This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments the one with the darkness & the wind & the screaming... The monster in his back garden though this monster is something different. Something ancient something wild. & it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous & painfully funny A Monster Calls" is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults. This book is jacketed." ...

This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments the one with the darkness & the wind & the screaming... The monster in his back garden though this monster is something different. Something ancient something wild. & it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous & painfully funny A Monster Calls" is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults." ...

The monster community has kept a low profile at the local high school but when two new girls enrol the town will never be the same. Created just fifteen days ago Frankie Stein is psyched to trade her father's formaldehyde-smelling basement lab for parties & prom. But with a student body totally freaked out by rumors of monsters stalking the halls Frankie learns that high school can be rough for a chic freak like her. She thinks she finds a friend in fellow new student Melody Carver-but can a 'normie' be trusted with her big secret? ...

As new students the trio must navigate the bewildering array of cute monster boys established cliques & monster-rific subjects like Mad Science G-ogre-phy & Physical Deaducation. As if that weren't hard enough something strange & sinister seems to be happening at the school. Popular girls like Frankie Stein & Cleo de Nile are acting weird-and all signs point to everyone's new favorite teacher Miss Sylphia Flapper. Can the new GFFs expose the fave as a fraud or will they succumb to peer pressure? ...

GFFs Rochelle Robecca & Venus begin to settle in at Monster High & are having a fangtastic time getting involved in the student body. Rochelle is tutoring the trolls Robecca is blasting onto the Skulltimate Roller Maze team & Venus is starting a compost pile with Lagoona Blue! The ghoulfriends are even recruited to help Toralei & Cleo plan the Hex Factor Talent Show. But during Mr. Mummy's Catacombing class the ghouls find a Doll of Doom that hints at a new threat to the school. & when white cats start showing up around the Creepateria
- a bad omen for monsters!
- the GFFs begin to wonder if their fun is over. Is Toralei playing pranks? Or is something more sinister at work in the halls of Monster High?

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The twenty-second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford. Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short muscular figure. & yet there he was back in Kingsmarkham still with that cocky strutting walk. Years earlier when Wexford was a young police officer a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their suspicions that her husband was guilty of her violent murder no one was convicted. Another woman was strangled shortly afterwards & every personal & professional instinct told Wexford that the killer was still at large. & that it was Eric Targo. A psychopathic murderer who would kill again... As the Chief Inspector investigates a new case Ruth Rendell looks back to the beginning of Wexford's career as a detective even to his courtship of the woman who would become his wife. The villainous Targo is not the only ghost from Wexford's past who has re-emerged to haunt him in the here & now... ...

In New York City the dead walk the streets driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One among their hordes is different: though he shares their appetites he has retained his human intelligence. Alone among the mindless zombies Gary Fleck is an eyewitness to the end of the world. From the other side of the planet a small but heavily-armed group of young girls turned soldiers has come in search of desperately needed medicine. Dekalb a former UN weapons inspector will lead them as their local guide. Ayaan a crack shot at the age of sixteen will stop at nothing to complete her mission. They think they are prepared for anything. On Monster Island" they will find that there is something worse even than undeath.. .while Gary learns the true price of survival." ...

* Great fun with hilarious monsters & a message about working together * Vibrantly illustrated with masses to look out for on every page by the illustrator of Jasper Ffordes The Last Dragonslayer * Wonderful text to read aloud When a boy & his Dad build an amazing monster-making machine all sorts of monsters come tumbling out
- big ones small ones funny ones & even ever-so-slightly scary ones. The monsters love to have fun & spend the days playing until they discover that other monsters live in an amazing land far away. Once again it is time to make an amazing machine this time a flying one to take them to the land of the monsters. Approx. 400 words/ Age range: 3-6 years.
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Saving the world isnt going very well for Elf Girl & Raven Boy. Theyve left Fright Forest & crossed a huge plain to the worryingly named Monster Mountains where they find a sign telling them to Turn Back. They really shouldnt have ignored it! Its not the strange wailing noises they hear in the dark or the gigantic yeti who wants to eat them for breakfast that they find alarming so much as the crazy wizard Jeremy who seems intent on adding Elf Girl & Raven Boy not to mention Rat to his collection of all too life-like stone statues. ...

The Monster of Florence which was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non Fiction in 2010 is a true account of brutal serial murder in idyllic Florence. After settling in Italy in 2000 Douglas Preston discovered that the olive grove in front of his family's new home had been the scene of one of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history committed by a serial killer who had never been found & was known only as the Monster of Florence. Preston intrigued met Italian journalist Mario Spezi who had followed the case since the first murders in 1974 to learn more. This is the true story of their search for
- & identification of
- the man they believe committed the crimes & their chilling interview with him. It's also the story of how Preston & Spezi themselves became embroiled in the case. Like one of Preston's bestselling thrillers The Monster of Florence tells a gripping & harrowing story of murder mutilation suspicion & ruined lives
- & at the centre of it two brave writers trying to uncover the truth at all costs. This latest edition

Includes:: an explosive afterword about the much-publicised murder of a British student Meredith Kercher & its connection to the monster case.




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