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The Faraway Tree

Series of four novels for children written by Enid Blyton. The stories are set in an enchanted wood in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the titular Faraway Tree.

The First Men in the Moon

Scientific romance by H. G. Wells first published in 1901, about two men who travel to the Moon using an anti-gravity substance known as cavorite.

The Flashman Papers

Series of novels and short stories by George MacDonald Fraser, about a cowardly British soldier who had been the school bully in the 1857 novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894. A collector of orchids grows an unknown species which develops aerial rootlets that attach themselves to his skin and suck his blood.

The Flying Man

Short story written by H. G. Wells first published in 1895, about a British soldier who, trapped on a ledge, improvises a parachute to escape.

The Gentleman’s Magazine

Monthly compendium of the best news, essays and information from the daily and weekly newspapers, published from 1731 until 1914.

The Ghost of a Flea

One of William Blake's strangest and most bizarre works.

The Graphic

British weekly illustrated newspaper published from 1869 to 1932.

The Great Stone, Stretford

Grade II listed structure in Stretford, Greater Manchester, probably the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft.

The Green Child

Only completed novel by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read, based on the 12th-century legend of two green children who mysteriously appeared in the English village of Woolpit.