It`s springtime - hundreds of Crows set out on their yearly migration and converge at the Gathering Tree. This sacred Gathering is an opportunity for the six crow Clans of the Family Kinaar to assemble, to make...
I loved my native city, but how I longed to escape, to go to America - a land full of eligible Daria is an intelligent, bilingual secretary who should have her pick of the men in Odessa - except that the only men who...
Gordon is frustrated that Ted, the school bully, gets away with pushing people around - including Gordon! So when he spots an advertisement for Mr World`s muscle machine, he`s immediately curious and decides to send...
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy +D
You Can`t Catch Me and You Can`t Put Mustard in the Custard were first published twenty-five years ago and were groundbreaking in that they were full-colour illustrated new poems for children. You Can`t Catch Me won...
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time
In fin-de-siecle Copenhagen, part-time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies of dubious talent to tide them over the harsh winter of 1897. But the home of...
When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as `The Fat Controller` - a constant companion and confidant and also the obese,...
My Love Lies Bleeding (Drake Chronicles)
Solange has always known she is a vampire. And` as the only female vampire ever born, not initiated, she is surrounded by danger on all sides - from other vampire tribes who want to take her blood into their lineage,...
My Summer of Love (film tie-in)
It`s 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire`s seen. It`s the kind of woozy heat to lose your mind in. Mona is fifteen years old. She`s a drinker, a thief and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going...
Nanny Matilda Omnibus: Nanny Mcphee Film (tie-in)
Mr and Mrs Brown are always having great difficulty with their numerous and incredibly naughty children. They try all the agencies but the nurses, governesses and nannies never stay long with the Brown children. `The...
Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since she`s had a pretty rough life. Her father left when she was a baby, and her stepfather just died. Her mother`s...
We`re nearly done with high school - forever! - but before we head off to the Ivy of our choice we`ve got plenty to keep us busy: В found S kissing N in the shower. Steamy! Even В can see that S and N would make the...
When Kate first sees Jarrod she senses that he is special and that like her, he has magical powers. But she also knows he is completely unaware of his gift and will be difficult to persuade. Kate`s grandmother...
One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, a young climatologist called Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, mobile phone -...
Out for Blood (Drake Chronicles)
Hunter Wild, vampire hunter and star pupil at a top secret slayer academy, has a crush on a guy called Quinn. He's tall, dark and very handsome. He's also a vampire, and one of the infamous Drake brothers at...
What drives two young women from such different backgrounds to take to the perilous life of piracy? What has befallen Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe that makes this existence better than the one they left behind?...
The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In "The Quantity Theory of Insanity" we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead...
Did you know that: there are 700 ways of committing a foul in Quidditch? The game first began to evolve on Queerditch Marsh? What Bumphing is? That Puddlemere United is oldest team in the Britain and Ireland league?...
In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall -...
