Shakespeare Stories
Shakespeare Stories

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780395861400

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By skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned twelve of the Elizabethan playwright's most memorable dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This format will delight both those who know the great dramatist's works and those who are new to them. Michael Foreman's dramatic color illustrations and varied black-and-white line drawings are the perfect complement to this celebration of Shakespeare's genius.

Six Shakespeare Stories
Six Shakespeare Stories

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 9780435124243

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The most famous of Shakespeare's plays retold as short and easy-to-read stories.

Smith
Smith

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-11-25

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0141930128

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Young Smith was a pickpocket - a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and betrayal.

Macbeth
Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780679838753

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An illustrated, abridged version of Shakespeare's historical tragedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.

The December Rose
The December Rose

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 144817399X

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Secrets whispered up a chimney, a golden locket with a broken chain, murder in the streets of London – and suddenly young Barnacle is plunged into a terrifying mystery. The December Rose is a thrilling tale of deceit, espionage and murder set in the teeming, colourful Victorian London.

Mr Corbett's Ghost
Mr Corbett's Ghost

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-05-31

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1448173884

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Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can't help but wish he were dead. So when a strange old man offers to make this wish come true, Benjamin finds it impossible to refuse. Sure enough, Mr Corbett meets an untimely death, but the tables turn on the terrified apprentice who finds himself cursed with the ghost of the man he hated most in the world . . . A brilliant collection of three short stories from a master story-teller, who will keep you turning the pages until the very end.

God Beneath The Sea
God Beneath The Sea

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1448173841

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Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retells some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children's literature. This is the epic history of the Greek Gods told from their violent beginnings to the creation of man.

Jack Holborn
Jack Holborn

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780192750334

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An action-packed pirate story, with bloodcurdling deaths, terrifying ghosts and adventures galore on the high seas. Orphan Jack Holborn stows away on a ship, little guessing the dangers and excitements that lie on his journey ahead. Before long he finds himself caught up in the middle of a mystery surrounding his long-lost mother, but before he can discover the truth, he has to survive the quest through an eerie African jungle for a famous diamond, worth more than Jack's wildest dreams.

The Apprentices
The Apprentices

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-07-31

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1448173906

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Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city's apprentices. For seven long years they struggled for their livelihoods among the fetid houses and sinister quays of old London. But despite their hardships there was hope and even fun. This compelling story-cycle follows them round the year, through the dark, cold winter nights to midsummer in the city, The lamplighter, the pawnbroker, the midwife or the clockmaker, their stories interweave delightfully to paint a colourful picture of life in London 200 years ago.

The Empty Sleeve
The Empty Sleeve

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1448174007

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'Him what's born on the chime . . . he's the one what'll have communications with the devil.' At the age of fourteen, 'chime-child' Peter Gannet is apprenticed to a locksmith in Covent Garden. But his desperate longing to escape from the insufferable adults around him and go to sea leads him into some dubious undertakings. Before long, the old ship's carpenter's dire prophecy comes true, for in the locksmith's workroom he meets a phantom with an empty sleeve. Tense and atmospheric, this is a gripping thriller about ghosts, a wall of hands, envy, dishonesty and finally murder!