There once lived a man and a woman who were unhappy because they were childless. Until one day a doctor changes their life and they have a baby girl. They ask the doctor to bestow on their baby genes for beauty, intelligence, grace, athletic prowess, singing ability and creativity. But at the christening an elderly au...
Once upon a time in a far away land, there was a cruel and uncaring lord. There was a good witch who wanted to teach him a lesson. There was a curse and there was a beast. 650 years later, an innocent California girl found herself imprisoned by said beast. The witch had a sister who may or may not be evil and may...
For fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth. Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name, no feelings - to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued...
There was once a perfectly respectable miner and his wife who had seven children, all sons. But they are very poor, and one bitter winter, inflation makes things so bad that they are forced to consider putting their boys into care. However, Jack is a little different to his brothers, and he comes up with a surprising...
It’s the Easter holidays and Little Red’s school friends have all gone on holiday to Florida without her. Bored, she decides to go and visit her grandmother – and along the way she meets a sinister stranger. But all is not what it seems in this fantastically dark and witty modern take on the classic fairy tale . . .
There was once an oppressed member of the proletariat who’d become so sick of his miserable life that he wanted to die. Until he was granted three wishes. But as so often happens in fairy tales, things don’t go entirely to plan . . .