Conn Iggulden - TOLLINS II - DYNAMITE TALES

The lorry had stopped at the new Memorial Hall, its brakes squealing. Sparkler watched in fascination as a man smoking a pipe began to unload wooden boxes. It was too interesting to resist and Sparkler waited until the man went inside before nipping across and peering into a box. Books! Human books wrapped in twine! He had never seen so many before. In fact, he hadn’t known there were so many books in the world.

He and Wolfie were back across the road in the long grass before the man returned to finish unloading. There were now old ladies in the hall. Sparkler could see them through the window. He couldn’t see their legs, which gave them the look of ships drifting back and forth. He wondered if they had been in the boxes, with the books. In all honesty, that didn’t seem likely, but he was too excited to think straight.

Sparkler had avoided human books almost completely since the time he’d cured the High Tollin’s gout, but they still called to him. He’d seen them lurking on shelves in human houses, sometimes covered in dust and unloved. He’d wanted to take them home and show them affection and respect until their covers were bright and glossy again.

Now he knew where the humans kept their secret store.

All right, not very secret. The man with the pipe and boxes was hardly creeping about and it was broad daylight, but a room full of books? That was something new. Sparkler knew he had to tell someone. A secret that good can give you indigestion.

CHAPTER TWO - TEAM GRUNION CHAPTER THREE - YOU CAN’T GO WRONG WITH A SWORDFIGHT CHAPTER FOUR - YOU CAN’T DO IT WITHOUT A BALCONY CHAPTER FIVE - MAGIC AND FALSE TEETH CHAPTER SIX - APPARENTLY, THE SHOW MUST GO ON BOOK TWO - RADIO CHAPTER ONE - THE AUTUMN OF 1924 CHAPTER TWO - WHEN SLIPPERS ARE NOT THE RIGHT CHOICE CHAPTER THREE - MAKING WAVES CHAPTER FOUR - THE PROBLEM WITH HEDGEROWS CHAPTER FIVE - THE PROBLEM WITH A HAIR TRIGGER CHAPTER SIX - WHY HANNIBAL CHOSE ELEPHANTS BOOK THREE - BONES CHAPTER ONE - THE WINTER OF 1924 CHAPTER TWO - WOLFENSTEIN PROVES HIS WORTH CHAPTER THREE - WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE CHAPTER FOUR - THE IMPORTANCE OF HOT TEA AND TOAST CHAPTER FIVE - A TIME TO BREAK THE RULES CHAPTER SIX - WAITING IN THE DARKNESS Credits Copyright About the Publisher

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