This epic young adult thriller, a mixture of James Bond and Breaking Bad, is about friendship, coming of age, and breaking free from society.A CounterTerrorism operative shows up tortured to death. An elderly prof goes missing. An eco-cult is recruiting at a weekend concert for young people at Battersea Power Station. A teenage felon's music has gone viral. All CounterTerrorism want is for him to make a simple swap: Some photos for his freedom.Only he's trapped inside Battersea Power Station. No swap. No way he can tell anyone about it. And the dawning horror that the missing and the dead will bring England to its knees. He's got his GCSEs, his guitar, and a grasp of engineering. That's got to be enough.To free himself. And save London.  BlackOut was an award-winning finalist for the International Book Cover Award.

BlackOut (Sebastian Cleary Novel)

Teen & Young Adult

Grenfall, Sam

Literature & Fiction

Claret Press

“The itching distracted her, the stars that dusted the midnight skies distracted her, the moons rose and their beauty distracted her. She sighed.”
Against a background of failing states, magik and spirits, Coryn and Katleya lose all that they have and must flee all that they know. Coryn, protected by a cracked amulet, must find his sister and fulfil an oath. Katleya has only her wits and her knives to defend herself. Desperate to reach a haven where she can learn to use her power fully, Katleya uses her Wealdan to do little other than see the magical Wefan. But she is hunted by those who would use her for terrible purposes of their own.
A story as intricate and as powerful as any Weaving of the Wefan.

The Cracked Amulet (Wefan Weaves)

Watkinson, R B

Genre Fiction

This beautiful children's history book retells Herodotus's stories and brings ancient history to life.
Herodotus wrote the first history book in the world. That is why he is sometimes called the ‘Father of History’. He lived about 2,500 years ago in the fifth century BC. He was born at a place called Halicarnassus in Asia Minor. The modern names for these places are Bodrum in Turkey.
Herodotus was a keen traveller who went all over the ancient world and was interested in everything he saw and heard. When he came back from his travels he went to Athens in Greece and gave lectures about the places he had visited. Finally he decided to write a book about them. In the later part of his life he went to Italy where he did more work on his book and finally died there in 425 BC. King Leonidas of Sparta and the Battle of Thermopylae, made famous by the blockbuster movie 300, began with Herodotus' stories.
Retold to be accessible for children, these stories will delight readers of all ages. This book is appropriate to support the curriculum of Key Stage 3.

Stories from Herodotus

Children's Books

Oakes, Lorna

This superbly researched and beautifully told fictional memoir is about love, art, and Chinese history and politics.
"This is the book I struggled not to write. I buried the pain along with my Chinese name and changed my fate."
Brushstrokes in Time is a fictional memoir by Chinese artist, Little Winter, who tries to re-establish the bond with her American daughter, telling the story of her emotional and rebellious past. While growing up in Communist China, Little Winter joins ‘The Stars’ art movement for freedom of speech in an era where self-expression and love was a dangerous act.
Little Winter and her haunting love story connects us to a time of hope for freedom, and to a man frustrated by being kept in small shoes.
Based on real life events.

Brushstrokes in Time

Biographies & Memoirs

Vetta, Sylvia

Community & Culture

“I just loved Sarah’s idea of what it means to be a ghost” - Tracy Chevalier, New York Times bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring
"Brilliant Portrayal of a cruel disease' - Helena Frith Powell, international bestselling author
‘Sarah writes beautifully and the sense of foreboding or unease is brilliantly conveyed. I've never read anything quite like it, although I'd suggest echoes of Mary Shelley or Edgar Allan Poe.’ Clare Balding, award-winning broadcaster, journalist and author
This beautiful short story collection is incredibly moving and thought-provoking. It deals with grief, love, and the supernatural in the form of ghost stories.
Surface Tension is a unique collection of six dark tales, which delves deep into the undercurrents of human psychology. 
Switch – That mysterious feature of your home you’ve always meant to get checked out? Do it now.
The Pier – Someone’s lost – is it you or that little girl?
Last Post – A twisted, dying man is confronted by everything he hates.
Cherry – Beware of chatty strangers.
Surface Tension – You never know who you might meet on a morning commute.
Bruised – Why don’t I just leave him? Because he won’t leave me, and he died last year.

Surface Tension

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gray, Sarah

Thrillers & Suspense

This children's thriller, based on the author's own experiences in London, is about coming of age and the importance of family and friends during World War II.
It's the height of the Blitz. Night after night, waves of German bombers pound London streets, determined to bring the city to its knees.
As the air-raid sirens wail, Alan and his best mates, Tommy and Wilkie, skip school to play among the bombed-out homes of their neighbors. They are soon sucked into a gang of looters run by infamous Duggie, but the police are on their tail and catching up quickly. Even if they escape, they could still fall victim to the dangerous skies above them. 
This thrilling story, based on the author’s own experiences growing up during the Blitz, is an antidote to nostalgia. It shows the terrors of the Blitz and how war brings out both the best and the worst in adults and children alike. 
Appropriate for Keystage 2.

Dangerous Skies

James, Brian

Alan Steele Nicholson, Former Press Officer - US Senator Jacob Javitz, New York
"Brilliant and timely political who-done-it. Having been a press officer for a US Senator for a number of years, I’ve had a front row seat to the inter workings of Capital Hill. To my mind, Powell has masterfully combined the timeliness of today’s political intrigue with a gripping detective story/who-done-it. By bringing the mind-boggling swirling mess that is Washington politics down to the level of one family’s pain he held me glued to the page.
"What I found particularly remarkable was how easily I found myself sympathizing with the ‘villain’, and how well-crafted and human was Powell’s plea that we need to finally bring common sense back to our government and its approaches to critical problems facing the country and the world.
"A deceptively easy read — given its thunderous message. Term Limits should be require reading for every new politician heading to Washington." Murder – week after week, month after month, across the country. Pushed beyond his limits, one man takes on the establishment, the gun lobby, and corruption at the highest levels. To break the power of entrenched elites, he leads the nation on a grisly hunt. He’s hunting them. And they’re hunting him. One side will have to blink. In the meantime, people are dying. Term Limits is a thriller from the front pages of our newspapers. It couldn’t be more topical.

Term Limits

Powell, Steve

Bored to Death in the Baltics is a comedy thriller, a sequel to A Very Important Teapot, set four months later. Saul Dawson and Lucy Smith, still working for a minor department of MI6, get caught up in the apparent assassination of a foreign scientist working on a top secret project. Meanwhile, a traitor is on the loose within the secret service.\nIt's murder, mayhem and mirth. Full of twists, puns and action, it's so brilliantly constructed that only the comedic genius of Steve Sheppard could have written it.\nWhen a bomb explodes in front of Dawson on a sunny June morning, he is lucky to escape with his life, certainly luckier than the man he is following.\nBut finding himself a few hours later in the bilges of a ship heading for the eastern Baltic is less fortunate as that is not how he'd planned to spend his weekend.\nWho is the man assassinated by the bomb?\nWho has kidnapped Dawson, and will Lucy Smith find him in time?\nWhat is happening deep underground in rural Estonia and leafy Surrey?\nIs there a double agent within MI6?\nWho are the tantalising Sesks twins really working for?\nCan Dawson and Lucy distinguish Wright from Rong?\nAnd can Dawson avoid being bored to death?

Bored to Death in the Baltics: Book 2 in the Dawson and Lucy Series

Sheppard, Steve

Humor & Satire

Harry King, artist and antiques dealer, thinks he has just made the worst purchase of his life – an enormous Victorian chest of drawers filled with ancient newspapers and bric-a-brac that now takes up half his shop. But when he trips over the beautiful historian Ramma Gupta, he realises he might have got more than he bargained for. Their story becomes entwined with the life of a Victorian explorer who mysteriously disappeared. A cross-cultural journey takes them from Oxford to India to uncover love, secrets, and the teachings of a lost empire.

Sculpting the Elephant

Romance

Contemporary

'I just loved Sarah's idea of what it means to be a ghost.' Tracy Chevalier, New York Times bestselling author 'Sarah writes beautifully and the sense of foreboding or unease is brilliantly conveyed.' Clare Balding, award-winning broadcaster, journalist and author'Brilliant portrayal of a cruel disease.' Helena Frith Powell, international bestselling authorUrban survival makes creatures of us all. Clamouring for love, terrified of boredom and anxious for success, we fight a futile battle.Primal urges feed the city, stalking its inhabitants. From a psychotherapist gorging on tragedy to a grief-stricken father searching for his daughter's lost soul, humanity's subterranean secrets and shames are unearthed. In her third collection of short stories, Sarah Gray occupies the edge of reality, dexterously inhabiting and defying form and genre. Gray's stories shift from the unsettling to the surreal to the frightening, all cut with her characteristic black humour.

Urban Creatures

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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