Gabry lives a quiet life, secure in her town next to the sea and behind the Barrier. She’s content to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But life after the Return is never safe and there are threats even the Barrier can’t hold back. One night beyond the Barrier…One reckless moment, and half of Gabry’s ge ...

Whether it’s a curse or a blessing the fact remains: whenever Roger is in enough pain he can cross over to the Land of the Dead and speak to the people there. It’s an unexpected gift – and when Roger’s curious abilities come to the Queen’s attention, everything changes forever.

Review: At the opening of the novel, Roger spends his time reluctantly in the comp ...

Lennie Walker’s sister Bailey died four weeks ago of a sudden fatal arrhythmia. Lennie is seventeen and, convulsed with grief, finds that her emotional trauma is leading her to having obsessive feelings about boys, two in particular. Whilst this wouldn’t otherwise be a problem, one of the boys concerned is her dead sister’s boyfriend. Toby is dealing with his own overwhelming ...

There is a city, rich in history. A city built on a spring and sacred to an ancient goddess. A place of healing. A place where a leper king was made whole. A place where an ambitious boy is apprenticed to a dreamer. A place where a girl hides from the past in the perfct surroundings of the King's Circus. A city called Bath.

Review: Catherine Fisher draws on the history and mythology ...

 Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annexe, her everyday thoughts and feelings about those she shares the annexe with including the Van Pels family. ‘Annexed’ however, is told from a new perspective, that of Peter Van Pels who sees it all very differently. He was forced into hiding very much against his will, hates Anne Frank vehemently but ...

Dreaming of Amelia is a ghost story set in a private school in Australia. It follows the fortunes of a pair of scholarship students over the course of their final year at high school.

The students of Ashbury High are rich, self-centred and very confident of their position in society. When the mysterious Amelia and Riley start at the school, with their past shrouded in secrecy, everyone i ...

Set in an alternate reality very close to our own, White Cat is narrated by Cassel, the youngest son in a family of curse-workers. Outlawed in modern society, curse-workers - those who have the power to make people love, forget, or even die simply through touching them - have been driven underground and into crime, forming Mafia-like families for protection. Cassel himself is an outcast from hi ...

A dark, gothic tale of romance... and murder. In the right dose, everything is a poison. Jessamine has spent her whole life in a cottage close to her father's apothecary garden, surrounded by medicinal plants and herbs that could kill her -- although her father has never allowed her into the most dangerous part of the grounds... the poison garden. And so she's never had reason to be afr ...

Alton is seventeen and still harbouring resentment over his best friend stealing his girlfriend. His family has an ageing, blind uncle who is not expected to live for long, and this uncle is a millionaire. Alton’s mother persuades him to take a job as ‘cardturner’ for his uncle at bridge games – something Alton is not enthusiastic about at all, but he reasons it’s ...

Violetta and Feste are in London, the year is 1601 and William Shakespeare is enjoying success at the Globe Theatre. But Violetta is not there to admire his plays; she is in England to retrieve her country’s greatest treasure, stolen by the evil Malvolio, and she needs help. In an adventure that stretches from the shores of Illyria to the Forest of Arden, romance and danger go hand in ha ...