This story is about "real witches" - who dress in ordinary clothes, look like ordinary women, but loathe all children. The seven-year-old hero and his grandmother are pitted against them at a witches convention, at which the witches are plotting to exterminate every child in England.

Meet a hero, a wise old grandmother, and the most gruesome, grotesque gang of witches imaginable!

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.

This story is about "real witches" - who dress in ordinary clothes, look like ordinary women, but loathe all children. The seven-year-old hero and his grandmother are pitted against them at a witches convention, at which the witches are plotting to exterminate every child in England.

When Joseph Binks is sent to stay with his mother, stepfather and half-sister Esme for Christmas, he is not at all happy. He would have preferred to have spent the time with his father, but his father has been called away to Scotland to attend to a family emergency. And so Christmas does not turn out quite as Joe anticipated...finding himself at the centre of a plot to rid Grea...(展开全部)

When Joseph Binks is sent to stay with his mother, stepfather and half-sister Esme for Christmas, he is not at all happy. He would have preferred to have spent the time with his father, but his father has been called away to Scotland to attend to a family emergency. And so Christmas does not turn out quite as Joe anticipated...finding himself at the centre of a plot to rid Grea...(展开全部)

A hilarious, original story for anyone who has ever been dumped, dumped or lived in a dump - with the cross-over and bestselling appeal of BRIDGET JONES, HIGH FIDELITY and THIS LIFE.

麦克·盖尔(Mike Gayle)，1970年出生于英国伯明翰。目前为自由新闻工作者，曾是两性关系专栏作家，为许多知名杂志撰稿，如：《男人帮》(FHM)，伦敦时报的《星期日时尚》(Sunday Times Style)，《时尚》(Cosmopolitan)等。 其作品以男性的视角，从都市男女情感的层面切入，将社会给予男性的责任、女性寄予男性的期待及由此给男人带来的不安全感和恐惧感等，进行了细致入微的刻画，让人一窥男性内心的私密世界，令人耳目一新。其作品开辟了全新的“男性自白文学”，是出版界的奇迹！ 作者语言简洁幽默，新意丛生。其第一本小说《失恋纪念日》(My Legendary Girlfriend)一经面世，即让他红遍海外市场，该作品已被翻译成20多种语言并被买下电影改编权。国内已经引进出版了盖尔的《分手清单》(His and ...(展开全部)

The author of Mr. Commitment is back with a hilarious romantic comedy for anyone who has ever dumped, been dumped, or lived in a dump.