Silas Marner

George Eliot, George Eliot

Silas Marner, the story of an isolated man who learns to open his heart, was George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combining humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism."God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine- you've no right to her!"Wrongly acc...

My First Ever and Best Story Collection (Charlie and Lola)

Lauren Child

This is a collection of five extremely good stories all about absolutely very important things like making friends, being independent and even taking part in your very first school sports day! It contains: 'You can be my friend', 'Help! I really mean it', 'I am really, really concentrating', 'I can do a...

The Matilda Effect

Ellie Irving

Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn't win the school science fair, she's devastated - especially as the judges didn't believe she'd come up with her entry on her own...

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Jung Chang

They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the centre of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the 'Father...