Once there was an ugly witch who imprisoned a beautiful princess on the top of a glass mountain. A drummer boy tried to save the princess, but the mountains was so slippery he could not climb it. With magic he got to the top, but he still had to trick the witch into freeing the princess.
A story at Level 1 of a series of children's illustrated ELT readers which are graded at five levels, according to length and complexity of plot. The stories cover a wide variety of genres, and have both British and foreign settings
A mission ends in terror for agent Osbourne, as he floats in the sea off the coast of Brittany. A German warship hauls Osbourne to safety. The Allies are ready to play their dirtiest trick - a trained operative in a disguised E-boat with the name Lili Marlene emblazoned on its brow...
Death is a hollow drum whose beat has measured out my adult life.' So writes Jay Macallan Stewart in her latest volume of memoirs. But nobody has ever asked whether that has been by accident or design. Nobody, that is, until Jay turns her sights on newly-wed and freshly-widowed Magda Newsam. For Magda's mother Corinna is an Oxford don who knows enough of Jay's history to be very afraid indeed. Determined to protect her daughter, Corinna turns to clinical psychologist Charlie Flint.
