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  • The Prisoners of September
    Leon Garfield
    Two boys Lewis and Richard travel to paris in 1789 for very different reasons and find their ideals challenged in the events of the French Revolution and the September massacre. ...
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    13,85 €

  • Guilt and Gingerbread
    Leon Garfield
    ’When you take out the heart of gold you must put something back in its place. Otherwise our princess would die.’Giorgio a poor student sets out on a journey to win the heart of Princess Charlotte of Oberweselberg. On the way an old woman promises he shall have the princess - but for a price. Giorgio must bring her the princess’s golden heart. Can he do the wicked deed which...
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    14,57 €

  • Blewcoat Boy
    Leon Garfield
    In a cave on the wild side of St James’s Park live two ragged children; young Nick and his nine-year-old sister Jubilee. Once they had a father but now they are alone and Nick knows it is his responsibility to find Jubilee a husband. But who would want to marry a girl who can neither cook nor sew read nor write? ...
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    14,82 €

  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Charles Dickens / Leon Garfield
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens final novel and remained unfinished at the time of his death. In this edition beloved children’s author Leon Garfield gives the story a satisfying ending. ...
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    17,40 €

  • The Drummer Boy
    Leon Garfield
    ’As far as the eye can see scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company but none more so than the drummer boy.’But a moment later the sound of Charlie Samson’s drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum and a few...
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    14,63 €

  • The Empty Sleeve
    Leon Garfield
    ’Him what’s born on the chime . . . he’s the one what’ll have communications with the devil.’At the age of fourteen ’chime-child’ Peter Gannet is apprenticed to a locksmith in Covent Garden. But his desperate longing to escape from the insufferable adults around him and go to sea leads him into some dubious undertakings. Before long the old ship’s carpenter’s dire prophecy co...
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    15,56 €

  • The December Rose
    Leon Garfield
    Secrets whispered up a chimney a golden locket with a broken chain murder in the streets of London -- and suddenly young Barnacle is plunged into a terrifying mystery. The December Rose is a thrilling tale of deceit espionage and murder set in the teeming colourful Victorian London. ...
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    15,43 €

  • The Pleasure Garden
    Leon Garfield
    Eastward in Clerkenwell lies the Mulberry Pleasure Garden: six acres of leafy walks colonnades and pavillions. In this bosky setting parade a variety of characters of awesome granduer innocence and evil - and all are subject to a ring of blackmail terror. ...
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    15,49 €

  • The Confidence Man
    Leon Garfield
    The Confidence Man follows 14-year-old Hans Ruppert and a band of Protestants as they leave their home town and seek peace and freedom from Persecution in the New World. They are led by a mysterious hussar who has offered to lead then to safety. To Hans he is a fascinating figure but to the others he is a swindler likely to abandon them at any moment. ...
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    16,09 €

  • The Golden Shadow
    Edward Blishen / Leon Garfield
    Across the continents of the ancient world wandered the Storyteller enchanting all who heard him with his wondrous tales of the gods. He longed for a glimpse of the all-powerful deities of his stories and listened eagerly to those who had experiences such encounters. And interwoven with his journey is the story of Heracles - a magnificent story with all the intense drama and ...
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    14,37 €

  • The Sound of Coaches
    Leon Garfield
    One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London. But something unusual was to happen that night as one of the passengers unepectedly gave birth to a child.Not until he was eight did Sam Chichester discover that the coachman and guard he called ’Ma and ’Pa’ were not his ...
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    15,16 €

  • The Boy and the Monkey
    Leon Garfield
    Set in the streets of London the story follows the hopes and aspirations of young Tim and his pet monkey Pistol as they use their wits to get money out of rich folk. Their apparent success is brought to a halt one disasterous foggy evening and Tim and Pistol are led off to Newgate Gaol . . . ...
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    14,32 €

  • Bostock and Harris
    Leon Garfield
    On the night that Piggot’s Comet will appear over Brighton the town plan to honour it with music and dancing. Harris however has other ideas. Being scientifically minded he thinks only of observing the comet in detail. He persuades his good friend Bostock to part with his father’s telescope in exchange for the affections of Harris’s sister Mary. Unfortunately as Mary does...
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    14,63 €

  • The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
    Leon Garfield
    Harris and Bostock are best friends but they are as different from one another as night and day. Harris thinks up harebrained schemes and Bostock gets in trouble for them.When Harris puts his baby sister Adelaide in the words to see if she will be adopted by a fox little do they realize that they are starting a chain of events that will be remembered in their little seaside t...
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    14,41 €

  • Mr Corbetts Ghost
    Leon Garfield
    Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can’t help but wish he were dead. So when a strange old man offers to make this wish come true Benjamin finds it impossible to refuse. Sure enough Mr Corbett meets an untimely death but the tables turn on the terrified apprentice who finds himself cursed with the ghost of the man he hated most in the world . . ...
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    14,63 €