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Missing: Mr Jeremiah Hayling, aged 26, a hydraulic engineer. He left his house at ten o’clock at night on the 9th of this month, and has not been heard from since.When Watson’s latest patient confronts him with a missing thumb and a horrifying story, he knows just where to turn. This is a case for Sherlock Holmes. But, can Holmes and Watson unravel this deadly mystery in time to catch the criminals?

Adapted and illustrated for children aged 7+After surviving fourteen long years with her horrible aunt, and nothing but a doll and an old handkerchief for company, Esther Summerson's life is finally looking a little brighter. She's going to school and making friends, real friends! The only thing Esther's missing now is a mother. But long-lost parents don't just turn up out of the blue on a rainy afternoon do they?About The Charles Dickens Children's Collection:Bah humbug! Who says the…

Adapted and illustrated for children aged 7+Amy Dorrit's father has been in prison for as long as she can remember. That s totally normal, isn't it? Just like doing chores for horrid Mrs Clennam, fixing her sister's dresses (without getting any thanks) and saving her own dinner to feed her father. When Mrs Clennam's son returns from abroad, he brings with him a host of family secrets and turns Amy's normal life on its head. Could things actually get better?About The Charles Dickens Children's…

Adapted and illustrated for children aged 7+Kate and Nicholas Nickelby's life is bliss until their father dies. After that they’re left penniless, living in London with only their horrible uncle to help them. Sent away to work as a teacher, Nicholas soon learns that things can get worse. Dotheboys Hall isn't the marvellous manor of education it's supposed to be, and the vicious trickery is just beginning. Nicholas needs to save family (and quick!), but how?About The Charles Dickens Children's…

Adapted and illustrated for children aged 7+Oliver Twist is poor. Always has been, always will be. Being born in a workhouse means that you'll probably always be treated like rubbish. Oliver does not want a life of hard work and measly meals, but he soon learns that it's never safe to ask for more What Oliver really needs is a family. But is a family of thieves, kidnappers and killers really a family at all?About The Charles Dickens Children's Collection:Bah humbug! Who says the classics…

A beautiful and accessible children's edition of Austen's classic story, featuring contemporary black and white illustration. Scan the QR code inside to listen along to the free audiobook!At ten years old, Fanny is sent to live with rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Fanny doesn t fit in there but she is grateful for the friendship of her cousin, Edmund. Years later, the arrival of Henry and Mary Crawford upsets their quiet lives. With even Edmund acting differently, can Fanny stay true to…

‘Tell me, Watson, do you get a creeping feeling when you watch the snakes in the zoo? That’s how I feel when I see Milverton. I’ve met more than fifty murderers in my life, but he is worse than all of them.’In an attempt to save a woman’s marriage, Holmes is forced to come face-to-face with one of his worst enemies: Charles Augustus Milverton. This abominable villain is holding hostage the secrets of London’s rich and powerful, and threatening to ruin the innocent Lady Eva. Can Holmes and…

An adapted and illustrated edition of Jane Austen's romantic classic - at an easy-to-read level for all ages.Laura has lived a fairy-tale life until a stranger knocks on her cottage door. Then her adventures and her troubles begin. In dramatic letters, Laura tells of heartless fathers and runaway children, long-lost grandfathers and thieving cousins. Hers is a story of doomed love, fierce friendship, and the unexpected dangers of fainting.

All Catherine wants is to be like the heroines in the books she reads. On her first trip away from home, she finally gets her chance. A new friendship and a growing love lead her to the spooky Northanger Abbey. There Catherine will find that a little imagination can cause a lot of trouble. A beautifully illustrated adapted classic that will introduce children to the works of Jane Austen.

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from…