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Your first worry was that it was something to do with spiders.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
Hasta returns to blockaded Nepal, with money in his pockets and two missions to accomplish
A travel guide to the little-known Eastern European destination of O.
A South African border guard and his family adopt a confiscated tortoise.
A husband's suspicions concerning his wife's fidelity are aroused.
When little Juan Manuel defaces a neighbour's door the potential dispute escalates in a bizarre direction.
Every week, Polly and her mother go to the park. In the park, Polly enjoys the wonderful sunshine, wonderful breezes, wonderful colors and most importantly, the big wonderful silver slide.
Who is the mysterious Mr. W. H. to whom Shakespere dedicated his sonnets? The validity of one bizarre theory hinges on a wonderful painting which may or may not be a fake.
The story of young prince, brought up as a goatherd, who becomes king on the death of his father and develops a deep fascination with the beautiful objects his wealth affords him.
A case of mistaken identity leads to a passionate romance between Agatha and Oswald; but when Oswald goes to India on a scolarship, it seems to be the first in a series of events that conspire to keep them apart.
A disturbing portrait of a man consumed by grief. Contains descriptions of violence.
Witty reworking of the Aesop-style fable.
When an American minister buys Canterville Chase, a long term resident's life (or death) is thrown into turmoil.
She looked at me with wonderful blue eyes.
It was his underneath place, the place where he came to bury his jars.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Horror
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
