Alexander the Great - Penguin Readers - Level 4 Alexander the Great has fascinated people since his death more than 2300 years ago. By the age of thirty he ruled the biggest Empire the world had ever known. This remarkable leader brought civilization to millions and shaped our world.
The Diary of a Young Girl - Penguin Readers - Level 4
It is 1942 in Holland and the Germans have invaded. All Jewish people are frightened for their lives, so the Frank family hides. Life is dangerous but they hope for the best – until they are finally discovered. Anne Frank was a real person, and this is her diary.
A shockingly original thriller – the launch title of Zaffre, the new fiction imprint of Bonnier Publishing Fiction Judith Rashleigh works as an assistant in a prestigious London auction house, but her dreams of breaking into the art world have been gradually dulled by the blunt forces of snobbery and corruption. To make ends meet she moonlights as a hostess in one of the West End’s less salubrious bars – although her work there pales against her activities on nights off. Set in the exotic palaces and yachts of Europe’s seriously wealthy, Maestra is a shockingly original thriller.
Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo's best stories—bizarre and blood-curdling expeditions into the fantastic, the perverse, and the strange, in a marvelous homage to Rampo's literary 'mentor', Edgar Allan Poe.
This incomparable annual compilation of the best short fiction and novellas features an unmatched variety of the quietly weird, the merely eerie, high fantasy, modern Lovecraftian horror, nightmarish near-future scenarios, the darkly humorous, the supernatural, and the monstrously mundane from the brightest new talent, legendary authors like Joe R. Lansdale, Tanith Lee, and Gene Wolfe, and bestsellers such as Holly Black, Neil Gaiman, and Sarah Langan. Includes a 36,000 word novella by George R.R. Martin set in his A Song of Fire and Ice universe.
