Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar even when you've never been there before, or felt that you've known someone even though you are meeting them for the first time? In a novel comprising seven short stories each of them influen[...]
What would you sacrifice for someone you've loved forever? Eric and Merle are lovers, tragically torn apart, but whose souls have been searching for each other for ten centuries.[...]
Laureth Peak's father is a writer. For years he's been trying, and failing, to write a novel about coincidence. His wife thinks he's obsessed, Laureth thinks he's on the verge of a breakdown. He's supposed to be doing research in Austria, so when his notebook shows up in New York, Laureth knows some[...]
A cleverly interlinked novel written in four parts by PRINTZ AWARD-winning author, Marcus Sedgwick, about survival and discovery, and about the effect of the spiral, a symbol that has no end, on all our lives. The spiral has existed as long as time has existed. It's there when a girl walks through t[...]
A cleverly interlinked novel written in four parts by PRINTZ AWARD-winning author, Marcus Sedgwick, about survival and discovery, and about the effect of the spiral, a symbol that has no end, on all our lives. The spiral has existed as long as time has existed. Follow the ways of infinity to discove[...]
Held captive in the palace of the Emperor Frederick, Boy and Willow are plunged into a world of gilded finery and splendour. But beneath its golden veneer lies cruelty, madness and desperation. They are in terrible danger as they confront the whirlwind furies of the Emperor, the calculating ambition[...]
1910. A cabin north of the Arctic Circle. Fifteen-year-old Sig Andersson is alone. Alone, except for the corpse of his father, who died earlier that day after falling through a weak spot on the ice-covered lake. His sister, Anna, and step-mother, Nadya, have gone to the local town for help. Then com[...]
It's summer. Rebecca is an unwilling visitor to Winterfold - taken from the buzz of London and her friends and what she thinks is the start of a promising romance. Ferelith already lives in Winterfold - it's a place that doesn't like to let you go, and she knows it inside out - the beach, the crum[...]
The days between 27 December and New Year's Eve are dead days - days when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. There is a man, Valerian, whose time is running out, who must pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. His servan[...]
It is 1915. 17 year old Sasha Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom, have gone to war and Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see the future. Her premonitions show her untold horrors on the battlefi[...]
In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust and despite the inhospitability of the villagers settle there as woodcutters. Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why[...]
Set at the time of the Russian Revolution, the end of a centuries old dynasty, the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. This is the story of one man who was there. It's real history - about the riches and excesses, the glory of the Russian nobility, Nicholas and Alexandra, their [...]
Marcus Sedgwick's tale of Venice and vampires is a captivating companion volume to the bestselling My Swordhand is Singing. Marko and Sorrel meet in Venice for the first time. They must uncover the mystery of what has happened both to Sorrel's father, plagued by a strange madness that prevents him f[...]
Imagine that a few years from now England is covered by water, and Norwich is an island. Zoe, left behind in the confusion when her parents escaped, survives there as best she can. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Isla[...]
The fire was a family tragedy that Jamie can't forget, even in his dreams. And now there is something terrifying happening to him in Crownhill, the village where he's been sent to get over his problems. Something to do with an evil old witch who gets into his nightmares, and a frightened girl, the[...]
A boy destined to lead his clan; a girl raised by wolves; a stranger with a sealed box. These are the elements of this powerful novel, set on a rocky northern coast in a distant time, in a small community who lives in dread of the coming of the legendary warrior tribe, the Dark Horse. Told in par[...]
En inte helt vanlig familj!
Familjen Annorhand är så långtifrån medelsvenssons man kan komma och livet på deras slott är onekligen underligt. Korpen Edgar, slottets självutnämnde beskyddare, har inte mycket till övers för familjen, men han kan ändå inte låta bli att rädda de[...]
Vad är det som låter?
Följ med till det hemlighetsfulla slottet Annorstädes och träffa den underbart knäppa familjen Annorhand och deras trofaste beskyddare, korpen Edgar.
Mullrandet och klagandet från den försvunna södra flygeln kan in längre ignoreras då familjens [...]
Spöken och underliga varelser med långa tentakler är småpotatis för invånarna i borgen Annorstädes. Men när pappa Valevin anställer en ny privatlärare blir det bara för mycket, tycker Solaria och Noppe.
Men det hela är mycket värre än de kunde föreställa sig ens i sin vild[...]
En utflykt till cirkusen får långtgående konsekvenser för familjen Annorhand när apan Snubben försvinner. I rask takt hamnar Minty i klorna på en slug spågumma, slottet översvämmas av små fluffiga kaniner, en lerig anka och en hamster och lord Valevin uppfinner en dödlig vitkålsräknare[...]
Halloween hör till familjen Annorhands favorithögtider. Finns det något roligare än den årliga pumpajakten? Det skulle i så fall vara den stora Halloweenbalen.
Familjen har fullt upp innan gästerna anländer. Mamma Minty irrar omkring, Solaria sprejar falska spindelnät i alla hör[...]
Det råder som vanligt fullt kaos hos familjen Annorhand. Som tur är har de Edgar som äntligen får en värdig utmaning! Slottet Annorhand är till salu. Därför råder kaos och katastrof och Minty, lord Valevin, Solaria och Noppe har bara några timmar på sig att göra sig av med en mystisk tid[...]
När skogshuggaren Tomas och hans son Peter mitt i vintern slår sig ner i den ogästvänliga byn Chust, gräver Tomas ett brett dike runt deras hus och låter den framforsande floden fylla vallgraven med vatten. Peter förstår inte varför hans pappa gör detta, eller varför han bär med sig en a[...]
-För en yrkesman är allt som uppvisar skicklighet och effektivitet inom det egna yrket någonting vackert och därmed är ett mordiskt vapen vackert för en soldat, i förhållande till den uppgift den har."Chamber"s Edinburgh Journal, 1853
1910. I en stuga långt upp i Arktis sitter fe[...]