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While Philip Pullman's greatest popularity is as a creator of novel-length magical realism for young adults, such as The Northern Lights, he continues to explore and stretch the limits of other children's and young adult genres. Clockwork is no exception. With its inspiration lying solidly in the German romantic tradition of E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Brothers Grimm, the story begins, as all good fairy tales do, with someone whose human weakness sets events inescapably in motion. As the townspeople of Glockenheim gather in the White Horse Tavern on the eve of the unveiling of a new figure for their great town clock, Karl, the clockmaker's apprentice, reveals to Fritz, a young storyteller, that he has not been able to construct the figure. A new clock figure is expected of all apprentices, and Karl is the first in hundreds of years to fail. Fritz, in his turn, has the beginnings of a new story to tell, and as it rolls off his tongue, its dark antagonist materializes and offers Karl his dearest wish. Not surprisingly, Karl's Faustian pact brings him destruction, but an innocent child is the deus ex machina that saves another child and the spirit of the town from seemingly ineluctable oblivion. [+]

With its eerie black-and-white illustrations by Leonid Gore and its happily-ever-after ending to some thrilling suspense, Clockwork is a fine fairy tale for younger children and a thought- provoking twist on the art of narrative for older ones. -Barrie Trinkle.

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Review Time Warner AudioBooks / The Historian

The Historian (Time Warner AudioBooks)

Authors

Elizabeth Kostova

Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2005-07-07
Dewey code: 813.6
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £3.66

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Some stories can be told again in endlessly different ways. Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian combines a search for the historical Dracula with a profound sense that Stoker got some things right-that the late Mediaeval tyrant kills among us yet, undead and dangerous. From Stoker, she also takes a sense that the supernatural seems more real when embedded in documentary evidence. Three generations search for Dracula's resting place, and their stories are nested within each other, so that we know that at least two quests ended badly. Kostova rations her thrills very carefully so that we jump out of our chair at quite slight surprises, especially when we have come to expect buckets of blood and loud bangs. She also has a profound and well-communicated sense of place and period, so that the book is equally at home in 1930s Rumania, Cold War Budapest and 1970s Oxford. Kostova is particularly good on the sights and sounds of remote country places and the taste of real peasant food-this sensuous realism does not always go with her other skill, the creation of imagined documents and folksongs that feel as real and true as what might be actual. This is a quietly good book rather than a spectacular debut, with some uncomfortable twists in its tail; her heroine-narrators are, and perhaps remain, in the most serious of jeopardies. -Roz Kaveney.

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Review Simon & Schuster / Star Trek: Spectre [AUDIOBOOK]

Star Trek: Spectre [AUDIOBOOK] (Simon & Schuster)

Authors

William Shatner

Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1998-05-01
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £8.99

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How to Haunt a House (Random House USA Children's Books)

Authors

Dan Witkowski
John Shephard

Creator: Jack Lindstrom
Publication date: 1994-09
RRP: ~~£1.99~~
Price: £3.98

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Hybrid (ISIS Audio Books)

Authors

Shaun Hutson

Publication date: 2005-07
RRP: ~~£31.95~~
Price: £33.94

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Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran: Complete & Unabridged (Chivers Children's Audio Books)

Authors

Susan P. Gates

Creator: Steven Pacey
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-09
RRP: ~~£15.22~~
Price: £15.22

Review Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Children's Audio Books:

You can pretty much guarantee that any book with the title Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran is going to be something rather extraordinary, and you really will not be disappointed. Whether you are looking for laugh-out-loud hilarity, a touch of the spooky or simply a cracking good story, then this could well be the book for you. Maggot, our hero, and his gran discover some strange mushrooms that look like huge red brains and have the ability to infiltrate the human brain with their spores. When the mushrooms get their evil way with his gran, Maggot decides that enough is enough and sets out to save her from the horror of it all, while simultaneously saving mankind from their poison-no mean feat considering the fugitive fungi seem to have plans to take over the world. Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran is just about as exciting a story as you can get, and successfully combines the kind of slapstick humour that appeals to kids with tense and scary moments that are topped off beautifully with a bucket load of gunge. Author Susan Gates has given us a book that will undoubtedly appeal to even the most reluctant of readers, and one that will surely become an all-time favourite. Age 8 and over. -Susan Harrison.

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