Kate Thompson

During the Second World War, in the iconic Bryant & May match factory, Annie, Rose, Pearl and Millie carry on making matches for the British Army, with bombs raining down around them. Inspired by the Dig for Victory campaign, Annie persuades the owners to start an allotment in the factory grounds. In the darkest of times, the girls find their allotment a tranquil, happy escape and they bring about a powerful change, not just in the factory, but their own lives.

Bobbys mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, but all he wants is to get back to Dublin to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shops and racing stolen cars at night. But the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there.

After a fire at her father’s research lab, Laurie is arrested and unsure what to say in her defence. Should she tell about the mysterious horsemen that she saw in the woods, and the terrifying truth which lay behind their appearance? In the eyes of the police she is a criminal. But Laurie knows that she’s a hero.

London, 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the railway tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a whole community thrives: with hundreds of bunk beds, a café and a theatre offering shelter from the bombs that fall above.

Along with her glamorous best friend and assistant librarian, Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the women's determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits when it seems it may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive.

Based on true events, The Little Wartime Library is an inspiring and heart-wrenching story of life on the homefront, and of the strength of courage required to fight for what you believe in.

Tess has felt alone and isolated since she lost Kevin and she knows she must find another switcher, but when she answers the familiar call she fears there may be sinister consequences.

Helen Liddy always says that what she wants is more time, so her son, fifteen-year-old JJ sets out to buy her some. At the same time he discovers the answer to a family mystery, as well as some remarkable things about music and myth.

For the women of 1940s' London, the battles are on the home front. The colourful mix of characters working at Trout's, have turned their sewing expertise to war work. Dolly Doolaney and the sewing bees all play their part in defending the frontline. But as the Blitz hits London, can Dolly manage to contain the secret that binds them all?

1942. Poppy Percival starts work as a seamstress at Trout's clothing factory. For Poppy and her new friends, the war will throw their lives into turmoil but also bring these women closer to each other than they could ever have imagined.

Kevin and Tess are switchers, able to take on the shape and feelings of any creature they choose. When they switch into rats they are warned of a great danger from the North. Can they save the world from icy destruction?