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When Flora's parents pack her off to boarding school, they have no idea that the train will take her back to 1935. Flora's having the time of someone else's life! But why has she ended up there?
Tom is in shock. He's just discovered that his dad is an escaped fairy on the run. Tom doesn't know he is a demisprite - the child of a fairy and a human - until he meets his three fairy godmothers. They've been summoned to protect him, but they can't stop bickering, and two of them are hardened criminals. Tom must survive their botched magic spells, learn to fly and enter the dangerous Fairy Realm to save his parents... From the author of BESWITCHED One of the most enchanting, funny and suspenseful stories to have been published for some time THE TIMES
An epic, heart-wrenching follow-on from E. Nesbit's Five Children and It stories. The five children have grown up and World War I has begun in earnest. Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at high school. The Lamb is the grown up age of 11, and he has a little sister, Edith, in tow. The sand fairy has become a creature of stories ... until, for the first time in 10 years, he suddenly reappears. The siblings are pleased to have something to take their minds off the war, but this time the Psammead is here for a reason, and his magic might have a more serious purpose. Before this last adventure ends, all will be changed, and the two younger children will have seen the Great War from every possible viewpoint - factory-workers, soldiers and sailors, nurses and ambulance drivers, and the people left at home, and the war's impact will be felt right at the heart of their family.
Oz and Lily's family have inherited an ancient chocolate shop and they're moving in upstairs. It's the perfect home ... apart from the small fact that it's haunted. And then they discover some solid gold chocolate moulds - with magic powers! Soon the ghosts are joined by some evil villains determined to get their hands on the priceless secrets of the magical chocolate.
The exciting companion to THE WHIZZ POP CHOCOLATE SHOP. A secret government department, once again, needs the magical help of Oz and Lily in a desperate mission. The children must travel back in time to the height of the Blitz. Can they defeat some very dangerous supernatural creatures and save London's famous cathedral from destruction by fire?
For fans of Alexander McCall Smith and James Runcie's Grantchester Mysteries, the first novel in a clever new crime series about Victorian London and an indomitable female detective. Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in London with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let rooms to John Keats, Laetitia makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in the neighboring village of Highgate with his wife and ten children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence, her iron discretion, and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting wido...
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Meet Old Noshie and Skirty Marm - the naughtiest witches in the world. Together they always spell trouble! Old Noshie and Skirty Marm have committed a terrible crime. They`ve sung a frightfully rude song about the Queen of the Witches at the Hallowe`en Ball. Now they are to be banished from Witch Island for ever! But where can they go? The sleepy village of Tranters End is about to become home to two wacky witches, a wonderfully snooty cat - and a whole lot of trouble! Three extremely funny books, now in one bumper volume!
British journalist Saunders draws from interviews with former Chinese prisoners, including the celebrity Harry Wu who inspired the book, and from written accounts to recreate the day-to-day experience and engender outrage in readers. Among her chapter titles are No Day or Night, the State as Psychopath, Return from Hell, A Dream of Democracy, Getting Used to Surviving, Sexual Reform and the Pseudo- Boys, the Dream of Gold, and The Earth on the Other Side of the World. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A vividly drawn contemporary fairy taleāfull of invention, adventure, and wonderfully colorful characters.