For ages 4-8. This accordian-folded boardbook features the classic Christmas story with brilliant paintings by Guy Porfirio. On one side of this book is the story along with illustrations. Unfold the book to its full 48 inch length & see the beautiful watercolour scene of Santa Claus his sleigh & eight reindeer flying high above a snow-covered village. This magnificent scene can be unfolded & placed on a mantle dining room table or childs dresser for a spectacular seasonal accessory. ...

Shipwrecked Dido Twite picked up by a whaling ship finds herself many miles from home & facing deep troubles. Sinister Miss Slighcarp the governess from Willoughby Chase makes a reappearance this time is cahoots with Hanoverian plotters who have a dastardly plan in mind. ...

This is a fantastic new package for this chilling tale by the international bestseller. Glenn drove the Land Rover into a stone wall at just over 100mph. Alice stuck a meat fork through her hand & pinned it to the chopping board. Brenda took off all her clothes. She did whatever she was told. They were compelled by a fear too great to be remembered enslaved by a power no man should ever wield. ...

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there when yesterday it was not. The black sign painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn. As the sun disappears beyond the horizon all over the tents small lights begin to flicker as though the entirety of the circus is covered in particularly bright fireflies. When the tents are all aglow sparkling against the night sky the sign appears. Le Cirque des Reves The Circus of Dreams. Now the circus is open. Now you may enter. ...

In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night constructed entirely in black & white Le Cirque des Reves delights all who wander its circular paths & warm themselves at its bonfire. Although there are acrobats fortune-tellers & contortionists the Circus of Dreams is no conventional spectacle. Some tents contain clouds some ice. The circus seems almost to cast a spell over its aficionados who call themselves the reveurs
- the dreamers. At the heart of the story is the tangled relationship between two young magicians Celia the enchanters daughter & Marco the sorcerers apprentice. At the behest of their shadowy masters they find themselves locked in a deadly contest forced to test the very limits of the imagination & of their love...A fabulous fin-de-siecle feast for the senses & a life-affirming love story The Night Circus is a captivating novel that will make the real world seem fantastical & a fantasy world real.
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The nail-biting vampire thriller from the world-famous director of Pan's Labyrinth & Hellboy. The night belongs to them & it will be a night eternal... After the blasts it was all over. Nuclear Winter has settled upon the earth. Except for one hour of sunlight a day the whole world is plunged into darkness. It is a near-perfect environment for vampires. They have won. It is their time. Almost every single man woman & child has been enslaved in vast camps across the globe. Like animals they are farmed harvested for the sick pleasure of the Master Race. Almost but not all. Somewhere out there hiding for their lives is a desperate network of free humans continuing the seemingly hopeless resistance. Everyday people with no other options
- among them Dr Ephraim Goodweather his son Zack the veteran exterminator Vassily & former gangbanger Gus. To be free they need a miracle they need divine intervention. But Salvation can be a twisted game
- one in which they may be played like pawns in a battle of Good & Evil. & at what cost...?

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Vienna 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg & her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish & just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are primed for the Anschluss. When the SS invades & disappearances become routine Franz must be concealed. With daring ingenuity Julia conjures a hiding place. In the shadow of oppression a clear conscience is a luxury few can afford & Julia finds she must strike a series of hateful bargains with the new order if she & her husband are to survive. A highly acclaimed bestseller when first published in the 1960s Night Falls on the City is a true lost classic & an unforgettable portrait of wartime. ...

Alisha Barbas dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again with her police career in limbo she receives a message from an old school friend Cate Beaumont who is eight months pregnant & in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie a cruel deception. Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper & deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdams red light district & into a murky underworld of sex trafficking slavery & exploitation. A gripping thriller with twists at every turn The Night Ferry is Michael Robothams finest novel yet. ...

On a blustery April day the wife of a doctor discovers that her husband has been having an affair. Moments later driving along a country road she fails to see sixty-one-year-old Ruth Mitchell up ahead riding her bicycle. She hits her killing her instantly & drives away. Horrified by what she has done she turns her attention to Ruths bereaved husband a man as unhinged by grief as she herself is by guilt. & as she insinuates herself into his life he starts to believe that for reasons beyond his understanding his wife has returned to him. ...

A serial killer is terrorizing the senior citizens of Denton & the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. Tired & demoralized the force has to contend with a seemingly perfect young couple suffering arson attacks & death threats a suspicious suicide burglaries pornographic videos poison-pen letters... In uncertain charge of the investigations is Detective Inspector Jack Frost crumpled slapdash & foul-mouthed as ever. He tries to cope despite inadequate back-up but there is never enough time; the unsolved crimes pile up & the vicious killings go on. So Frost has to cut corners & take risks knowing that his Divisional Commander will throw him to the wolves if anything goes wrong. & for Frost things always go wrong... ...