The Perfect Turn: And Other Tales of Skiing and Skiers, Paperback - Dick Dorworth

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John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Ita...

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Includes a new workbook"Thursday morning. One hundred pounds overweight, no man in sight, and rounding the bend to 57 years old--a full-blown catas...

This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writ...

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into b...

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Publisher: Mortons Media GroupAuthor(s): Patrick Kelly & Will AdamsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 175 x 238 x 6Cover type: P...

Reducere. The Adventures of Darby O'Gill brings together the short stories originally published in Kavanagh's two books, Darby O'Gill and the Good People, an...

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Now a major film starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck, The Old Man and the Gun is joined by two other riveting true-crime tales ...

The stories in this collection reflect my many years of work teaching music to children. True to my approach in education, the stories are based on...

This taut collection stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing - and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ...

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Four well-loved traditional tales that have been retold in line with your child's phonics learning at school. This Read with Oxford Stage 2 collect...

Reducere. Seventeen BEST OF THE WEST short stories by Charlie Steel, Tale-Weaver ExtraordinaireNo matter the challenge or adversity, Charlie Steel's characte...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: G. W. MullinsIllustrator: C. L. HauseIn Native American history, there are many legends about UFOs, gods and aliens. There ...

Nine spine-tingling stories from the creator of Sherlock HolmesMournful cries in an ice-bound sea, a potion that allows the user to commune with gh...

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKAuthor(s): Penguin BooksNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 8Cover type: ...

John Polidori's classic tale "The Vampyre"(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The ...

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The public perception of the Guards is of soldiers used for just ceremonial duties. The Drum Horse in the Fountain demonstrates how far from the ma...

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Reducere. Arthur Machen produced some of the most evocative weird fiction in all literary history. Written with impeccably mellifluous prose, infused with a ...

A single person--but with two personalities: one that's noble and kind and another that's pure, repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevenson's engrossing...

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Mark Forsyth's 'sparkling' (Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph) and idiosyncratically brilliant third book.

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Tales of one man's surprising encounters in the 1790's Highlands of Scotland with a diversity of characters, castles, a bipolar witch and more. Thi...

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Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, o...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Henry JamesNumber of pages: 384Collection: Penguin Clothbound ClassicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 ...

Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories. A you...