Nothing To Be Afraid Of [antikvár]

PUFFIN BOOKS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF Nothing to be Afraid Of may be the title of this book, but nearly ail the stories in the book do have something really rather frightening in them. At least, they are frightening for the characters in the stories, because the horrors which they've imagined simply won't go away: they are the kind of horrors that follow you upstairs in the dark and slide under the bed, and there they stay . . . The stories are people with strange and cunning characters: young William, who surprises his granny with a gruesome version of a well-known tale; and Arthur, who thinks he knows everything. Add to this a hint of a ghost, a cruelly misunderstood message, and a secret shed - and the result is a brilliant collection of eerie yet witty stories. In the words of The Times, 'Four cheers for Jan Mark!' Jan Mark grew up in Kent and attended the Canterbury College of Art, going on to teach art at Gravesend. She started her writing career in 1973, and has since written a large number of highly successful books, for which she has been awarded the Carnegie Medal and other prestigious prizes. Everything she does now is connected with books and writing, and she has spent two years as writer-in-residence at Oxford Polytechnic. She lives in Oxford.