Non Fiction Genres

An adapted, easy-to-read edition of The Merchant and the Genie – with engaging illustrations throughout. When a heartbroken sultan goes mad, a brave woman has a plan to stop him hurting innocent people. For a thousand and one nights, Scheherazade will use the magic of storytelling to bring the sultan back to his senses. In a story about forgiveness, a merchant angers a genie and faces death unless three strangers’ tales of animal transformation can save him. Will Scheherazade’s plan work? Or…

An adapted, easy-to-read edition of Gulnare of the Sea - with engaging illustrations throughout. A battle between sea kings means Gulnare is forbidden to return home. After a storm washes her up on a beach in Persia, she meets the lonely King Hamid. Unable to walk, unwilling to speak and mistrustful of land people, Gulnare still finds herself falling in love. But their peace and happiness is not matched under the sea. In a story of wrong impressions and magical enchantments, can a child of…

An adapted, easy-to-read edition of Sinbad the Sailor - with engaging illustrations throughout. A porter in Baghdad meets a retired sailor whose travels have made him rich and famous. Though jealous at first, the porter learns through seven stories how hard Sinbad has worked for his fortune. The first story tells of a vanishing island, the second of a valley of snakes; places the porter can hardly imagine, voyages he can scarcely believe. There are storms and shipwrecks, pirates and treasure,…

An adapted, easy-to-read edition of Zobeida and the Three Qalandars – with engaging illustrations throughout. A porter in a marketplace, three holy beggars new to Baghdad and a caliph in disguise with his advisor, Jamal. Somehow, they all end up in the home of three beautiful sisters. Though sworn to mind their own business, each has questions. Why do the sisters punish their dogs? How did each holy man lose his left eye? The answers will take them from a graveyard to a magnetic mountain,…

Jonathan Harker's work trip to Romania should have been simple, but Castle Dracula is shrouded with mystery. The building is maze-like, the owner only appears in the dead of night and during the day sleeps deep underground in the cold! Jonathan is desperate to return to England, but first he must escape from the castle - and pray that Count Dracula doesn't follow.

Young scientist Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with creating life. When he succeeds, however, he is horrified by his creation, which he considers to be a monster. Rejected by its creator and people at large, the lonely creature grows angry and vengeful. It follows Victor, wreaking havoc on his life, and promises to leave him alone only if Victor makes it a companion. At first, Victor agrees, but when he changes his mind about playing God once more, the creature returns to claim the thing that…

Gabriel Utterson has known Dr Jekyll for many years. Suddenly, the doctor begins acting strangely. First, he makes preparations in case he dies or disappears, then he gets involved with a strange man called Mr Hyde. All Gabriel knows is that Mr Hyde is a bad man, and for some reason his good friend is protecting him. But why? That’s the strangest part of all …

Mr Poligny is retiring as manager of the Paris Opera House. Before he leaves, he tells his replacements how to please the phantom who has haunted the opera house for years. Despite the mysterious death of a stagehand, the new managers insist the phantom is just a ghost story and the ballerinas are scared of nothing. Meanwhile, a singer is visited by the Angel of Music; a being who is neither angel nor ghost …

Basil Hallward’s latest portrait is the best he’s ever painted. But when the portrait’s subject, Dorian Gray, realises that he will never look as young and handsome again, he makes a terrible wish. From then on, Dorian becomes as ugly on the inside as he is beautiful on the outside. He lives his life never feeling bad about anything. Until one day his wrongdoings catch up with him.