This book was recognised in the Big Read Top 100 category by the Bbc Book Awards.

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 1 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was a hugely popular English novelist, playwright and writer of short stories, best-known today for the groundbreaking The Woman in White, which has famously been adapted for the stage by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Jan Needle is a writer of children's books, plays, criticism, cartoons, TV programmes and a wide range of fiction for adults. He lives in Oldham and Manchester. Anatolii Slepkov is a Russian artist, a graduate of the Odessa Art College and the Repin Institute in St Petersburg. A member of the National Association of Portrait Artists of Great Britain, he is also a successful book illustrator, his titles including The Big Book of Pirates. Adrian Flynn has written numerous plays for the educational market inc. a collection of new plays for teaching GCSE Drama, Exchanges in collaboration with Joe Standerline.