Bridget Gether's parents were killed in the Blitz and she'd lived with the Overmeers, since she was a child. Unaware that she had been manipulated into agreeing to marry their son, a chance encounter made her realise she was making a mistake.

Ten years after its original publication, behold the bewitching anniversary edition of the classic children's novel The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, featuring spellbinding illustrations from Chris Riddell and an exclusive new introduction by Margaret Atwood WINNER of the 2010 CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL and the 2009 JOHN NEWBERY MEDAL 'Every page is crowded with invention, both funny and scary' PATRICK NESS 'A tale of unforgettable enchantment' NEW YORK...

When Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has just been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to return to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was in fact the real target of the attack.

Alison is a nobody; she has no one, and that's how she wants it. But, once, she was someone else: Esme Grace, a teenager whose bedroom sat at the top of a dilapidated house on the edge of a bleak estuary. A girl whose family, if not happy exactly, was no unhappier than anyone else's - or so she thought. Then one night a terrible thing happened in the crooked house, a nightmare of violence out of which Alison emerged the sole survivor. Only when she...

A story about the wild and forceful Mountjoys, whose family have lived at Mountjoy Castle for centuries. A wild and wicked autumn wind howls off the Eyotshire fells, bringing a mysterious stranger to the ancient town of Unthrang where Justinia Fitz Odo lives; a stranger who intervenes in the lives of the inhabitants in the most unpredictable and shocking ways. Meanwhile in nearby Eyot, unholy machinations in the dignified precincts of the cathedral...

Tom Falconer is in trouble. Pursued by the notorious criminal Ratsey, Tom soon finds himself alone and hungry on the streets of London. Luckily enough, the mysterious Dr Mobius soon recruits Tom to play an important role in a play to be performed in front of Queen Elizabeth. Tom knows there?s something not right about Mobius, but he?s willing to take a risk in order to keep his neck out of Ratsey?s murderous hands. Little does Tom realise that Mobius?s...

Alex Rider gets involved in a plot to blow up the Pentagon and only he can divert a major disaster.

When little Billy discovers a lost puppy in the grounds of his orphanage home, he knows that the nuns will never allow him to keep a pet. But as Billy stares into the adorable labrador's big brown eyes, he knows in his heart that he can't bear to be parted from his new friend. So he comes up with a plan. With the help of his fellow orphans, Billy hides the puppy in the caretaker's cottage. Together the children swear not to reveal the secret to the...

Meredith Stratton falls seriously ill, and her doctors do not know why. Through therapy, she learns that she was placed in an orphanage as a child. She travels to England to find her mother, and meets a man who will change her future.

Samantha opened the door, and something hopped and shuffled into the room. Something round and black and furry ... In the cellar of Park House, the old mansion where orphaned Samantha has been sent to stay with her disagreeable Aunt Daisy, there are hundreds of bogwoppits - believed extinct, up till now. Aunt Daisy wants to get rid of them all, but Samantha grows very fond of one and can't bear to part with him. It seems as though Samantha and...