Alison Larkin

The night before his fifth birthday, a young boy who can’t wait to grow up receives a visit from the Birthday Dinosaur. Together they fly off on a magical adventure, high above the earth.

Adopted at birth into a loving family, Pippa Dunn hopes that finding her birth parents will help her understand why she's so different from everyone she knows - and somehow cure her of her inability to trust even the most devoted of men. She meets her birth mother in Georgia, her charismatic father in Washington DC - and moves to New York to be near them. At the same time, she re-connects with a man she hardly knows, who also seems to understand her. She's found her 'self' and everything she thought she wanted. Or has she?

Alison Larkin selects and introduces fairytales of strong, independent, brave, and at times irreverent girls and women who take charge of their lives, rescue themselves and sometimes even save the men they love. These are not stories of helpless females shut up in high towers waiting around for a handsome man to rescue them. These heroines have far more to distinguish them than the fact that they (sometimes) end up married to a prince.

Alison Larkin selects and introduces fairytales of strong, independent, brave, and at times irreverent girls and women who take charge of their lives, rescue themselves and sometimes even save the men they love. These are not stories of helpless females shut up in high towers waiting around for a handsome man to rescue them. These heroines have far more to distinguish them than the fact that they (sometimes) end up married to a prince.

When Jessica sits next to Francis on a bench during recess, he's surprised to learn that she isn't actually alive - she's a ghost. And she's surprised, too, because Francis is the first person who has been able to see her since she died.

Before long, Francis and Jessica are best friends, and when they meet two more friends who can also see Jessica, the question arises: What is it that they have in common? And does it have something to do with Jessica being a ghost?

Caroline Jane Knight is the last of the Austen Knight family to grow up at Chawton House, where Jane Austen lived and wrote. When she was seventeen, Caroline and her family were forced to leave the home her family had lived in for centuries. Heartbroken and determined to leave all things Austen behind her, this is the story of Caroline's journey from an idyllic childhood, through personal crisis and success, to her eventual embrace of her Austen heritage and the creation of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation.

‘A Mole Like No Other’ is a delightful book about a toy mole, who is looking for love, friendship and his place in the world.

The story of Moley and his friends – toys and real animals – is set in a cosy English country house with a traditional garden. But behind all this tranquillity, challenges and even dangers, await the characters.

A re-telling of J M Barrie's classic tale of Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up which also includes 'The Inconsiderate Waiter'. In the world of the Victorian Club, it does not do for a gentleman to be seen to take an interest in any member of the working class. How dreadfully inconvenient then, when the narrator's waiter begins to display alarming tendencies towards having a personality, and feelings of his own.