SHORTLISTED for the Costa Children's Book Award 2020.This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer – the summer when everything changes. In a holiday house by the sea, in a big, messy family, one teenager watches as brothers and sisters, parents and older cousins fill hot days with wine and games and planning a wedding.Enter the Goddens – irresistible, charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there's a serpent in this paradise – an...

How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff, now a film tie-in edition to celebrate the release of the major film starring Saoirse Ronan.How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now has been adapted for the big screen by Kevin Macdonald.Fifteen-year-old Daisy think...

A rescue dog with a difference must save the Peachey family in this charming story for the young and the young at heart, filled to the brim with Meg Rosoff's wry humour and beautiful prose. The first in a series.The Peachey family is in crisis. No one cooks dinner, no one picks up the dirty washing and the kids are always late for school. All because Mum has resigned from being Mum and taken up yoga instead. She's in the tree pose; everyone else is in the doghouse....

Esta es la historia de una familia, de un verano de ensueño en el que todo cambia para siempre.En una casa soleada junto al mar, la familia vuelve a reunirse en el caos feliz de cada verano, dejando atrás la rutina urbana londinense. Una joven adolescente, la mayor de cuatro hermanos, se prepara para disfrutar los días calurosos, las cenas ruidosas y divertidas junto con Hope, su prima treintañera, y su inseparable novio Malcolm. La novedad es que la pareja anuncia que se casan al ...

Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him – only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. At least his two flatmates understand him – but they only speak dog.Poor Jonathan. The world wasn't this confusing back in the good old days before everyone expected him to act like a person. But one thing's for sure: if he can make it in New York City, he...

'This summer's must read' - The Times'An irresistible account of female friendship … Nobody describes the strength, pain and comedy of being young as elegantly and eloquently as Meg Rosoff' – Amanda Craig'A wonderful, captivating writer' – Daily Telegraph__________________From the incomparable Meg Rosoff, bestselling author of How I Live Now and The Gre...

Meg Rosoff reinventa el libro de viajes y el thriller en esta apasionante novela, una brillante historia sobre padres e hijos, sobre amor y pérdida.Mila, de doce años, tiene una intuición especial para percibir los sentimientos y los secretos de los demás, para observar pequeños detalles que otros pasan por alto. Cuando su padre Gil se entera de que su mejor amigo Matthew ha desaparecido en Nueva York, emprenden juntos un viaje desde Londres para encontrarlo.Gil y Mila reco...

Une famille dans une maison à quelques mètres de la plage. Des vacances joyeuses et insouciantes… jusqu’à l’arrivée de Kit Godden. Ce garçon, c’est le parfait amour d’été : il est beau, drôle, magnétique. Mais ceux qui s'approchent du lumineux Kit Godden sont condamnés à s'y brûler les ailes. Et tous ou presque, dans cette famille, seront irrésistiblement charmés.

What if Fate were out to get you? The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. He must hide, become an entirely new person to escape Fate . . . if he can.This stunning, thought-provoking and darkly comic novel for teenage readers was one of the most eagerly awaited books of 2006.

From award-winning author Meg Rosoff comes this clever, laugh-out-loud picture book about a family's surprising newest member--a moose!When he first arrives, everyone is expecting the usual kind of baby. But right away, his family notices there's something different about this one. Instead of two feet, he has four hooves. Instead of drinking milk, he eats twigs and weeds. Instead of a tiny human, they bring home a moose baby! With his long legs, silky ears, and stu...

Dat soort vrienden van Meg Rosoff (Hoe ik nu leef, De Godden broers) is een meeslepende YA-roman die zich afspeelt in een hete zomer vol mysterie, leugens, vriendschap, liefde en het onvermijdelijke verlies van onschuld. Zomer 1982. De achttienjarige Beth arriveert in New York, waar ze begint aan haar stage bij een grote krant. Een appartement vol kakkerlakken en een ongeïnteresseerde huisgenoot zijn niet haar grootste zorgen, want voor ze het weet raakt ze verstrikt in de levens van de an...

A glorious sequel to Good Dog McTavish, this endearing story is packed with Meg Rosoff’s quirky humour and astute eye for both the details of canine-human dynamics and the oddities of family life.It's summer and the Peachey family is in crisis – again. Youngest child Betty Peachey is trying to persuade the family to go to the Faraway Campsite of Ma Peachey's idyllic dreams. But most of the Peacheys are still resisting. Pa Peachey is convinced that terrible dangers ...