The Haunted WoodDo you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? 'The Haunted Wood is a marvel.' Philip Pullman The stories we read as children extend far beyond our childhoods; they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past collective and individual, remembered and imagined and invite us to dream up different futures. In a pioneering history of childrens literature, from the ancient world to the present day, Sam Leith

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Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months

She knows that she will never see her beloved parents grandmother or aunt again-she watched as they were all sent to the left to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau

this book offers even more grit and sharper claws

the professor’s sense of foreboding and urgency are apparent

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who just happens to be the illegitimate son of the British king

In 2008 and 2009 Brinkley returned to Cambodia to find out

'An ending you definitely won't see coming' JP Delaney

' and then to put all of your efforts into that direction

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Beautiful new edition of retellings - including Scottish versions of some recognisable classics