Incredible--and True!--Fishing Stories
Over 33 million people fish in this country. They went on ov...
Great Australian Fishing Stories
Great Australian Fly-Fishing Stories
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Barnes &...
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories brings togethe...
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of America...
Culture and Identity: Life Stories for Counselors and T...
Culture and Identity: Life Stories for Counselors and Therap...
Education Magnetic Fishing Toy With 6 Fish And A Fishin...
Education Magnetic Fishing Toy With 6 Fish and a Fishing Rod...
70pcs High Strength Nylon-Coated Stainless Steel Leader...
70pcs High Strength Nylon-Coated Stainless Steel Leader Fish...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or Sink...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or Sink...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or Sink...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or Sink...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or...
Double Layer Hard Grey Plastic Fishing Box For Baits or Sink...
Incredible--and True!--Fishing Stories
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories - Reillustrated Edition
In a dark, dark room, in a soft, soft voice, tell a scary story! Newly reillustrated, this classic I Can Read full of spooky stories is perfect for beginning readers who love a bit of a scare. Victor RivasÂ’s silly and spooky art will introduce a new generation to stories inspired by traditional folktales like “The Teeth,” “In the Graveyard,” “The Green Ribbon,” “In A Dark, Dark Room,” Â...
The First Christmas and Other Bible Stories From the New Testament
A beautiful cloth-bound gift edition containing 16 of the best-known New Testament stories retold for children, by Enid Blyton, one of the world’s best-loved storytellers. The perfect Christmas gift. ’Enid Blyton’s retelling of Christ’s own stories and the meaning of His time on Earth is full of love – Christ’s love for us, our love for each other – and Enid’s caring and timeless love for...
The Gambler and Other Stories
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life – indeed, ‘The Gambler’, a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts. This volume includes ‘Bobok’, the tale of a frustrated writer visiting a cemetery and...
The Poetry Pharmacy - Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul
‘Truly a marvellous collection … There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the wounded, an arm around the lonely shoulder – the whole collection is a matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss’ Stephen Fry Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a...
Enid Blyton's Christmas Tales - Contains 25 classic stories
Enid Blyton’s timeless collection of Christmas stories – an ideal gift for anyone who loved the stories during their own childhood to pass on to the next generation of readers. Enid Blyton’s Christmas Stories was so popular that readers asked for another collection – and here it is! Nobody captures the spirit of Christmas like Enid Blyton, and in these stories – which are perfect for reading...
The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories - The Collected Ghost Stories of Susan Hill
‘No one chills the blood like Susan Hill’ Daily Telegraph From the horrifying secret of Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black to the supernatural terror unleashed by spiteful Leonora van Vorst in Dolly and the deadly danger posed by Professor Parmitter’s painting of Venice in The Man in the Picture, Susan Hill’s ghost stories never fail to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and keep you...
Swallows and Amazons
‘Swallows and Amazons for ever!’ The Walker children – also known as Captain John, Mate Susan, Able-Seaman Titty, and Ship’s Boy Roger – set sail on the Swallow and head for Wild Cat Island. There they camp under open skies, swim in clear water and go fishing for their dinner. But their days are disturbed by the Blackett sisters, the fierce Amazon pirates. The Swallows and Amazons decide to b...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
An unsettling new collection of Henry JamesÂ’s best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny Â’There had been a moment when I believed I recognised, faint and far, the cry of a child; there had been another when I found myself just consciously starting as at the passage, before my door, of a light footstepÂ’ Â’I see ghosts everywhereÂ’, wrote Henry James, who retained a fascination wit...
Aussie True Crime Stories
In this compilation of twenty true stories by Joe Tog, the criminal genre is nailed exactly as it was during the 70’s and the 80’s – he experienced it – both inside prison and on the outside. Step by step he describes how a convicted murderer carried out an audacious escape from Pentridge Prison. An arsonist at work, bomb-making and how to morph a gun are just some of the criminal subjects cov...
Stinky Stories - Mud! Germs! Loo!
A Dirty Bertie collection to delight his legions of fans who revel in his revolting ways!Enjoy the comic capers of Dirty Bertie – the boy with nosepickingly disgusting habits – in this bumper book of nine revolting stories from Mud!, Germs! and Loo!, Stinky Stories would make an ideal birthday present or stocking filler for any Dirty Bertie fan. Join Bertie as he joins the school football team a...
Unlikely Friendships for Kids: The Monkey & the Dove - and Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Prepare to enter an even more adorable animal kingdom of interspecies friendships – because this time, it’s for kids! Jennifer Holland’s bestselling book of unlikely animal friendships has been converted into three chapter books for young readers. Each features five amazing stories from the original, rewritten for young readers. Off the coast of southern China, a young monkey befriends a lonely...
The Book of Horses and Unicorns
From Australia’s Children’s Laureate comes a delightful collection of stories about horses and unicorns. take a journey through the ages and around the world – from ancient Greece, to the time of Genghis Khan to Arthurian England and then to outback Australia in the 1950s. Each story weaves the fantastic into the commonplace or focuses on the special relationship that exists between humans an...
Kerry Packer - Tall Tales and True Stories
Kerry Packer was instrumental in shaping AustraliaÂ’s media landscape and culture. For 30 years he controlled televisionÂ’s perennial ratings leader Channel Nine, and a large percentage of the nationÂ’s most influential magazines. So much of what Australians watched, read and believed came through the prism of this larger-than-life man. Beneath all the billionaire clutter, Kerry Packer had plenty ...
Exile and the Kingdom - Stories
The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider – even in one’s own country – and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil. Here a Frenchwoman is gradually seduced by the sheer difference of North Africa, a mutilated re...
Her Body and Other Parties - Stories
A highly anticipated debut by “one of the most ferociously gifted young writers working today” (Michelle Huneven)In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is ...
Incredible--and True!--Fishing Stories
Over 33 million people fish in this country. They went on over 455 million fishing trips and spent more than $41 billion on fishing expenses. And what s almost as good as going fishing? Hearing, telling, and swapping great fish stories. Shaun Morey is a fisherman, a connoisseur of fish stories, and a journalist with a novelist s eye (and vice versa) whose first collection, “Incredible Fishing Sto...
Too Scared To Cry - And other true stories from the nation's favourite foster carer
A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published stories Too Scared To Cry, The Girl No One Wanted and A Family For Christmas – brought together in this heartwarming and inspiring collection for the first time. *****Maggie Hartley is one of the UK’s most prolific foster mothers. This inspiring collec...
Treasury of Joy and Inspiration - 90 Years of Uplifting Storytelling
Filled with essays and true tales by some of AmericaÂ’s most famous authors and leaders, these great reads illuminate and uplift. Chock-full of essays and true tales by some of AmericaÂ’s most famous authors and thought leaders, these great reads illuminate and uplift, open the door to new possibilities and connect us emotionally. In this volume, readers will be inspired by stories like these: Aut...
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. LovecraftÂ’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics. Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century. Discarding ghosts and witches, and instead envisaging mankind at th...
The Ghosts Who Danced - and other spooky stories
Unique, illustrated collection of ghost stories for children 6+. Ten deliciously spooky ghost stories from all over the world are perfectly matched by Paul HessÂ’s atmospheric and witty illustrations. The stories included are: The Ghost Ship (USA); Dogs to the Rescue (Russia); IÂ’ll Be Back (Lithuania); The Ghosts Who Danced (Ireland); The Haunted Farmouse (England); Them Bananas (Tanzania); Welco...
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories
Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000 Â… emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in Australia was the King of Iceland and he came as a convict? And how about the spooky phenomenon of the mischief-making Guyra Ghost? From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this ultimat...