Susan Price

The Ghost Wife

Chills, spills and empty coffins This wide-ranging collection of twenty-four spine-tingling stories draws on the best traditions of classic horror, from powerful myths and folktales to contemporary stories of man-made terrors. With contributions by writers of the calibre of John Steinbeck, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, T. H. White, Philip K. Dick and Stephen King, this is a truly chilling anthology.

Horror Stories

It's the twenty-first century and a scientific corporation have come up with the ultimate holiday destination... the past. They've devised a Time Tube, the ultimate time travel experience. Pack your bags and travel back to the sixteenth century! Enjoy all that fresh air and organic, wholesome food There's just one problem... The locals...

The Sterkarm Handshake

Zoe has heard all about Mrs Beckerdyke, all about how she has special powers, how she can contact the spirit world, how she is a witch. A dark and disturbing novel by the award-winning author of The Sterkarm Handshake.

The Bearwood Witch

Sarah has the perfect pet. She doesn't need to feed it or exercise it. The bone dog does everything she asks. Even bad things. And Sarah enjoys her new-found power, but even she is beginning to get scared.

The Bone-dog

In a country where winter is one long night, the Czar's son Safa is imprisoned in a tower and surrounded by danger. At last the witch-girl Chingis hears his cry for help...

The Ghost Drum

YA. Elfgift is the chosen heir of a dying King. His three brothers plot to destroy him and nearly succeeded, until the fearsome Battle-woman, Jarnseaxa, takes her place at his side.

Elfgift

Elfgift is King. But the throne is not yet secure. Elfgift's hated brother, Unwin, is raising an army against the devil-spawn. A truce is struck to celebrate Christmas and Jul's feast but Unwin's power-hunger convinces him to dishonour the holy night with treachery and bloodshed.

Elfking

Game Changers have the skills, courage and power to change the world! Read about eight game-changing scientists who all shared the same motto in life: 'nullius in verba' - 'take no one's word for it'. They asked the questions and gathered the evidence that shaped our understanding of modern science. From Isaac Newton who established the laws of motion still used by engineers and scientists today, to Marie Curie, who won two Nobel prizes in recognition of her work on radiation and radioactivity, and Tu YouYou, the Chinese scientist who discovered a cure for malaria that has saved millions of lives. Game Changers: Super Scientists is part of the Reading Planet range of books for Stars (Lime) to Supernova (Red+) band. Children aged 7-11 will be inspired to love reading through the gripping stories and fascinating information books created by top authors. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 10-11 years

Reading Planet KS2 - Game-Changers: Super Scientists - Level 8: Supernova (Red+ band)

Praise for Nightcomers from Philip Pullman. "'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evoke the Past without falsity, and the present without effort.'" (The Guardian.) "Nightcomers..." The beautiful and the uncanny... A beautiful Englishman drives his Italian mistress to suicide - but she pursues him even after death... A young blacksmith spends Midsummer's Night near an ancient mound, to 'shoe with silver the horses of those who come by'... In an echoing, eerie, out-of-hours mall, a lonely cleaner falls in love with a beautiful, hungry stranger... A family gather at a dying girl's bedside and, out of the night, something comes knocking at the window... A man walks home, on a freezing night, along lanes haunted by the Death-Dog... A young actor is offered a lift in a car silver sports car with the number, '130.' A holiday cottage holds memories of despair... And a ghost features in a gentle Christmas story. Eight eerie, haunting stories of the supernatural from an expert story-teller and award-winning writer.

Nightcomers

Paul loves beautiful girls and poetry. He's courageous enough to recite sonnets to the Hell's Angels in the Hailstone Inn. So when Zione, black and gorgeous, appears in his audience, he's well pleased. When she invites him into the yard, he doesn't hesitate. But in the yard, Zione calls up green fire and things become very strange... Waking in a strange bed is, for him, nothing new but he's never found himself sharing one with a dragon before. A small dragon, but still. A dragon. It turns out Zione is a sorceress and she's kidnapped Paul to perform poetry for a big poetry lover. / A poetry lover who's devoured almost the whole of the Oxford Book of Poetry. In the most literal sense. Can Paul survive the performance? Can he win back to his beloved lost world of pubs, pints and crisps? A light-hearted fantasy of poetry, sorcery, dragons -- and wrapping paper.

Foiling the Dragon

A major reading scheme for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years. A popular traditional tale, The Runaway Chapati Big Book is ideal for shared reading activities with children in the Foundation stage/Primary 1 (ages3-4). The Big Book is designed to be used with the associated children's books (pack of 4): A Chapati; My Face; Run, Run!; Stop!, Come Back!. The Runaway Chapati Big Book spans the Key Skills (High Frequency Words) strand and the Language Patterns (Patterned and Natural Language) strand of Cambridge Reading. The Big Book can be used to develop children's Text and Sentence level skills through systematic coverage and repetition of four key, high frequency words a, and, my and the, and through the use of patterned and natural language of the speech refrains. The other two traditional tales (also comprising a Big Book and 4 associated children's books) are The Elves and the Shoemaker and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

The Runaway Chapati Big Book

Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two

The Little Blue Horse

Elfgift is a half-breed, a devil-spawn, an illegitimate child of a king. And now Elfgift's dying father has named the thing his heir. But Elfgift has legitimate brothers, who have been brought up as members of the court. No elf-child will deprive them of their birthright.

A stunning futuristic sci-fi adventure, where the wealthy are genetically designed and slavery is socially acceptable.

Odin's Son

Originally written for the Cambridge Reading series, this is Carnegie Medal winning author Susan Price's retelling of the traditional story 'The Gingerbread Man.' "Once a girl made a chapatti for her tea. But the chapatti didn't want to be eaten. Up from the table it jumped, and out of the door it ran, singing, 'Run, run, as fast as you can, You can't put me in your frying pan!'" The chapatti leads the girl on a merry chase that involves a friendly dog, a cheeky monkey and a long crocodile before finding a big suprise in the deep jungle! This simple tale, humorously told, is ideal for instilling a love of reading, with its repeated refrain, and phrases picked out in speech bubbles, helping children to quickly recognise the key words: 'stop, ' 'come, ' 'back, ' 'and, ' 'my, ' 'the.' Suitable for ages 3-4. The lively illustrations, full of movement and gorgeous colour, will have children asking for the story again and again.

The Runaway Chapatti

Hauntings: nine stories written by an award-winning, expert story-teller. Stories written to haunt, "'to be poignant and evocative, persistently and disturbingly present.'" Praise for HAUNTINGS 'Susan Price understands well that the ghost story form may be used to move readers and question their prejudices about the nature of appearance, as well as to frighten delightfully. She never settles for cheap effects and writes beautifully of relationships between young and old.' "The Daily Telegraph." 'This collection... has a depth of emotion that is at times disturbing.' Magpie, 1998 A dead boy stands in a dark farm-yard, staring at the lit windows of the farmhouse kitchen. An old man, living alone in a farmhouse surrounded by modern estates, sees spirits dancing on an ancient hillside. A bullied schoolgirl finds a protector - at a price. A writer listens to the telling of a dream - and can't sleep easily after. A poltergeist joins a couple in their home... An elderly couple are woken nightly by the return of their young neighbour - who was murdered. Yet still she comes home late... An ancient wood emerges from the lamposts and walls of a city... And a spiritual medium is exposed as a trickster "Hauntings..."

Hauntings

The follow-up to the award-winning The Sterkarm Handshake: A woman’s return to Scotland’s barbaric past ensnares her in a web of intrigue, danger, and love. Andrea Mitchell once found acceptance and love among the Sterkarm clan in lawless 1500s Scotland when she gained access to Great Britain’s past via the FUP Corporation’s “Time Tube.” Since her return to the present, she has been unable to readjust to twenty-first century life. So when the company’s CEO, James Windsor, offers to send her back to the violent, colorful era—and her beloved Per Sterkarm—Andrea eagerly agrees. The past she reenters, however, is not the one she remembers. To avoid potential catastrophic effects on the future, FUP has sent her to a different dimension and an alternate sixteenth century. Here, she is a stranger to her former friends, including her onetime lover Per, who is preparing to marry a daughter of the hated Grannams, the Sterkarms’ sworn enemies. But the union is part of FUP’s insidious plan to plunder the past of its natural wealth. When the wedding goes brutally, tragically awry, Andrea finds herself caught in the middle, a pawn in a violent endgame devised by Windsor and his greedy cronies. And this time there may not be sanctuary for her among the proud, primitive folk she once admired—or even an escape forward to the future where she truly belongs. Susan Price’s The Sterkarm Handshake was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize. In A Sterkarm Kiss, the Carnegie Medal–winning author once again ingeniously blends historical and science fiction in a masterful time-travel adventure as thrilling and unforgettable as its acclaimed predecessor.

A Sterkarm Kiss

Kenelm has always wanted to be a warrior, but his uncle, the King, has given him to the church to be made a monk. When Kenelm is recalled due to sickness, he ventureas into the woods to find the Wood-People. There he meets the beautiful Wolf-Sisters and is given the chance of freedom.

The Wolf Sisters

Since his mother, Odinstoy's, death, Gift has become obsessed with the idea of tracking down his real father. In secret, he employs a private detective to make investigations on Earth so that he can uncover his past. But when a Newsblog reveals evidence to suggest that Odinstoy wasn't his real mother, Gift doesn't know where to turn. He flees to the poisonous surface of Mars in the hope that the great god Odin can give him some answers... Meanwhile the mysterious Sherri, whose resemblance to Gift is undeniable, is making her way to Mars with some important news. Will she find him before it's too late?

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