It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she c...

Chrissie knew that Richie had loved her for all the twenty-three years they'd been together, loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, chaotic existence. Richie gave her everything, except the one thing that would have made her life perfect. She even had a sparkling ring - but it was not a wedding ring, and did not br...

Tyrone Lewis is messing about in the woods, trying to keep out of trouble, when he stumbles upon something weird ... a glowing lump of rock or metal. Whatever it is, it gives him an amazing power. Which is cool at first, until Ty's new powers start attracting attention, and soon he's being followed by two sinister agents who seem intent on 'collect...

This radio dramatisation of Robert Harris's thriller comes from John Dryden, the producer of award-winning Radio Collection releases The Handmaid's Tale and A Suitable Boy. Nazi Germany has won the war. Churchill is living in exile. King Edward and Queen Wallis are puppet monarchs of the United Kingdom. It is 1964, a week before Hitler's 75th birth...

James Patterson's explosive debut in the young adult market is guaranteed to create legions of new fans for this beloved, multimillion-selling author. Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, Angel, and Maximum: Six kids who are pretty normal in most ways-except that they're 98% human, 2% bird. They grew up in cages, living like rats, but now they're free. R...

Number 33 Georgiana Street houses many people. For runaway Sam it's a place to disappear. For Bohemia, it's just another blip between crises. Old Isobel acts like she owns the place, even though it belongs to Steve in the basement. Life there is a kind of ordered chaos. Like ants, they scurry about their business, crossing paths, following their ow...

Oh yes, the hilariosity goes on for one last time. Here it is ... maybe probably ... pants for the memories! My marvy Luuurve God boyfriend has got the full Humpty Dumpty with me for accidentally twisting with Dave the Laugh. Which is not actually my fault. For instance my lips do ad-hoc puckering up every time Dave the Laugh comes near them, I don...

The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties. Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discover...

Four boys and four girls are on a trip to the theatre. Little do they know that they will never see the play. They're about to be plunged into a nightmare. Beneath the theatre lies a secret. And now she has been released....

Life is tough for Nova. Her frantic parents are obsessed by running their hotel and her older sister seems too grown-up and good-looking to spend time with her any more. Then Nova meets the gorgeous Liam and things start to look up. But Liam is having an even worse time than she is. He's permanently stuck at the hotel and he can't attract his broth...

A doll that may be haunted leads three friends on a thrilling adventure in this delightfully creepy novel from the New York Times bestselling cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they've been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and w...

Princess and heir to the throne of Thorvaldor, Nalia has led a privileged life at court. But everything changes when she learns, just after her sixteenth birthday, that she is a false princess, a stand-in for the real Nalia, who has been hidden away for her protection. Cast out with little more than the clothes on her back, the girl now called Sind...

Now that Rory is twelve-years-old there is a long list of things that she is finally allowed to do. But she soon finds out that being twelve might not be all she thought it was cracked up to be.

The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives listeners an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who's ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn't fit in. "Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid...

Three terrific stories following the fantastical adventures of Free Lance, a mercenary knight. When we meet Free Lance, he is down on his luck and stuck in the Badlands. So it seems good news when the local lord wants him to recover an enchanted crown from the Lake of Skulls. Full of drama and humour, this swashbuckling fantasy adventure introduces...

Amy and Dan make shocking discoveries about their family's power and their parents' deaths as they track the next clue to a remote corner of the world.

Sam is a tortured soul, but his darkest hour is yet to come, when he's invited to take part in Project Hyde, a new social networking site where users can enjoy total anonymity. It's exhilarating at first, until Sam notices that the other users are becoming obsessed with the program, addicted to the cruelty they are inflicting online. Sam watches wi...

On a school trip to the plague village of Eyam, Seth is moved by the story of how the villagers sacrificed their lives to the dreaded Black Death. Kim and Wes are more interested in what they see at the bottom of the wishing well-money! But when they snatch the coins they also pick up something they hadn't bargained for, and as the hideous conseque...

Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Sir Lancelot the Great - Of these worthy knights, there was never one so fearless, so chivalrous, so honorable, so...shiny as the dashing Sir Lancelot, who was quite good at defending the helpless and prote...

Grace is out in the garden feeding her rabbits when she hears a rustle in the flower bed. What could it be? She sits very still by the kitchen door, peering out into the dark. And then she sees some little paws, two shiny eyes, a twitching nose...it's a tiny hedgehog! But where is its family? This little hedgehog looks lost and hungry. So Grace's m...

'A bear? On Paddington station?' Mrs Brown looked at her husband in amazement.'Don't be silly, Henry. There can't be!' Fifty years ago, Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same ...