Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft never expected to enjoy boarding school. He never expected to be confronted by a pack of vengeful ghosts either. & then he meets Ella a quirky new friend with a taste for adventure... Together Jon & Ella must work to uncover the secrets of a centuries-old murder while being haunted by ghosts intent on revenge. So when Jon summons the ghost of the late knight Longspee for his protection there's just one question
- can Longspee really be trusted? A thrilling tale of bravery friendship
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Dublin 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken & flirtatious Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin dreaming of stardom in America. Her lover John Synge is a troubled genius whose life is hampered by convention & by the austere & God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Their affair sternly opposed by friends & family is quarrelsome affectionate & tender. Many years later Molly now a poverty-stricken old woman makes her way through Londons bomb-scarred city streets alone but for a snowdrift of memories. Her once dazzling career has faded but her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat. ...

From master storyteller Michael Morpurgo comes The Ghost of Grania OMalley". Everyone knows the Big Hill is full of gold & now the islanders are intent on cutting the top off it & making themselves rich. Jessie & Jake are determined to save the Big Hill but what can they do? A plan is needed & fast. Could the ghost of Grania OMalley the pirate queen be the answer? You dont know what you can do until you try." ...

Join Stitch Head a mad professor's forgotten creation as he steps out of the shadows into the adventure of an almost-lifetime... The ghost of a villainous ne'er-do-well is haunting the corridors of Castle Grotteskew gunning for Stitch Head's heart.. .and soul. Certain that his heart once belonged to the vicious rogue Stitch Head's world is torn apart. Will he surrender to the evil ghost & agree to do his bidding...? ...

Had John lived he could have been one of the greatest footballers of all time
- Jimmy Greaves. When John White was killed by a
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The Ghost Road is the final instalment in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. 1918 the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care
- particularly Billy Prior who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what if anything he has done to help these injured men Prior & Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation... The Ghost Road is the Booker Prize-winning account of the devastating final months of the First World War. An extraordinary tour de force. I'm convinced that the trilogy will win recognition as one of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction". (Jonathan Coe). " Powerful deeply moving". (Barry Unsworth Sunday Times). " Harrowing original unforgettable". (Independent). "A triumph". (Sunday Times). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy comprising Regeneration which has been filmed The Eye in the Door which won the Guardian Fiction Prize & The Ghost Road which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World Border Crossing Double Vision Life Class & Toby's Room. She lives in Durham."
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The mystery man threw off his disguise & started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared. A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s he'd been paid GBP17 expenses. When he wanted to run he was banned for life. His amateur status had been compromised. Forever. Now he was fighting back gatecrashing races all over Britain. No number on his shirt. No friends in high places. Soon he would be a record-breaker one of the greatest long-distance runners the world has ever seen. This is his true story: The Ghost Runner"." ...

How to become an Undercover Pirate...1) Have a pirate captain as your ancient ancestor 2) Find a message in a bottle & a magic gold doubloon 3) Get whisked back in time to join a pirate crew 4) When you get home DONT TELL ANYONE. Remember
- youre undercover! When Sam Silver & the crew of the Sea Wolf board a galleon looking for Spanish gold they find its already been stolen
- by a ghost ship! Can our pirate heroes outwit a ghostly crew or is the treasure gone for ever?

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A thrilling ghost story from the author of the popular Football Academy series. Lucas Irfan & Jack want to mark the beginning of their summer holidays in style! Tricking their parents with a camping cover story the boys sneak into the old abandoned football stadium to spend the night. Are the rumours about it being haunted true? They're about to find out
- Particularly suitable for struggling reluctant & dyslexic readers of 12+
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Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear & obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave & other supernatural phenomena. While claiming not to believe in ghosts paradoxically she did confess that she was frightened of them. Wharton imbues this potent irrational & imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect. In this unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story genre. Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a womans reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters from his dead wife; & the frightening power of a doppelganger which foreshadows a terrible tragedy. Compelling rich & strange the ghost stories of Edith Wharton like vintage wine have matured & grown more potent with the passing years. ...