Our Australian Girl - Alice and the Apple Blossom Fair ...
Its 1918 . . . and Alice has never felt lonelier. Her fa...
The Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds
The Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds edited by Wen...
That Glimpse of Truth - The 100 Finest Short Stories Ev...
The 100 finest short stories ever written, collected in one ...
The Puffin Book of Stories for Six-year-olds
The Puffin Book of Stories for Six-year-olds, edited by Wend...
A Few Days In The Country - And Other Stories
This collection of short fiction from Elizabeth Harrower fea...
Journeys with the Black Dog: Inspirational Stories of B...
Journeys with the Black Dog: Inspirational Stories of Bringi...
The Caterpillar Eats The Apple Montessori Beaded String...
The Caterpillar Eats The Apple Montessori Beaded String Wear...
The Apple - Crimson Petal Stories
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The Gambler and Other Stories
The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevskys 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...
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces readers to the village of Chelm in this Newbery Honor Book. Chelm is a village of fools. The most famous foolsâthe oldest and the greatestâare the seven Elders. But there are lesser fools too: a silly irresponsible bridegroom; four sisters who mix up their feed in bed one night; a young man who imagines himself dead. Here are seven magical ...
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
This collection of Chekhovs finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. The Steppe, which established his reputation, is the unforgettable tale of a boys journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through majestic landscapes towards an unknown destiny. Gusev depicts an ocean voyage, where the sea takes on a terrifying, primeval power; The Kiss portr...
Circus and Other Stories
These four books, published in the Soviet Union between 1925 and 1927, were a collaboration between poet Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) and painter Vladimir Lebedev (1891 1967). Based on the idea that a childrens book is an important cultural object in its own right, they linked painting, poetry and typography and created the timeless precursor to the modern childrens picture book. In four bran...
Farewell To The East End
The third and final book in the bestselling CALL THE MIDWIFE series, soon to be a major BBC TV series. This final book in Jennifer Worths memories of her time as a midwife in Londons East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tuberculosis and a ships woman who serviced the entire crew, as well as plenty of humour and...
The New Collected Short Stories
This edition brings together three of Jeffrey Archers classic collections of short stories: To Cut a Long Story Short, Cat O Nine Tales and And Thereby Hangs a Tale, showcasing the master storytellers skill like never before. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of ...
Winnie-the-Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories and Poems - Hardback Slipcase Volume
This beautiful new edition, re-designed for Poohs 90th anniversary, brings together four volumes in one stunning slipcased gift book: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. A. A. Milnes Winnie-the-Pooh is nothing less than a true childrens classic. Winnie-the-Pooh may be a bear of very little brain, but thanks to his friends Piglet, Eeyore and...
The Best Australian Trucking Stories
The truckers job so vital to our nations everyday life makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories. This first-ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more inspiring than fiction. The unlikely yarns and tales, collected by Jim Haynes, quickly trans...
Why They Run the Way They Do - Stories
From the celebrated author of Who I Was Supposed to Be, Susan Perabos collection of twelve ingenious and lovable stories [that] crack open the world (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) and illuminate the everyday truths of people facing challenging situations
often of their own making. In Why They Run the Way They Do, critically acclaimed author Susan Perabo illustrates the triumphs and trage...
The Usborne Children's Bible
This is a new miniature edition of the Childrens Bible, which will be treasured and enjoyed by children and adults of all ages. It features stunning, full-page illustrations and includes maps of the ancient lands to bring stories from the Old and New Testaments vividly to life. It also features a comprehensive Whos who in the Bible to help children remember the characters and their stories...
The Relive Box and Other Stories
BY THE WINNER OF THE JONATHAN SWIFT PRIZE 2017 A dynamic new collection from one of our most original storytellers: satirical, surreal and very much of the moment. In these stories, T. C. Boyle focuses hisunerring eye on humanitys relationship with nature, and the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it. The prize-winning `Are We Not Men? reflects on the impact of new gene-editi...
Make More Noise! - New stories in honour of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage
An incredible collection of brand new short stories, from ten of the UKs very best storytellers, celebrating inspirational girls and women, being published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of womens suffrage in the UK. Featuring short stories by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of the Waterstones Childrens Book Prize-wining The Girl of Ink and Stars, M.G. Leonard, author of Beetle Boy, P...
The Sneetches and Other Stories
Some of the Sneetches have bellies with stars, but the plain-bellied ones have none upon thars! But an unexpected visitor soon leads them to discover theyre not that different after all, in the first tale in this classic collection of stories. The Star-Bellied Sneetches have bellies with Stars, but the Plain-Bellied Sneetches dont, and the two just cant seem to get along Rivalries rocket wh...
The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology - True stories from the world's best writers
Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania, Austria and beyond, edited by long-term Lonely Planet collaborator Don George. The 35 impassioned stories included in this collection of fortune tellers, tribal baboon hunters, a f...
The Happy Prince & Other Stories
The richness of Oscar Wildes way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891. From the comic tales of The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Saviles Crime to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince and The Star Child, we are treated to the extravagance and dexterity of Wildes ex...
Enid Blyton's Christmas Stories
Enid Blytons 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. Here is a wonderful selection to read and share. From Santa Claus and his helpers to a family putting up their tree, the characters in these stories embrace the Christmas spirit. There is mystery and magic, laughter and ...
The Best Australian Bush Stories
Australias national character and spirit have always been defined, rightly or wrongly, by the bush. This entertaining, thought-provoking, humorous, nostalgic and, above all, highly readable collection of stories for the modern reader shows why the romance endures. From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific Australiana authors, comes a collection of classic and iconic stories f...
Great Australian Motorcycle Stories
A bumper collection of yarns from motorcyclist enthusiasts around Australia. Get out on the highway and into this new collection of all-Australian motorcycle stories the latest addition to ABC Books bestselling Great Australian series. Edited by John Bryant and full of laconic Aussie humour, the collection features 40 stories that capture the freedom, fun, independence and adventure that com...
Little Grey Rabbit - The Speckledy Hen
One bright day, Speckledy Hen decides to leave the farmyard and find a home of her own. But its not long until Fox finds her there. Can Little Grey Rabbit and her friends create the perfect diversion to help the hen and her chicks escape? Since their first publication in 1929, the Little Grey Rabbit stories have captured the hearts of many and become childrens classics. Beautifully told by A...
The Wild Girl
One of the great untold love stories how the Grimm brothers discovered their famous fairy tales filled with drama and passion, and taking place during the Napoleonic Wars. Growing up next door to the Grimm brothers in Hesse-Cassel, a small German kingdom, Dortchen Wild told Wilhelm some of the most powerful and compelling stories in the famous fairy tale collection. Dortchen first met the G...