The Locked Room

In Septemberof the year 1811, a little boy arrived at the door of Aswarby Hall in the middle of Lincolnshire. He rang the bell and looked around him at the tall,square eighteenth-century house(p.1).






This book has 9 horror stories. A tree full of enormous spiders; curtains like a dead man's hair with no eyes and boy with no heart...


I'm ok with this kind of stories but, if you are not good at horror, this book is not suitable.


































The locked room and other horror stories  

M.R. James ; retold by Louise Greenwood and Carolyn Jones

New ed

Harlow : Pearson Education, 1999

Wild Country

The woman in the red dress was holding some large yellow flowers to her face. Behind her, there were lots more flowers-big flowers, small

flowers, flowers of every possible colour.(p.1)

Tess and Grant are tour leaders for a group walking holiday in France. But they don't get on well-at least at the start.

Grant enjoys looking down on her and Tess can't deal with it, however

she tries to get on with him...

  Wild Country

Margaret Johnson

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Staying Together

'Are we really eating here, Hiroshi?'
Ikuko stopped by the door of the expensive Tokyo reataurant, looking unsure. Hiroshi smiled as he held the door open for her.
'Of course. It's your birthday. Everything's arranged'(p.1)

This story was so long for me but this was interesting . I like love story so if you so, I strongly recommend this book.

Japanese presented in this book, this helped me to be interested in this book. Ekuko(japanese) goes to England to study, promising to return to Japan to get married. But in Birmingham, Ikuko not only discovers another way of life but also a great deal about herself.

Staying Together

Judith Wilson

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001

But was it Murder?

Detective Inspector Rod Eliot was watching the rain running down his office window. He looked at his watch.6.30. Time to leave the mountain of papers on his desk and go to The Queen's Head pub across the road.(P.1)

AlexForley had everything good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. But now he is dead and Detective Inspecter Rod Eliot wants the answer.

Is this a murder?  if so, who was a murder?

People who like detective story will be curious about the end of story.

                                                                                                                   

But was it Murder?

Jania Barrell

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Go, Lovely Rose and other story

'But who is she with?' said Mr Carteret.
'A young man. She met him on the aeroplane,' Mrs Carteret said.
'Now go to sleep.' 
Outside the bedroom window the moon was shining brightly.(P.1)



A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjams and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting...
I thought this book's cover was beautiful and attractive.

This book has three short stories.







Go, Lovely Rose and other stories

H.E. Bates ; retold by Rosemary Border

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

STAR ZOO

Nothing ever happens on just Like Home-that's the name of the planet I live on. I get bored!
But tonight was Remembering Night and that's exciting. There's the big fire where everybody must put on something that they love and watch it burn. Then there's the dancing round the fire.(p.1)




In the far distant future, Hummingbird is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called just like Home.
She has never seen any living animal or bird at all.

In this book, The Earth has already burned out long long time ago.


THE STAR ZOO

Harry Gilbert

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

The Year Of Sharing

'Let me just shake hands and say goodbye, Richard.'

'Dad, you said you wouldn't come.'

' I'm sorry your mother couldn't come. She had to meet some very important people from over the world to talk about animals in danger. It was very important business. She wanted to come and say goodbye to you but...'(p.4)

Richard lives in a small village, people who live there must live alone in the forest with the wild animals for 

1 year when they become 12 years old.

A goodbye party is held for them and they leave for the forest to learn how to survive...

The Year Of Sharing
Harry Gilbert

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

The Enchanted April🌺

  

   It was a cold afternoon in February. The streets of London were wet and dirty. Mrs Wilkins was standing at the window of her club.  Her clothes were dull and old-fashioned. Mrs Wilkins looked down at the crowded street. It was raining again.

Four  women answer an advertisement in The Times newspaper. They leave cold, rainy Lomdon and go on holiday to

San Salvatore-an Italian castle by the sea. They are bored with their daily lives, but visiting castle changes them. They leave their husbands, their friends and their unhapiness behind in England.(where they live)

In Italy, they find enchantment, hapiness and love.

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth Von Arnim ； retold by Margaret Tarner ； illustrated by Tracey Joanne Ramsdale

Oxford : Heinemann International

                                                                                            

the case of the lonely lady

Nancy Robert was born in 1943. Her father worked in an import/export company in Bombay in India. Nancy had no brothers or sisters and she was always a lonely girl.(P.6)

     Nancy Robert was forty-six when her father died and Nancy was left alone in the world. Then she met Henry Jones and his sister. Nancy and Jone got married, so she thought she would never be lonely again.

A few weeks later, she gradually realizes her husband is strange, but it was too late...

I felt fear in characters actions in this book.

The case of the lonely lady

John Milne ； illustrated by Christopher Price

Oxford : Heinemann International