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1942, Inghilterra. Dopo che una bomba ha distrutto la sua casa e gli ha portato via la famiglia, Harry si mette in cammino sulla costa. Il ragazzino troverà conforto in Don, un grosso cane lupo, che lo accompagnerà in questa avventura verso la salvezza, durante la quale Harry capirà le cose della vita, della guerra e dell'amore. Uno dei migliori libri mai scritti sui rapporti tra guerra e infanzia. Età di lettura...

There's a legend about the Watch House... Scrape beneath the whitewash and you'll find terror. You'll find him. Tynemouth, late 1970s. Christmas is coming and Front Street's swinging. But Anne, dumped here while her parents sort their divorce, isn't in the mood. She escapes to the castle, the Priory the beaches. Best of all, the Watch House. The old coastguard's place is packed with weird treasures and no one bothers her. Until lights start to...

Creepy . . . develops a sense of palpable evil . . . well worth the time of readers who prefer slyly civilized British ghost stories' - Kirkus Reviews'Fiendishly clever, spine-tingling short fiction' - Publishers Weekly'Marvelous M. R. Jamesian-style ghost stories' - Michael Dirda, Washington Post'Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead men's clock...

Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first timeBLACKHAM'S WIMPEYWhy should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber - Blackham's Wimpey - be driven to madness, despair, even death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch?'A writer of disturbing brilliance' - Times Educational SupplementTHE WHEATSTONE P...

I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower ... And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if some wild beast was eating him."When steeplejack Joe Clarke is hired to repair the stonework at Muncaster Cathedral, he is unprepared for the horror he will encounter. Something unspeakably evil in the medieval tower is seeking victims among the young neighborhood boys ... and Joe's son may be next! An u...

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A mysterious air-raid shelter... A plane crash under fire... A secret operation... A noise in the attic...

Promise me that if I ever get lost, you'll come and find me?" "Promise". Valerie holds Bob to his promise, beckoning him to follow her--even after she dies. Westall is the award-winning author of Blitzcat, Ghost Abbey, and Yaxley's Cat, which all received rave reviews.

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Simon e Angela non potrebbero essere più diversi: lei, figlia di un pastore anglicano, tutta chiesa, parrocchia e opere di bene, lui ateo, cinico e dissacrante. Eppure, nonostante si conoscano da sempre, un giorno è come se si vedessero per la prima volta e si innamorano perdutamente. Ma dopo i primi idilliaci momenti i nodi vengono al pettine e quel legame che sembrava per sempre si spezza. In una gelida notte di Natale, sotto la bufera di ne...

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Robert Westall was born in 1929 on Tyneside, and he grew up there during the war. He went to the local Grammar School and then studied Fine Art at Durham University, and Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He worked as an art teacher in Cheshire and for the Samaritans. His first novel for children, The Machine Gunners, published in 1975, was an instant success and was awarded the Carnegie Medal. His books have been translated ...

An adaptation of the Carnegie Medal-winning children's novel.

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This is a companion to Westall's best known book "The Machine Gunners" and is set at the same time. A powerful and affecting novel. With his mother dead from a German bomb and his father off in training, Sonny tries to understand the realities of war.

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