A cat’s life can be as simple or as complex as one makes it. This book is about all of the character traits of Posy, a wiry, striped kitten who plays and licks and scratches and snores. Every page captures Posy doing something new from hissing and purring to cuddling and wrecking board-games. The...
Greg’s casual interest in the history of a ruined mansion becomes more personal as he slowly discovers the tragic events that overwhelmed its last inhabitants. Set against a background of the modern day and the First World War, Greg’s contemporary beliefs become intertwined with those of Edmund, ...
When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across a place containing such secrets and lies. His two tutees are as different as can be--younger sister Marianne, full of flightiness and nervous imaginat...
Henry has always felt like an outsider and things are about to get worse when his family moves to the countryside and the prospect of a new school looms. He retreats more and more into his shell, until he meets Dottie, a frail old lady, who has tremendous spirit. He feels as though he knows her, ...
Flightsend ReviewCharlie was about to begin a whole new life when she and her mother moved into an old cottage called Flightsend. Her mother sees this as an opportunity to start fresh after all that has gone so tragically wrong. This young adult novel by Linda Newbery, expresses feelings of love ...
She had put on make-up; her face was pale, her eyes ringed in black, their lashes thick with mascara.“About time!” It was a bright, sunshiny day, and Andie was eager to be outside. “I didn’t realize you had to do the full works, just to look round a few shops.”“I s’pose you’re going just as you a...
I hung around in the High Street for a bit, but there were loads of kids from school there, older ones flirting with each other, calling names across the street or pretending to push each other in front of buses. I decided to walk, and headed off without knowing where to go. A bus to Wembley pull...
She kept glancing at her watch, as jittery as someone anticipating a first date.What could Jamie Spellman tell her that she didn’t already know, or that he hadn’t told the police twenty years ago? This would be nothing but a pointless ordeal. The obstinate part of her argued that there must be so...