A collection of very short stories, this work contains stories that are funny, intriguing, and scary. There are stories about ghosts, supermarkets, animals, adventures, and more.

The Scandinavian myths form a linked chain of stories, creating a mighty, fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, master-smiths and magicians. This book reveals a dynamic culture in which is reflected the Norseman's spirit and confidence, his ruthlessness and cruelty, arrogance and generosity.

Annie lives with her elderly parents in a remote cottage. She is used to being alone. Every day she walks by the lonely marsh to school. Only in winter, when the wind howls in the trees, is Annie ever afraid. Her sister Willa is pregnant and Annie is overjoyed when she comes home to have her baby. Annie tells Willa the names of local plants and Willa tells Annie about the ghost, murdered by ...

The magnificent picaresque story of a medieval pilgrimage.

From nights spent listening to stories told by his composer father and going to the 1948 Olympics through to idyllic cycle rides and discovering the first thrill of girls, this title is also about budding self-awareness, the meeting-place of actuality and imagination, and the ways in which a writer may draw on the quarry of childhood.

The glorious culmination of the Arthur trilogy

Presents the story for children in rhythmical prose, with illustrations by Charles Keeping, in paperback. This is the story of Beowulf, who travelled across the sea to fight two monsters, one could rip a man apart and drink his blood, and the other lived like a sea-wolf. Beowulf's story was written down in Anglo-Saxon in the eighth century.

Medieval life and Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends all boundaries.

Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all superb poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans and yet within two hundred years had ..

The marvellous story of a medieval pilgrimage, centred on Gatty the much loved heroine of the ARTHUR trilogy.

A memorable collection from the master storyteller.

An easy to read, hard to put down, pocket adventure for reluctant readers. Interest age 8-13, reading age 8+.

Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems. This acclaimed translation is complemented by a critical introduction and substantial editorial apparatus.

The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century Exeter Book are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. This volume contains the author's translations of seventy-five riddles while a further sixteen are translated in the notes.

The second magnificent volume in the Arthur trilogy

The glorious culmination of the Arthur trilogy

The second magnificent volume in the Arthur trilogy

Beowulf is an epic poem come down from Anglo-Saxon times. It celebrates the virtues of the heroic life, Hrothgar and Beowulf are beacons of wisdom and courage in a dark world of feuds, violence and uncertainty. Beowulf's heroism set against a background of power struggles, fratricide and tyranny.

For the first time, an adult edition of the first book in this prize-winning trilogy about medieval life and Arthurian magic.