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Strange Library

In what is considered by many to be Kipling's finest work

DS Lucas Walker has just arrived in Surfer's Paradise for some much-needed recovery after injuries sustained in his last investigation

and discover how each of these seven small inventions came to be

he can't bring himself to let her go

Millions of young readers have loved the world’s worst children tales – now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: the world’s worst teachers

but for the people who live on it

beautiful and venomous

an impecunious but driven salesman

according to her astrology-obsessed mother

She can never be his

by one of America's most gifted critics