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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Are you a ghost whos getting grief? Well now at last GHOST RESCUEs here! We promise we will listen & we will try our best to help! Menhotep the mummy is trapped in a museum shivering & homesick for the Egyptian sun. He cant leave without a piece of his gold coffin so Charlie & Ghost Rescue must chip off a piece of its beard! But things get scary when real burglars turn up... ...

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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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. ...

Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous & the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition

Includes:: all ten of his ghost stories & as such is the fullest collection currently available. The stories range widely in tone & type. They include The Jolly Corner a compelling story of psychological doubling; Owen Wingrave which is also a subtle parable of military tradition; The Friends of the Friends a strange story of uncanny love; & The Private Life which finds a shrewd high comedy in its ghostly theme. The volume also

Includes:: Jamess great novella The Turn of the Screw perhaps the most ambiguous & disturbing ghost story ever written.



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Meet Harry Dresden Chicagos first (and only) Wizard PI. Turns out the everyday world is full of strange & magical things
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