Some people are monsters. How does the evil get inside them? Edward’s dad was a beast, who locked him up & abused him. Is his evil sleeping inside Edward too? Chill your bones with Anne Fine’s dark, disturbing read: one that reaches deep inside you. realistic-ya ...

Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2014 Does bad blood always win out? Edward was locked up & abused by a monster: his father. Is there a monster in Edward too, waiting to break out? Anne Fine’s writing reaches deep inside you. ...

An explosive new, dystopian YA, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, The Atlas Six & Leigh Bardugo, a beautifully told YA, focussed on themes of poverty, class divide & addiction. ...

We say: sign Jake T Austin up for the film NOW. Debts of blood. Warring gangsters. Romeo & Juliet in a biker jacket. Smoulders so hard it’s a fire risk. Enjoy. ...

Aidan learns some tough lessons about life (and staying alive) in a hard-as-nails gangland thriller to make your blood pressure soar. ...

I ain’t afeared of nuthin When Saba’s brother is stolen, red rage fills her soul. She races across the cruel dustlands to find him. Saba can trust no one. Even the boy who saves her life. She must silence her heart to survive. Blood will spill. ...

Russia, 1917. Horror is spreading all over Europe: horror in the shape of war. Now the Bolsheviks are rising. Russia’s turn has come. The time for princes & Tsars is gone. But what new world – of tanks & telephones, murder & assassination – will dawn in its place? Marcus Sedgwick’s stirring story of the Russian revolution is a tale of real history: of the end of an ancient dynasty, the glories & excesses of the Russian nobility, & Lenin & Trotsky ruling from palaces where the Czars had once danced till dawn. The man telling the story was real too: Arthur Ransome. A writer accused of being a spy, he left his English wife & beloved daughter, falling in love with Russia & a Russian woman, Evgenia. Vividly evoking that tumultuous, long-ago time, Blood Red, Snow White is a stunning tale of revolution & love from a master writer. ...

‘A fiercely compelling, ferocious story’ – Kiran Millwood Hargrave ‘ Furious, beautiful, & impossible to put down’ – Katherine Webber An epic South African fantasy from award-winning author Mary Watson, for fans of Children of Blood & Bone & The Gilded Ones. Seventeen-year-old Savannah is cursed. It’s a sinister family heirloom; passed down through the bloodline for hundreds of years, with one woman in every generation destined to die young. The family call them Hella’s girls, named for their ancestor Hella; the enslaved woman with whom it all began. Hella’s girls are always angry, especially in the months before they die. The anger is bursting from Savannah – at the men who cat-call her in the street, at her mother’s disingenuous fiance, even at her own loving family. Each fit of rage is bringing her closer to the edge & now Savannah has to act to save herself. Or die trying. Because the key to survival lies in the underbelly of Cape Town, where the sinister veilwitches are waiting for just such a girl. Blood to Poison is a furious & mesmerising story about discovering magic, historical rage & love in all its guises. ...

A beautifully written, incredibly original & wickedly funny novel for readers of 10 & older – BLOOM is for everyone who has ever felt like they didn’t fit in, & for anyone who has ever wanted a little more colour & wildness in their lives… ...

Hurray! These early readers won’t leave you feeling short-changed as you make the crucial step up from picture books. Laughter, colour, adventure: they have all the things that great picture books have. But this time, you’ll be reading them all by yourself! ...