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Anne Fine
Can you find happiness anywhere? Anywhere at all?
In the chaos of breaktime, one boy sits perfectly still, alone on top of the wall. Those who don't know him are…
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Skye and Harry discover Gran isn't quite as strict as Dad makes out in this funny family story from multi-award-winning author Anne Fine.
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SHADES OF SCARLET is a deeply insightful, sharply funny book by bestselling author Anne Fine, about how growing up means coming to terms with your parents’ lives being just as…
Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman, Robet Browning, Leonard Clark, Adele Geras, Seamus Heaney, A E Housman, Philip Larkin, Pablo Neruda, Brian Patten and Derek Walcott are amongst the poets featured and…
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When her cold and indifferent husband vanishes, so does Lois’ old life. Now she is ready to take her chances again. There’s only one fly in the ointment: Janie-Gay, ex-partner…
Once best friends, always best friends. That’s the way it is with Angus and Jamie. Join them as they tackle a lively playmate, get muddled in a pretend game and…
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Lovers, colleagues, family - Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her.
How stupid do you have to be to fall out of a top floor window? Or was Stolly trying something else - up on cloud nine, even then? Stolly has…
Lulu’s intolerable. From the outset she wormed her way into the affections of her stepmother and, with spite as her principal hobby, spent every childhood moment trying to undermine poor…
Clarrie and Will live with their Uncle Len. But though Len loves his act almost as much as he loves his beer, Top Billing is out of his grasp until…
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Cass has always been there for Tom, her twin. But now Cass is a teenager, she is changing - she wants her privacy and feels suffocated by their life on…
Ione Muffett is alone in the summerhouse when she meets Ned Hump. In a zany and uninhibited twenty-four hours, Ione helps bring the two together, culminating in a wonderfully anarchic…
Ally doesn’t want to go with his mum on her weekly visit to his fragile aunt Chloe at the big Victorian hospital - until he discovers a hidden garden in…
Aimed at 9-11s, this title presents a collection that contains a mixture of the familiar and classic with poems from the late 20th century like Stevie Smith’s Not Waving but…
It’s war in the Flowers household. Will’s sister Estelle has turned overnight into a screaming, screeching banshee whose moods explode throughout the household. Mum and Dad have surrendered. Inspired by…
Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job for the council. He visits his aged mother Nora, and listens to her grumbles. He also…
A boy with an abusive father grows up and fears that he has the same potential for violence as his father has.
Harry is in trouble. He’s burned down the family kitchen so now has to spend a week of his summer hols with his uncle Tristram - who’s heading off to…
Nobody wants to be around Tulip but her outlandish behaviour doesn’t matter to Natalie. At first she finds Tulip exciting and she doesn’t care that other people are upset by…
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.1 is aimed at junior readers and is a diverse mixture of classic, well-loved poetry like Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’ or Tennyson’s ‘Break, Break, Break’ alongside poems from more modern poets…
These well-structured stories written by top-quality children’s authors help children to develop the confidence to read on their own. Brilliantly imaginative and beautifully illustrated, these hard-wearing hardback books with sewn…
Forced to spend a day at Charm School while her mother is on a course, Bonny makes some surprising and hilarious discoveries. Can Bonny cope with listening to Mrs Opalene’s…
A lovely, quiet, nothing-to-do and nothing-on-the-calendar Sunday . . Well, that’s until bossy Aunt Susan - an unstoppable force - is on the phone insisting that Harry and his family…
‘I don’t think my mum’s fit to be a parent, really I don’t.’ How would you feel if your mother had royal-blue hair and wore lavender fishnet tights? But Minna’s…
The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can’t believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a Home. She’s a bit of a dotty old lady…
One stormy night, five stranded schoolchildren uncover the story of Richard Clayton Harwick - a boy who many years ago learned what it was like to have a truly wicked…
This is the story of Kitty, who hates her mother’s boyfriend. Yet when he leaves, she finds she misses him.
Adapted from another of her successful children’s novels, Anne Fine’s sensitive and poignant play for young people is accompanied by stimulating background materials and activities.
When Rupert’s parents go to Great Uncle Perry’s funeral, Rupert spends the day with his Great Aunt Ada, along with his unruly puppy, Roly. Great Aunt Ada is determined to…
Told who to cheer for, who to believe in, Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged. But it is still a shock when a…
Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. Sent to live with a kindly foster family, and then adopted…
Everyone thinks they know what it’s like, going to school. But have you ever wondered what life must be like at a boarding school? A school for young offenders? With…
When her mother’s new boyfriend arrives on the scene, Kitty is not impressed. How can her mother want someone who fusses over the housework, understands nothing about the planet and…
The Christmas holiday is, traditionally, a time for families to gather together. But more definitely does not mean the merrier in Ralph’s household - not with Uncle Tristram hurling spuds…
Mum, Dad, Harry and Nana are at their wits’ end. How can they prove to Toby that there are no monsters under the bed, so that they can finally get…
Jennifer has a diary and Iolanthe doesn’t. But Iolanthe does have a vivid imagination and a gift for writing stories. Iolanthe is so taken with the diary that soon sharing…
From the moment Jamie sets eyes on Angus in the shop window, with his silky white coat and forlorn stare, he just knows that they belong together. On Christmas morning…
Daniel is raised in secrecy by a mother everyone thinks has gone mad. As Daniel is reunited with the last remaining member of his family - his ‘uncle’ Severin, who…
Accompanying his engineer father on a work trip, Louie is stranded by an earthquake in an isolated world peopled by ghostly figures. Overwhelmed by the misery of the silent Endlanders…
Anne Fine’s adaptation of her chilling gothic novel tells the story of Daniel, a young foster boy, who discovers that his mother’s doll’s house holds the key to a sinister…
‘Okay, okay. So slap my teensy little paws. I messed up - big time.’ Tuffy can’t wait for Ellie and the family to go away on holiday. He and the…
Tuffy knows what he likes. And he doesn’t like the ‘art’ that Ellie’s mum brings home from her new classes. So what’s a cat to do? A few scratches here…
I held a party. It was my birthday. How was I supposed to know it wouldn’t be the only party around town on that dark and dreary Halloween night? So…
Tuffy doesn’t feel wanted at home any more. So what if he broke the new TV? But they’re making such a fuss! So Tuffy decides to make a break for…
