Celestine and the Hare

Celestine and the Hare

  No act of kindness is ever wasted – Aesop, teller of tales c590BC If you haven’t yet found these beautiful little books, pick one up and have a look. We’ve never found a book so small that is so warm and so heartbreakingly profound. The creatures in the...
Fish Boy, by Chloe Daykin

Fish Boy, by Chloe Daykin

Fish Boy by Chloe Daykin, with illustrations by Richard Jones Every now and then you read a book that is quite unlike anything else you’ve read. In Fish Boy we meet Billy, a young boy who is lonely and struggling to make friends at school; his great obsession is...
Gaslight, by Eloise Williams

Gaslight, by Eloise Williams

Gaslight is the second novel by Eloise Williams, and it is a proper cracker of a story, a hugely exciting gas-lit romp through seedy Victorian theatre life. It is beautifully written, with both atmosphere and elegance, well-researched – and totally...
Ghosts of Shanghai and Shadow of the Yangtze, by Julian Sedgwick

Ghosts of Shanghai and Shadow of the Yangtze, by Julian Sedgwick

Ghosts of Shanghai and Shadow of the Yangtze by Julian Sedgwick Last year every other book that came into the shop seemed to have the word ‘Girl’ in the title. This year we have been inundated with books called ‘The (something) Wife’. When so many books in young adult...