Summer Reads

Join Daisy and Hazel on their fourth mystery in the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series!'Ripping good fun' --  The Times'Thrilling' --  GuardianAs they return to Deepdean for a new school term, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are faced with some big...

The fabulously festive fifth Murder Most Unladylikemystery. It's Christmas, and the snow is falling in Cambridge, where the detective duo Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the festive period. But Hazel's hopes of relaxing amongst the beautiful...

The first instalment of the hugely popular Wells and Wong detective stories for children, Stevens’s note-perfect pastiche of Golden Age crime mysteries is a brilliantly realised and compelling boarding school adventure.  The first marvellous...

The second thrilling mystery in the bestsellingMurder Most Unladylike series! 'A delight . . . The Agatha Christie-style clues are unravelled with sustained tension and the whole thing is a hoot from start to finish' -- Daily Mail'A feelgood blend of...

The third mystery in the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series; just like the iconic Agatha Christie, Hazel and Daisy have boarded the Orient Express! 'A delight . . . Hazel and Daisy are aboard the Orient Express: cue spies, priceless jewels, a...

Wells and Wong return for another gripping tale of blackguardly behaviour at Deepdean, where old allies have become foes and old certainties are in flux. As the school prepares to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, there are sinister goings on in the...

When Hazel Wong's beloved grandfather passes away, Daisy Wells is all too happy to accompany her friend (and Detective Society Vice President) to Hazel's family estate in beautiful, bustling Hong Kong. But when they arrive they discover something they...

A gripping mini-mystery from the bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike.'I, the Honourable Daisy Wells, have decided to give an account of another mystery the Detective Society has faced in recent weeks. It was very exciting, and very heroic, and I...

She longed to be reunited with her family. The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Workhouse Girl.Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-mouth. Leaving...

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Laureate Lauren Child's best-selling first novel in the Ruby Redfort series. Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. Break out of boredom with Ruby Redfort, the super-awesome teen detective series from multi-million-copy bestseller Lauren Child...Want...

Pull back the curtain and enter a world where mystery and magic take centre stage . . . Twelve-year-old Tig works at the Theatre Royale, cleaning, selling tickets and doing anything else that is asked of her by her tyrannical boss, Mr Snell. But Tig will...

Alex loves all things spooky and scary, but what happens when he gets trapped in a real-life nightmare? After being lured into a neighboring apartment by a young witch, he teams up with fellow prisoner Yasmin to find a way out of the enchanted home...

"As if Deadpool had slipped into the body of the Witcher Geralt." —The New York TimesIn the pitch dark, witty fantasy novella Prosper's Demon, K. J. Parker deftly creates a world with vivid, unbending rules, seething with demons, broken faith, and worse...

(Available on December 29, 2021)“Sharp and seductive…a fantasy with teeth.” —Julie C. Dao, author of Forest of a Thousand LanternsA girl of two worlds, accepted by none… A half Reaper, half Shinigami soul collector seeks her destiny in this haunting and...

A PLACE LIKE HOME by Rosamunde Pilcher coming in hardcover in February 2021. A beautiful novel of loss and the healing power of love by the much-loved Rosamunde Pilcher'Enchanting' -- Daily ExpressElfrida Phipps loves her new life in her pretty Hampshire...

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities...

Are you sitting nicely? Good. Let's discover exactly what happened after two superstar Labradors chewed up the lockdown internet and found it really quite tasty. He's not kept a diary for decades but here, in Dog Days, Andrew Cotter draws inspiration...

The story of Olive and Mabel, Labrador retrievers who rose to internet fame as the subjects of Andrew Cotter's BBC sports parodies.   When sporting events were put on hold in March 2020, commentator Andrew Cotter shifted to working from home. The...

This sweet story of a boy and his favorite toy is a rollicking adventure from start to finish. When Jack’s favorite toy, Dur Pig, goes missing, he teams up with DP’s replacement, the Christmas Pig, on the adventure of a lifetime to find him — all on...