspective on that restless uncertain ambitious decade bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain alive through newspapers magazines memoirs letters & diaries. Gardiner captures the essence of a people part-mesmerised by modernism in architecture art & the proliferation of dream palaces by the cult of fitness & fresh air the obsession with speed the growth & regimentation of leisure the democratisation of the countryside the celebration of elegance glamour & sensation. Yet at the same time this was a nation imbued with a pervasive awareness of loss -- of Britains influence in the world of accepted political social & cultural signposts & finally of peace itself. ...

This work is jam-packed with carefully researched fun-to-make projects enabling you to give your doll's house a truly authentic ...

Thirty Days Has September" helps with learning all of those confusing rules of language & mathematics & those tricky facts from science history & geography. It makes a lovely gift from parent to child & a perfect learning companion to help all school children. It is a treasure trove of easy methods to take important information from the back of the mind to the tip of childrens tongues." ...

Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat & becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war & subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt he is pursued by both the police & the ruthless conspirators. The Thirty-Nine Steps is a seminal chase thriller rapid & vivid. It has been widely influential & frequently dramatised: the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock became a screen classic. This engaging novel also provides insights into the inter-action of patriotism fear & prejudice. ...

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero Richard Hannay who despite claiming to be an 'ordinary fellow' is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police & spy-ring alike & must outwit his intelligent & pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whitehall & finally at the site of the mysterious thirty-nine steps. The best-known of Buchan's thrillers The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication & has been filmed three times most notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935. In this the only critical edition Christopher Harvie's introduction interweaves the writing of the tale with the equally fascinating story of how John Buchan publisher & lawyer came in from the cold & via The Thirty-Nine Steps ended the war as spy-master & propaganda chief. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...