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
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
From its source to the sea: its wildlife, geography, natural history, people and history. Good non-fcition, imaginatively illustrated and conceived, for ages 7-10.
DA's 'Diary of a Young Naturalist' won last year's Wainright Prize; he is extraordinarily young too - now just 17. Here he invites young readers on a practical exploration of the world aroun... read more
A wonderful and unusual book by a Uruguayan author, splendidly illustrated by an Argentinian. Dreamy tales of sleepy people - a man who curls up to nap inside an umbrella, another with a bod... read more
Three children on board ship, travelling from India to England, must unravel the identities of a body thrown overboard and the assassin. Gripping historical fiction for ages 8-12.
Another magnificent novel from McKay, which, like 'The Skylarks' War', is set in WW2. The lives of two German children and two English children become entwined, their lives up-ended by circ... read more
Maeve's astute tarot readings are the talk of the school, until her ex-best friend draws an unsettling card and disappears without trace... (YA themes).