Books about my 30s

A collection of 30 tales, illustrated with paper cut-outs.

A city is hit by an epidemic of sudden blindness. The authorities segregate the newly-blind and all who have come into contact with them. It is not long before the criminal element take over, the compound is set on fire and the blind escape - only to find a deserted, looted city.

Ayla is a young woman brought up by the Clan. Ayla is cared for by the Clan's medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Iza teaches her how to find food and the healing skills. She does not always obey the Clan's rules and so she makes an enemy of the group's future leader. Broud will do all he can to destroy her, but Ayla is a survivor.

A selection of stories told by a young girl on her wedding night to a price who has sworn he will kill any girl who marries him. Her stories keep him from murdering her night after night.

Relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks.

Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's house. He is bullied by them and his cousin Dudley, and lives a very unremarkable life with only the odd hiccup to cause him much to think about. That is until an owl turns up with a letter addressed to Harry and all hell breaks loose.

When Harry and his best friends go back for their third year at Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass-murderer on the loose and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school. Lessons, however, must go on and there are lots of new subjects in third year.

This is the sixth book about the land of Narnia, but it is the story which explains how all the comings and goings between our world and Narnia first began. It is the story of Polly and Digory, who, quite by accident, find their way to Narnia.

Presents the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, who dreams of travelling the world in search of a worldly treasure as fabulous as any ever found. From his home in Spain, he journeys to the markets of Tangiers, and from there into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him.

Edmund, Lucy and Eustace Clarence Scrubb are transported into Narnia through a picture. They find themselves on board the Dawn Treader , Caspian's ship, on a voyage to discover what happened to the seven lords who disappeared.

I'm dreaming, thought Shasta. I could have sworn that horse spoke. Bree, the talking horse, has been kidnapped from Narnia, and longs to return. Shasta, on the verge of being sold into slavery, decides to run away with him. Before they know it, they are on a wild and dangerous journey.

In this, the seventh of the Narnia stories, Jill and Eustice return to help Tirian, last King of Narnia, as the land is troubled by the enemies of Aslan. Peter, Edmund and Lucy join in the great battle against the cruel Calormenes, to decide the future of Narnia.

We've got to go north, said Edmund, and reach the ruins of a giant city . Prince Rilian, Caspian's beloved son, has mysteriously disappeared, and Jill and Eustace are brought into Narnia by Aslan to find him. However, an evil enchantress has dire plans for the prince, and for Narnia itself.

Caspian's father is dead, and Narnia is ruled by his wicked uncle Miraz. Hearing tales of the old Narnia and of Talking Beasts from his tutor, a dwarf, Caspian escapes from the palace to find it.

Lucy has stumbled upon a land of fauns and centaurs, nymphs and talking animals, all behind a wardrobe. Narnia is ruled by the cruel White Witch, and can only be freed by Aslan, the great lion and four children.