Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for WritingSummer 1940. As the cuckoo sings out across the Lake District, life is about to change for ever for local boy Tommy and his friend Sally, the mysterious evacuee girl who lives on the neighbouring farm. When they find a wounded Nazi airman in the woods, Sally persuades Tommy not to report it but to keep the German hidden. This starts a chain of events that leads to the uncovering of secrets about Sally’s past and a summer ...

Mulumbe’s village is plagued by marauders, and then an elephant eats the last of her family’s crop. She determines to save her family, and embarks on an adventure fraught with danger: travelling to the famed City of Gold to be reunited with her brother,Tom, and save her family by earning some money. Grandmother tells her many riddles and it is these life lessons that carry her through the obstacles and dangers she encounters…

Mr McCool is a polar bear on a mission: to escape the zoo and travel back to his true home - the North Pole. With a human boy and a furry side-kick for company, Mr McCool sets sail. But the waters hold secrets, and hidden dangers...Will they ever reach the dancing lights of the northern sky?

Glimpses of Eden is a seasonally-arranged collection of the very best of novelist Jonathan Tulloch’s acclaimed nature column, which has run in The Tablet for more than ten years. In ninety-six evocative daily records of his explorations of the land, mostly within an hour’s bike ride from his North Yorkshire home, Tulloch captures snapshots of the wonders of the natural world. Here are eternal stories of resilience and beauty, hope and death, survival and renewal, a tapestry of miraculous c...

Arriving in 1950s Hull, Arthur Merryweather finds himself lodging with the landlady from hell, and falling in love with fellow librarian Niamh O'Leary. But just as their love threatens to bloom, the mystery of Mr Bleaney, the enigmatic insurance salesman who rented his room before him, threatens to pull the poet into disaster and cast him into the criminal hinterland of 'fish town', that sublimely banal Larkinland 'beached on the mudflats at the end of the railway line, like a brick seal w...

Antony Gormley's angel looked down on the lads. "She'll see us through, she'll help us. The guardian angel of fucking toe rags."Two lads. One mission. Belter.Sewell and Gerry live in Gateshead. Theirs seems the perfect partnership. Sewell is physically strong, Gerry is small but crafty. Neither has attended school for a long time. Both are broke, and both love one thing, Newcastle United.An exciting adaptation featuring puppetry, live music and a purely bel...

Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best' as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Possibly the definitive fictional account of the experiences of the Empire Windrush generation, it was selected by the BBC as one of its '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'.'A great read... honest, skilful, thoughtful and important' Guardian

An intriguing, poignant and heart-warming novel about a secret that will change everythingAddie thinks she knows everything about her mother.But when a stranger appears, claiming to be Addie's sister, she realises that her life so far has been based on a lie . . .'A compelling family story . . . Beautifully written' Sheila O'Flanagan'Intriguing, twisting . . . I loved it' Dinah Jef...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Clever and compelling. You'll love The Child' Clare Mackintosh, author of LET ME LIEWhen a paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers barely give it a glance. But for three strangers it's impossible to ignore.For one woman, it's a reminder of the worst thing that ever...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.'In a class by himself-the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiet...

IT'S TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC.Fifty years ago, Linda Palmer alleges she was attacked by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton. The crime has never been investigated - until now.With Alan Banks on the case, he leaves DI Annie Cabbot to investigate another crime: the body of a 15-year-old found in a remote countryside lane.But as each officer steps closer to uncovering the truth of their cases, they'll unearth secrets much darker than they ever could have ...

THE FINAL ACT.On a beautiful day in the Yorkshire Dales, a man's body is found hanging from a tree. Everything points to suicide ... but why would such a well-liked and successful man want to take his own life?When DI Annie Cabbot's investigation leads to another shattering discovery, DCI Alan Banks is called in. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is as it seems and murder is seen as a solution to a problem. But the deeper he...