Marigold is my bright, beautiful mum. She's covered in tattoos, head to toe. I think she's the most magical mum in the world. I sometimes just wish she looked after us better.
Beaty's name sometimes feels like a curse - she's plain and timid and is teased at school. Home isn't much better - Beauty and her lovely mum live in fear of Dad's fierce rages. To cheer themselve…
Living in a run - down bed - and - breakfast hotel fiiled with other homeless families, ten - year - old Elsa wisecracks her away through the problems - all the while dreaming of the day when she w…
When Dad and Mum break up, Em does her best to cheer up her little brother and sister even though she's miserable too. She tells them exciting tales because she knows a good story can make life see…
Charlie (don't EVER call her Charlotte!) thinks History is BORING. That is, until she discovers a photo of a Victorian girl who becomes the inspiration for her creation, Lottie. Lottie is eleven, j…
Twins Viola and Sebastian become separated after a shipwreck in Illyria and soon confusion and mischief unfolds! Packed with funny mix-ups, mistaken identities and muddled love, this humorous tale …
In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst?
"... under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world..." Fired with a loved of learning, Jude Fawley yearns for scholarly self-improvement am…
Born as the heir to an Indian kingdom, Prince Siddhartha knows only happiness, luxury and love. Fearing the prophecy that the child will one day abandon his princely life, Siddharta's father builds…
Having been condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, the narrator descends into a kind of hell. Dizzy with weakness and fainting with fear, he experiences such torments that death itself woul…