During the Second World War Carrie and her brother become evacuees, sent to live in a tiny coal-mining town in South Wales. They are taken in by the kindly Miss Evans and her stern shopkeeper...

Katie Pollack is a girl who likes to get to the bottom of things. An only child and intensely motherly, she worries about Squib, a wordless waif of a boy, who is always in the park when she goes...

There’s something mysterious, exciting, but frightening, too, about the house Bosie, Clara and Noel have come to stay in. Surrounded by its overgrown garden, no other houses in sight, it looks...

12 June 2040. Gandy, Tom’s grandfather, is due to be installed in Nostalgia Block 95 where he will be ‘looked after’ forever. Gandy, however, has other plans for his future. When he slips...

Her name is Angelica – ‘Angel’ for short – and Cora has been sent to stay with her. Cora had guessed that Angelica would be horrible, and she is. What puzzles Cora is that none of the...