When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are sho...

Three different parts of the world, but all of them dangerous, lonely places. Three different women, but all of them determined to go - and to come back alive!

"I don´t know that you have done anything wrong," Miss Hepplewhite said. "But it is possible that you have done something rather dangerous." William and Susie thought they were just playing a game wh...

When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to t...

When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are sho...

"When it came to football, Billy was different. Black hands grab the ball. Black feet kick the ball. Black hopes rise up with the ball to the sickly white sky. No one can stop him now. He forgets abou...

It was a very inconvenient time for murder. Florence was full of Christmas shoppers and half the police force was already on holiday. At first it seemed quite an ordinary murder. Of course, there are...

"My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother´s stories." But those child...

"I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning hi...

"My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother´s stories." But those childho...

"I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours." With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But thi...

When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to t...

The four Walker children never meant to go to sea. They had promised their mother to stay safely in the harbour, and to be home on Friday in time for tea. But there they are in someone else´s boat,...

"I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours." With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But thi...

General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He´s an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn´t like being blackmailed. So he asks private detecti...

When Nicola arrives in Crete a day early, she gets more than just an extra day of holiday. She comes to a village where no one can be trusted, and she becomes involved in a murder mystery that puts...

"Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one." But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, l...

People who ride racehorses love the speed, the excitement, the danger - and winning the race. Philip Nore has been riding for many years and he always wants to win - but sometimes he is told to lose. ...

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Me...

A hundred years ago a seaman´s life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great adventure...

One winter´s day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley - a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murde...

In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand men disappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion´s honour...

Jan opened his wooden box and took out the silver sword. "This will bring me luck," he said to Mr Balicki. "And it will bring you luck because you gave it to me." The silver sword is only a paper k...

In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling...

Many great crimes end in a question. Not all the answers are known. Open this book and discover the love, hate, death, money, and mystery behind some of these great crimes. FORTHCOMING SUMMER 2008

If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don´t try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don´t blow it. If a mysterious man ...

A complete range of reading materials for students of all abilities. *The Oxford Bookworms Library is a carefully and intelligently graded series, providing a six-stage library of readers, including o...

This full-colour, non-fiction series presents an engaging range of topics such as environmental issues, historical facts, and culture. Each title features colour photographs, exercises, a glossary, an...

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Margaret, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry´s life miserable. ...

These motivating non-fiction readers are rich in content and beautifully illustrated. Fascinating information in carefully graded language appeals to a broad range of students and supports English acr...

The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would expect a missionary´s sister and a rough, uneducated mechanic to take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the f...

A complete range of reading materials for students of all abilities. *The Oxford Bookworms Library is a carefully and intelligently graded series, providing a six-stage library of readers, including o...