Staffanstorps bibliotek

En kväll i mitten av december blir Ebba spådd i tarotkort av sin vän Felicia. Till hennes förvåning visar korten att hon innan året är slut kommer att träffa mannen i sitt liv, men ...

Milkmaid Rhoda Brooks cannot control her jealousy of Gertrude - a beautiful woman who has just married a rich farmer. So when Gertrude appears in her dream she cannot help but reac ...

Rediscover your childhood's favourite fairy tales or introduce a young reader to the magical world of one of the greatest storytellers, Hans Christian Andersen. Nearly two centurie ...

A good fairy tale needs a happy ending, and if he can’t provide one for the rags-to-riches-to-rags-again story of his sixth brother, the barber of Kashgar can at least add one to t ...

There are many ways to make a small fortune; the easiest is to start with a large one. Brought before the Sultan of Kashgar, a barber regales him with stories of his many brothers, ...

How many times can one man die? Surprisingly many, it turns out. Set in what is now the Xinjiang province of China, tensions between Muslims, Jews and Christians lead a series of i ...

Sindbad, now an old man, has finally learned his lesson, and sworn never to leave Bagdad. Yet when the Caliph demands that he return to Serendib (modern-day Sri Lanka), Sindbad has ...

Seized by wanderlust for a sixth time, even Sindbad begins to regret his restlessness when he’s shipwrecked on a seemingly barren island, and has to watch his crew starve to death. ...

Sindbad’s fifth voyage progresses from tragedy to farce when the crew of his ship first discover the egg of a roc – the giant eagles he escaped in his second voyage – and he is lat ...

Sindbad’s fourth voyage may not feature monsters or giant animals, but after being shipwrecked and befriending the hospitable islanders, he faces a different kind of horror: a trad ...

After such lucky escapes from disaster as those in Sindbad’s first voyage, most people would probably choose to stay at home – but Sindbad is not most people. Going to sea a second ...

Many legends are told about whales so huge they are mistaken for islands, and wake up when sailors light a campfire on their backs, plunging into the depths and drowning the poor m ...

'Tam o’ the Scoots' is a book that cannot help but stand out from the rest of Wallace’s fiction. In a good way, at that. It is a collection of ten short stories chronicling - in st ...

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. P ...

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. P ...

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. P ...

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. P ...

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. P ...

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. P ...

If you visited a paradise, how could return to living in the normal world? That’s the question which haunts Lionel Wallace in H.G. Wells’ "The Door in the Wall". When he was a chil ...

Setting out on the high seas again, Sindbad faces greater dangers in his third voyage than ever before, including pygmy pirates, a giant snake, and a one-eyed monster (based on the ...

Sinbad the Sailor is among the most famous heroes of the Arabian Nights; his voyages have been adapted many times, including as Marvel comics and a Dreamworks film starring Brad Pi ...

Neljätoistavuotias Kustaa lähtee töitä hakemaan, kun herra antaa hänen tehtäväkseen louhia kalliota. Kustaa käsittelee kiviä koko elämänsä, ja kuolemansakin hän tahtoo kohdata sama ...

Uhmaikäinen Siina kärsii nimestään ja horjumattomasta siinamaisuudestaan, joka ei koskaan anna periksi. Karjalasta evakkoon tullutta Liisaa kutsutaan Rasvasilliksi, mutta kun hän k ...

Klondiken kultaryntäys houkuttelee paikalle monenlaisia onnenonkijoita. Toiset heistä ovat paremmin valmistautuneita kuin toiset. Klondiken vaikeat olosuhteet ovat yllätys Carter W ...