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No.13
El fantasma del número 13
24/4/85. GHOST WHO HAS COME TO STAY IN THE HOUSE FOR A HOLIDAY AND HE AND HAMLET BECOME REAL FRIENDS. SUDDENLY HAMLET FINDS HE HAS A UNIQUE AND EXCITING IDEA FOR HIS PROJECT] THIS IS A HILARIOUS STORY.
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First published January 29, 1985
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Gyles Brandreth
467 books415 followersFull name: Gyles Daubeney Brandreth.
A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreth’s career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London’s West End. A prolific broadcaster (in programmes ranging from Just a Minute to Have I Got News for You), an acclaimed interviewer (principally for the Sunday Telegraph), a novelist, children’s author and biographer, his best-selling diary, Breaking the Code, was described as ‘By far the best political diary of recent years, far more perceptive and revealing than Alan Clark’s’ (The Times) and ‘Searingly honest, wildly indiscreet, and incredibly funny’ (Daily Mail). He is the author of two acclaimed royal biographies: Philip Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage and Charles Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair. In 2007/2008, John Murray in the UK and Simon & Schuster in the US began publishing The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries, his series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective.
As a performer, Gyles Brandreth has been seen most recently in ZIPP! ONE HUNDRED MUSICALS FOR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF ONE at the Duchess Theatre and on tour throughout the UK, and as Malvolio and the Sea Captain in TWELFTH NIGHT THE MUSICAL at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Gyles Brandreth is one of Britain’s busiest after-dinner speakers and award ceremony hosts. He has won awards himself, and been nominated for awards, as a public speaker, novelist, children’s writer, broadcaster (Sony), political diarist (Channel Four), journalist (British Press Awards), theatre producer (Olivier), and businessman (British Tourist Authority Come to Britain Trophy).
He is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown, with whom he co-curated the exhibition of twentieth century children’s authors at the National Portrait Gallery and founded the award-winning Teddy Bear Museum now based at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. He is a trustee of the British Forces Foundation, and a former chairman and now vice-president of the National Playing Fields Association.
Gyles Brandreth’s forebears include George R. Sims (the highest-paid journalist of his day, who wrote the ballad Christmas Day in the Workhouse) and Jeremiah Brandreth (the last man in England to be beheaded for treason). His great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Brandreth, promoted ‘Brandreth’s Pills’ (a medicine that cured everything!) and was a pioneer of modern advertising and a New York state senator. Today, Gyles Brandreth has family living in New York, Maryland, South Carolina and California. He has been London correspondent for “Up to the Minute” on CBS News and his books published in the United States include the New York Times best-seller, The Joy of Lex and, most recently, Philip Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage.
A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreth’s career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London’s West End. A prolific broadcaster (in programmes ranging from Just a Minute to Have I Got News for You), an acclaimed interviewer (principally for the Sunday Telegraph), a novelist, children’s author and biographer, his best-selling diary, Breaking the Code, was described as ‘By far the best political diary of recent years, far more perceptive and revealing than Alan Clark’s’ (The Times) and ‘Searingly honest, wildly indiscreet, and incredibly funny’ (Daily Mail). He is the author of two acclaimed royal biographies: Philip Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage and Charles Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair. In 2007/2008, John Murray in the UK and Simon & Schuster in the US began publishing The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries, his series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective.
As a performer, Gyles Brandreth has been seen most recently in ZIPP! ONE HUNDRED MUSICALS FOR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF ONE at the Duchess Theatre and on tour throughout the UK, and as Malvolio and the Sea Captain in TWELFTH NIGHT THE MUSICAL at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Gyles Brandreth is one of Britain’s busiest after-dinner speakers and award ceremony hosts. He has won awards himself, and been nominated for awards, as a public speaker, novelist, children’s writer, broadcaster (Sony), political diarist (Channel Four), journalist (British Press Awards), theatre producer (Olivier), and businessman (British Tourist Authority Come to Britain Trophy).
He is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown, with whom he co-curated the exhibition of twentieth century children’s authors at the National Portrait Gallery and founded the award-winning Teddy Bear Museum now based at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. He is a trustee of the British Forces Foundation, and a former chairman and now vice-president of the National Playing Fields Association.
Gyles Brandreth’s forebears include George R. Sims (the highest-paid journalist of his day, who wrote the ballad Christmas Day in the Workhouse) and Jeremiah Brandreth (the last man in England to be beheaded for treason). His great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Brandreth, promoted ‘Brandreth’s Pills’ (a medicine that cured everything!) and was a pioneer of modern advertising and a New York state senator. Today, Gyles Brandreth has family living in New York, Maryland, South Carolina and California. He has been London correspondent for “Up to the Minute” on CBS News and his books published in the United States include the New York Times best-seller, The Joy of Lex and, most recently, Philip Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage.
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August 31, 2022
•O lecturică drăguţică.
•În carte este vorba despre o familie care are 2 copii. Tatăl actor şi mama dublător de reclame. Cei doi pătinţii se pot mândri cu cei doi copii, dar în special cu Susan care este copilul perfect. După un mic dejun nereuşit, tatăl şi cei doi copii pleacă într-un parc de distracţii. Copii se duc într-o casă a groazei unde Hamlet rămâne fascinat de ceea ce vede, în timp ce sora lui nu mai poate de frică. Copiii au de făcut un proiect pe vacanţă iar Susan în face despre "corpul uman". Hamlet descoperă în camera sa o fantomă, unde ce dou se împrietensc şi fantoma îl ajută pe băiat cu proiectul, proiectul său fiind lăudat în toată şcoala.
•Sinceră să fiu, stereotipurile celor doi copii mă reprezintă pe mine şi pe fratimiu, numai că eu sunt Susan(nu pot spune despre el că este Hamlet, dar e o Susan mai delăsătoare)la şcoală dar un Hamlet când vine vorba de chestii paranormale, fratimiu fiind însă înspăimântat de această lume.
•În carte este vorba despre o familie care are 2 copii. Tatăl actor şi mama dublător de reclame. Cei doi pătinţii se pot mândri cu cei doi copii, dar în special cu Susan care este copilul perfect. După un mic dejun nereuşit, tatăl şi cei doi copii pleacă într-un parc de distracţii. Copii se duc într-o casă a groazei unde Hamlet rămâne fascinat de ceea ce vede, în timp ce sora lui nu mai poate de frică. Copiii au de făcut un proiect pe vacanţă iar Susan în face despre "corpul uman". Hamlet descoperă în camera sa o fantomă, unde ce dou se împrietensc şi fantoma îl ajută pe băiat cu proiectul, proiectul său fiind lăudat în toată şcoala.
•Sinceră să fiu, stereotipurile celor doi copii mă reprezintă pe mine şi pe fratimiu, numai că eu sunt Susan(nu pot spune despre el că este Hamlet, dar e o Susan mai delăsătoare)la şcoală dar un Hamlet când vine vorba de chestii paranormale, fratimiu fiind însă înspăimântat de această lume.
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January 2, 2023
Tierno, divertido, entretenido.
Una lectura infantil que te lleva al mundo de la importancia de la amistad y la relación con la familia.
Una lectura infantil que te lleva al mundo de la importancia de la amistad y la relación con la familia.
January 2, 2016
Oh my goodness - I just rather remembered this book the other day; 'twas my brother's, I believe, but either way I read it a couple of times and rather loved it. Something about it always struck me as kind of sad, perhaps due to the conclusion (his family never got to find out or believe in the ghost, did they?), but I really did enjoy it.
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August 11, 2011Read to Jack. He liked it.
April 18, 2014
It was good for a child's story, just like all puffin books are.
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