Back for an amazing ninth printing this is our bestselling book ever a Catcher in the Rye for its generation & the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film. It tells the story of Enid & Rebecca two above-it-all best friends confronted with the prospect of adulthood & the uncertain future of their friendship. ...

Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson as a young boy in Mawson Australia learns how to open the secret drawer in his mothers room. There he finds a manuscript & from the moment his mother catches him in the act Gerard Freemans life is irrevocably changed. What is the invisible ever-present threat from which his mother strives so obsessively to protect him? & why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life? Gerards quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family & his life will lead him from Mawson to London to a long-abandoned house & the terror of a ghost story come alive. ...

Charlotte Usher has always felt invisible at school. But now she has a plan to break into the popular crowd & nothing is going to stop her. Not even death. Its the first day of the rest of Charlottes life. She isnt going to be invisible any more. & shes not going to stop at just getting noticed shes determined that shell be envied! Much to Charlottes surprise her plan actually seems to be working: Petula the most popular girl at school has finally acknowledged her existence & her lab partner for the rest of the term is none other than Damen Dylan school heart-throb & object of Charlottes desire. Its only a matter of time before shes accepted into their elite circle...that is until in her excitement Charlotte chokes to death on a gummy bear. So OK its the first day of the rest of Charlottes death
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Charlotte may have graduated Dead Ed but thats not the end of her story Life for Charlotte was one bitter disappointment after another. & it seems death isnt going to be much different. Convinced that graduating Dead Ed was her route to the afterlife Charlotte is a little surprised to find she has to complete an internship! Answering the phones at a help centre for troubled teens isnt proving brilliantly exciting. Until Scarlet calls: a pedicure-gone-hideously-wrong has landed Petula in a coma & Scarlet thinks Charlotte is the only person who can help... ...

Annie ONeill has it all: a cosy Manhattan apartment a beautiful bookshop & a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole
- a place vacated by her father when he died in her childhood. So when a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop & claims to be her fathers oldest friend she jumps at the chance to find out more of her own past. But Forresters not being free with the answers she needs. Hes much more interested in telling her a story about a ruthless ganglord & a fifty-year-old betrayal. A betrayal that she will realise far too slowly has something very much to do with her...
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From reports of haunted castles stately halls hotels public houses Roman forts stone circles & even Englands deepest lake to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions poltergeists & related supernatural phenomena Ghostly Cumbria" investigates twenty of the most haunted locations to be found in the area today. Drawing on historical & contemporary sources this selection

Includes:: a phantom friar said to walk the lanes near Grey Friars Lodge Hotel in Clappersgate; the ghost of Mary Queen of Scots at Carlisle Castle; a cavalier at Moresby Hall in Whitehaven; & several ghosts at the Kirkstone Pass Inn at Ambleside including a young boy killed by a coach outside the building a young woman who died whilst travelling along the road during a snow storm & a seventeenth-century coachman who lurks around the bar. Illustrated with sixty photographs together with access details for each location this book will appeal to all those interested in finding out more about Cumbrias haunted heritage."

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Fast hard & knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue tradecraft & suspense. Read it immediately!' Lee Child. I make things disappear. It's what I do. This time I'm tidying up the loose ends after a casino heist gone bad. The loose ends being a million cash. But I only have 48 hours & there's a guy out there who wants my head in a bag. He'll have to find me first. They don't call me the Ghostman for nothing... ...

Murder & ghosts go h&-in-hand & vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This chilling collection of true-crime tales dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day all feature some element of the paranormal. Gathered from across the UK cases include the discovery of a body by a spiritualist medium a murder solved by a dream of the mother of the victim & evidence at a Scottish murder trial provided by the ghost of the victim herself. Featuring visions psychometry ghosts haunted prisons possessions & spiritualist detectives this book is a fascinating look at criminology & ghost hunting. Paranormal historian Paul Adams has opened the case files of both the criminologist & the ghost hunter to compile a unique collection of crime from British history. No true-crime bookshelf is complete without Ghosts & Gallows. ...

James Van Praagh knew he was different from a young age. Not only could he see ghosts but he could talk to them & interact with them. He realised that whereas some ghosts can be full of malice others actively want to help the living. In this extraordinary book he tells his incredible ghost stories & reveals the lessons he learned from his amazing encounters with the spirit world. He explains what it is really like to see ghosts how to recognise which sort of energies surround a person or place ways to protect ourselves from negative presences & techniques for becoming closer to those spirits who truly want to guide us. Uncovering the truth about the Other Side Ghosts Among Us also shows us how to develop our psychic powers & how we can all transform our fears of the paranormal into a source of inner strength & support. ...

Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family & their faithful guardian Edgar the raven & discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherh&. The rumblings & wailings from the Lost South Wing can no longer be ignored as one by one members of the castle are being found frozen scared to death. With mother Minty obsessing over her latest fad
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- & father Valevine busy experimenting with a machine to discover the Lost Otherhand treasure its up to aspiring ghost-hunters Solstice & Cudweed to solve the mystery. But as usual things dont go quite as planned... Its just as well Edgar is there to save the day! Second in a brand new six book series of tales of mystery (with a touch of goth-froth) for 9 year olds from bestselling author Marcus Sedgwick. With quirky black & white line illustrations from new talent Pete Williamson. Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk

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