Nostromo

Joseph Conrad

"Nostromo", published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. "Nostromo" - though one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of ...

Birthday Business (#2 Willa and Woof)

Jacqueline Harvey

Adventure, imagination and loads of fun.Willa's best old-age-friend Frank hates birthdays, but that's not going to stop her from throwing him the greatest surprise party ever!Willa plunges headlong into party planning and things immediately start to go wrong. She'll need all her problem-solving skills (...