It’s the night before Hogswatch. And it’s too quiet. There’s snow there’re robins there’re trees covered with decorations but there’s a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys…He’s gone. Susan the governess has got to find him before morning otherwise the sun won’t rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven with an eyeball fixation the Death of Rats and an oh god of hangovers. Worse still someone is coming down the chimney. This time he’s carrying a sack instead of a scythe but there’s something regrettably familiar…Ho. Ho. Ho. It’s true what they say. ‘You’d better watch out…’

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A box set containing the BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Philip Pullman’s three books The Amber Spyglass Northern Lights The Subtle Knife set in a world which is like yet very unlike our own. Full details Lyra’s quest to find her missing friend Roger – and her mission to uncover the secret of Dust.

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Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien’s own design the definitive text and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Sauron the Dark Lord has gathered to him all the Rings of Power — the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring — the ring that rules them all — which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Part of a set of three paperbacks this popular edition is once again available in its classic black livery designed by Tolkien himself.

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Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien’s own design the definitive text and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Sauron the Dark Lord has gathered to him all the Rings of Power — the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring — the ring that rules them all — which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Part of a set of three paperbacks this popular edition is once again available in its classic black livery designed by Tolkien himself.

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Age-range: 14+ ‘Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side where my friends and I live and go to school and play and sleep – sometimes with each other. We’re smart we’ve inherited classic good looks and we know how to party. It’s a luxe life but someone’s got to live it.’ The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool – set in New York’s glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents. ‘Gossip Girl’ is the ultimate in sophistication scandal and luxury – in fact if Carrie Bradshaw of ‘Sex and the City’ had a younger sister there is no doubt she would be ‘Gossip Girl’! Publisher’s Weekly is quoted: ‘Gossip Girl has the effect of gossip itself – once you enter it’s hard to extract yourself; teens will devour this whole’. We will be publishing the series at regular intervals throughout 2003 with a high profile energetic and suitably cutting-edge marketing campaign. This deliciously catty and engrossing series will be the spicy vanguard for Bloomsbury pushing the bundaries into young adult fiction.

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A box set containing the BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Philip Pullman’s three books The Amber Spyglass Northern Lights The Subtle Knife set in a world which is like yet very unlike our own. Full details Lyra’s quest to find her missing friend Roger – and her mission to uncover the secret of Dust.

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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Peter Sallis as the great Belgian detective. ; ; Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now on Christmas Eve the old man calls them all together once more. Unable to disobey the children gather uneasily and wonder what their father’s intentions are. Does he want to clear up past misunderstandings or cause fresh mischief? ; Before they can find out a deafening crash is heard overhead. Rushing upstairs they discover a shocking sight: Simeon Lee is lying in a pool of blood his throat cut. But it is the strangest thing – the door has been locked from the inside and there is no trace of the murderer. ; ; With so many possible suspects it is lucky for Superintendent Sugden that the Chief Constable has his old friend Hercule Poirot staying with him. It seems to be an impossible case. But as Poirot knows only too well things aren’t always as they seem.

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