Anthony Masters

David Spiegelhalter

How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What are the benefits and harms of different vaccines? How does COVID-19 compare to the Spanish flu? How have the lockdown measures affected the economy, mental health and crime? This year we have been bombarded by statistics - seven day rolling averages, rates of infection, excess deaths. Never have numbers been more central to our national conversation, and never has it been more important that we think about them clearly. In the media and in their Observer column, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter and RSS Statistical Ambassador Anthony Masters have interpreted these statistics, offering a vital public service by giving us the tools we need to make sense of the virus for ourselves and holding the government to account. In Covid by Numbers, they crunch the data on a year like no other, exposing the leading misconceptions about the virus and the vaccine, and answering our essential questions. This timely, concise and approachable book offers a rare depth of insight into one of the greatest upheavals in history, and a trustworthy guide to these most uncertain of times.

Your Questions Answered

Covid by Numbers

Terroríficas apariciones ocurren cuando los cazadores de fantasmas, David y Jenny, andan por ahí. Hasta con perros transparentes se encuentran.

""El perro venía de otro tiempo, los arrastraba hacia atrás, hacia el pasado"

El perro fantasma

This is a critical introduction to Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze's most important work of philosophy and one of the most significant texts of contemporary philosophy. It provides a clear, critical commentary of each section of the book, explains the main concepts of Deleuze's philosophy and sets out the arguments for defending the validity of the claims made for those concepts. It also puts forward and answers criticisms of those arguments and concepts.

Killer Instinct

A retelling of Greek myths, including those about Perseus and Medusa, Pandora's box, and the Golden Fleece.

Greek Myths and Legends

SUMMARY: Members of Green Watch, an environmental pressure group, battle to protect the natural world from ruthless exploitation. In this volume, Green Watch lead an anti-whaling expedition in the Falklands.

Sad Song of the Whale

It's dark. A light snow is falling. Down in the crypt there are tales of vampires to be told. Could they be true?

Vampire Stories to Tell in the Dark

The Château Letoric is the ancestral home of the highly respected Larche family obsessed with the past, with bitterness, rancour and revenge. Solange is one of France's most poignant Resistance heroines but, badly tortured, now senile, the repository of many dark secrets, she has been confined to a wheel chair since the end of the war. Her husband Henri was accused of collaborating with the Nazis. Their son, Marius, at forty-eight a senior officer in Interpol, has been fighting to clear his father's name. But Marius himself is also vulnerable in St Esprit where his past - a homosexual affair with a farm-worker - rises to plague him. Suddenly the years of tongue-wagging culminate in the first of three fatal tragedies: Henri Larche is murdered. The paralysis of a town trapped in the past is powerfully evoked in this superbly skillful story of a family whose dreaded secrets hound them to the death.

Murder is a Long Time Coming

Alistair is the leader of the rat pack - a gang of four bullies whose new victim is their inexperienced teacher. But Ali is also a victim himself - his stepfather seems to take every opportunity to touch him, sending shivers up Ali's spine. When his teacher manages to gain control of the class, Alistair realizes it is possible to change his situation, and takes a stand against a threat that is promising to destroy his life. For junior high readers.

Bullies Don't Hurt

The Natural History of the Vampire

The stranger strangler has been brutally murdering homeless girls near the run-down old cinema where Tom Burden works. The shelter next-door is a magnet for the young and vunerable, and the serial killer who's stalking them... Late at night in the cinema, Tom's plagued by unexplained noises-the old organ starts playing by itself, lights are mysteriously switched off. Worst of all there's the terrifying whispering and wheezing that haunts him in the darkness-the sound of someone struggling; of someone dying to breathe...

Welcome Stranger

First published in 1964, Anthony Masters' early collection of short stories , A Pocketful of Rye, is preoccupied with problems of social marginalisation and inequality. With his typical sensitivity, Masters observes universal human struggles caused by ageing, impoverishment, alienation and disability. These short stories are touching and poignant without being sentimental or patronising.

A Pocketful of Rye

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is the diary of a man shipwrecked on a desert island. He is alone for many years, but then cannibals arrive, bringing with them a prisoner. Can he rescue the prisoner? Will he ever escape from the island? TreeTops Classics are adapted and abridged versions of classic stories to enrich and extend children's reading experiences.

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Classics: Level 17: Robinson Crusoe

Paul Taylor

Denis Gifford

Octopus Publishing Group

Paul Willemen

Phil Hardy

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Every night Gary wakes sweating with fear. Every night the dreams come. Gary does not know what the dreams mean. Who is the stranger who hammers at the door? Who is the baby whose cries can be heard? He and his family are newcomers to the Isle of Wight, but Gary is soon to find his life inextricably bound up with both the island and the supernatural. 'Masters evidently believes in giving his...readers more than thrills and spills' - Sunday Telegraph

Dead Man at the Door

Covid By Numbers

The storm rages. They huddle closer round the flames as the wind howls in the night. Another ghost story begins. But is the old house really deserted, or is something screaming in the darkness? Do you dare to find out?

Ghost Stories to Tell in the Dark

Spilt sugar in the supermarket storeroom means a sticky feast for Mel, Max and Molly Mouse. But their arch enemies, the gangsters Ricky and Ronnie Rat, want in on the action. But the mice devise a daring plan to lead the nightwatchman's dog to the rats. It's the mice's first victory in their long-standing battle with the rats and the sugar mountain tastes all the sweeter!

Ricky's Rat Gang

Theyâe(tm)re back! Ricky and his rat gang are back, and theyâe(tm)re out for revenge! But Molly, Mel and Max mice have beaten the rats before and they can do it again, so when the gangsters break into the miceâe(tm)s fantastic new home âe" a doughnut factory âe" theyâe(tm)re in big trouble . . . Beginner readers will relish this fast-paced, action-packed and very funny battle between goodies and baddies in this hilarious spoof gangster adventure.

Doughnut Danger

The Ness - 600. A time and place of peace, until the black dogs arrive, spreading discord and ultimately doom. But that is many years ago, and Simon and his mother are unaware of their links to this far away time when they come to live with old Mrs Chemaly and her old, battered book. Ages 10+.

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