Dead
in the Morning by: JANE
HOMESHAW 0
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“Clarrie Middlemarsh
was on her bed. She was in her nightdress. The window was open. Her clothes
were on a chair. There was a table by the bed. On it was an open bottle
and a glass.” Did Clarrie Middlemarsh kill herself, or did someone
kill her?
Inspector
Holt and the Fur Van by: JOHN
TULLY 0 17
556559 7
“That’s three times
in the last month,” says inspector Holt.
Who is taking the
fur coasts? And where are they going? Can Inspector Holt find the answers
to these questions.
Chariots
of Fire by: W. J. WEATHERBY
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New!
This is the story
of two men: Eric Liddel and Harold Abrahams. They are very different but
they both have the same goal - to win a gold medal in the Olympic games.
Inspector
Holt: The Bridge by: JOHN
TULLY 0 17 557042
6
Days passed and Hassan
did not come back. The police could not find him. And there was no word
from the kidmappers. “ I don’t understand it,” said Halt. “Why don’t they
ask his father for money?
“Perhaps it’s not
money they want” said Bill.
Why do the two men
kidnap a sheik’s son if they do not want money? This story takes
Inspector Holt and Bill Ojo to the Middle East to find the kidnappers.
Moonfleet
by: J. MEADE FALKNER
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New!
It is the year 1757.
John Trenchard, a fifteen-year-old boy, has come to live in the village
of Moonfleet in Dorset, by the sea.
There are smugglers
in Moonfleet. Most are not bad men, but they are breaking the law. John
makes friends with Elzevir and Ratsey, two of these men, and it is here
that his adventure really begins.
Oliver
Twist by: CHARLES DICKENS
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Oliver Twist has no
parents and runs away from the cold, unfriendly workhouse where he lives.
In London, he meets Fagin who teaches him to be a thief. Yet Oliver wants
a real home with someone who loves him.
Set in 1830, Dickens’
story has become a classic, showing life in England at the time.
The
Prince and the Poor Boy by: MARK
TWAIN
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Prince Adward stood
in Tom’s rags, and Tom wore his kingly clothes.
A strange thing! When
Tom put on the Prince’s clothes he looked like the Prince. And when the
Prince put on Tom’s rags, he looked like Tom.’ Many strange adventures
begin when these two boys change clothes. One boy is the son of the King
of England. The other is a boy from a very poor family.
The
Titanic is Sinking by: K.
R. CRIPWELL
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New!
The Titanic is the
biggest ship in the world. So why did she sink on her first journey? And
why did no other ship help her or her passengers?
An
American Tragedy by: THEODORE
DREISER
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“Clyde hated being
poor. He saw that people looked down on his family. Not just because they
were poor but because they sang and prayed in the streets. So he was always
dreaming of how he could get away and better himself.
Clyde’s dream of wealth
and happiness - the American Dream - goes very wrong and ends in tragedy.
This novel by Theodore Dreiser is a classic of 20th century American fiction.
The
Importance Of Being Earnest
by: OSCAR WILDE
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This romantic comedy
is one of Oscar Wilde’s most famous plays. It is set in the fashionable
society of Victorian England, where nothing is quite what it seems.
Jack wants to marry
Gwendolen, Algernon wands to marry Cecily, But first there is the problem
of Ernest...
A
Room With A View by: E.
M. FORSTER
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New
A classic love
story by E. M. Forster, set in Italy and England - in the beautiful city
of Florence and in small village in the England countryside.
Lucy is a beautiful
English girl, visiting Italy for the first time. George Emerson is a young
Englishman, on holiday and staying in the same hotel as Lucy.
Away from her family
in England, Lucy feels free... slowly she finds herself falling in love.
Death
In Vienna ? by: K.
E. ROWLANDS
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“For a moment, the
two men stood face to face. Carlo was smiling - the cruel smile of a killer
who enjoyed killing... Paul felt the blood running
down his arm, but he didn’t dare look. He Knew that if he turned his eyes
away for a second, he was a dead man”.
Vienna, a city of
great beauty, music and romance, is the setting for this fast-moving tale
of murder and mystery.
Rear
Window by: CORNELL
WOOLRICH
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New
“Where was she? For
two days a formless suspicion had been swimming around in my mind. Now,
the suspicion exploded into a certainty - of murder!”
From his window, Hal
Jeffries can see into the lives of those who live around him. The sudden
disappearance of a woman and the strange behaviour of her husband, lead
Jeffries to believe that she has been murdered. But without proof, will
anyone else believe him...?
This is the story
on which Hitchcock based his famous film.
Experiences
Of Terror Edited by: ROLAND
JOHN 0 17 55 7038 8
New!
‘Holmes lit the candle.
His face was deadly pale and filled with horror. He was staring up at the
ventilator. Then there rose a most terrible cry. It grew louder and louder,
a scream of pain an fear and anger all together. At last the sound died
away to silence.
“What... what does
it mean?” I whispered.
“It means that it
is all over,” Holmes whispered.’
The Withered Arm by
Thomas Hardy; The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Connon Doyle; The Inn of
the Three Witches by Joseph Conard. - All three in one book.
Where
Eagles Dare by: ALISTAIR
MACLEAN 0 17 55 7049 3
New!
‘“Our man was brought
down here at two a.m.” The colonel tapped the map again. “ Now he is here.
In the Schloss Adler. The castle of the eagle. Believe me, it’s well-named.
Only a bird with the power of an eagle could get in there...”’
Seven man have been
called together to try and enter the Schloss Adler and free the imprisoned
man. A difficult job - but even more dangerous when the seven men are totally
unsure of each other’s motives.
Hard
Times by: CHARLES
DICKENS
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Coketown was a town
of fact. There was no fancy in it. The churches were built like factories.
The hospital looked like a prison. Fact, fact, fact everywhere in the material
features of the town, and fact, fact, fact in the immaterial.’
Thus Dickens sets
the scene for his novel Hard Times. Through the Grdgrind family, he illustrates
the dangers of relying on fact and denying the freedom of imagination.
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