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A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Junior Fiction
Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and fa ...Show more
A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Fiction
A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson, with a new introduction. Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off ...Show more
A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and fa ...Show more
A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Fiction
Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersberg. A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning and much-loved Eva Ibbotson, A Glove Shop i ...Show more
A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Eva Ibbotson; Amanda Craig (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersberg, from beloved author Eva Ibbotson.A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning Eva Ibbots ...Show more
A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Fiction
When eighteen-year-old Ellen accepts the post of housekeeper at Hallendorf School of Music, Drama and Dance she wasn't expecting it to be quite so unusual. For deep in the beautiful Austrian countryside, she finds an eccentrically magical world occupied by wild children and even wilder teachers, experim ...Show more
A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Junior Fiction
When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she finds her destiny. Swept into an idyllic world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings order and joy to all around her. But it's the handsome, mysterious garden ...Show more
A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Set against the backdrop of gathering war, A Song for Summer is an unforgettable love story from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson, with new introduction. When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she soon knows she's found her calling.Swept i ...Show more
Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Can two children foil an outrageous criminal plot with the help of some of the funniest and maddest ghosts ever invented?Clawstone Castle is ancient and famous, but its elderly owners have no money. In its great park live a legendary herd of wild white cattle that have roamed there since the days of the ...Show more
Beyond Platform 13 by Sibéal Pounder, Eva Ibbotson
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Platform 13
Return to the magical world of Platform 13 and discover why the secrets are escaping in this fun, magical adventure sequel by Sibéal Pounder. Beyond Platform 13 is inspired by characters from Eva Ibbotson's classic, The Secret of Platform 13. Nine years after the events of The Secret of Platform 13, Th ...Show more
Dial a Ghost by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Fiction
The Wilkinson family became ghosts when a bomb dropped on their house in 1943 - and they badly want a new home. But there is a horrible mix-up at the agency that specialises in matching ghosts to suitable homes. They are sent to Fulton Hall, where the ghastly Fulton and Frieda Snodde-Britte need a ghost ...Show more
Dial a Ghost by Eva Ibbotson
Category: Junior Fiction
'Get me some ghosts,' said Fulton Snodde-Brittle. 'Frightful and dangerous ghosts!'Fulton has gone to the Dial a Ghost agency with an evil plan. He wants to hire some truly terrifying ghosts to scare his nephew Oliver to death. The Shriekers are the most violent and sickening spectres the agency has, bu ...Show more