Marcus Sedgwick

A fictional retelling of the Russian Revolution and the story of the author Arthur Ransome, who was accused of spying. He left his wife and daughter after falling in love with Russia and a Russian woman.

England is covered in water making Norwich an island and Zoe survives there as best she can. Alone she manages to get away to Eels Island but finds that it is dominated by a strange boy, Dooby.

Seventeen-year-old Sasha's gift of being able to see into the future shows her the horrors of the battlefields of the First World War, and worst of all the fate of her two brothers, Edgar and Tom. Sasha is forced to flee from her over-protective parents to become a nurse at the front. There she tries to change the path of fate.

Marko and Sorrel meet in Venice for the first time,drawn together by the mystery of what has happened to both their fathers. One is plagued by a strange madness that prevents him from sleeping. The other, a doctor, has mysteriously gone missing after travelling to Venice to help his old friend. A gothic novel of love and loss in C 18th Venice.

A chilling tale set in 17th century Eastern Europe where Tomas and his father set up home in the forest. There they face a soulless enemy and a terrifying destiny.

Set in 1910 in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle, Sig Andersson is alone with the corpse of his father, frozen to death that morning when he fell through the ice on the lake. Then a mysterious stranger arrives who has come to take revenge on his dead father…

Of all weathers, snow is the one that has always affected Marcus Sedgwick the most. A few years ago he bought a mountain home, an old chalet high in the Haute Savoie, and for the first time he began to understand what it is to live in an environment where extreme snowfall is frequent.