Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart ...
Conan the Cimmerian: the boy-thief who became a mercenary, who fought and loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the ...
Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote: ‘It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many years.’ In this Reader you will find: A short biography of Charlotte Brontë | Glossary | Comprehension activities | PET-style activities ...
A brand new omnibus of 55 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as ‘ the typical old maid of fiction’, Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an ...
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert''s legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatched ...
Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he''s released, he''s greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten ...
X-Men meets The Handmaid\''s Tale in this first instalment in an epic and romantic YA fantasy trilogy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard\''s The Red Queen, Netflix\''s Stranger Things and Leigh Bardugo\''s Six of Crows. A fragile young teenage girl is held captive. Locked in a cell by ...
Juliette Ferrars thought she\''d won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander, and now has Warner by her side. But she\''s still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch—and now she\''s got the whole world in the palm of her hand. When tragedy hits, who will she become? ...
Jane Griffiths writes mysteriously resonant poems about home, exile and shifting frontiers in classically precise language. "Another Country" presents a selection from her first two collections, "A Grip on Thin Air" and "Icarus on Earth", as well as a whole collection of new work. Where the earlier books ...
There are two sides to every story. This is THE US No. 1 bestselling novel that everyone is talking about. What are you thinking, Amy?'' The question I''ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: ...
The eighth book in the Discworld series. "Of all the cities in the world it could have flown into, it flew into mine.. " Some night-time prowler is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city of the fantasy Discworld*, into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that''''s a real problem ...
With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn\''t know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won\''t keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her ...
One day I might break. One day I might break free. Nothing will ever be the same. The fate of Omega Point is unknown. Everyone Juliette has ever cared about could be dead. The war could be over before it ever really began. Juliette is the only one standing in The Reestablishment\''s way. She knows that ...
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly''s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for students ...
A special new edition in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\''s Stone, with a stunning new cover illustration by Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick. The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary ...
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice\''s life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice\''s grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns ...
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly''s work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students ...
