Katherine Shaw

The Air Year is a time of flight, transition and suspension: signatures scribbled on the sky. Bird's speakers exist in a state of unrest, trapped in a liminal place between take-off and landing, undeniably lost. Love is uncontrollable, joy comes and goes at hurricane speed. They walk to the cliff edge, close their eyes and step out into the air. Includes sexually explicit passages.

The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone. Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using, never mind enjoying, alone time. Rising to the challenge, travel writer Stephanie Rosenbloom explores the joys and benefits of being alone in four mouth-watering journeys to the cities of Paris, Istanbul, Florence and New York, in four seasons.

How long would it take me to fly to a star? What would happen if I fell inside a black hole? Would I get a phone signal in space? From whether there are rainbows on other planets to what dinner tastes like on the International Space Station, this book is packed full of fabulous facts, mind-blowing insights and engaging explanations from the renowned space scientist.

Follow Georgia's hilarious antics as she tries to overcome the dilemma’s that are weighing up against her, and muddle her way through teenage life and all that it entails: how to replace accidentally shaved-off eyebrows; how to cope with Angus, her small labrador-sized Scottish wildcat; her first kiss with Peter - afterwards known as Whelk Boy; annoying teachers; unsympathetic friends and family, and how to entice Robbie the Sex God! Phew - she’s really got her work cut out!

Prepare for a barnstorming performance in the exams - this CGP Text Guide explains everything you need to know about Animal Farm! It covers the characters, language, themes, historical background...the lot. 

"I've been working sooo hard with Milo and Govi to make our super-erupting volcano for the school science fair. I really thought we might win first prize - a trip to the National Space Centre. But now we're in BIG trouble. One minute we were in the lab practising our science demo, and the next thing we knew, our volcano exploded and flooded the corridors. School had to be cancelled! But did we really get our project so wrong - or is someone else trying to win first prize? Looks like a case for Anisha, Accidental Detective!" Book two in the series

Lily has lots of worries. She's struggling to compete in her fell-running races and, worse, she's losing her gran to Alzheimer's. But then she discovers her great-great-grandfather's diaries from the First World War. Could his incredible story of bravery help her reconnect with her gran and even give her the inspiration she needs to push through and win?

Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Prudencia hoped for friendship in San Ireneo but she didn't suspect that she might find love.

England, 1905. Bridget Longfellow is determined to have an adventure before she agrees to marry the dashing Lord Sumner. She plans to cycle around the countryside visiting her penpals, alone and in trousers! Unbeknown to her, however, there are several friends and foes in hot pursuit. Following her are Lord Sumner, to offer his protection; a journalist; a photographer; her maid - and an eccentric cyclist, who believes she's got something that belongs to him...

Working to tackle and destigmatise mental health issues, this informative and supportive book explores depression, a common mental health issue affecting the lives of children today. 

Readers can learn about causes symptoms and practical coping strategies including mindfulness talking therapies and when to seek professional help. We look at how to look after your own mental health and support others around you.

Nature-loving Timi is unsettled by the arrival of a new sibling and turns to tending a tree growing in his local library. But there is something magical about the tree and it is growing FAST… and the library is going to close. Can Timi save the library and his tree, and maybe bring his community closer together along the way? 

New Year's Eve, 1939. Virginia is ten, an orphan arriving to meet her new parents. In her new home on the edge of a vast marsh, the war feels far away amongst the birds and shifting sands - until the day a German fighter plane crashes into the marsh. The people at Salt Winds are the only ones to see it. What happens next is something Virginia will regret for the next seventy-five years, and which will change the whole course of her life.

The second book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games trilogy.

After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out ... and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay.

As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

Then comes the cruellest twist: the contestants for the next Hunger Games are announced, and Katniss and Peeta are forced into the arena once more.

12-year-old Piaf has the ability to (and burden of) remembering everything that has happened since the day she was born. When she discovers everyone in Paris has forgotten the entire last year, 1887, including the disappearance of several gifted children, Piaf and her twin brother Luc embark on a dangerous journey that brings them to the depths of Paris's underground twin, the Catacombs, to capture the memory thief and find the lost children.

Tashi lives in a tiny village below the tea plantations where her mother earns a living. One day her mother falls ill, and Tashi must pick tea to earn the money for a doctor. But she is too small to reach the tender shoots and the cruel Overseer sends her away empty-handed. Tashi needs a miracle. Then, on the mountains high above the plantation where only monkeys live, something extraordinary happens that will change her life for ever…

Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. As a member of an elite SOE unit during the second world war he was parachuted into France, then Burma, in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory began to fail, Keggie embarked on a quest to unravel his story once and for all.

In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. The case cracked the varnish of Victorian respectability, shocking and exciting the public in equal measure.

Anna's new home in England seems very strange, but she has more to worry about when a dragon's egg hatches!

Christina and Will have left Flambards for London where they find a new set of problems, particularly as Will is determined to design and pilot flying machines!  Book 2 of series.

Turned away by his own son, Cessie’s long-lost grandfather finds himself in the place he fears most a nursing home called Shangri-La. Only Cessie loves him and is determined to help him escape and unravel the truth of his past. A past that comes to him only in glimpses a lifeboat, a tin of condensed milk, a terrifying night on the beaches of Dunkirk in World War II…

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.

The old Tarleton music hall on London's Bankside is the subject of a mysterious restraint order that has kept it closed for over ninety years. When Robert Fallon is asked to survey the building, he finds clues indicating that its long twilight sleep may contain a sinister secret.

When Alice Eveleigh arrives at Fiercombe Manor during the summer of 1933, she finds some tantalisingly blurred photographs of a young girl. Alice becomes determined to unearth the truth about Elizabeth Stanton, the girl in the photograph - and stop her own life from becoming an eerie echo of Elizabeth's . . .

When sixteen-year-old Dolly Shepherd is offered the chance to take to the sky in a hot-air balloon, there's no way she's going to turn it down. Even though the pilot actually plans for her to jump out of the balloon and plummet back to earth using just a flimsy parachute. For Dolly, it's the start of a sensational career. But the life of an aeronaut is as dangerous as it is daring, and there will be many narrow escapes along the way...

Pioneering aviatrix Dolly Shepherd comes alive in this thrilling reimagining of her death-defying exploits from bestselling author Karen McCombie.

Book 2 of 'Down to Earth' series. Sequel to 'Year of the Cornflake' (6013). Brian and Faith Addis and their family continue to settle into life in rural Devonshire. After a hectic summer with holidaying children they look forward to a quiet winter, but Marcus is involved in a road accident!

One week away from her wedding and Liverpudlian Emma and five friends head to Dublin for a hen party. After sampling the local brew Pauline meets the Mafia, Tracey makes her stage debut and Emma falls for an attractive stranger. Contains some offensive language.

Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish literature, praised for her 'edgy precision, an uncanny sympathy and warmth, an unsettling sense of history' ( J.D. McClatchy). Her final volume, The Historians, is the culmination of her signature themes, exploring the ways in which the hidden, sometimes all-but-erased stories of women's lives can powerfully revise our sense of the past.

Blindfolded. Alone. Afraid. No idea where she is or what will happen next. The only thing Angela knows is that she's been kidnapped. Does she have the courage to escape? Will she ever see her father again?

A beautiful and unusual selection of 366 nature poems - one for every day of the year, including leap years. Filled with familiar favourites and new discoveries, they are written by a wide variety of poets, for children and adults to enjoy together.

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions - and more - are answered in this truly intimate history of the home.

Love and despair, ambition and breakdown, power and loss – this eclectic mix of poetry explores a wide range of female emotions from some of the leading women writers of our time including Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Jenny Joseph, Sylvia Plath and Maya Angelou.

Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison's second book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson.

What is the matter with my life? Why is it so deeply unfab?

It's a day and a half now since I snogged the Sex God...
I think I have snog withdrawal. My lips keep puckering up...
I tried snogging the back of my hand, but it's no good...
It's been over a week. I wonder if it's my nose...
I have a HUGE nose that means I have to live for ever in the Ugly Home.

When Katy is assigned a history project on World War Two, she moans and groans with the rest of her class. Work? During half term? Simply not fair! But when Katy and her brother wake to find them themselves in 1940s England, school projects are pushed far from their minds. Can Katy change the course of history and prevent the tragic death of a little girl in a terrifying air raid? And can Katy and her brother make it back home?

Alice Robinson is having doubts about her job on a fashionable London art magazine. Agreeing to house sit for her parents, she moves back to the suburban streets of her childhood, a world of Girl Guides, Tudor houses and blossom trees, and finds herself confronting some truths about the way she's chosen to live her life.

Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, this is her astounding account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness.

One woman's journey through love, loss and healing. When her husband is diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour and she is plunged into widowhood at the tender age of 37, Kathryn's world is shattered. Life Matters is a searing account of the days that follow. Throughout, her unwavering love of horses weaves a golden thread of faith, providing strength through the darkest of times and warmth in a time of overwhelming grief. A tribute to the power of love and a testament to the strength and fortitude of the human spirit. This memoir of grief and loss is written from the heart and soul.