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'I need to see the Queen about my sick brother.' Colin Mudford is on a quest. His brother Luke has cancer and the doctors in...

At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the...

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests...

Here is a small fact - You are going to die 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier....

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING CHLOE GRACE MORETZ
'Just listen,' Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.' I open my eyes...

George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the...

Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector.
Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a...

Professor Verity invents a machine which makes its subjects tell the truth. soon the professor has many clients who wish to use...

Charlie's family is poor, so he cannot go to school. He works as a shoeshine boy and dreams of being rich. Then one day, he has a...

Tom has failed his exams, so he cannot study photography at art college. He is bored with his job in a library and he doesn't...

A romantic adventure story set in south-west England in the 1600s. John Ridd swears revenge upon the evil Carver Doone who...

Three university students decide to go on holiday together in Wales. They stay in a remote cottage without electricity or a...

Pyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal murder and deception, set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields...

Can you ever forgive the unforgivable? In 1962, Emil Clement comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in...

The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by...

Rebecca and Sue like skiing. The sun's shining. There's lots of snow. They are good skiers.
But Mark and David are good skiers...

James Keating had woken up in a park 25 miles from his home in Birmingham. He didn't know who he was. He didn't know how he had...

When Old Adam gets a money order from his son in England, he plans to throw a party. But when he tries to cash the money, he...

This is an Intermediate Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some...

A romantic thriller set in a fictional European country in the 1890s.
Retold by Stephen Colbourn.

Two girls and two boys were standing in the middle of Lynchfield Green airfield. The airfield wasn't used any more and it's...

Was blowing at 50 knots and some waves were about 45 feet high. At that point, the swordfishing boat, Andrea Gail, must have been...

Owl Hall is an original story written specially for the Macmillan Readers series. It is the story of Kara, who goes to stay at...

The store has been here for only one year, but many people think that it has always been here. Above the door are faded brown...

Xuma is from the north. He comes to live in Malay Camp, a township near Johannesburg, so that he can work in the mine. The job is...

Private investigator Lenny Samuel is in work again.
Lenny is hired to discover the identity of the robber who raids banks...

Lenny Samuel, the Los Angeles private detective, is hired to investigate threats made to a famous film actress.
There are...

What's the worst thing your best friend could do to you?
Admittedly, it wasn't murder. A moment's carelessness, a tragic...

When a police raid in Edinburgh goes horribly wrong, the only silver lining for Inspector Tony McLean is a discovery that could...

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