Synopsis: Tales of the Frog Princess binds together the first three novels about Princess Esmerelda: The Frog Princess, Dragon's Breath and Once Upon a Curse. These stories are based on a witty retelling of a classic fairy story, with a twist.

Review: The Frog Princess introduces Princess Esmerelda, a feisty and unconventional member of the royal family. S ...

Synopsis: It is several months since Midge had her encounter with the Various and she is starting to question whether her summer adventure really happened. The Various remember her, however, and she is set a task by several of their leaders: to find and return the Orbis, given into the safekeeping of her great-great-aunt Celandine almost a century before. But how can she find the Orbis ...

Synopsis: Second in an adventure series about a teenage boy in 1682. The continuing adventure follows the tales of Rueben as he is plagued by an old enemy and overcomes prejudices to befriend a child with horrible birth defects.

Review: The Curse of the Ravens is a dark tale full of evil forces fighting against the forces of good. At times the odds seem against th ...

Synopsis: Told through notes left on the door of their kitchen fridge, reflecting the relationship between a single mother and her teenage daughter, and the way each reacts to the diagnosis that the mother has cancer.

Review: An original format for thought-provoking novel of the sometimes destructive pace of modern life. Claire is sixteen, and communicates with her single ...

Synopsis: Dylan and her friends have been haunted by the Drifter ever since Clarence was killed when they were in kindergarten. The memory of that event haunts the friends and binds them together. Now, ten years later, it seems the Drifter is back and the murders are edging closer to their mountain community.

Review ‘Don't read Sight at home ...

Synopsis: In Mary Finn’s excellent debut novel Anila, a young girl with a Bengali mother and an Irish father, lives in Calcutta during the late 1700s. Her response to an advert for an apprentice draughtsman takes her on a journey up the Ganges but also in search of her missing father, the memory of her dead mother and herself.

Review: The copy I received of ‘An ...

Synopsis: Bound by a vow made to her dying mother, Marianne sells her few belongings and leaves Grimsby for Denmark, to search for Lars Christensen, the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before.

Review: A debut novel with an unusual setting, and a universal theme. Although this is described as a historical novel, and many of the artists who peo ...

Synopsis: In her second adventure, Calma describes her life, mainly her relationship with her parents, her new boyfriend and her part-time work at the local supermarket. Her attempts to write, encouraged by her teacher, are interspersed through the story which Calma relates with honesty and irrepressible humour.

Review: Calma is a teenager and does all the teen things, fal ...

Synopsis: "It wasn't mine. I didn't drop it but the boy said I did. He stood there with the I-know-I'm-right look on his face. I was laughing about it on the outside, feeling like an idiot on the quiet. I had no idea something important just happened." Compelling, intriguing, revelatory - Jenny Valentine's new novel will reach out and grab you by the h ...

Synopsis: For Kirsten the world is crumbling. Her parents are barely speaking to one another and her best friend has come under the spell of the queen bee, Brianna. Only Kirsten’s younger science-geek sister is on her side. For Walker the goal is to survive the new private school his mother has sent him to to avoid him getting into trouble like his cousin. Two worlds collide in on ...