Books with title A Pack of Lies/Large Print

Ailsa doesn't trust MCC Berkshire, the mysterious man helping out in her mother's antique shop. He tells wonderful stories about all the antiques, and his stories persuade the customers to buy the items he talks about, but everything he says is a pack of lies, isn't it? The story of Ailsa and MCC is interwoven with the stories MCC tells the customers, which range from romances to adventure stories; from crime dramas to pirate stories; from stories set in modern-day Ireland to stories set in ancient China.

When M.C.C. Berkshire comes into Ailsa and her mother's antiques shop, he turns their lives upside down. He moves in, sleeps on the old bed in the shop (for sale), and corners every potential customer with a specially made-up story about an item in the shop. At the end of each tale the customers are so entranced that they buy the item! Suddenly the shop is a success, with M.C.C. telling a pack of lies to suit every taste. There's a whodunnit, a spoof on Dracula, a Victorian fantasy, and nine other funny and fascinating stories. Soon Ailsa and her mother start wondering whether they should encourage M.C.C.'s lies, and without realizing it, Ailsa begins to fall in love with the magical stranger. But who is this amazing character? At the end of the book, we suddenly find out...or do we? GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN is the winner of the 1987 Whitbread Children's Novel Award for A Little Lower than the Angels, also published by Oxford.

Ailsa doesn't trust MCC Berkshire, the young man helping out in her mother's antique shop. He tells wonderful stories about all the antiques and dazzles the customers, but everything he says is a pack of lies, isn't it? Adventure, romance, comedy, mystery--MCC tells a tale to suit every taste. But what is his story? Where is he from and why does he tell these lies? The truth is the biggest surprise of all.

Ailsa doesn't trust MCC Berkshire, the mysterious man helping out in her mother's antique shop. He tells wonderful stories about all the antiques, and his stories persuade the customers to buy the items he talks about, but everything he says is a pack of lies, isn't it? The story of Ailsa and MCC is interwoven with the stories MCC tells the customers, which range from romances to adventure stories; from crime dramas to pirate stories; from stories set in modern-day Ireland to stories set in ancient China.

When the mysterious man calling himself "MCC Berkshire" arrives at their antique shop, Ailsa and her mother are baffled by the amazing stories he can tell about every item in the shop. As he tells story after story and makes sale after sale for them, even suspicious Ailsa finds herself drawninto his wonderfully exciting world of magic and mystery. The more MCC tells her, the more she finds herself wondering if fact really is stranger than fiction-or whether it's all one big pack of lies...