LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert westall

9 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert westall

  • Shadows of War
    Robert Westall
    In ‘Adolf’, a young boy becomes convinced his elderly neighbour is actually Adolf Hitler in hiding. The British soldiers in ‘The German Ghost’ have an otherworldly encounter with a mysterious and sinister figure in black. ‘East Doddingham Dinah’ is a stray cat who takes up residence on an RAF base and seems to possess the unsettling ability to know which planes will be shot dow...
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  • Spectral Shadows
    Robert Westall
    Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first timeBLACKHAM’S WIMPEYWhy should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber - Blackham’s Wimpey - be driven to madness, despair, even death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch?’A writer of di...
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    27,63 €

  • Scarecrows
    Robert Westall
    There were three people standing in the darkest place watching him. Simon is outraged that his Mum plans to remarry. He can’t bear her new fianc or the way his mother and sister seem to have forgotten his late father. Overwhelmed by hatred and anger he seeks solace in a nearby abandoned water mill. But another powerful hatred lingers within its walls. And it is about to be ...
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    15,49 €

  • The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
    Robert Westall
    'I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower ... And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if some wild beast was eating him.'When steeplejack Joe Clarke is hired to repair the stonework at Muncaster Cathedral, he is unprepared for the horror he will encounter. Something unspeakably evil in the medieval tower is seeking victims a...
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    20,39 €

  • The Machine Gunners
    Robert Westall
    Robert Westall’s gripping first novel for children set during World War Two and winner of the Carnegie Medal. Wiith a brilliant cover look to celebrate its fortieth anniversary. ...
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    18,37 €

  • Blitzcat
    Robert Westall
    An extraordinary and heart-warming story about one brave cat’s experiences during World War Two from prize-winning author Robert Westall. ...
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    18,43 €

  • Antique Dust
    Robert Westall
    ’Creepy . . . develops a sense of palpable evil . . . well worth the time of readers who prefer slyly civilized British ghost stories’ - Kirkus Reviews’Fiendishly clever, spine-tingling short fiction’ - Publishers Weekly’Marvelous M. R. Jamesian-style ghost stories’ - Michael Dirda, Washington Post’Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the...
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    22,61 €

  • Ghost Abbey
    Robert Westall
    ’Ninety-eight keys none of them labelled. Ninety-eight keys and they say there are ninety-nine rooms . . . What will you find in the ninety-ninth room I wonder?’Maggi is delighted when her father takes a new job renovating a crumbling stately home in Cheshire. It’s a chance to escape from the North-East from the predatory Doris Streeton and perhaps from the grief at the h...
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    15,68 €

  • Break Of Dark
    Robert Westall
    Is there a barrier that divides the dark unknown from the everyday world around us? If so is it broken sometimes by the dead returning by the undead or by alien creatures? What else could account for the chance meeting (or was it?) between a young student and hitch-hiker who turns out to be so much stranger than she seems? Why else should three successive crews flying a Seco...
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    15,77 €