William Shakespeare

John Gilbert

Ned Halley

Romeo and Juliet

Othello

A Midsummer Night's Dream

As the nights draw in and Halloween is just around the corner, what better to read than this collection of seriously spooky stories about ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. Ghost stories became hugely popular during the nineteenth century and the Victorians became the masters of the genre. This deliciously chilling collection of Classic Hallowe'en Stories includes authors such as Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allen Poe, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James, Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, M. R. James and Vernon Lee. So dim the lights, close the curtains and revel in the frisson of fear from these most chilling of anecdotes.

Classic Hallowe'en Stories

L. Frank Baum

After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard in order to return to Kansas.

The Wizard of Oz

Anthony Trollope

Doctor Thorne

Erskine Childers

The Riddle of the Sands

Over 1,500 recipes, with revealing anecdotes about many of the cocktails, and generous sprinklings of apposite quotations, risque jokes and little curiosities.

Ultimate Cocktail Book

Hans Christian Andersen

Jean Hersholt

Collects Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, including "The Wicked Prince," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ice Maiden," in a text with a brief history of fairy tales and an overview of the author's life and works.

Best Fairy Tales

Robert Graves

Robert Graves' superb autobiography tells the story of his life at public school and as a young officer during the First World War.

Goodbye to All That

Farming began when people first discovered how to cultivate crops swapping a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a settled existence. From then on people's lives were shaped by the rhythm of the farming year from ploughing and sowing to reaping and threshing. Once domesticated herd animals including cows sheep goats pigs and chickens also played a part in everyday life providing milk meat wool hides and eggs. Farming continued almost unchanged until the Agricultural Revolution in the mid-18th century when machinery was first introduced. This made labour-intensive tasks easier and quicker but it changed country life forever. Technology has continued to transform farming hugely increasing productivity but sometimes harming the environment.Farm is a unique and exciting introduction to the wide range of crops animals tools machines and tasks that make up the farmer's world.

Farm

DK Eyewitness Guides: Farm

Robert Louis Stevenson

.0000000000Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped tells of how young David Balfour, orphaned, and betrayed by his uncle Ebenezer who should have been his guardian, is kidnapped, and falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause. The novel revolves around their friendship and their differences, suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself. Modern critics see the novel as more than a boy's adventure yarn; at the heart of it lies what Henry James described as the 'really excellent' chapters of the flight in the heather that raise the novel to greatness.The illustrations by William Hole are from the first edition, with an Afterword by Ned Halley.

Kidnapped

Here, children can encounter the power of natural forces, from volcanoes to outbreaks of plague and flu; read about man-made disasters, environmental catastrophes and threats of the future; and discover how people have lived through these events and what they have learnt from them.

The Best-ever Book of Disasters

What is a slack-ma-girdle? Or a submarino? How did White Horse whisky get its name? Or Old Bawdy barley wine? How do you make a really dry martini? Or beer? Or champagne? The answers to these enquiries and thousands of others are revealed in this unique guide to every kind of alcohol, compiled by dedicated drinker and collector of little histories, Ned Halley, who is an award-winning writer on beer, a nationally syndicated wine columnist and author of numerous books on drink. In a straightforward A to Z format, 'The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink' identifies thousands of individual brewers, distillers and winemakers, as well as the names of their products. The dictionary aims to be of real, practical help in locating beers and ciders, wines and spirits of every hue to their maker and place of origin. Here, too, are descriptive terms used on labels, along with the less-formal words used by producers and purveyors to promote their products in the market place. Origins, from village breweries to entire wine-producing regions, are located by nation, province and district. In many cases, there is a mention of when a producer or product was established, perhaps a word about the founder or a brief explanation of a curious-sounding brand name. The book is laced with historical anecdotes, a thousand cocktail recipes, essays on topics from the Guiness dynasty to the principles of brewing, from the discovery of distilling to the history of excise duty - and illustrated with hundreds of drink labels from all around the world.

Ned Halley

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