The Wee Free MenUp on the chalk downs they call The Wold, witches are banned ever since the Baron's son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk's no good for magic. Nine year old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching a wise shepherd might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the

or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev

[Bill Naughton] tells vividly of lads working in a mill

In a country torn apart by civil war

three nouveau riche freedmen with two flashy wives are under siege by a clever redhead

But the Cold War has no time for love and soon the trouble starts

A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the Thirty Years' War comes to an end

like eleven-year-old Minnie

mutual daring

An irritatingly appealing threat

Thomas Paine Kydd is in Halifax enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson's task-force on an urgent reconnaissance mission

Chibundu Onuzo

the Wrights would help them