Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: The Thirty-Nine Steps

Aysegül Savas / Savas Aysegã1 / 4L

Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists Aysegül Savas's acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity. A researcher abroad in Rome eagerly awaits a visit from her long distance lover, only to find he is not the same man she remembers. An expat meets a childhood friend on a layover and is dismayed by her ...

Helen Comerford

THE END IS BREWING ... Love, lattes, and world-ending drama - life just got a lot less cosy for Lydie, teenage daughter of Death. The cosy romcom/fantasy obsession you didn't know you needed. Come for the cinnamon rolls, stay for the apocalypse. Lydie, the daughter of Death, a retired Rider of the Apocalypse, is obsessed with 'cosy'; cosy books, cosy job in the family café, ...

M. A. Carrick

From the author of The Mask of Mirrors comes a sweeping adventure set in a world where fae secretly walk amongst those who seek to persecute them. In an alternate Spanish Golden Age, the Council of the Sea Beyond has risen to unrivalled power, exploiting the Otherworld's most precious resources for their own gain. Estevan seeks to uncover their secrets, but he risks the exposu...

Enjo

"How can I make you feel the same way I do?"Shunta and Tamaki are one year apart, but they've kept up their friendship even as they attend different schools. Tamaki is amiable and laughs often, and Shunta loves to see his friend happy. But one day, Shunta comes across Tamaki crying, and something fundamental changes within him, awakening sexual feelings he doesn't know what to ...

Dana Swift

An enemies-to-lovers, cross-class, cosy romantasy, perfect for fans of Twin Crowns and The School For Good and Evil. In Farren's world, dragons are prized for their precious scales - giving the humans they bond with metal-crafting magic. Farren's family believe dragons are worth so much more, which is why they dedicate their lives to caring for them. It's also the reason she ...

Shirtaloon

Survive an alternate universe and jump into the first installment of the witty and magic-fueled HE WHO FIGHTS WITH MONSTERS series--now with a bonus short story exclusive to this deluxe hardcover edition. "Exciting, hilarious, irreverent, and action-packed." --Matt Dinniman, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler CarlFor fans of Dungeon Crawler C...

John Buchan

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an `ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and m...

John Buchan

In this fast-paced spy thriller, a self-described "ordinary fellow" stumbles upon a plot involving not only espionage and murder but also the future of Britain itself. Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he encounters an American agent seeking help in preventing a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a little ...

John Buchan

Sir Edward Leithen - perhaps the autobiographical of Buchan's characters - is dying of tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. After this prognosis, Leithen undertakes a profoundly heroic quest from London to the Canadian Northwest, tracking down a missing man who is literally 'sick at heart'. In the course of this epic journey, Leithen finds redemption for himself. Sic...

John Buchan

John Buchan

Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels from London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands and Islands in his search, which eventually ends in a spectacular climax above the battlefields of Europe.John Buchan's inside knowl...

John Buchan