Adventure appears wherever Philip, Dinah Lucy-Ann and Jack go - not forgetting Kiki the parrot, who's never far behind! Why did Bill have to bring the babyish Gustavus with them on holiday? Jack knows he'll only be trouble.. But when Gustavus i...........

HERE! HERE! HELP ME!' Darrell Rivers is excited to be going into her second year at Malory Towers - but is she ready for the drama it will bring? Jealousy flares when a new head of the form is chosen, and the girls become suspicious when their bel...........

'MY WORD-WHO'S THAT?' This term, the girls get a surprise when Darrell Rivers returns to Malory Towers with a glamorous new girl in tow. Zerelda soon catches everyone's eye for all the wrong reasons! Meanwhile, Bill is causing a stir with her hors...........

I DON'T LIKE THE SOUND OF HER MUCH! Darrell Rivers is Head Girl of her class and her sister Felicity has joined Malory Towers. It looks set to be a wonderful term until Felicity makes friends with young trouble-maker June. With twins Connie and...........

'I NEVER LAUGH ANYWHERE LIKE I DO AT SCHOOL!" Now that Darrell Rivers and her friends are fifth-formers, it's their turn to produce the school play. There is plenty of talent on show but everyone has their own ideas and competition for the starrin...........

THE SUMMER TERM IS ALWAYS THE NICEST OF ALL!" Darrell Rivers is Head Girl of Malory Towers and there is plenty to keep her busy. Amanda is prepared to risk everything to be chosen to swim in the Olympics and spoilt Gwendoline is up to her usual tr...........

Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond's most beautiful works from his years spent in the town of Mussoorie in the foothills of the Himalayas. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes everyday sights and sounds and captu...........

Rusty returns to his beloved hills, never to leave again After his return from London, Rusty explores Delhi, Dehra and Shahganj before settling down in Mussoorie, making his living as a writer. This collection contains some captivating stories ...........

H.H. is the spoilt, selfish, beautiful widow of the Maharaja of Mastipur. She lives with her dogs and her caretaker, Hans, in an enormous old house in Mussoorie, taking lovers and discarding them, drinking too much and fending off her reckless sons w...........

It is 1857. The year of the revolt against the British. In the city of Shahjahanpur, nestled between Bareilly and Lucknow, Ruskin Bond's classic novella A Flight of Pigeons brings to light the twists of fate, history and the human heart. When Ruth La...........

Twelve tantalizing cases... the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiancé; a strange encounter on a train; a domestic murder investigation; a wild man's sudden personality change; a retired inspector's hunt for a mu...........

Ten...' Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious 'U.N.Owen'. 'Nine...' At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the gue...........

Here are the Greek gods as you've never seen them before! This hilarious, Lime-travelling tale reinvents the Greek myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods. On the run from Zeus's avenging eagle, Prometheus hides out in Victorian Eden City...........

Mildred, notoriously the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, makes a wish on a shooting star and to her great surprise it comes true! But it also spells trouble. Mildred's wish- come-true is a small dog but she must keep him a secret fr...........

"It is easier to know people in small places. Sometimes you can't help knowing them. Like the boy who walks four miles to school; or the elderly gentleman who is up every morning at five o'clock, taking his morning walk (tap-tap-tap, I hear his walki...........

Ruskin Bond's compilation of grisly tales will send chills down your spine, as he takes you from Nurnberg and Bram Stoker's story of a cat that will have her revenge, to the depths of the Sargasso Sea, and William Hope Hodgson's telling of a ship cau...........

Bond's own telling of a mystery set in Mussoorie, which caught the fancy of none other than Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes; and many more such stories. Selected and edited by Ruskin Bond, this collection is abound with several fantastic,...........

In his early twenties now, Rusty leaves Dehra and travels to England, dreaming of publishing his novel abroad. First in Jersey, and then in London, he works as a clerk by day and writes at night. But London has many adventures in store for Rusty. ...........

Rusty, a sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned, and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part of Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian fr...........

Filled with superb illustrations and a rich cast of characters, The Room of Many Colours: A Treasury of Stories for Children is the definitive book for all Ruskin Bond fans-truly a collector's item.

Comprising twenty-eight classic stories that range from the chilling to the whimsical (for 'the supernatural has its funny side too'), A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings is the perfect collection to have by your bedside when the moon is up.

Predominantly set in the valleys of Uttarakhand, the stories in this book are warm, intimate portraits of life in the Himalayan foothills. Apart from gently satirical reflections on village and small-town braggarts and petty officials, The Night Trai...........

October 1967. The Royal Hotel in Mussoorie was hosting its annual flower show, and Miss Ripley-Bean was not going to miss it for anything, even if she did have a toothache. A long-time resident of the Royal, a hotel which her father had owned befo...........