Simon Dawson From the jacket: Aged just 32, Simon Dawson took a risk. He sold his London flat and moved his wife and Great Dane to a cottage in Devon....

Barbara Kingsolver Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover...

Antoinette May A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of...

Taylor Branch From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental...

Cecelia Holland From deep in the mists of time, Cecelia Holland has drawn forth this tale of life on the Salisbury Plain, among the Stone Age Britons who built Stonehenge....

Freya North What keeps you up all night?They were high-school sweethearts who hadn't seen each other for seventeen years. And suddenly they're in front of each other - in a...

Roger McGoughWouldn't it be funny if you didn't have a nose? The brilliant and clever Roger McGough asks this and other important questions in this marvellous collection. He also tells...

Vincent Douglas"You are the finest toy I have ever made. I will call you Pinocchio." Geppetto is delighted when his puppet comes to life. Yet no matter how hard Pinocchio...

Kimberly illis Holt It’s not easy being the middle child, especially when your dad is a Navy Chief. Meet Piper Reed, a spunky nine-year-old who has moved more times than...

Astrid Lindgren Originally published 1945

Astrid Lindgren "Who will challenge Mighty Adolph, the World's Strongest Man, in a wrestling match?" cries the ringmaster.Who else but Pippi? She lifts him high in the air and carries...

Diana Rosie A powerful story, sweetly told' Antonio Iturbe, author of The Librarian of AuschwitzA country torn apart by war. Two siblings divided by fate.Italy, 1938. Mussolini is in power...