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Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #1) by Jonathan Stroud
Category: Young Adult Fiction
When the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, he expects to have to do nothing more taxing than a little levitation or a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge. Against his w ...Show more
Ancient Rome by Jonathan Stroud
Category: Fiction
This travel guide attempts to cover centuries of history in a few pages. As well as general information on particular aspects of society, it contains useful tips for the traveller, providing details of that historical time. This book explores the sights and sounds of ancient Rome.
BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY THE GOLEMS EYE by STROUD JONATHAN
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Bartimaeus Trilogy (Hardcover)
The second adventure in the Bartimaeus trilogy finds our young apprentice magician Nathaniel working his way up the ranks of the government, when crisis hits. A seemingly invulnerable clay golem is making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and the all-powerful, totally irreverent djinni, Bartimaeus, mu ...Show more
Buried Fire by Jonathan Stroud
Category: unmapped
By digging up a Celtic cross in a churchyard, excavators have released the evil influences of an ancient worm, a dragon long-buried under a neighbouring hill, and powerful forces are at large among a community.
Buried Fire by STROUD JONATHAN
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Two brothers, Michael and Stephen MacIntyre, together with their sister Sarah and the local vicar Tom Aubrey, uncover a deadly secret buried near their village. But time is short- can they prevent the awakening of an ancient evil before its powers corrupt them for ever?
Golem's Eye (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #2) by Jonathan Stroud
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet Of Samarkand and the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks, but his career is suddenly threatened by a series of terrifying crises. A dangerous golem makes random attacks on London and other raids, even more threatening, ...Show more
Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud
Category: Young Adult Fiction
<i><b>Listen then, and I'll tell you again of the Battle of the Rock. But none of your usual wriggling, or I'll stop before I've begun . . . </b></i><br><br>Halli loves the old stories from when the valley was a wild and dangerous place - when the twelve legendary her ...Show more
Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Listen then, and I'll tell you again of the Battle of the Rock. But none of your usual wriggling, or I'll stop before I've begun... Halli loves the old stories from when the valley was a wild and dangerous place - when the twelve legendary heroes stood together to defeat the ancient enemy, the bloodthi ...Show more
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling; Jonathan Stroud (Introduction by)
Category: Children's
For Mowgli movie fans, the must-have companion to The Jungle Book Children all around the world are fascinated by the animal kingdom, and that's what makes the Just So Stories a perennial classic... Elephants, kangaroos, cats, leopards, and more. This complete volume of Rudyard Kipling's masterpiec ...Show more
Lockwood & Co by Jonathan Stroud
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Soon to be a major Netflix series from Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and Joe Cornish (Attack the Block)For more than fifty years, Britain has been terrorised by an epidemic of murderous ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy them - with mixed results . . .Lucy C ...Show more
Lockwood and Co. : the Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Lockwood and Co Ser.
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring herself out to agencies that value her ever-improving skills. One day she is pleasantly surprised by a visit from Lockwood, who tells her he needs a good Listener for a tough ...Show more
Lockwood and Co. : the Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Lockwood and Co Ser.
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES Five months after the events in The Creeping Shadow, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and their associate Quill Kipps on a perilous night mission: they have broken into the booby-trapped Fittes Mausoleum, where the body of the legendary psychic heroine Marissa Fitte ...Show more