In 1920s East Sussex, the corpse of Elsie Cameron is discovered in a chicken run. The man found guilty of the crime, her fiancé Norman Thorne, was sentenced to death and hanged. At the time...Read more
The classic vampire tale begins with the journey of a young Englishman, Jonathan Harker, to Count Dracula's castle in th mountains of Transylvania. Jonathan Harker has helped the Count buy an old ...Read more
Frankenstein In 1816, when Mary Shelley was only nineteen, she began her famous novel about the young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, and his discovery of the secret of life. After two ...Read more
We didn't go with the boys to the building site. If I'd known what Dougy was going to find here, perhaps I would have changed my mind. His discovery would soon put Cunningham in all the countr...Read more
In 'Out of Africa' Karen Blixen tells the absorbing story of her life in Kenya. It is a story of a woman's struggle to create a new existence on foreign soil. Her encounter wi...Read more
"Liam fell to the floor. The big man swung his boot and kicked Liam hard in the ribs. Behind the Balaclava mask, the man's eyes looked like the cold dead eyes of a fish. "He saw me!" The ma...Read more
When 13-year-old Ella is kidnapped, her brother Fin, aged 15, blames himself for leaving her alone in the house. Fin's feelings of guilt drive him on to discover the identity of the kidnapper - bu...Read more
This volume contains three of Hemingway's early short stories. 'The snow of Kilimanjaro' relates the story of a rootless expatriate, Harry, who is awaiting death in a safari camp at the foot of th...Read more
The city of Vienna, one February after the Second World War, is ruined, cold and full of underground activity. To this city comes Rollo Martins, a writer from England, to meet his old school frien...Read more
The year is 1965. Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse, a young couple, move into Rosemary's dream apartment in an old apartment house in New York.
The dream turns into a nightmare when Rosemary, no...Read more
Precious Ramotswe is Botswana's first and only female private detective. One day she is visited by an American woman, whose son died a mysterious death 10 years ago, and she agrees to investigate ...Read more
This is the story of how the fifteen-year-old Tex grows up from the easygoing school-kid into a young adult. We see Tex's growing awakening to the problems of life that face him and his 17-year-ol...Read more
Stevenson hoped that this story would please young people. It was, he explained, a story of sailors, storms and adventures, heat and cold, sailing-ships, islands, pirates and buried gold - all tol...Read more