The second thrilling book in the EMBASSY ROW series. Grace thought finding her mother’s killer would bring her peace. But the truth has only made her a target. On Embassy Row, trust is a luxury. Death is a very real threat. And a girl like Grace should be very ca...

\"This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked . . . She was in the night once again, and the doll was herself.\" One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother\"s wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered....

Centre stage in Angela Carter\"s unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend has abandoned him, Joseph has decided to give up existing. But his concerned friends and neighbours have other plans....

This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionari...

What is knowledge? Why is it valuable? How much of it do we have (if any at all), and what ways of thinking are good ways to use to get more of it? These are just a few questions that are asked in epistemology, roughly, the philosophical theory of knowledge....

The action-packed third book in a series that\"s Percy Jackson meets Beast Quest, about a boy who discovers he\"s part of a secret race of animal shapeshifters – and must become a hero Twelve-year-old Simon Thorn\"s life is almost unrecognisable from just a few months ago....

Dear Ally is a treasure for aspiring writers at any stage of their careers. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at how books get made, from idea to publ...

The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone. She was a beautiful girl, a white and golden girl, like moonlight on daisies, a month ago....

This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked . . . She was in the night once again, and the doll was herself. One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother\"s wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered....

Once upon a time fairy tales weren\"t meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter\"s Book Of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world - from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies....

When 11-year-old April joins a group of kids living at Winterborne Home she doesn’t expect to be there for very long....

‘I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.’ So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter’s first major achievement in the short story form....

The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound edition This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to a...

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman\"s mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor\"s daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams....

Eight short works of fiction by one of Britain\"s greatest and most original writers. Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories....