Eva Ibbotson

Fulton Snodde-Brittles has gone to the Dial A Ghost agency with an evil plan. He wants to hire some terrifying ghosts to scare his nephew Oliver to death. ‘The Shriekers’ are the most violent sceptres the agency has, but a mix-up means the kind Wilkinson ghosts are sent in their place. Now Oliver has some spooky allies to help him outwit the wicked Fulton!

Maia, an orphan, is being sent to start a new life with relatives she has never met. Accompanied by Miss Minton, a governess, she travels a thousand miles up the Amazon to River Sea, where unimaginable adventures await her.

Susanna Weber, renowned for producing the most elegant, exquisite couture in Vienna, touches numerous lives as matchmaker, comforter, confidante and passionate lover.

A forgotten door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical kingdom - an island where humans live happily with mermaids, ogres, and other wonderful creatures - and is only accessible for nine days every nine years. When the island's prince is captured, it's up to a strange band of rescuers to save him. But can they do it before the door closes for another nine years?

When Ellen Carr takes a job at an unorthodox school in Austria she enters an eccentric world of wild children, experimental dancers and naked Harmony teachers. Meanwhile, outside the castle, Hitler’s Reich is gathering strength.

Annika, abandoned as a baby, has been raised in an academic household in Vienna in the early 1900s. She dreams that her mother will return, then one day a glamorous woman arrives and sweeps Annika away to a crumbling estate.