Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the hardship and cruelty he suffers subsequently, before finding security and happiness in a new home.
'Black Beauty' is one of the ..
Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open.
Without his more-than-..
"Both a kick-ass sequel and a loving tribute to one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written." Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One.
Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name - and spawned a new genre, the technothriller - the threat returns, in a ..
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The incredible new book in Louise Penny's #1 bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache series. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide crowd control at a statistics lecture given at the Universite de l'Estrie in Quebec, he is dubious. Why ask the head of homicide to provide security for wh..
'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck.
When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure..
A young lawyer harbours a dark secret from his college years; when it falls into the wrong hands, his dream job – associate with a high profile law firm – becomes his nightmare as he is forced to follow orders, however dangerous...
With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
'The Sea-Wolf' belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life, as in Richard Henry Dana's 'Two Years before the Mast' (1840), Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Narr..
These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited education, dull work, and sterile relationships. In Wells' hands they break out of the cages that societ..
'TERRY'S PLACE IS AT THE HEAD OF THE FANTASY WORLD' Philip Pullman Following THE BLACK ELFSTONE and THE SKAAR INVASION comes the third book in the triumphant four-part conclusion to the SHANNARA series, from one of the all-time masters of fantasy. The Skaar have arrived in the Four Lands, determined..