These ghostly tales will appeal to ghastly kids with a taste for the grim and the gruesome.

There's the story of Nigel who loves killing spiders - until they come back to haunt him....

Expert answers to the big questions children ask, with answers from David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman and more. Children ask some great questions: Why is the sea salty? How far...

Exiled by superstition and betrayal and cut off from faith and human love, for fifteen years the solitary, simple–hearted weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom in Raveloe and devoted himself to...

From a prize-winning author comes this wonderfully rich and varied collection of fifteen stories from Roman mythology. Here are all the famous myths: the birth of Venus, the founding of Rome. Here...

Inspired by an old photograph album to investigate the life of a lost relative, a man finds himself on a journey that traverses the 20th century, leading him from an American asylum to the shores...

In a poor, steamy and barren Mexican state, the Red Shirts have gained control, outlawed God, and murdered priests. But one still lives: the whisky priest, who has an illegitimate daughter and...

Class Three has been given an amazing new computer, but there’s something a bit strange about it. First it is cheeky to Mr Majeika, then the whole class is magically trapped on the Internet. How...