In the depth of a never-ending Victorian winter, Helly's grandfather draws on unnatural means to make his glass-plate photographs move and come to life – foolishly enabling a story-book winter queen to step fully formed into our world.Helly has her own problems, too, when a twin version of her takes her place.And now her only friend and ally against the queen is a goose…

The land was dying. Crops withered. Animals starved. Worst of all, people were magically transformed into stone. And despite Mara's back-breaking toil, the hard-baked soil of her parents' farm only gave up the aged artefacts of an ancient villa that once stood here. Her parents tell her to throw away an alabaster jar she finds; but then a woman appears, whispering 'Awaken me – to awaken the land…'

The Heart of the Great Deer Anam, the heartbeat of the world, is faltering, dying.The elk are leaving, and Odhna's tribe faces starvation.As the apprentice of the shamaness Chli, she and her spirit guide Druien, a tiny wren, set out to discover why the Deer Mother has deserted them.Yet Chli vanished on a similar journey: how can Odhna hope to succeed where her teacher perilously failed?

'Oh, she's gone – the fairy, for the top of our tree, I mean!'Left by their parents to finish off trimming their Christmas Tree, Jess and Max suddenly realise their favourite decoration isn't amongst all the others brought down from the loft.'We could go up there and have a look?' Jess suggests hopefully.At last, they find their fairy – a fairy who's weeping, and wants to fly away.

How does the Winter Queen make jewels of water, and delicately pattern windows with her silvery threads?Ame's father goes off in search of the secret – and then her mother follows too when he fails to return.Apprenticed to Mistress Orfan, it seems Ame hasn't inherited her parents' jewellery skills.Until, one day, she begins to create jewellery that makes any wearer young and beautiful…

Birthed from a coming together of ice and snow, Eira was never meant to be: she was nothing but an afterthought, unintendedly formed when magicians created a girl from summer flowers to be their king's queen. It was a deadly mistake – for like a cruel winter, Eira feels nothing as she kills anyone preventing her from reaching Queen Blodeuwedd.

Worked unjustly hard by her people, Wen constantly longs to sleep: for in her dreams, a horse that flies like the wind carries her off to far kinder lands.Then one morning, while she sleeps in, the horse casually trots into her village…

Leave a lock of hair with the dressmaker and she'll produce a doll, a perfect miniature of you, wearing a copy of the dress that will make you look like a queen.Servants like Ele, however, can only dream of such dresses.Then one morning Ele wakes to find by her side a doll that looks just like her.Only it's wearing a copy of the red-leather dress worn by the dressmaker's daughter…

Anna Burke is far too young to be a grave robber: and so when she finds a magic ring briefly bringing the dead back to life, she offers them the chance to write letters to those they've left behind. It's a thriving business – until the day a girl not much older than Anna determinedly refuses to go back into her grave.

Each time Queen Rhiannwn bears a child, it's stolen away by an elusive beast.Is it because the king once spent a year ruling the No World? Or because Rhiannwn herself is from there?It's only when she rides out alone into the wilds that a son is safely delivered.A son who ages three years each day.A son who's also stolen away.Rhiannwn is determined to rescue him; despite knowing who's responsible.

The Sprig o' Thyme no longer hunts whales.The captain's enlisted his first girl, me, because he finds my singing enchanting.It seems it's perfect for luring a new prey.Mermaids.

We were the other twelve; the women who followed the Teacher.He called on my mother, a Samaritan, to quench her thirst with the waters of life.And so my sisters went with him too.Is he who he says he is?I have yet to be persuaded.He promises many things; promises I find hard to believe anyone could keep.Now he seems to be telling us he will soon die – so why are we still following him?