Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional character ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventure in crime! Volum…
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional character ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventure in crime! Volum…
This spellbinding story, like its predecessor, This Earth of Mankind, has its origins in a series of tales related orally by Pramoedya Ananta Toer to his fellow prisoners in an Indonesian prison. Child Of All Nations follows the political awakening of its hero, the extraordinary Minke, a Dutch-educated Javanese writer. Coming to grips with the oppression and injustice of the European regime in …
A boy’s heart pound in terror as he awaits his ritual circumcision to become a true Muslim. An idealistic young soldier witnesses the barbaric beating of a man accused of being a spy. An eight-year-old girl, soon to be married off by her parents for money, brags to a playmate about the pretty clothes she will acquired. With All That Is Gone, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, author of The Buru Quart…
Bracket Wood School Notices Bracket Wood is about to be visited by the school inspectors. And there’s one BIG PROBLEM: Ryan Ward. The naughtiest kid in school. But when Ryan finally goes too far the head teacher just … walk out. And then the the new head teacher, Mr Carter, arrives. A man so strict even the teachers are afraid of him. So imagine his surprise when they swap bodies. N…
The Red And The Black has been hailed as the first great ‘realist’ novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820s, the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration. Stendhal himself claimed that no-one before him had ventured to portray with such verisimili…
I, Geronimo Stilton, was in love! I was in the coffee shop one morning when is spotted the most beautiful rodent in the world. I was determined to prove my love. So I joined my family on journey to the Eight Wonder of the World! There I made a discovery so amazing, I knew it would help win the heart of my darling ratlette …
The Thea Sisters travel to New York to cheer for Nicky as she runs the Big Apple Marathon. While there, they visit Pamela’s family and have a delicious dinner at the family’s pizzeria. But when someone threatens to burn the restaurant down, can the Thea Sisters catch the troublemaker and solve the mystery?
The Thea Sisters are off to Japan on a cultural exchange program. While they’re busy exploring Kyoto and admiring the beautiful cherry blossoms, a valuable item is stolen from their friend Kumi’s family. Will the five mice be able to catch the thief?