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...

Carlo Collodi The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children’s tales of all time.Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which...

2004 Alligator Books Ltd

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...

Susanna Clarke   Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of...

Ruth RendellThe long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are shelves in every room, packed with titles which Ambrose Ribbon has...

Stephen Coonts A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship...