Imagine Alex Rider on a mission to save souls. Car chases, great gadgets & supernatural foes! Ronan Truelove used to think he was a normal kid, in spite of his rather gallant name. But he’s just found out he’s the youngest member of the Blood Guard: an ancient order sworn to protect the Pure. (Thirty-six truly good souls who will one day save all of us.) Now it finally makes sense. This was why his mum insisted on martial arts lessons. Deadly battles, magical stunts & killer wisecracks are all part of a day’s work. It’s good vs evil – no holds barred. Now Ronan must save his parents, the girl of his dreams – & the world…. A thrilling fantasy quest with a cool modern setting An epic story of good vs evil, full of action & fun For fans of Percy Jackson & The Unicorne Files “ Wildly intense & deviously funny” – Michael Grant ...

Dylan was six when The End came back in 2018; when the electricity switched off, & the world he knew disappeared. Now he’s 14 & he & his mam have survived in their isolated hilltop house above the village of Nebo in north-west Wales, where mother & son confide their experiences & memories in a found notebook – the Blue Book. ...

When two small sisters go fishing in the magic pond, they find something much better than a frog or a newt: a bog baby. He’s little & blue with wings like a dragon, & the girls decide to make him their secret. Pssst! I won’t tell if you won’t! But the bog baby is a wild thing, & when he becomes poorly, the girls realise they must tell Mum. & she teaches them the greatest lesson of all – if you really love something, you have to let it go. A touching & beautiful tale of magic, loss & friendship, which won the Booktrust Pre-School Award in 2008. “A rather old-fashioned story, beautifully moving, which tells about friendship, family life & having to accept that animals have to live in different places” Wendy Cooling, Booktrust Award judge ...

Hilarious stuff from Julian Clary. The Bolds are a jolly normal suburban family – or are they? Have you guessed their secret yet? ...

Hilarious stuff from Julian Clary. The Bolds are a jolly normal suburban family – or are they? Have you guessed their secret yet? ...

Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize & the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. A deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre. ...

Two girl treasure hunters. One sleeping prince. A hundred-year-old curse & one very angry witch. Fantasy with m/f & f/f romance for fans of CINDERELLA IS DEAD. A pacey, fractured twist on a classic fairy tale! ...

The days between Christmas & New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam & magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A lot can happen in the dead days. There is a magician called Valerian who must save his own life, or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But will alchemy & sorcery be any match against the demonic power pursuing him? Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name & no past. Watching their fortune, mapping their destinies… is Fate. Set in the dark, dangerous cities & frozen countryside of a distant time & place, Marcus Sedgwick’s beautifully evoked & dramatic novel conjures a spellbinding story of power, corruption & desperate magic. “A haunting ride into a world of compelling darkness.” Dreamwatch worldbookday 2015 hp-rr ...

The heart-stopping prequel. Read it first or read it last. Just read it. ...

Twenty years have passed since the events of La Belle Sauvage saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra & the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford’s Botanic Gardens. Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue once more. & she is no longer a child… This new adventure sees Lyra, now twenty years old, & her daemon Pantalaimon drawn into the complex & dangerous factions of a world they never knew existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat, now a dutiful man with a strong desire to do what is right. All of them must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe & deep into Asia, in search of a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert, & the mystery of the elusive Dust… The eagerly awaited second book in the Book of Dust sequence A dazzlingly rich new adventure by one of our greatest writers Picks up Lyra’s story ten years after The Amber Spyglass ended His Dark Materials forever changed the face of children’s fantasy Philip Pullman has won the Carnegie Medal & Guardian Prize ...