The Mysterious Affair At StylesAgatha Christies first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was the result of a dare from her sister Madge who challenged her to write a story. The story begins when Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to spend his sick leave at the beautiful Styles Court by his old friend John Cavendish. Here, Hastings meets Johns step mother, Mrs Inglethorp, and her new husband, Alfred. Despite the tranquil

from the basics to the more nuanced and difficult to get right

thought-provoking and heart-warming

Simple text and lots of sounds to make the book easy to use and encourage carer and child interaction

This is the story of what went before and it is told by his daughter Daman Singh

The simple text of Anna Kang and bold illustrations of The New Yorker cartoonist Christopher Weyant tell an original and funny story about sharing your worries and facing your fears

racial prejudice

and on subjects from altruism and amphibians to evolutionary psychology and Piltdown Man to the Scopes trial and social Darwinism

Simon Chase's life is a maze of burner phones

as all must do in war

Witnessing the blast are war veteran Stratham Younger

'A simple story that

Unfortunately although Harriet was fair and kindhearted (to a very dangerous degree) she was also well dumb