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Susan Ferrier sold more copies of her novels than her contemporary, Jane Austen. Sir Walter Scott declared her his equal. Why, then has she been lost to history? On the 200th anniversary of this sharply observed, comic novel, it is time to rediscover her...
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS TO HAVE EVER LIVED 'Endlessly surprising and inventive' FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE'My all-time favourite classic children's author' JACQUELINE WILSON 'She speaks to the reader, and it's almost as though you can hear her voice' QUENTIN BLAKE...
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY EMMA CARROLL'A touching, utterly convincing book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'What a deep, dark, deceptively simple, brilliant novel it is' EMMA CARROLL 'Poignant and realistic . . . Carrie's War captures the true reality of war for a child, and it doesn't...
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S FICTION'Warm and funny, this tale of a pint-size pig and the family he saves will take up a giant space in your heart' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'What a consummate storymaker Nina Bawden is' MICHAEL MORPURGO'Nina Bawden is a...
'As soon as I started to read it, I was hooked' GUARDIAN 'One of my all-time favourite books . . . It's a wonderful book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Katy speaks with a charm and directness that remains as fresh as when it was written' AMANDA CRAIG 'Europe beckoned more...
'The mystery element kept me turning the pages but it was the superb characterisation that made the story stay with me. It taught me that it's never too late to remake yourself into someone better' MALORIE BLACKMAN, TELEGRAPH'The Secret Garden should be on every child's...
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS TO HAVE EVER LIVED. NOW A SUCCESSFUL FILM . 'This much-loved classic is above all a celebration of kindness and hope' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'My all-time favourite classic children's author' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Edith Nesbit was...
THE THIRD BOOK INTHE PSAMMEAD TRILOGY, FOLLOWING FIVE CHILDREN AND IT ANDTHE PHOENIX ANDTHE CARPET'My all-time favourite classic children's author' JACQUELINE WILSON 'I love her books, particularly the Five Children and It sequence' NEIL GAIMAN 'The cheerful,...
A timeless Cinderella story,A Little Princess is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time.A heartwarming tale that champions the power of imagination.'I'd read Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and loved it - so I triedA Little Princess and liked...
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS TO HAVE EVER LIVED 'I love E. Nesbit' NEIL GAIMAN 'My all-time favourite classic children's author' JACQUELINE WILSON 'She speaks to the reader, and it's almost as though you can hear her voice' QUENTIN BLAKE 'This is the story of...
'One of my all-time favourite books . . . It's a very lively funny story' JACQUELINE WILSON 'A girl's journey from sweltering midwestern plains to the freezing east coast suggests cold can spark an intellectual awakening' SARAH CROWN, GUARDIAN 'Katy speaks with a charm...
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS TO HAVE EVER LIVED THIS IS THE SECOND BOOK IN THE PSAMMEAD TRILOGY, FOLLOWING FIVE CHILDREN AND IT'The tone of her stories spoke to me directly . . . I appreciated not being talked down to' KATE SAUNDERS, GUARDIAN 'I love her books -...
'It took me four days to read this book and I really enjoyed it' GUARDIAN 'One of my all-time favourite books. It's a very lively, funny story' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Katy speaks with a charm and directness that remains as fresh as when it was written' AMANDA CRAIG Katy...
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS TO HAVE EVER LIVEDNOW A FILM STARRING FREDDIE HIGHMORE, TARA FITZGERALD, JONATHAN BAILEY AND KENNETH BRANAGH Five Children and It is the first book in the Psammead trilogy: next, discover The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of...
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS TO HAVE EVER LIVED The Story of the Treasure Seekers is the first book in the Bastable trilogy, which continues with The Wouldbegoods and New Treasure Seekers.'I love E. Nesbit' NEIL GAIMAN 'My all-time favourite classic children's...
BY THE BELOVED AUTHOR OF CARRIE'S WAR AND THE PEPPERMINT PIG'A subtle and many-layered story, one of Nina Bawden's best' OBSERVER 'What a consummate storymaker Nina Bawden is' MICHAEL MORPURGO 'The hay stirred. There was a small nibbling sound. A furry head poked out....
Set in turn-of-the-century New York, Edith Wharton's classic novel The Age of Innocence reveals a society governed by the dictates of taste and form, manners and morals, and intricate social ceremonies. Newland Archer, soon to marry the lovely May Welland, is a man...
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesMr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that he will probably never be able to pass his wonderful old estate on to...
Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a...
Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations ofBarsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter Anne, delicate, sixteen years old, and totally lacking in confidence. ...
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