The Essential Kafka - The Castle; The Trial; Metamorpho...
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a worl...
What the Ladybird Heard and Other Stories Bedtime Bookc...
Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks have been creating beautiful...
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
The best-known work by famed American writer Stephen Crane, ...
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
As the acknowledged Queen of Crime, P. D. James was freq...
Tashi and the Wicked Magician - And Other Stories
Tashi is bold and clever, and tells the best stories ever! ...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Ages 10 and up Washington Irvings haunting, macabre stori...
The Rumpus Room - And other stories from the suburbs
Comedian Tim Ross draws inspiration from his acclaimed ABC t...
The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner - And Other Stories
Poor Mr Swimble is having a bad day. Rabbits are bouncing ou...
The Essential Kafka - The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis And Ot
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 worlds best-loved storytellers. The perfect Christmas gift. Enid Blytons retelling of Christs own stories and the meaning of His time on Earth is full of love Christs love for us, our love for each other and Enids caring and timeless love for...
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse
Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils, wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. He created an extraordinary world filled with bizarre creatures from the Dong with a luminous nose to the Pobble who has no toes who misbehave with joyful abandon. Here can be found such exuberant and timeless verse a...
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...
The Gruffalo's Child Song and Other Songs
Book Components1× 9781447200291, The Gruffalos Child and Other Songs, PaperbackAudio Components1× 9780230761735, The Gruffalos Child And Other Songs, Audio CDYouve read the books, now sing the songs! The Gruffalos Child returns with her very own song to introduce a truly monster musical session! As well as being the UKs most successful picture book author and the 2011-2013 Childrens ...
Paris for One and Other Stories
A collection of 11 unmissable short stories from the Number One internationally bestselling author of Me Before You and After You Lots to cheer about in Moyes first collection of short stories. If you want romance, the title story and its hapless heroine Nell will give it to you in spades Red Moyes somehow manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love Sunday Express...
When You Find Out the World Is Against You - And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments
Things That Can Make You Feel Really Crappy (an abbreviated list):, â When your mother tells you youre going to camp, but then abandons you at a sketchy daycare, in the path of an oncoming tornado., â When you finally get to go to real camp one summer and hope it will make you a twelve-year-old kissing bandit but instead your eyebrows get pulled off in an unfortunate plaster mask accid...
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...
The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories
INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PREVIEW OF A COUNTRY ESCAPE, COMING FEB 2018! Delve inside this CHRISTMAS STOCKING choc-full of perfectly themed, never-before-published seasonal short stories perfect for anyone who loves romance, humour and happy-ever-after endings. By the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author, Katie Fforde. A lovely, warm read to sink your teeth into Heat Delicious gorg...
Dragons at Crumbling Castle - And Other Stories
Dragons have invaded Crumbling Castle, and all of King Arthurs knights are either on holiday or visiting their grannies. Its a disaster! Luckily, theres a spare suit of armour and a very small boy called Ralph whos willing to fill it. Together with Fortnight the Friday knight and Fossfiddle the wizard, Ralph sets out to defeat the fearsome fire-breathers. But theres a teeny weeny surp...
Master and Man and Other Stories
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoys artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, The Two Hussars contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoys belief that art must serve a moral purpose, What M...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
This poem originally published anonymously, written after Wildes two years hard labour in Reading prison is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky and silently drinks his beer ration. Heart-wrenching and eye-opening, the ballad also expresse...
Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories
We all went down to the tar-pit, with mats to spread our weight. So begins Singing My Sister Down, Margo Lanagans internationally acclaimed, award-winning short story. Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories brings together ten celebrated short stories, along with three new ones, from the extraordinarily talented author of Tender Morsels and Sea Hearts. A bride accepts her devastating...
The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses
The perfect collectors item a beautiful facsimile edition of A. B. Banjo Patersons classic ballads, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. The Man From Snowy River, published in 1917 while Banjo Paterson was on active duty in the Middle East, includes his arguably most famous ballad. Some of the verses, as a note from Pat...
First Forty Days, The - The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
The first 40 days after the birth of a child offer an essential and fleeting period of rest and recovery for the new mother. Based on author Heng Ous own postpartum experience with zuo yuezi, a set period of confinement, in which a woman remains at home focusing on healing and bonding with her baby, The First Forty Days revives the lost art of caring for the mother after birth. As modern mot...
What the Dog Saw - And Other Adventures
In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. Masterpieces in the art of the essay Steven Pinker, The New York Times Beautiful
br...
The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner - And Other Stories
Poor Mr Swimble is having a bad day. Rabbits are bouncing out of his hat, pigeons are flying out of his jacket and every time he points his finger, something magically appears cheese sandwiches, socks . . . even a small yellow elephant on wheels! Its becoming a real nuisance and hes allergic to rabbits. His friends at the Magic Rectangle cant help, but the mysterious vacuum cleaner he ...
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernaturals most celebrated book Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamberwhich includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordans ...
The Man Who Ate Everything - And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits
Winner of the Julia Child Book Award. A James Beard Book Award Finalist. When Jeffrey Steingarten was appointed food critic for Vogue, he systematically set out to overcome his distaste for such things as kimchi, lard, Greek cuisine, and blue food. He succeeded at all but the last: Steingarten is fairly sure that God meant the color blue mainly for food that has gone bad. In this impassion...
The Essential Drucker - The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of organizations, individuals, and society, there is The Essential Druckeran invaluable compilation of essenti...