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Dominoes Two Typhoon
Joseph Conrad
Text adaptation by Tim Herdon
'There's some bad weather out there,' Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea.
The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others.
Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely?
And what will happen to all the poor Chinese workers travelling home down in
the ship's hold?
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Dominoes Three The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
Text adaptation by Merinda Wilson
The Moonstone is a beautiful yellow diamond that was stolen from the statue of a Moon god in India. When Franklin Blake brings it to Rachel Verinder's house in Yorkshire for her birthday, it brings bad luck with it.
How many people will the Moonstone hurt? How many must die before the diamond's revenge is complete?
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Dominoes Three Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Text adaptation by Clare West
'Why shouldn't we offer to take care of her? She could live with us at Mansfield.'
In this way Mrs Norris persuades her sister, Lady Bertram, and Lady Bertram's husband, Sir Thomas, to ask their poor niece Fanny Price to live with them at Mansfield Park.
At first Fanny is unhappy there. Then, after she makes friends with her young cousins, things improve. But what happens when the cousins are older, and starting to think of love?
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Dominoes Starter The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are far away from home, alone on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. They want to return to Milan...
Then, one day, Prospero sees a ship near the island carrying his greatest enemies. Prospero, with the help of his magic and the island spirit, Ariel, makes a magic storm - a tempest - to bring them to the island.
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Dominoes Starter The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
The Happy Prince is a beautiful golden statue high up on a column in the city. Everyone loves him.
He feels sad about the city's poor people, but what can he do? He can't leave his column. Then the swallow arrives, and helps the Happy Prince to do many good things.
But what about the swallow's dream of flying to Egypt? And what does the Mayor do when the Happy Prince loses all his gold?
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Dominoes One Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Text adaptation by Alistair McCallum
A dark, rainy day in Scotland, long ago. Returning from battle, Macbeth and his friend Banquo meet three witches. 'Macbeth, the king!' they say, but Macbeth is not a king, he is just a simple soldier.
Macbeth and Banquo cannot forget the witches' words. Soon Macbeth is king, but his wife walks in her sleep at night, and dreams of blood. What lies in the future for Banquo? And how many people must die before Scotland finds peace once more?
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Dominoes Two The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Text adaptation by Christine Lindop
A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger - or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?
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Dominoes One Five Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
The year is 1386 and the first flowers of spring are here. A number of pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they all tell stories on the way.
Who should be the stronger in a marriage - the husband or the wife? And what happens when two men fall in love with the same woman? In these five stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find different answers to these questions from the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the
Clerk of
Oxford, the Merchant, and the Franklin.
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Dominoes Starter Tristan and Isolde
Retold by Bill Bowler
Tristan and Isolde are in love, but Isolde must marry King Mark. So a happy love story seems impossible...
The lovers meet every day but then, one night, King Mark finds them together. Now Tristan must leave the castle, but he is badly hurt and dying. Only Isolde can help him.
Can Isolde find Tristan in time? Can their love survive?
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Dominoes One Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.'
One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.
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