Books

Welcome to my world. It's weird but kind of wonderful. For once, Ally's looking forward to school - well, the last week of it anyway. There's a fun...

August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up ...

Michael travels to Scilly for his Great Aunt Laura's funeral and inherits her diary, which reveals the moving story of her childhood, the great sto...

It's just a regular trip for Kevin, and he comes back with just the regular sorts of things. Some local fudge, a scented candle for his mum . . . a...

“My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a geek.” Harriet knows that modelling won’t transform you. She knows that being as uniquely odd as a p...

When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joan's doorstep unable to say much except "I was a rat", the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob...

Orphan Henry's stingy Aunt Agatha likes her boarders short, to fit in the tiny attic space she rents out, and small, so they won't eat more than tw...

Koldo the arctic warrior has been cruelly imprisoned . Tom sets about freezing the good beast , but the shoking arrival of freya , mistresss of the...

'Music teacher? What music teacher?' The sudden arrival of a new music teacher throws St barty's School into confusion. Mysterious smells start co...

In the maze-like dungeons of Castle Grotteskew, the frightfully insane Professor Erasmus conducts his bizarre experiments on living things. His ver...

Mildred's good intentions in the second year are upset when she finds that Miss Hardbroom is to be her form teacher again. She clashes once again w...

Charlie doesn't want to believe it. He can hear people in photographs talking. What's happening to him? his horrible aunts are delighted with his n...

After a serious accident involving a gorse bush, Eddie Dickens finds himself being cared for by monks of the Bertian order, founded by Ethelbert th...

January 1916. Henry Yewbeam's cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. ...

A boy and his eccentric grandparents live near a strange wood, apparently cursed. He longs for a dog - but the dirty ungainly farm creature finally...

Time seemed to collapse.... There was a sharp stabbing sensation in my stomach.... Steve crowed, "Now I have you! Now you're gonna die!" Dead if he...

Muncle Trogg, a young giant, is laughed at for being so small that he's human-sized. Muncle often wonders about the humans he's meant to look like ...

Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan -- Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, faces certain death. Can Darren revers...

Three of Jean Ure’s best-loved stories in a bumper 3-in-1 edition – SKINNY MELON AND ME, BECKY BANANAS and FRUIT AND NUTCASE. The perfect summer re...

The music galloped along, and any second, I would have to start singing. But the lights were too bright and the crowd was too big. Ash is in year...

Boys are weird things...and just lately, the boys in my life have been acting even MORE weird. Take Billy, for example. He's been behaving like a t...

Harriet has a touch life. She is moved from town to town and school to school. She learns to be "wonderfully wicked" so that she can survive in her...