Kate Saunders

The first in a clever and charming new crime series that will immediately delight all fans of Agatha Christie and Alexander McCall Smith.

A Novel

The Secrets of Wishtide

The cat flap opened. Emily thought a wild animal was coming into the house. But the muddy creature that climbed through had four little wheels and a tail. It spoke in a voice like rough sandpaper. 'Come on, you two - it's nice and warm in here.' What if there exists a world powered by imagination? A world of silliness, where humans and their toys live on long after they've left the Hard World . . . and what if the door between that world and this one was broken? Welcome to the Land of Neverendings. Moving, raw and funny in all the right ways, The Land of Neverendings is a rip-roaring adventure, but it also gives an honest portrayal of grief for young readers, and shows us that whilst sadness does exist in the world, it doesn't have to cancel out happiness, or silliness, even when you lose someone you love.

The Land of Neverendings

Welcome to the most magical house in London, Oz and Lily's family have inherited it together with the mysterious shop downstairs. Long ago, its famous chocolate-makers were clever sorcerers. Now evil villains are hunting the secret of their greatest recipe. The terrifying power of this magic chocolate could destroy the world. The children are swept into a thrilling battle, helped by an invisible cat, a talking rat and the ghost of an elephant. Suggested level: primary.

The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop

William Carman

When she is invited to her new friend's home for summer vacation, eleven-year-old Jane discovers that Staffa and her family are not what they seem to be.

The Little Secret

When Flora's parents pack her off to boarding school, they have no idea that the train will take her back to 1935. Flora's having the time of someone else's life! But why has she ended up there?

Beswitched

From internationally bestselling author Kate Saunders, a delightful new cozy mystery that finds detective Laetitia Rodd entangled in the shocking world of the Victorian theater. In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theater fire ten years before. His great friend, and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs. Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the scandalous world of the theater, she cannot turn away the woman in need. She agrees to take the case. But what starts out as a simple matter of negotiation becomes complicated when a body is discovered in the burnt husk of the old theater. Soon Mrs. Rodd finds herself embroiled in family politics, rivalries that put the Capulets and Montagues to shame, and betrayals on a Shakespearean scale. Mrs. Rodd will need all her investigatory powers, not to mention her famous discretion, to solve the case before tragedy strikes once more. For readers of the Grantchester Mysteries, The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden is the charming third mystery in Kate Saunder's series about Laetitia Rodd, the indomitable lady detective.

The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden

Brian Sibley

Alan Alexander Milne

Paul Bright

Jeanne Willis

"A collection of Winnie-the-Pooh stories A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard"--Cover.

The Best Bear in All the World

An epic, heart-wrenching follow-on from E. Nesbit's Five Children and It stories. The five children have grown up and World War I has begun in earnest. Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at high school. The Lamb is the grown up age of 11, and he has a little sister, Edith, in tow. The sand fairy has become a creature of stories ... until, for the first time in 10 years, he suddenly reappears. The siblings are pleased to have something to take their minds off the war, but this time the Psammead is here for a reason, and his magic might have a more serious purpose. Before this last adventure ends, all will be changed, and the two younger children will have seen the Great War from every possible viewpoint - factory-workers, soldiers and sailors, nurses and ambulance drivers, and the people left at home, and the war's impact will be felt right at the heart of their family.

Five Children on the Western Front

An incredible, heart-wrenching sequel to E. Nesbit's Five Children and It, set on the eve of the First World War. The five children have grown up - war will change their lives for ever. Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at high school. The Lamb is the grown up age of 11, and he has a little sister, Edith, in tow. The sand fairy has become a creature of stories ... until he suddenly reappears. The siblings are pleased to have something to take their minds off the war, but this time the Psammead is here for a reason, and his magic might have a more serious purpose. Before this last adventure ends, all will be changed, and the two younger children will have seen the Great War from every possible viewpoint - factory-workers, soldiers and sailors, nurses and the people left at home, and the war's impact will be felt right at the heart of their family.

Eleven-year-old Tom is shocked to learn that he is a demisprite, half fairy and half mortal, and that he, aided by three fairy godmothers, must save his father, who is hiding in the fairy Realm, while safeguarding his mortal mother.

Magicalamity

The exciting companion to THE WHIZZ POP CHOCOLATE SHOP. A secret government department, once again, needs the magical help of Oz and Lily in a desperate new mission. Along with everyone's favourite cantankerous cat, Demerara, her ratty companion Spike, and the help of some powerfully magical chocolate, the children must travel back in time to the height of the Blitz. Can they defeat some very dangerous supernatural creatures and save London's famous cathedral from destruction by fire?

The Curse of the Chocolate Phoenix

Like Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women, The Marrying Game opens on Christmas Eve, with four sisters at home worrying about money. The setting is present-day England, and the girls' father, an eccentric aristocrat, has just died, leaving the Hasty family so impoverished that they are about to lose their splendid but crumbling house. So the two oldest sisters--Rufa, tall, elegant, and too serious for her own good; and Nancy, a gorgeous, irreverent redhead who relishes her work as a part-time barmaid in the local pub--decide that the way to redeem the family fortunes is to marry money. Surely it can't be that hard to find two very rich men and make the men fall in love with them. Thus begins a gloriously modern story that makes us genuinely care about the whole Hasty family. As Rufa and Nancy set out to blaze a trail through London society, they find that nothing in The Marrying Game turns out quite the way they've planned.

The Marrying Game

Reifrock, Tee und Mord: ein neuer Fall für Laetitia Rodd, die Ermittlerin, die alles sieht und keinem auffällt. Laetitia Rodd ist die Frau für diskrete Ermittlungen in der viktorianischen Gesellschaft. Ihr Auftrag: Sie soll Joshua Welland aufspüren. Einst ein brillanter Oxford-Student, zieht er nun als zerlumpte Gestalt durch die Wälder und macht Andeutungen über ein düsteres Geheimnis. Mrs. Rodd nutzt ihre Verbindungen zum Pfarrer von Freshley Wood, um Joshuas Spur zu finden. Doch dann wird der Pfarrer ermordet. Ist Joshua in die schreckliche Tat verstrickt? „Laetitia Rodd bedeutet Lesevergnügen pur.“ Sunday Times

Laetitia Rodd's zweiter Fall

Die Schatten von Freshley Wood

Secrets of Wishtide

As the child of remote, chilly parents, Cassie reveled in the exuberant chaos she found at the home of the Darlings—two boys, a cheerful father, and a glorious mother, Phoebe, who welcomed the lonely little girl next door into their family circle. Now Cassie is all grown up, the editor of a highly respectable literary magazine, with a well-ordered life and a suitable boyfriend. But her beloved Phoebe is dying and comes to Cassie with one last request: Will Cassie help find wives for her sons, two gorgeous, sexy, but wildly impractical bachelors still living in their mother’s basement flat? Heartbroken at the thought of losing Phoebe, Cassie cannot refuse—but how will she ever find decent girlfriends, let alone wives, for the Darling boys? It’s all very well for Phoebe to insist they are lovely boys who are absolutely sweet to their mother, but who else would see either one as husband material: Fritz, a handsome medical student turned unemployed actor; or Ben, a dreamy, soulful musician who is too “sensitive” to perform or teach? Even Cassie, she tells Phoebe firmly right from the start, is not prepared to marry one of these bachelor boys. . . . Kate Saunders has written a story about love and loss that is moving, wise, and wickedly funny.

Bachelor Boys

M.C. Beaton meets Miss Marple in the second book in the charming Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, which sees Kate Saunders' Victorian lady detective on the hunt for a missing Oxford scholar who is soon to be the heir to a fortune It is 1851 and Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she receives an urgent request for her services. Wealthy businessman Jacob Welland implores Mrs. Rodd to find his beloved brother, a brilliant Oxford scholar who took to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return. The last sighting was in a gypsy camp ten years before o where it was rumoured he was learning great secrets that would one day astound the world. Mrs. Rodd travels to Oxford and begins her search for the wandering scholar. But as the investigation unfolds, she discovers something sinister is lurking in this peaceful landscape.

Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar

A. A. Milne

Ernest H. Shepard

In Which We Join Winnie-The-Pooh for a Year of Adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood

Thomas Karel Beek

Een jonge vrouw wil koste wat het kost het haar nagelaten en tot ruïne vervallen Victoriaanse familiehuis laten restaureren.

Fataal erfgoed

Cassie Shaw menjalani hidup yang terorganisir: pekerjaan bagus, pacar baik-baik, flat milik sendiri. Namun, sebagian hidupnya jauh dari terorganisir, yaitu rasa cintanya terhadap keluarga Darling yang kadang-kadang membuatnya sinting.

Darling boys

Reifrock, Tee und Mord: Laetitia Rodd ist die viktorianische Ermittlerin, die alles sieht und keinem auffällt. Mit Diskretion, Scharfblick und Witz löst sie Mordfälle in der guten englischen Gesellschaft - Lesevergnügen für alle Fans von Anne Perry und Richard Osman. Das Geheimnis von Wishtide Manor: Laetitia Rodd ist die Frau für heimliche Ermittlungen. Sie sieht, was anderen verborgen bleibt. Man vertraut ihr, denn sie gehört dazu. 1851 bittet Sir James Calderstone sie auf seinen Landsitz. Sein Sohn Charles will eine junge Frau heiraten, der Sir James misstraut. Laetitia soll dunkle Flecken in Helens Vergangenheit aufspüren. Doch da wird Helen ermordet, und ihr Verlobter Charles gilt als der Täter. Die Suche nach dem wahren Mörder bringt eine vergessene Tragödie ans Licht und Laetitia selbst in größte Gefahr ... Die Schatten von Freshley Wood: Für ihre Diskretion ist Laetitia Rodd in der guten Gesellschaft bekannt. Ihr Auftrag: Sie soll Joshua Welland aufspüren. Einst ein brillanter Oxford-Student, zieht er nun als zerlumpte Gestalt durch die Wälder und macht Andeutungen über ein düsteres Geheimnis. Mrs. Rodd nutzt ihre Verbindungen zum Pfarrer von Freshley Wood, um Joshuas Spur zu finden. Doch dann wird der Pfarrer ermordet. Ist Joshua in die schreckliche Tat verstrickt? Die Intrigen am King's Theatre: Eigentlich sollte Laetitia Rodd lediglich dem berühmten Schauspieler-Ehepaar Transome während seiner Trennung zur Seite stehen – diskret wie immer. Doch noch während Mrs. Rodd versucht, hinter die intriganten Machenschaften der Familie zu blicken, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse: Im Londoner King's Theatre wird eine Leiche gefunden und die Transomes geraten unter Verdacht – denn sie waren als letztes im Besitz des Theaters. Haben sie etwas mit dem Toten zu tun? »Laetitia Rodd ist eine wunderbar sympathische Heldin!« The Times

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