Rather like La Fontaine's King Log and good on consequences: the Sea loves reading aloud to her fish children but they are just too noisy and she goes away. A cat comes along and offers to r... read more
Another lovely mouse-meets-science book, following on from Lindbergh, Edison and Armstrong. This time a mouse misses the world's biggest cheese festival and turns back time - but by eighty y... read more
Utterly Dark is the name of a girl washed up on the shores of the Autumn Isles as a baby, where her guardian is the Watcher. Reeve has a gift for well-imagined worlds, and this new book is t... read more
It's 1962, the Cuban missile crisis is in full swing but nothing, of course, is happening in World's End Close. Until a runaway girl is found in the coalshed... Exciting historical thriller ... read more
To be precise, a Greenland shark. These gnarled, prehistoric creatures can live over 500 years; this one lives under a girl's bed. With beautiful, sooty black and yellow illustrations. Ages ... read more
Myth and magic surround a girl brought up on an island - but who is she? Will she remember and be able to return whence she came? A third adventure for Aarti; the first two have been greatl... read more
The 5th and final book in Sutcliff's classic series about Roman Britain. Lovely clothbound edition. All five are available as a set - please enquire by email or telephone.
A novel about the loosely-organised, anti-Nazi youth movement in Germany that emerged in the 1930s in defiance of the Hitlerjugend. 16-year-old Daniel comes to discover their history through... read more
In an alternate 19th century where America is at war with France and magical Oddities are hunted across impoverished frontiers, the daughter of a murdered physician must protect the Oddity h... read more