New Releases by Robert Westall

Caught in a freak storm, John Webster takes shelter in an old barn with weird symbols carved in the doors. The landowner offers him a place to stay and John, on leave from University, takes him up on the offer. But it turns out the barn has more history than he first suspected. A portal back in time, to be precise. He meets the beautiful Johanna, who is being tracked by the Witch Finder General. Modern science says that witches aren''t real... but then, neither are portals back in time, so what can John believe? John finds himself torn between the past and the present, caught in a web of magic, mystery, suspicion and witchhunts.

This book contains many editorial cartoons drawn by Robert Westall, a Canadian observer of the orange madness to the south. Please note some drawings may not be suitable for children or those with childish minds in red hats.

Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first time BLACKHAM’S WIMPEY Why should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber – Blackham’s Wimpey – be driven to madness, despair, even death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch? ‘A writer of disturbing brilliance’ – Times Educational Supplement THE WHEATSTONE POND Too many deaths, too many suicides. It was more than coincidence. The Wheatstone Pond was a killer. When it’s drained, antique dealer Jeff Morgan gets interested, hoping there’ll be a few valuable wrecks of model boats down there. He isn’t prepared for the horror he will

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A mysterious air-raid shelter... A plane crash under fire... A secret operation... A noise in the attic...

''Nobody breaks up this gang. And I mean nobody. Not Boddser, not the police, not your folks and definitely not the Germans. This is our territory and I will fight to the death for this place.'' The gripping story of Chas McGill and his school friends offers a vivid account of life in The Blitz.

Ritorna uno dei romanzi più importanti della letteratura per ragazzi.

There were three people, standing in the darkest place, watching him. Simon is outraged that his Mum plans to remarry. He can''t bear her new fiancé or the way his mother and sister seem to have forgotten his late father. Overwhelmed by hatred and anger he seeks solace in a nearby abandoned water mill. But another, powerful hatred lingers within its walls. And it is about to be unleashed... Westall''s immense talent is evident from the opening line - Simon''s anger and unhappiness are tangible, and the Scarecrows'' ill-intentions terrifying.

Guaranteed to thrill and chill, this spine-tingling collection of 22 spooky stories includes contributions by Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, and many other well-known writers.

Six tales, set in England, in which people engaged in ordinary pursuits attract the attention of supernatural forces.

Furble the cat is getting fat. David and his gran watch Furble carefully and before too long, she''s given birth to four kittens. Suggested level: junior, primary.

A book of short stories for teenagers that perfectly conveys all the anguish, horror and humour of falling in love. Not a "he-said-she-said" book, but a gut-wrenchingly realistic portrayal of the whole gamut of feelings, including disappointments and triumphs.

One day when they are still getting over her mother''s sudden death, Lucy''s father hands her a briefcase full of old bank notes and tells her she must run away. Frightened and lonely she knows neither where she is running to, or whom from ...

Miss Crimond was sitting in Dad''s chair and Billy hated her. To Billy, and all the families who rented her houses in Back Tennyson Street, Miss Crimond was the arch enemy. Billy and his gang declare war on her, but his campaign has unexpected consequences when he sees the night mare, the horse of his dreams. Junior high readers.

A collection of ten of the author's previously published ghostly tales, including "Rachel and the Angel" and "The Creatures in the House", and the previously unpublished "Graveyard Shift".

When Sammy discovers the gruesome body of a dead sheep, torn horribly apart, a terrifying mystery begins. What kind of beast is the giant creature responsible for the killings? Sammy is going to need all his courage and determination to find out. A powerful story of growing up.

When Brian meets Philippa at a harvest camp, he has no idea of the unhappiness and terror which she has come to Norfolk to forget; but as they become closer her past is gradually revealed. Suggested level: secondary.

Growing up in a northern English town after World War II, seventeen-year-old Robert, clever student and formidable rugby player, finds himself drawn into a passionate affair with a young teacher at his school.

This volume brings together two stories on a Christmas theme, both set in Tyneside in the 1930s. In The Christmas Ghost, a boy receives a desperate warning from a ghost. In The Christmas Cat, a visit to a vicarage is miserable, until the arrival of an apple-pie thief and a cat.

Already orphaned by the war, ten-year-old Sonny faces an even more personal confrontation with the enemy in the form of a German pilot, shot down and looking for refuge. 8-11 yrs.

Soon after steeplejack Joe Clarke begins work on one of the spires of Muncaster's medieval cathedral, terrible things start to happen and Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the spire's gargoyle.

Tom Higgins, a British schoolboy during the Persian Gulf War, narrates his younger brother''s struggle with an apparent mental illness or "mystery of nature" which drives the child to assume the role of an Iraqi.

In spite of the poverty of 1930''s Tyneside and the possibility of yet another accident at the chemical works, a close-knit family still manages to have a traditional christmas. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.