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A ghost, battles, the Viking Age.

This is the saga of Aslak Ottarssen, known as 'Slave-Born.'

Aslak, and his beloved sister, Astrid, are the children of a Norwegian farmer by an English slave. Their father frees Aslak, but not Astrid.

At fifteen, and a man under Viking law, Aslak 'goes Viking.' He promises Astrid that as soon as he has earned silver enough, he will buy her freedom.

On returning home, he finds that his father has died - and his step-brothers have sold his sister.

Furious, Aslak leaves his home forever, and calls on his ship-brothers to help him find and free...

People have told stories since the world began - and everybody has a story.

Old Mr. Grimsby, retired and a widower, makes a hobby of collecting stories.

He collects stories from his housemaid, and from the housemaid's grandmother, from an old soldier, and from a dying woman.

Late one night, as he walks home past a churchyard, he's joined by a large black dog, a Churchyard Grim, which leads him out of this world to Heaven's Gate - and tells him a story to pass the time as they walk.

And in Heaven, the Virgin Herself pours the tea and tells a tale...

From the beginning to the...

A new book from the Carnegie winning author, Susan Price.

"I don't think those dogs ever mistook me for their master. They were good herd-dogs and I think they knew exactly what I was - a little calf, lost from the herd. A lost little pup wandering loose. They knew that what they had to do was take me in charge, and herd me along, and watch over me, until they had brought me somewhere safe."

It's a long way home - from East to West across Scotland's mountains and lochs.

Sandy's mother is desperate for money. So she 'bonds' ten-year-old Sandy to a...

"Who's trip-tripping across my bridge?"

A favourite story for the little ones' bedtime This well-loved traditional tale is here retold for early readers by Carnegie Medal winning author Susan Price, and illustrated in an exuberant slap-stick comic-book style by artist Andrew Price.

Children will love it for its suspense and humour as they enjoy chanting out loud the repeated refrains. With its animal heroes and its happy ending, it's a perfect read-aloud story-book for children from ages 1-6

The accompanying activity book has pictures to colour in and...

Little Billy Goat Gruff says, "Some of our words and letters have fallen out of our book The color has been lost too Please, can you help us? Color us in again and put all our words back together. Thanks

This activity book accompanies the retelling, by Carnegie Medal winning author Susan Price, of the old favourite 'Three Billy Goats Gruff.'

First, enjoy reading the story, with its funny illustrations and repeated phrases.

Then open this book and color-in the illustrations - and see if you can help the goats by filling in the missing words and letters.

While small people...

Praise for Nightcomers from Philip Pullman.

"'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evoke the Past without falsity, and the present without effort.'"

(The Guardian.)

"Nightcomers..."

The beautiful and the uncanny...

A beautiful Englishman drives his Italian mistress to suicide - but she pursues him even after death...

A young blacksmith spends Midsummer's Night near an ancient mound, to 'shoe with silver the horses of...