Adam’s sister is missing. She is on a trip round the world with a friend. Arriving in Tokyo she has been working in a bar – but now there is no news of her, - and even worse, no trace. Furious and upset by what he sees inaction on the part of his parents and the police, Adam uses his father’s credit card to buy a ticket to Tokyo. He will find Charlie himself. Or will he?
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Graham Marks has certainly written an original novel – if it can be called that. The remarkable thing about Radio Radio is that it is written in a screenplay format. The fast pace, the emphasis on dialogue and the use of stage directions is likely to appeal to young readers. Marks seems to be acknowledging the way minds shaped by film, TV, comics and computer ga ...

Working on his 'A' level photography project, Greg's interest in the history of a ruined mansion becomes more personal as he slowly unearths the fate of its last inhabitants at the time of World War I, and the links with his own life.

Linda Newbery has written a most unusual novel which considers, in depth but with great sensitivity, some challenging questions about the deve ...

Hilly’s grandmother Heidigran was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany in the past, and in the present, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, she is displaced from her own home to her daughter’s.

The story cleverly alternates between the points of view of Hilly, who like Jane Eyre regards herself as plain and proper but passionate, and of Heidigran, whose denial of her Jew ...

Orwell’s 1984 is 2007. Except ‘Big Brother’ is a reality television show. Public apathy is complicit in a ‘surveillance society’ watched by a State that is fractured, dysfunctional and paranoid. Omega Place is a place of sanctuary hidden from the cameras’ gaze. It is also the point of resistance for the few. Tuesday 25th July, Gosforth, Newcastle Up ...

"She was falling in love. Not happily and compliantly, but in a seriously uncontrolled, dangerous and totally hopeless way. Like a Hurricane crashing."

Josie is in her final term of school when news comes of the evacuation of British Troops from Dunkirk. Until then the war hadn't seemed like something that could directly affect her life. But now the papers are ful ...

Synopsis: “Aeons ago, winged dragons spread terror across the Chinese empire. Their descendants, magnificent horses bred and ridden by the wild horsemen, are known as ‘dragon horses’. Now an ancient evil is stirring – and two brothers, Rokshan and An Lushan, are about to be drawn into the coming battle. Rokshan must travel to the Valleys of the Horsemen – and ...

Synopsis: This twisted love story is told through the eyes of a nameless young narrator who is close to being kicked out of his third boarding school in a row. One day, he discovers a fisherman's hut on the edge of the sea and falls in love with Finn, the boy who lives there.

Review: Described as "a modern Catcher in the Rye", this novel is a beautifully writ ...

Synopsis: Skin Hunger is a traditional fantasy novel set in a world where magic is real but has been outlawed, so the understanding of it has died out. The only ‘magicians’ left are fakes and charlatans who prey on the poor, weak and needy. Sadima’s mother dies in childbirth at the hands of one of these magicians and so Sadima’s father is deeply mistrustful of an ...

Synopsis: "At the sweet age of nine, I saw my coastline commit murder." Andy grows up haunted by the memory of a terrible event, but his passion for daffodils, and the influence of Angie, the gorgeous girl in the year above, help him to overcome the ghosts of the past. A moving novel that explores both the beauty and bleakness of life and the effect the past can have on shapin ...