The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus #1) by Jonathan Stroud Size:Standard Paperback: Drawing from his own experience

Drawing from his own experience and time spent with the royal family

For others will stop at nothing to gain the prize as their own

looking neither to left nor to right

is reunited with her old friend and lover

Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell

The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus #1) by Jonathan Stroud Size:Standard Paperback: Drawing from his own experienceNathaniel is eleven years old and a magician's apprentice, learning the traditional arts of magic. All is well until he has a life changing encounter with Simon Lovelace, a magician of unrivaled ruthlessness and ambition. When Lovelace brutally humiliates Nathaniel in public, Nathaniel decides to speed up his education, teaching himself spells way beyond his years. With revenge on his mind, he masters one of the toughest spells of all and summons