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AN ORIGINAL RETELLING OF THE CLASSIC GREEK MYTH OF JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS FOR YOUNG READERS WITH A FRESH AND FUNNY TWIST, PERFECT FOR FANS OF LOKI AND DAVID SOLOMONS. Meet Phoebe. She's eleven years old and desperate to escape the boring island where she lives. Enter the Argonauts - a crew of...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'I am sick of the future. Up to here with the future. I don't want anything to do with it; don't want it near me.' This is a story about now. It's a story about a woman, and the family she has made for herself. It's about the dramas unfolding on our screens and behind...

Brought to you by Penguin. What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? What has Meg and Mog got to do with Polish embroidery? Why is death in picture books so often represented by being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits takes us on an eye-opening journey in a pea-green boat through the history of...

Brought to you by Penguin. Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story? Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty...

Versailles zu Zeiten Ludwig XIV. Am Hof des Sonnenkönigs herrschen Pomp und Verschwendungssucht. Wer einen Blick hinter die Kulissen wagt, findet Intrigen, Missgunst, Klatsch und Tratsch. Das wissen vor allem die Frauen, die sich regelmäßig in Marie d'Aulnoys Kaminzimmer in Paris treffen und dort zusammen flirten, lachen, Champagner trinken und sich Märchen erzählen. Doch das Geschichtenerzählen ist riskant und droht die Frauen eine nach der anderen in große Gefahr zu bringen …