Download or read book Gruesome Guide to Edinburgh written by Terry Deary and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new edition of this gory city guide with all the gruesome bits left in! HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: EDINBURGH takes readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Edinburgh exposing all of its most scurrilous secrets. With the frightful full-colour map tourists can plot their path to the past - climb up the cursed castle, hit the High Street for a whole host of historical horrors and visit hellish Holyrood House. Kidnapped kings, mysterious murders and reckless raids, it's a trip no Horrible Histories fan will want to miss!
Download or read book Horrible Histories Gruesome Guides Edinburgh written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning city guide with all the gruesome bits left in! Shudder as Terry Deary takes you on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Edinburgh, exposing all its scurrilous secrets! Climb up the cursed castle! Hit the High Street for a host of historical horrors! Find out whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir! Visit hellish Holyrood House! With kidnapped kings, mysterious murders and reckless raids galore, it's a trip you simply daren't miss!
Download or read book Horrible Histories Gruesome Guides Dublin written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shudder at the savage story of Dublin, brimming with blood-soaked battles and riotous rebellions. Terry Deary reveals the horrible history of the great Irish city, from the blood-dripping battle of Clontarf to the risings and rebellions of the twentieth century. Find out why the mayor of Dublin put his Mum in prison, picnic with pirates at St Stephen's Green, creep around cruel cathedrals and then head to dreadful Dublin castle. Torture, traitors and cut-throat Irish chieftains - it's a trip you simply daren't miss!
Download or read book Horrible Histories Stormin Normans New Edition written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Stormin' Normans, including why Norman knights slept with a dolly and which pirate hung up his eye-patch. With a bold, accessible new look and revised by the author, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
Download or read book Edinburgh written by Terry Deary and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir? Why it's alright to spit on the High Street? How the pupils of Edinburgh High School got away with murder? Plot your path to the past with a frightful full-colour map of the city's horrible highlights - climb up the cursed castle for tales of reckless raids and hit the High Street for a whole host of historical horrors!
Download or read book Gruesome Guide to Stratford upon Avon written by Terry Deary and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: STRATFORD-UPON-AVON takes readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon exposing all of its most scurrilous secrets. With the frightful full-colour map tourists can plot their path to the past - pay their respects at Shakespeare's grave, brave spooky Sheep street, and lob cheese in the river. Fatal fleabites, bloody battles and brutal beheadings, it's a trip no Horrible history fan will want to miss!
Download or read book The Amazing Life of Mary Queen of Scots written by Gill Arbuthnott and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was Queen of Scotland and of France, and a possible Queen of England; she was involved in a series of mysterious deaths; in the end she lost her head... But what was life really like for Mary, Queen of Scots? Put on your ruff and step into the sixteenth century for a unique glimpse into the dramatic life of the infamous queen. Mary's story is told from the perspective of her young servant Alec. Each easy-to-read chapter mixes the involving story of the queen's life with timelines, charts and revealing illustrations to create a Fact-tastic account that is both educational and emotionally engaging for younger readers. Take a journey through time and find out: Why did Mary become Queen of Scots when she was just six days old? What exotic animals lived with the young queen? How did Mary escape from Lochleven Castle? Why did Mary's cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, arrange her beheading? The Amazing Life of Mary, Queen of Scots continues the brilliant Fact-tastic series, which blends intriguing facts and fascinating fiction to bring the most exciting, gruesome and crucial moments of Scottish history alive for young readers.
Download or read book Horrible Histories Special Cruel Kings and Mean Queens written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history book which shows you monarchs as they really were - mad, menacing and murderous! Find out which king died after falling off the toilet, why people thought King John was a werewolf, and why Queen Anne's feet were covered in garlic. Packed with treacherous treason, evil executions and savage struggles for the throne, this is royal history with the nasty bits left in!
Download or read book Rizzio written by Denise Mina and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history—the bloody assassination of David Rizzo private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the queen’s chambers in Holyrood Palace. On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the heavily pregnant Mary, Rizzio was stabbed fifty six times by a party of assassins. This breathtakingly tense novella dramatises the events that led up to that night, telling the infamous story as it has never been told before. A dark tale of sex, secrets and lies, Rizzio looks at a shocking historical murder through a modern lens—and explores the lengths that men and women will go to in their search for love and power. Rizzio is nothing less than a provocative and thrilling new literary masterpiece.
Download or read book Horrible Histories Vicious Vikings New Edition written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sail back to a vicious time with fearsome seafaring Viking warriors with big boats, big shields and enormous ginger beards. Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings, including Viking gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial and Death by booby-trapped statues. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author and illustrated throughout to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers.
Download or read book Help I m Trapped in Obedience School Again written by Todd Strasser and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jake switches bodies with his sister's dog, Lance, he roots through the garbage, devours dog food, and has to put up with the affections of a little dog named Foo-Foo.
Download or read book Death on the River written by John Wilson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young soldier survives a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War.
Download or read book Scotland written by Terry Deary and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Scotland, including the truth about William Wallace, the disgusting details of sick Scottish torture techniques, and how to terrify a tourist with gory Scottish ghost stories. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
Download or read book Horrible Histories Gruesome Guides Stratford upon Avon written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jolly jaunt around the town where Shakespeare was born! Stratford-upon-Avon may be a cute tourist town today - but its history is far from pleasant, with fatal fleabites, bloody battles and brutal beheadings to see! In this gruesome city guide, Terry Deary takes you on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon, exposing all of its most scurrilous secrets. Discover the rules of the Olympic sport of shin-kicking! Find out why locals like to lob cheese in the river! Learn which of Shakespeare's characters was baked in a pie! Plot your path to the past with the frightful map, and pay your respects at the brilliant Bard's grave. Then brave the horrors of spooky Sheep Street - home of an awful axeman, a weird witch and possibly the most haunted house in England!
Download or read book The Boy who Lost His Face written by Louis Sachar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed, humorous tale from mega-selling Louis Sachar, author of HOLES.
Download or read book The Thirteen Hallows written by Michael Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last time the 13 Hallows were gathered together was in the time of Arthur when they were used to drive the Demonkind from this world and seal the entrance between this and the Otherworld, but now the sacred objects of Britain are once again being brought together.
Download or read book Murder Houses of Edinburgh written by Jan Bondeson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital’s many faceless, spectral slayers
