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Big Magic

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 23:56:29 +0200

Eleven-year-old Tulsi comes from a long line of women magicians, but her mother has always forbidden her to learn Big Magic. It's dangerous, thrilling, and powerful – and Tulsi wants it more than anything. But one hot summer's night, a magic trick goes horribly wrong, and her mother disappears. Only one person can bring her back, and that's Tulsi.

But first, she'll have to learn a lifetime's worth of Big Magic – in just one month. It's an impossible task, especially when her teacher – her strange grandmother, Sylvie – was long ago banned from doing any Big Magic at all. Tulsi is determined to save her mum, but does she have what it takes? And where, exactly, has her mother gone?

The Devil in the Snow

Fri, 28 Jul 2017 08:21:09 +0300

All Shona wants is a simple life with her young son, and to get free of Maynard, the ex who's still living in the house. When her teenage daughter goes missing, she's certain Maynard is the culprit. Her mother, Greta, is no help as she's too obsessed with the devil. Her Uncle Jimmy is fresh out of prison and has never been entirely straight with her. Then there's the shaman living in her shed. Shona soon discovers that the secrets she buried are as dangerous as the family curse haunting her mother.

The Starlings of Bucharest

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:21:11 +0300

The threats people hold over us are most often imagined. We even create them for ourselves.
Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when he is given the opportunity to go to Romania to interview a film director and then attend the Moscow film festival.
But someone has other plans for him.
Has he walked into a trap?

The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt

Sat, 28 Jul 2018 08:21:10 +0300

It's 1973 and Martha has been sent down from Cambridge for distributing left-wing leaflets and doing no work. To escape parental disapproval, she marries her friend Kit, posted to Moscow by the diplomatic service. Kit is gay, so having a wife could keep him safe. In Moscow, Martha struggles to make sense of a difficult but fascinating new world. Who can she trust? Who can she even talk to? She takes Russian lessons, makes the wrong friends, becomes familiar with a strange and wonderful city, and unwittingly becomes a spy.

Magic Awry

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 23:35:44 +0300

In this thrilling sequel to middle-grade fantasy adventure BIG MAGIC, a young magician will do whatever it takes to save magic – but at what cost?
Eleven-year-old Tulsi comes from a long line of women magicians, and loves doing Big Magic. Every night in her family's circus show, she turns twigs into trees, flies like a bird, and even disappears into thin air. But one night, in the middle of a show, she loses her powers – with frightening results.

Tulsi's powers soon come back, but she can't risk losing them again – and her search for what went wrong soon takes her all the way into a parallel universe, where she discovers that magic everywhere is in danger. The natural world is falling out of balance, and a band of rogue magicians are stripping magic from women. They're led by a powerful magician who knows Tulsi very well ... and who has a dark plan for her magic, too.
Tulsi's convinced she's the only one who can stop the...

Salt Rain

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:41:54 +0200

In this enchanting debut, a young girl faces the secrets buried in the mud-rich, rain-soaked landscape of her mother's childhood.When fourteen-year-old Allie's mother, Mae, mysteriously disappears in the dark waters of the harbor, Allie is taken by Julia—an aunt she barely knows—to stay at the dilapidated dairy farm where her mother grew up.As the days pass and the heat of the wet season swells, Allie confidently waits for her mother's call, certain that Mae will reappear as she always has in the past. In the meantime, Allie watches her aunt, who is determined to replant the trees of the forest and undo the damage her family has inflicted upon the land. And Allie lurks around the cabin belonging to her mother's first love, a man who still lives deep within the valley.When the truth about Mae's childhood and Allie's mythical father, the Balloon Man, begins to surface, Allie must sort through the lies her mother has told her and come to grips with the many...

The Insect Rosary

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:41:53 +0200

Bernadette and Nancy are on holiday in Northern Ireland in 1982 when they discover that their family are involved with the IRA. There are many places that they are forbidden to go by their Aunt Agatha and Uncle Donn and Agatha, and things they are forbidden to talk about by their mother. So many things to be forbidden; they pretty much ignore all of them. Only Tommy really frightens them. Things are manageable until one day their absent uncle, Ryan, reappears to the horror of his siblings. Tommy arrives to deal with the situation and, soon after, Bernie sees Ryan's body on the kitchen floor, wrapped in a blanket.

His Other House

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:24:06 +0200

Promise

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:41:53 +0200

From the author of His Other HouseHow far would you go to protect a child in danger?

When a new family moves in next door, it takes Anna just two days to realise something is very wrong. She can hear their five-year-old daughter Charlie crying, then sees injuries on the little girl which cannot be ignored. Anna reports the family to the police and social services but when no one comes to Charlie's aid, Anna understands that she is alone with her fears for the child's life.So when Charlie comes to her door asking for help, the only thing Anna can think to do is take the girl and run. Raising delicate but deeply felt questions about our individual responsibility for the children around us, Promise is a novel that obliges the reader to ask: if Charlie were my neighbour, what would I do?PRAISE FOR HIS OTHER HOUSE

"Extraordinarily compelling ... To elaborate on Sarah...