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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald 		from £15.99
Revolutionary for the time in encouraging children to think like children, the adventure of Princess Irene and Curdie, the boy miner, was to influence generations of writers, including Chesterton and Tolkien. Overflowing with fantastic ideas and images to delight the young and allegory to inspire ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title A Child of the Jago
by Arthur Morrison 		from £14.99
'A Child of the Jago' is both thriller and condemnation of social conditions in the East End slums at the turn of the century. Boy hero Dicky Perrott is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. "It was my fate to encounter a place in Shoreditch where children were born and reared in circu ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Greyfriars Bobby
by Eleanor Atkinson 		from £17.99
Bobby, a sparky silver haired Skye terrier, adopts Auld Jock, a worn out simple shepherd, as his master. Jock is 'let go' by the farmer and dies in poverty having suffered one winter too many. The farmer tries to reclaim Bobby as a pet for his daughter but the dog owes allegiance only to Auld Jock, guarding his grave in Gre ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells 		from £14.99
H.G. Wells’ premise has been the source for many screenplays, scripts and a springboard for many fantastical ideas. However, the importance of the Invisible Man is not in its central conceit, it lies within its theme - the effect on mankind of the pursuit of science. Griffin’s paranoia and the murder of his fellow beings to ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Kidnapped
by Robert L. Stevenson 		from £17.99
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house". So begins one of the greatest tales in literature, an account of David Balfour's trials and tribulations as he falls foul of his mise ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Moonfleet
by J. Meade Falkner 		from £17.99
A tale of smuggling and mystery on the Dorset coast as told by John Trenchard, a boy obsessed with discovering the secret of Colonel 'Blackbeard' Mohune's hidden treasure. One night, trapped in the Mohune family vault beneath the church, John finds a locket round the Colonel's neck which contains verses from th ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Coral Island
by R. M. Ballantyne 		from £22.99
Heroes Ralph, Jack and Peterkin set sail on the Arrow and are the only three survivors of a fearful shipwreck. They are washed ashore on a seemingly idyllic coral island. This tranquillity is violently disturbed, first by a tribe of bloodthirsty cannibals and then by the invasion of a vicious pirate and his gan ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Greenmantle
by John Buchan 		from £24.99
The second of Richard Hannays’ adventures takes him from the trenches of the First World War on a mission of vital importance to the British campaign in the East. In an attempt to manipulate their Turkish allies the Germans have created a religious figurehead, a prophet of a new order to unify the disparate tr ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan 		from £13.49
Among the first ‘espionage thrillers’ and an acknowledged classic ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ well deserves its accolades as one of the best adventure stories of all time. Leaving aside the improbable denouement, the fast paced, brilliantly conceived narrative still excites and carries one along with the sheer sus ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling 		from £14.99
Harvey Cheyne, pampered son of an American millionaire is swept overboard from the deck of a liner and picked up by a small fishing boat, one of several trawling the Grand Banks. He is rapidly confronted by the harsh realities of life and comes to terms with himself amid the hard labour and morality of the redoubtable New E ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Two Years Before The Mast
by Richard Henry Dana 		from £14.99
In 1834 Richard Henry Dana, aged nineteen, broke off his studies at Harvard and enlisted as a Jack-tar on the brig Pilgrim. This is a faithful account of his voyage and experiences including storms round Cape Horn, pursuit by pirates and meeting many strange characters from foreign lands. It details the excruciating day to ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Marvellous Land of Snergs
by Edward Wyke-Smith 		from £18.49
Once upon a time there was a marvellous land of Snergs. Miss Watkyns, a teacher who loved children, lived there. Just over the river lived Golithos, a not so friendly giant, who also loved children – with a lot of salt! He had a friend called Mother Meldrum, the wickedest witch that ever lived. ... more on this title.
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