Philip and Shanya arrive from their different cultures to meet their scientist fathers in a desert camp. They have a clash of personalities within a clash of cultures, a clash…

With his parents away, 11-year-old Tom Scatterhorn is sent to live with his eccentric aunt and uncle, who own a mouldering museum full of stuffed animals. Tom learns about a…

…secrets of the family and the land girl who helps them. The wetness and cold of a fenland winter steals into every page of this exciting story, filled with the…

In his ‘Acknowledgements’ at the end of this strange fantasy Nick Lake disarmingly admits that it is ‘probably far too long’ and ‘definitely odd’. He is right on both counts….

There are 25 hours in a day – the extra hour is telescoped in at midnight when the world is frozen and no-one except the Midnighters remain mobile. When Jessica…

There are some outstanding passages in this novel recalling a rural way of life now long gone, even though the events described – the flooding of a farming valley in…