Rosemary Gray Books

Edited by Rosemary Gray Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season. The title poem, familiar to children and adults the world over, introduces a collection of stories and verse with a Christmas theme, guaranteed to engage and amuse readers young and old. Likely to provoke laughter and sometimes to bring a sentimental tear to the driest eye, this festive treasure trove is ideal for reading aloud or curling up with in a comfy corner. Scrooge himself would have found it difficult to resist distributing copies on Christmas morning!

Tormented spectres wander the pages of this disquieting collection. Lock your door, turn up the lights and as you start to read, pray to be delivered from ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night.

This everlasting literary diary has been specially commissioned from Rosemary Gray. It has one page per day, and each contains apposite quotes from the stories or information about Conan Doyle, publication history and general Holmesiana. Because each day is dated, but not named, it is suitable for use in any calendar year - or perhaps as a birthday and anniversary book. The Sherlock Holmes Everlasting Diary is uniform in size with the rest of Macmillan Collector's Library, and will make an elegant and handy keepsake. It is illustrated throughout with original illustrations from the Strand Magazine, most of them from the pen of Sidney Paget. Sidney Paget is best known as the creator of the popular image of Sherlock Holmes, and his illustrations have influenced interpretations of the detective in fiction, film and drama. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city of London over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honor. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists.

Scotland draws her Myths and Legends from a rich and diverse legacy of powerful cultural influences. Kept alive over centuries in their ancient native vernacular by an exceptionally strong oral tradition, they retain their spellbinding qualities when translated to the written word. Spinechilling tales of evil wrought by malignant supernatural beings, heart-warming stories of good deeds done by more well-meaning other-worldly creatures, gripping accounts of epic struggles and bitter conflicts from the truly heroic to the downright grisly, dark and disturbing glimpses of low cunning and treachery relieved by whimsical anecdotes full of wry humour.Brought together in this volume is a wide-ranging gallery of creatures outlandish and bizarre - from weirds and witches, monsters and mermaids, brownies and bogles to hags and hunters, kings and kelpies - whose stories will haunt and horrify, ensnare and enchant modern readers of all ages, and perhaps leave them with an uneasy sense of invisible forces at work.

Beautifully illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, the Alice in Wonderland Everlasting Diary is a delightful keepsake for old and new fans alike. It includes a page a day, but as the days are not named it can be used in any calendar year and is also perfect for keeping track of birthdays and anniversaries. Each entry also includes a delightful quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass . With this elegant and handy diary, you can celebrate one of the world's best-loved stories that is still being told over 150 years since it was first published.