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
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
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
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