Collection: Young person's fiction

Fall on Your Knees takes the reader from haunted Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War 1 and into the lives of four unforgettable sisters.

When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who ne...

The saga of Timothy Hunter, master Mage-in-training, continues in this sixth collection of sorcery, spells and sprites. He bids farewell to rainy England and sets out on an odyssey of discovery in the United States.

In his debut novel, poet Benjamin Zephaniah tackles the moving story of a young man, Martin, whose life is completely changed when his face is badly scarred in a joyriding accident.

Heroes is a story about the return home of teenage war hero and war victim Francis Joseph Cassavant to confront his past, the youth leader he idolised and who betrayed him, and the girl he still loves.

Aimed at children between 8 and 13 years old who are reluctant readers, this book tells the story of Angela who needs to use all her skills and bravery when she is held to ransom.

A careless young student becomes involved with a severely facially scarred man, exposing the obsessive destructive passions that lurk beneath his reserved manner, not realising that she is playing with fire.

This is a cautionary tale of Manchester gangland. Will Mike escape unscathed from Mrs C's council-house torture chamber? It is the first book for the young adult market from a controversial, but highly acclaimed prize-winning author.

After Dark titles are frightening stories, strictly for reading after dark. When a stray cat turns up at Nathan's one night and makes itself at home, no-one minds. But why does it want Nathan to follow it?