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Red Fox

The Mrs Marridge Project

According to Mum, it was only brainless films stars who got married these days. It certainly wasn't something to be considered before a woman hit her thirties, and even then it was a pretty risky idea. Half way through a school-friend's funeral, fourteen-year-old Elin has an epiphany. Life's too short to waste on school - she wants to get married! Using her GCSE syllabus as a model, Elin embarks on a covert operation to be married by the time she's sixteen - a quest that will take her from the Arctic Circle to the wilds of Southern Ireland. As she researches sex, ways of becoming a 'Woman of Maturity' and how to analyse men using Microsoft Excel, she discovers that transforming from A-grade student into A-grade wife is tough - particularly when everyone thinks she's going mad. But Elin's not the sort of girl to be put off - even when the guy she picks up on the Internet turns out to be anything but Mr Right...Full of wild ambition, fearlessness and terrible mistakes, "The Mrs Marridge Project" is a funny, sassy and controversial novel about self-discovery and freedom of choice.

Literature & Fiction

Faber Childrens

Half way through a school-friend's funeral, 14-year-old Elin has an epiphany. Life's too short to waste on school - she wants to get married! Using her GCSE syllabus as a model, Elin embarks on a covert operation to be married by the time she's 16 - a quest that will take her from the Arctic Circle to the wilds of Southern Ireland.

Faber Children's Books

I'm not just writing this for Frankie, I'm doing it for me... Almost everything I write is going to be embarrassing, but I've got to do something. I have no choice. I try to shake things off, but they refuse to budge. So, as well as telling Frankie's story here I'm checking my memory, that I've got everything right. The friendship. Our secrets. The things we shared. The extraordinary way it ended. And the flying. That most of all.... FLYING FOR FRANKIE is story about friendship, teenage aspirations, terminal illness, religion and celebration, failure and success - and a serious fear of flying. Written with the same light touch as THE MRS MARRIDGE PROJECT, it's the story of bed-bound Frankie, whose imagination flies daily, and her best friend, Charis, who wants to do something to celebrate Frankie's life - and do it now while she's still alive. Charis has decided to 'fly for her friend', who's always dreamt of being a pilot but now won't be able to. She wants to do something impossibly difficult to celebrate what Frankie means to her, and make her proud. The trouble is that Frankie's always been fearless and up for anything, whereas Charis is a wimp. She embarks on a series of training courses to paraglide, parachute jump, take the controls of a helicopter and pilot a hot-air balloon. By doing something brave she hopes she might somehow tip the scales of life in her friend's favour. A topical, heart-rending new novel from award-winning writer Pauline Fisk. Flying for Frankie portrays a very real, utterly brave and ultimately uplifting story of two girls learning to live life in the face of terminal illness. 'Fisk has an effortless understanding of what it feels like to be a child.' Kate Kellaway, Observer

Flying for Frankie

Faber and Faber

Bonnie's newfound happiness in a world beyond the sky is threatened by the cruel Grandbag, and although she is offered help by the ancient, elusive lord and lady of the hill, she alone must meet the challenge in the end.

Midnight Blue

Teen & Young Adult

Lion Publishing Corporation

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Chariot Victor Pub.

Follows the fortunes of Nona, her mother and Nona's younger sister Sharon. The family runs away together to the seaside village in Wales which was the focus of Nona's mother's own childhood happiness. The author also wrote Midnight Blue, winner of the 1990 Smarties Prize.

Telling the Sea

Genre Fiction

This book follows the fortunes of Nona, her mother, and Nona's younger sister Sharon. The family runs away together to the seaside village in Wales—which was the place of Nona's mother's own childhood happiness. The author also wrote Midnight Blue, winner of the 1990 Smarties Prize.

Lion UK

When Abren becomes conscious of her surroundings, she is struggling to get out of the flooded river Severn with her only possession, a beautifully embroidered cloth, clutched in her arms. What is she doing in the water, who is she, where can she go? And so begins the unfolding of a story, that snakes and turns like the river itself, surprising the reader on every level. A wonderful magical fantasy of a story that follows the journey of a girl's life over many centuries and across huge terrain. Pauline Fisk is a marvellous story teller whose canvas is huge and whose delving into mythology makes for astounding reading. Praise for "Sabrina Fludde": 'Ancient and modern worlds are cleverly entwined in a multi-layered novel packed with big writing and even bigger ideas' - "Guardian". 'A magical, dreamy fantasy that takes hold if you and, like the river, carries you along in its powerful current' - "Financial Times".

Sabrina Fludde

Bloomsbury Publishing, Limited

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The Mrs Marridge Project

The Mrs Marridge Project

Flying for Frankie

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Midnight Blue

Midnight Blue

Telling the Sea

Telling the Sea

Sabrina Fludde