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...

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...

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....

'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...

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 ...

Ein Sommerroman voller Gefühl, Emotion und Zartheit – mit der Kraft eines Orkans»Alle reden von der großen Liebe, als wäre es die wunderbarste, lebensveränderndste Sache der Welt. Irgendetwas passiert, heißt es, und du spürst es sofort. Genau so war es, als ich Kit Godden traf. Ich schaute ihm in die Augen und spürte es sofort. Das Dumme war nur, dass alle anderen es auch spürten. Allen anderen ging es wie mir.«ALMA-Preisträgerin Meg Rosoff erzählt ...

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...

Die etwas andere Hundegeschichte – wer erzieht hier eigentlich wen?Endlich Sommerferien! Doch Familie Peachey kann sich nicht auf ein Urlaubsziel einigen. Betty will am liebsten zelten gehen, aber Papa Peachey ist überzeugt, dass in der Wildnis schreckliche Gefahren lauern. Ollie interessiert nur, ob es eine Disko gibt, und Ava hat ihre Nase tief in Philosophiebücher gesteckt. Das kann ja heiter werden … Zum Glück ist da noch Mister Tavish, der ungewöhnlichste Hund, den es je gab. E...

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.

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] comic masterpiece.” —People magazine’s “Book of the Week”“A charming comedy on love, friendship, and the surprising influence of man’s best friend.” —Harper’s BazaarNational Book Award finalist and bestselling author Meg Rosoff's charming, hilarious new novel about a young New Yorker’s search for happiness and the two dogs who help him find it—the perfect summer read**Jonathan Trefoil’s boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling, and his ap...