A newly translated novel, written in 1954 but unpublished during the author’s lifetime; both a passionate depiction of the joys of shared intellectual curiosity and a fierce indictment of the social pressures exerted on young women.
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Atmospheric mystery story, inspired by real events surrounding the sudden and unexplained disappearance of three keepers from a remote lighthouse off the Cornish coast, told partly by the men, as they work on rotating shifts and partly by their wives, waiting for them a few miles away on shore.
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18 year-old Emmett, newly released from a work farm and ready for an epic road trip with his younger brother, finds his plans thwarted by a pair of stowaways who have a different destination in mind.
Powerful reworking of Andersen’s fairytale which weaves in the story of Annie Besant and the 1888 Matchgirls’ strike with drawings inspired by Victorian photographs.
Age guide: 7-9
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Lyrical celebration of Britain’s temperate rainforests which once covered ⅕ of the islands but are now surviving only along the wet west coasts.
Illustrated by Lauren O’Hara.
The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Coppelia and other favourites retold and illustrated with style in this enticing new collection.
Age guide: 6-9
From the sparse hard facts of the life of Lucrezia de’ Medici, daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany – married at fifteen, dead within a year amidst rumours of poison – O’Farrell weaves a narrative of intrigue, passion, paranoia, and beauty.
Highly entertaining novel about a writer, at a loss for a subject, who decides to write a novel about the first person he meets without understanding how his presence in their life changes them and also means he cannot control his characters.
