Liz is killed in a hit-and-run accident and her 'life' takes a very unexpected turn. At nearly sixteen she knows she will never get married, never have children, and perhaps never fall in love. This is a novel that tells of sadness with heart-breaking honesty and of love and happiness.

Features 'real witches' - the ones that absolutely loathe children and are always plotting to get rid of them.

It is Autumn, 1937, and although the Depression has lifted, Mary Alice must leave Chicago to live with her Grandma Dowdel. Because her brother has grown up and left home, Alice is alone with her grandmother but, despite feeling homesick, she soon finds she has much in common with the old lady.

The heartwarming adventures of a young orphan girl and a magical white giraffe in exotic Africa.

At eighty-four, Leota Reinhardt is alone, all of her efforts to reconcile with her adult children hadn't worked in the past, until she meets her estranged grandaughter, Annie, and confides to her the silent sacrifice she had made as a young mother of two, while her husband was gone during World War II.

The first in a two-book saga following the 1930s childhood of Joey and Mary Alice as they spend their summers with a formidable grandma in small-town Illinois. If Grandma isn't holding their nasty neighbours at gunpoint, she is doing a spot of poaching or catching the sheriff in his underwear.

George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits.

An acclaimed stand-alone SF novel from the author of the hugely popular Serrano Legacy series.

There's trouble on the Aching farm - a monster in the river, a headless horseman in the driveway and nightmare spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching's little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Fairies. Tiffany's got to get him back.

Ben, nicknamed Spaz because of his cerebral palsy, is a real loner. Looked after by his straight-laced grandmother as if he were still a small child, his only escape is the decrepit Rialto Theatre, where he watches old movies. The last person he wants to meet there is drugged up Colleen.

Tragedy strikes the New York-based Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Twelve-year-old Lou and seven-year-old Oz survive, but the crash leaves their father dead and their mother in a coma.

Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins. What is the meaning of this strange message left on the doorstep? Only Sal knows, and on a roadtrip with her grandparents she tells the bizarre tale of Phoebe Winterbottom, Phoebe's disappearing mother and the lunatic.

An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter are away on a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself.

'You're not Mia Thermopolis any more, honey,' Dad said. 'You're Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo. Princess of Genovia.' A Princess?? Me??? Yeah. Right. One minute Mia's a totally normal Manhattan 14-year-old. Next minute she's heir to the throne of Genovia, being trailed by a trigger-happy bodyguard.

You fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, now meet Rose Feller in Jennifer Weiner's follow-up to the greatly loved Good in Bed.

Have you ever opened a letter that completely changed your life?

Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides to send her away again to live in the town. Heidi cannot bear being away from the mountains and is determined to return to the happiness of life with her grandfather.

A day out with his dad Gordon turns into a nightmare for Bobby Berlin when something shocking happens that leaves Dad thinking it's 1977 and he's really 14. The only people Bobby can turn to for help are his best friend Mary and her gypsy grandmother. The problem is, they don't have a clue what to do either. Gordon is irrationally convinced that if he can just get to Dundee, everything will be ..