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Two children, Dan and Una, acting out their version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, miraculously conjure up Puck himself. Small and as old as time itself, he brings back the past for them to witness. He re-creates a Roman centurion, a Renaissance craftsman and the villages of time gone by. HB-Condition – Fair
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova In this internationally bestselling novel, the author of The Swan Thieves has ‘refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling…late-night page-turner’ – San Francisco Chronicle Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to ‘My dear and unfortunate successor’. Her […]
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers? In this bold new life – the first single volume biography in twenty-five […]
The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A Dragon Tattoo story by David Lagercrantz TO TIE-IN WITH THE SONY/YELLOW BIRD PRODUCTION STARRING CLAIRE FOY AS LISBETH SALANDER – RELEASED NOVEMBER 2018 Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that […]
The Silence of the Girls Summary The Silence of the Girls: From the Booker prize-winning author of Regeneration by Pat Barker A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY ‘Chilling, powerful, audacious’ The Times ‘Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers’ Evening Standard There was a woman at the heart of […]
