The Spanish Flu killed 30 million people worldwide in 1918. Now, with history threatening to repeat itself, a scientific expedition speeds towards a remote island in the Arctic Sea, to recover strains of the lethal virus preserved under layers of ice.
Donna Leon opens doors to the hidden Venice like no one else, showing readers what tourists never see. With her latest novel, Through a Glass, Darkly, Leon takes us inside the secretive island of Murano, home of the world-famous glass factories.
Charlie is blown of course whilst sailing. He lands on a mysterious island, where the good witch asks him to find the magic Urd and the Goomby so that peace and harmony can be restored to the island.
Everybody loves a pirate tale. Especially one set in the eighteenth century. The narrator, Jim Hawkins, son of a guest house owner comes across a map of Captain Flint’s treasure. Together with Squire Trelawney they set off for Treasure Island and meet up with Long John Silver, Ben Gunn and a motley crew of pirates. Arghhh!
Could any amount of tyrany on the part of the ship's captain justify mutiny? Here is a tale as strange as any ever told: a story of love and hate, of sacrifice, of selfishness, of trust and jealousy. It is the human document of twenty-seven lives whom fate and Fletcher Christian set down in mid-Pacific on a little strip of land known as ... Pitcairn's Island.
