Synopsis: In 1875, a row of tiny cottages stands by the tracks of the newly built York-Doncaster railway… Railwayman Tom Swales, with his wife and five daughters, takes the end cottage. With no room to spare in the loving Swales household, the eldest daughter Mary accepts a position as housemaid to the nearby stationmaster. There she battles the daily grime from the passing train ...

Synopsis: Pre-Revolutionary Boston is a city on the edge of eruption, in which a class of landed merchants rail against tyranny while their slaves serve them coffee. In a house in this city a philosophical society, whose members eschew the use of names in favour of a system of numbers, are sheltering an African princess and treating her son to a classical education while monitoring every ...

Synopsis: As the Allied forces occupy Japan at the end of World War II, an intense love affair develops between Australian Allen “Spin” Bowler, an interpreter in the British army, and Momoko, a woman whose calmness and dignity veil the tiredness and defeat she has suffered. In the quiet sanctuary of Momoko’s room, Spin gradually sheds his shy bookish self and their love ...

Synopsis:Unfolding through the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl, The Moth Diaries is a compellingly brilliant portrait of obsession and fear set in the hothouse atmosphere of a girls' boarding school. It is a world of too many books and too little reality, where ideas become passions and passions obsessions. The unnamed narrator believes with increasing certainty that a schoolmate ...

Synopsis:  Death narrates the story of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old girl living with a foster family in Nazi Germany. This is her story, the story of her family and Max, the Jewish man who they hide in their basement, the other inhabitants of the street in which they live and of the books that Liesel steals to satisfy her cravings for words.

Review: Death narrates ...

Synopsis: It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a myster ...

Synopsis: Simon’s long-term girlfriend had just expressed her desire to begin a physical relationship with him and he really did seem to be the lucky one until his life was turned upside down after an accident during a school rugby match leaves him paralysed. His best friend, Danny, however, is unhappy and troubled at school. Still, several months of close proximity with Emma, Sim ...

Synopsis: Titus is just an average kid in the greenhouse-shrouded suburbs. He and his friends go clubbing on the moon and chat each other through the feed; an implant that permanently links their brains to all the wonders of the internet. If anything really cool happens to them, they send each other the memories as an email attachment.

Then Titus meets Violet, a girl who sees some ...

Synopsis: Tally has finally become 'pretty'. Her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are cool, her boyfriend's gorgeous, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun - the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom - is a nagging feeling that something's wrong.

Review:The second part of ...

Synopsis: It’s Christmas, and home in London the girls are excited about glamorous balls and the possibility of new romances; yet there are other more important areas that must be dealt with before the partying continues. Having accepted her supernatural powers, Gemma enlists the help of her firm friends Felicity and Ann to help restore order in the realms. Yet will they defeat th ...