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MADAME TUSSAUD’S APPRENTICEKATHLEEN BENNER DUBLE
320 pp • £6.99 • PB • ISBN 9781846883811
It is 1789: rumours of rebellion are start-ing to spread. Célie is a talented young artist who resorts to petty thieving on the streets of Paris to survive. She gets involved in the idealistic revolutionary fervour, but when she is caught stealing from the brother of the King, Célie is saved only thanks to her drawing skills and the intercession of Marie Tussaud. Kathleen Benner Duble is the Ameri-can author of nine books for children, which are unique, historical fi ction.
ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID MACKINTOSH
288 pp • £5.99 • PB • ISBN 9781847494863
TIMELESS STORIES WITH A MODERN LOOK FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS YOU LOVEAll Alma Junior illustrated classics contain extra material for young readers, including a profi le
of the author, a section on the book, a list of characters, a glossary and a test-yourself quiz.
Illustrated classics • see www.almaclassics.com for the full list
THE GIRL WHO LEAPTTHROUGH TIME
YASUTAKA TSUTSUI300 pp • £7.99 • PB • ISBN 9781846881343
The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fi fteen-year-old Kazuko, who discovers she can time-travel. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mys-terious fi gure responsible for her para-normal abilities, she’ll have to push the boundaries of space and time, and chal-lenge the notions of dream and reality.Yasutaka Tsutsui is a leading Japanese novelist. Many of his works have been adapted into plays, animes and movies.
ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID MACKINTOSH
320 pp • £6.99 • PB • ISBN 9781847496164
THE HORROR HANDBOOKPAUL VAN LOON
ILLUSTRATED BY AXEL SCHEFFLER200 pp • £7.99 • PB • ISBN 9781846884177
What happens to a vampire when he dies? How does somebody become a werewolf? How can you protect your-self from witches? Full of tips and trivia – and delightfully illustrated by Axel Scheffl er – The Horror Handbook is a fun and fascinating book for fans of things that go bump in the night.Paul van Loon, a bestselling children’s author from the Netherlands, is best known for his Alfi e the Werewolf series.
ODYSSEYVARIOUS AUTHORSAND ILLUSTRATORS
288 pp • £7.99 • PB • ISBN 9781846884290
Odyssey, a volume of twenty-one stories aimed at young adults, of-fers a variety of takes on the theme of journeys – at times funny and play-ful, at others dramatic and poignant– covering a wide range of subjects rel-evant to teenagers across Europe; this book will have something for everyone.Aarhus 39 is a collection of the best emerging writers for young people from across wider Europe.
THE DOUBLE AXEPHILIP WOMACK
242 pp • £6.99 • PB • ISBN 9781846883903
Dark forces are at work in the House of the Double Axe. Stephan, the thirteen-year-old son of King Minos of Crete, stumbles across a terrify-ing conspiracy. Is the Minotaur, a half man half bull who eats human fl esh, real? Stephan must race to save his family from a terrible fate… You think you know the story? Think again. Philip Womack is the author of four critically acclaimed novels for children, and he teaches Latin and Greek.
CARAMEL HEARTSE.R. MURRAY
320 pp • £7.99 • PB • ISBN 9781846883927
Liv’s life is more complicated than that of your average fourteen-year-old: her father walked out when she was young, her mother is in rehab and her elder sister is struggling to step into Mum’s shoes. Structured around recipes, this is a coming-of-age novel about love, disappointment and hope, and discover-ing the true value of friends and family. E.R. Murray is an Irish author best known for her Nine Lives trilogy. Caramel Hearts is her fi rst novel for young adults.
LITTLE WOMENLOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Illustrated by Ella BaileyISBN 9781847495877
£6.99
THE COMPLETE PETER PANJ.M. BARRIE
Illustrated by Joel StewartISBN 9781847495600
£5.99
ARSÈNE LUPIN VS SHERLOCK HOLMESMAURICE LEBLANC
Illustrated by Thomas MüllerISBN 9781847495617
£6.99
GABRIEL-ERNEST & OTHER TALESSAKI
Illustrated by Quentin BlakeISBN 9781847495921
£6.99
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLESARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Illustrated by David MackintoshISBN 9781847494962
£5.99
ROBINSON CRUSOEDANIEL DEFOE
Illustrated by Adam StowerISBN 9781847494856
£5.99
DRACULABRAM STOKER
Illustrated by David MackintoshISBN 9781847494870
£5.99
THE COMPLETE ALICE STORIESLEWIS CARROLL
Original illustrationsISBN 9781847494078
£5.99
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GREAT POETS SERIES
Each volume is based on the most authoritative text, and reflects Alma’s commitment to provide affordable editions with valuable
insight into the great poets’ works.
THE RIME OF THE
ANCIENT MARINER
COLERIDGEFrom sonnets and ballads to elegies and blank verse, this collection includes ‘Christabel’, ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’.
ISBN 9781847497529256pp • £7.99
COMPLETE POEMS
KEATS
From Endymion and Hyperion to ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ and the Odes, this collection presents Keats’s oeuvre in chronological order.
ISBN 9781847497567520pp • £9.99
SONNETS
SHAKESPEARE
A vital complement to the plays, o� ering clues to Shakespeare’s own biography. Presented here in an edition that makes them accessible to twentieth-century readers.
ISBN 9781847496089256pp • £4.99
THE PRELUDE
WORDSWORTHA diverse selection of Wordsworth’s works, from the autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter po-ems such as ‘I Wan-dered Lonely as a Cloud’ and ‘She Was a Phantom of Delight’, alongside his more personal and introspective compositions.
LEAVES OF GRASS
WHITMANFamously written in free verse and brimming with sensuous imagery, contains celebrated poems such as ‘Song of Myself’ – described by Jay Parini as the greatest American poem ever written – and the elegiac ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’.
EVERGREENS SERIES· All our classics o� er students the defi nitive
text and extensive appendices
· All our editions contain detailed and comprehensive extra material about the author’s life and works
· Each volume contains a carefully selected bibliography and extensive notes on the text
· The text in each edition is faithful to the authoritative version, and punctuation and spelling have been modernized, to make it more accessible to the modern reader
· All our books are presented in beautiful paperback editions and are accessibly priced
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T H E J A N E A U S T E N C O L L E C T I O N
ISBN 9781847497505320pp • £7.99
ISBN 9781847497550256pp • £8.99
SENSE AND SENSIBILITYISBN: 9781847494849
£5.99 • PB • 368 pp
PERSUASIONISBN: 9781847495709
£5.99 • PB • 240 pp
PRIDE AND PREJUDICEISBN: 9781847493699
£4.99 • PB • 352 pp
MANSFIELD PARKISBN: 9781847495983
£4.99 • PB • 448 pp
NORTHANGER ABBEYISBN: 9781847496249
£4.99 • PB • 224 pp
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIPISBN: 9781847496331
£7.99 • PB • 192 pp
LADY SUSAN, THE WATSONS, SANDITON
ISBN: 9781847497154£7.99 • PB • 224 pp
EMMAISBN: 9781847494139
£4.99 • PB • 416 pp
SECONDARY-SCHOOL-AGE CLASSICS
QTY TITLE AUTHOR ISBN PRICELittle Women Alcott, Louisa May 9781847495877 £6.99Emma Austen, Jane 9781847494139 £4.99Lady Susan, Sanditon, The Watsons (Jan 18) Austen, Jane 9781847497154 £7.99Love and Friendship Austen, Jane 9781847496331 £7.99Mansfi eld Park Austen, Jane 9781847495983 £4.99Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane 9781847496249 £4.99Persuasion Austen, Jane 9781847495709 £5.99Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane 9781847493699 £4.99Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane 9781847494849 £5.99Agnes Grey (Jan 18) Brontë, Anne 9781847497147 £5.99The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Jun 18) Brontë, Anne 9781847497277 £5.99Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte 9781847493736 £5.99
The Professor (Feb 18) Brontë, Charlotte 9781847497178 £7.99 Poems from the Moor (Apr 18) Brontë, Emily 9781847497246 £7.99 Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily 9781847493217 £4.99The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan, John 9781847496454 £4.99The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems (Jul 18)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 9781847497529 £7.99
The Moonstone Collins, Wilkie 9781847494221 £4.99The Woman in White Collins, Wilkie 9781847495716 £4.99Tales of Long Ago Conan Doyle, Arthur 9781847494108 £6.99The Hound of the Baskervilles Conan Doyle, Arthur (illus. David
Mackintosh)9781847494962 £5.99
The Lost World Conan Doyle, Arthur 9781847496508 £4.99The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle, Arthur (illus. David
Mackintosh)9781847496164 £6.99
Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph 9781847494016 £4.99Tales of Unrest (May 18) Conrad, Joseph 9781847496485 £7.99 Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel 9781847494856 £5.99A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 9781847496171 £4.99A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles 9781847496607 £4.99Great Expectations Dickens, Charles 9781847493811 £4.99Hard Times Dickens, Charles 9781847494887 £4.99Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles 9781847493767 £5.99Middlemarch Eliot, George 9781847496041 £5.99The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott 9781847496140 £4.99The Good Soldier Ford, Ford Madox 9781847494955 £4.99North and South (Feb 18) Gaskell, Elizabeth 9781847497161 £5.99 Far From the Madding Crowd Hardy, Thomas 9781847496300 £4.99Tess of the d'Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas 9781847494948 £4.99The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel 9781847494214 £4.99The Portrait of a Lady James, Henry 9781847495754 £4.99Three Men in a Boat (Mar 18) Jerome, Jerome K. 9781847496539 £4.99 Dubliners Joyce, James 9781847496317 £4.99The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Kafka, Franz 9781847493521 £4.99Complete Poems (Sep 18) Keats, John 9781847497567 £9.99Lady Chatterley's Lover Lawrence, D.H. 9781847494085 £4.99Arsène Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes Leblanc, Maurice 9781847495617 £6.99The Rats in the Walls and Other Stories Lovecraft, H.P. 9781847494153 £6.99The Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales Lovecraft, H.P. 9781847494986 £7.99Moby Dick Melville, Herman 9781847496447 £5.99Tales of Horror Poe, Edgar Allan 9781847496096 £4.99Gabriel-Ernest and Other Tales Saki 9781847495921 £6.99Sonnets Shakespeare, William 9781847496089 £4.99Frankenstein Shelley, Mary 9781847493507 £4.99
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WUTHERING HEIGHTSEMILY BRONTË
ISBN 9781847493217£4.99
HARD TIMESCHARLES DICKENS
ISBN 9781847494887£4.99
THE SCARLET LETTERNATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
ISBN 9781847494214£4.99
HUCKLEBERRY FINNMARK TWAIN
ISBN 9781847496027£4.99
HEART OF DARKNESSJOSEPH CONRAD
ISBN 9781847494016£4.99
OLIVER TWISTCHARLES DICKENS
ISBN 9781847493767£5.99
TALES OF HORROREDGAR ALLAN POE
ISBN 9781847496096£4.99
THE INVISIBLE MANH.G. WELLS
ISBN 9781847496294£4.99
A CHRISTMAS CAROLCHARLES DICKENS
ISBN 9781847496171£4.99
MIDDLEMARCHGEORGE ELIOT
ISBN 9781847496041£5.99
STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDEROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
ISBN 9781847493781£4.99
THE WAR OF THE WORLDSH.G. WELLS
ISBN 9781847496461£4.99
GREAT EXPECTATIONSCHARLES DICKENS
ISBN 9781847493811£4.99
TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLESTHOMAS HARDY
ISBN 9781847494948£4.99
GULLIVER’S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
ISBN 9781847495976£4.99
TO THE LIGHTHOUSEVIRGINIA WOOLF
ISBN 9781847496577£4.99
A CHRISTMAS CAROL GREAT EXPECTATIONS
HARD TIMES OLIVER TWIST MIDDLEMARCH TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES
HUCKLEBERRY FINN THE INVISIBLE MAN THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Over 80 in the series • see www.almaclassics.com for the full list
SECONDARY-SCHOOL-AGE CLASSICS
QTY TITLE AUTHOR ISBN PRICEStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
Stevenson, Robert Louis 9781847493781 £4.99
Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis 9781847494863 £5.99Dracula Stoker, Bram 9781847494870 £5.99Gulliver's Travels Swift, Jonathan 9781847495976 £4.99Fathers and Children Turgenev, Ivan 9781847494894 £4.99The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark 9781847496027 £4.99The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Tom Sawyer, Detective
Twain, Mark 9781847494900 £4.99
The Invisible Man Wells, H.G. 9781847496294 £4.99The Island of Dr Moreau (May 18) Wells, H.G. 9781847496591 £4.99The Time Machine Wells, H.G. 9781847496270 £4.99The War of the Worlds Wells, H.G. 9781847496461 £4.99Leaves of Grass (Sep 18) Whitman, Walt 9781847497550 £8.99 The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories Wilde, Oscar 9781847496126 £6.99The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar 9781847493729 £4.99Monday or Tuesday Woolf, Virginia 9781847493477 £7.99Mrs Dalloway Woolf, Virginia 9781847494009 £4.99Orlando Woolf, Virginia 9781847493705 £7.99The Waves Woolf, Virginia 9781847494924 £6.99To the Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia 9781847496577 £4.99The Prelude and Other Poems (Aug 18) Wordsworth, William 9781847497505 £7.99 Selected Poems Yeats, W.B. 9781847494412 £8.99
SECONDARY-SCHOOL-AGE CONTEMPORARY TITLES
QTY TITLE AUTHOR ISBN PRICEMadame Tussaud’s Apprentice Benner Duble, Kathleen 9781846883811 £6.99Caramel Hearts Murray, Elizabeth 9781846883927 £7.99The Girl Who Leapt through Time Tsutsui, Yasutaka 9781846881343 £7.99The Double Axe Womack, Philip 9781846883903 £6.99Odyssey: Stories of Journeys from around Europe from the Aarhus 39
Various authors and illustrators 9781846884290 £7.99
The Horror Handbook van Loon, Paul (illus. Axel Scheffler) 9781846884177 £7.99
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