For years the local Spook has been keeping the County safe from ghosts & boggarts but more especially from witches. & here are five dark & terifying witch stories from the Spook's own collection. There are child-eating witches witch assassins Celtic witches dead witches & witches so beautiful they can break a man's heart. ...

A lot of dark stuff happened when I was young that I've never even told to my dearest friend Tom Ward. Dark & scary things I hoped I had left behind for ever.. . Over the years Alice has fought evil side by side with the Spook & his apprentice Thomas Ward. But now Alice is alone
- in the realm of the dark. & the creatures she has helped to banish there now have the chance to take their revenge. Alice must seek the final weapon needed to destroy the Fiend for good. If she fails the world will fall into despair & darkness. If she succeeds it means facing her own death at the hands of her dearest friend. But can she prevent the darkness from overtaking her over completely.. .? The penultimate instalment of the Wardstone Chronicles follows Alice Thomas Ward's loyal companion to the most terrifying place of all.
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'I am Grimalkin & I have already chosen those I will kill...' Grimalkin has made it her lifetime ambition to destroy the Fiend avenging the brutal murder of her son. Having grudgingly joined forces with the Spook & his apprentice Tom & assisted them in the binding of the Fiend she is now on the run. & her mission is deadly. She has to help them bind the Fiend's spirit for ever no matter who
- or what
- comes after it... This latest chilling instalment in the Wardstone Chronicles follows Grimalkin the terrifying witch assassin feared wherever she is known. This is the series that inspired the forthcoming movie The Seventh Son" starring Jeff Bridges Ben Barnes & Julianne Moore."

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My name is Slither & before my tale is finished you'll find out why... Slither is not human. Far from the Spook-protected County he preys upon humans sneaking into their homes to gorge upon their blood while they sleep. When a local farmer dies it's only natural that Slither should want to feast on his lovely daughters. But the farmer has offered him a trade: in return for taking the younger girls to safety Slither can have the eldest daughter Nessa to do with as he wishes... Slither's promise takes him & Nessa on a treacherous journey where enemies await at every turn. Enemies that include Grimalkin the terrifying witch assassin still searching for a way to destroy the Fiend for good. The latest instalment of the Wardstone Chronicles" the series that inspired the forthcoming movie " The Seventh Son" starring Jeff Bridges Ben Barnes & Julianne Moore." ...

This is a great addition to this exciting sticker book series for boys. It is packed with scary zombies oozing swamp monsters ancient mummies as well as some guest appearances from famous spooky creatures such as Frankensteins monster & even Count Dracula himself. It comes with over 200 stickers to dress the spooky characters & scary extras from rats & bats to brains in jars. ...

Overall Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2013. With a tantalizing storyline that dares the reader to explore a monstrous mansion this spooky new take on the classic Haunted House concept is completely engrossing. It is jam-packed with carefully designed pop-ups & on the final page there is a terrific twist that will only be revealed when the AMAZING heat-sensitive ink is warmed up! Perfect as a Halloween treat or for spooky thrills all year round! ...

Bong! Goes the bell in the rickety tower Twelve times...that means its Spooky Hour. Listen! Hush! Oooh whats that sound? The midnight spooks are coming round. The creepy countdown has begun so get ready to giggle at funny floaty ghosts clickety-clackety skeletons & terrific tromping trolls! A real rollicking romping rhyming story with hilarious illustrations
- perfect for every little monster!
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This title comes from one of Americas finest living writers Pete Dexter US National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout". This is a riotous & dazzling comic story of resilience & love for fans of John Irving & Jonathan Franzen. Warren Spooner is born in rural Georgia on the first Sunday of December 1956 after a prolonged & unhappy labour in a makeshift delivery room. His troubled birth is swiftly followed by his fathers untimely death
- & young Spooner is left to get on with growing up without even a memory of his daddys face. Spooner makes it into minor league baseball but an injury to his throwing arm relegates him to the sidelines & dashes his hopes of making it to the big-time. But the young man is nothing if not resilient standing up to tragedy & adversity in his own dark (often extremely dark) ways. Through it all his step-father
- Calmer Ottoson
- stands by determinedly trying to save his step-son yet utterly powerless to do so. From Spooners troubled childhood to his troubled adolescence & violent & troubled adulthood Pete Dexter tells an entirely gripping story of one mans inexhaustible patience tested to the limits as he struggles to rescue a step-son he will never underst&."


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From the award-winning author of Goodnight Mister Tom" comes the classic "A Spoonful of Jam" packaged with a beautiful fresh new cover. The war is over but Elsie is still fighting her own battles. She's bullied because she's the only scholarship pupil at the grammar school & she has an awkward relationship with her father as he struggles to assume a normal life after fighting in the war. But when she begins working at the local theatre Elsie discovers she can escape..."A Spoonful of Jam" is the second of The Hollis Family books following " Cuckoo in the Nest"." ...

They say you can never truly love a child that is not your own but that goes against every instinct that runs through me. For I have loved children born to other women all my life & every child that I have ever cared for Ive adored with all my heart. Many I would have laid down my life for in fact on some memorable occasions when I fled to air raid shelters clutching my charges to my chest I very nearly did. In 62 years of being a nanny I have lost count of the number of children Ive cared for but it must be approaching 100. Which means I am inordinately proud to say that despite never having actually given birth I have 100 children. How many women can say that? Brenda is 91 years old & spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny. Just like a real-life Mary Poppins Brenda devoted her life to giving children the best possible start in life. Brenda began training at the Norland Institute in 1939 at the age of 18 shortly before war was declared. It was a time of great upheaval & uncertainty particularly for children. Even as a nervous young trainee Brenda was determined to give the children in her care a wonderful childhood regardless of the horrors that were unravelling on the continent & when the blitz began on their doorsteps. Brenda worked poverty-stricken evacuees from the East End London as well as in the nurseries of smart Kensington homes. She frequently put her life at risk dashing to air raid shelters with her charges clutched to her chest. This is a story from a time when nothing was taken for granted & life itself was in peril on a near-daily basis. But the war was also a time when people pulled together like never before or since & it called upon Brenda to make sacrifices shed never imagined having to make... Warm funny & incredibly moving Brendas memoir brings to life the colourful world of wartime Engl&. ...