Batu berkaki

Suatu pagi, Munarto, seorang pematung terkenal sekaligus orang terkaya di Desa Ledok Awu, ditemukan mati. Di pondok kerjanya, sedang memahat patung batu yang tak punya tubuh selain bagian kaki, bersimbah darahnya sendiri. Pertanyaan “Siapa?” hanya akan memunculkan segerombolan tersangka. Meski bergantung nafkah padanya, ada terlalu banyak penduduk desa yang menginginkan kematiannya. Dend…

A haunting in Venice

Enjoy Agatha Christie’s beloved classic, Hallowe’en Party —the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice , directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh—with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Halloween party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts t…

Parasyte

They arrive in silence, out of dark skies. They infest human hosts and consume them. And they are everywhere. They are Parasites: strange creatures who must invade and take control of human hosts to survive. Once they have infected their victims, they can twist their hosts's bodies into any abominable shapes they choose: craniums splitting to reveal mouths of sharp teeth, batlike wings erupt…

The woman in white

'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white' The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the…

Dua dini hari

Tiga anak jalanan ditemukan tewas, tergantung di pinggir flyover kawasan Jatinegara. Satu mayat lagi menyusul, kali ini terlilit kabel tiang listrik. Penyelidikan dimulai dengan enggan, para polisi bertindak meski jauh dari kata maksimal. Pemikiran semua orang sama : mereka hanya gelandangan, lebih baik disingkirkan. Seolah ada yang bertekad membersihkan jalanan, mengurangi masalah pelik kota. …

Gothic tales

One of three Signature Select Classics chapbooks steeped in the thrills and chills of the gothic tradition, publishing simultaneously with chapbooks of similarly weird works by H. P. Lovecraft and Mary Shelley. This stunning keepsake chapbook-perfect for fans of the mysterious and macabre-comprises three of Edgar Allan Poe's short literary masterpieces: "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Metzengerstein," …

Echostar is always listening

Ruby Brookes and her best friend Deva have won free places at the Ash Tree Foundation Performing Arts Camp over the summer, but only if their school grades seriously improve. So when Deva suddenly starts getting high marks in all their subjects, leaving Ruby behind, she is confused and jealous. Until she finds out Deva's success is down to EchoStar, a new app that's helping her get ahead. …

Ninja: first mission

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9781842999394

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72 p. ; ill. ; 19,5 cm

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Bloodline

Finbar Black's day is turned upside down when a crazy, beautiful girl bursts into the house with a gun and a bag full of cash. Here we meet the Black family: four generations of schemers, liars, cheats and losers and, via a succession of twists and turns, we find out why she's there.

Five hundred miles

For brothers Cole and Ruben it's another rainy morning in the badlands of East London, selling dodgy paperwork for even dodgier motors. But arriving in a grimy pub on their latest errand, the brothers stumble across a trio of gangsters, a beautiful young girl and a monkey in a cage - and their entire day is knocked off course. They soon find themselves fleeing in a hot-wired car, girl and chatt…