Children/Young Adult
Odette’s Secrets
Based on real events and told in verse, Odette’s Secrets relates the story of a young Jewish girl living in…
Navigating Early
When his mother dies, Jack Baker, the son of a soldier in World War II, must go to live near…
A Touch of Scarlet
Emma Townsend’s second autumn at Lockwood Prep brings more than a change of seasons. Her boyfriend began training with an…
Queenie
It’s 1953, Coronation year. Elsie Kettle lives with her Nan – her unreliable mother is a chorus girl and rarely…
Walking into the Wild
After having their home raided by Tories and Indians, the Foot children and their mother retreat south to live with…
The Sweetest Dark
Lora Jones has always heard music that isn’t there and voices that don’t exist. She remembers nothing of her earliest…
The Morning Star
Katerina Alexandrovna is the most powerful necromancer in Russia, but she’d rather be studying medicine. Unfortunately, the tsar has banned…
The Positively Last Performance
The Theatre Royal, Seashaw, has been closed for two years and mould is wreaking havoc with the décor. Only ghosts…
S.O.S. Lusitania
1915. Thirteen-year-old Finbar Kennedy suffers from prophetic nightmares. His latest is of an explosion on a big ship, and he’s…
Dark Triumph
Sybella is a handmaiden to Saint Mortain, and she’s a skilled assassin who deals in death. Raised by the vile…
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