Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. This is the story of love, friendship and memory, with a sense of the fragility of life.

A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them.

Leonardo the Terrible Monster doesn't have thousands of teeth, he's small, he's cute and, despite his best efforts, he can't seem to frighten anyone. Then, one day, he meets a nervous boy called Sam and finds out that being a good friend is a whole lot more rewarding than trying to scare the tuna salad out of people!

Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, marries his childhood sweetheart and settles down to run a small convenience stores. His best friend Bobby escapes to Italy and becomes an artist. Now, at sixty years old, Lucy and his wife Sarah travel to Venice to find Bobby, though they have not heard from him for many years.

A lyrical debut novel about growing pains, reputation, and coming-of-age in a working-class town, now in paperback.

When Curt (skinny punk guitar genius) stops Troy (hugely overweight social leper) from committing suicide, it's the start of a very unlikely friendship. Troy's family think Curt is just a junkie loser, but Troy knows there's more to him.

It is the children who see - and feel - what makes the town so different. In the storm drains and sewers 'It' lurks, taking the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. As the children grow up and move away, the horror of 'It' is buried deep - until they are called back.

The first book in the impossibly-cool and massively-acclaimed Dangerous Angels series. Has the potential to be a cult phenomenon...

Love meets love. Confusion meets clarity. Boy meets boy. Meet Paul. Gay his whole life, and finding love as wonderful, confusing and heartbreaking as every other teenager in his high school.

A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives, in lyrical prose, by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.

After school Harriet goes to observe the rich lady who never gets out of bed, the man with 25 cats and the Italian family who run a store. She writes warts-and-all notes on them all, but she also writes about people she knows and when her classmates read the notebook, Harriet ends up in trouble.

Deals with a range of topics: friendship, love, war, three cultures, three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and, the tricky way the past has of coming back.

Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and her grandfather, Hugo's undercover life and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy.

* It's a beautiful story, a sad story, brilliantly written, a story you'll never forget

Do you want to be my friend? asks a little mouse of a horse, a peacock, an alligator and others. Only when he meets another little mouse, is the answer unequivocally, Yes!

The Boyfriend List was a homework assignment for my mental health. Doctor Z, my shrink, told me to write down all the boyfriends, kind-of boyfriends, almost-boyfriends, rumoured boyfriends, and wished-he-were boyfriends I've ever had. Plus, she recommended I take up knitting.

Percy is a half-blood - the son of a Greek God. He spends his time fighting with swords, battling monsters with friends and generally trying to stay alive. Now Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks Percy has stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. Can Percy find the lightning bolt before a fully-fledged war of the Gods erupts?

Chronicles, in instant message format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three fifteen-year-old girls - Zoe, Maddie, and Angela - as they begin tenth grade.

The compelling sequel to A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY

The beautiful and haunting novel that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread children's book of the Year Award.