Best Selling Books by Leon Garfield

Few characters embody the spirit of Christmas more fully than Kate Douglas Wiggin''s Carol Bird. This classic Christmas story by the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm features a child as memorable and charitable as Dickens''s Tiny Tim. Since 1888 this bittersweet holiday classic has been cherished by generations of young readers, reminding them of the true nature of Christmas through a child''s joyful and generous spirit. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can''t help but wish he were dead. So when a strange old man offers to make this wish come true, Benjamin finds it impossible to refuse. Sure enough, Mr Corbett meets an untimely death, but the tables turn on the terrified apprentice who finds himself cursed with the ghost of the man he hated most in the world . . . A brilliant collection of three short stories from a master story-teller, who will keep you turning the pages until the very end.

A New York Review Children''s Collection Original The Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends. In “The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris,” the wily pair put their classical education to the test when they adopt the Spartan custom of exposing infants to the wild, leaving Harris’s infant sister, Adelaide, to the elements. The boys imagine a wolf will come to nourish her, but their plan backfires. It is springtime in “The Night of the Comet,” and in the days before Pigott’s comet will pass over their town, Harris’s and Bostock’s thoughts turn to love: Bostock swoons over Harris’s sister Mary; Harris longs for Captain Bostock’s telescope. The boys strike a deal: Bostock will make off with the telescope in exchange for Harris’s “expert” wooing advice. Unfortunately, that expertise is not quite what Bostock would have hoped.

The apprentice wished for nothing more than the death of his hated master but he finds the burden of the man''s ghost too great to bear.

Two young Englishmen become involved in the French Revolution, culminating in the September Massacre.

Harris offers Bostock the affections of his sister in exchange for the brass telescope of Bostock''s father and starts a string of misunderstandings about who is courting whom in Brighton.

Fantasy.

The Strange Affair of Adalaide Harris

Leon Garfield has brought together a collection of stories by some of today''s finest writers. It is a book not just for the twelve-year old but for the entire family, with stories ranging from the atmospheric ghost story to the slapstick family comedy.

Examines the lasting cultural contributions of the age of the Hanover Kings, focusing on the work and personalities of the Kings and queens, writers, musicians, architects, and scientists of the eighteenth century.

Samuel, a kitchen-boy in Babylon, serves Belshazzar, the King, and his guests at the feast during which God delivers a message to Belshazzar which is interpreted by Judge Daniel