Ruth Sillers

Iris, Marianne, Eva and Clemency are all daughters of Sheffield manufacturer, Joshua Maclise. As war approaches and changes the sisters' lives, Clemency fights to free herself from the bonds that confine her and to discover love at last.

All Charlotte's dreams for her future are dashed when her father is imprisoned. Verity, her friend, rescues her, but will life on a country estate make up for the dreams that can never come true?

Harriet is totally disillusioned by her marriage to Tony, but determined to stay loyal to her vows. Until, that is, Paul comes back into her life, just as she needs a friend.

When Barney Bardsley’s husband died of cancer, she steeled herself to cope by taking one day at a time. During this dark time she took to tending her small, scruffy allotment and she slowly began to find comfort in nature. As the seasons unfold, she charts how her own life is slowly restored under the garden’s healing influence.

Harriet Rose has been writing down her philosophical reflections on life for some time now. For her 14th birthday, her mother and grandmother publish her writings - and Harriet is plunged into the lifestyle of a successful writer.

Aoife and her brother Madoc are Roman slaves trying to escape to the safety of Britannia and their father Caratacus. Discovering this, the Emperor orders them aboard his fleet, as he is about to sail to Britannia to put down their father's anti-Roman rebellion. He realises what valuable hostages they will be.

Committed eco-worriers Evie and Lola are very concerned about green issues. When they find a penguin chick in the garden they are really worried. Have the ice caps finally melted and the poor penguins been forced into new lands?

Living busily on Planet Earth, we rarely remember that we actually inhabit only a miniscule part of the universe. In this book the author paints the wider picture, and takes us on a journey across billions of kilometers in our galaxy, from our Sun to near and distant planets.

For 2,500 years, mathematicians and scientists have investigated our universe and found that the dimensions, the temperatures and the speeds (light years!) are unbelievably extreme. A fascinating introduction for younger listeners.

Holly wakes up one morning to find a whale beached in the cove beside her island home. Soon there is a group effort to save the whale, but things are not as simple as Holly would like.

War Girls is a commemoration and celebration of the remarkable, often deeply moving and largely unsung experiences of women in the First World War told in their own words. Through poetry, journals and letters this audio book documents the contribution made by women from all walks of society - from campaigning for peace to working on the home front and in the services. Some are the writings of established poets and novelists but many more are the records of ordinary women living in extraordinary times. They detail not only personal hardship and suffering but also the joy and excitement of a new society emerging as the war brought women challenges, freedoms and possibilities previously unknown to them. A century on, their experiences are still as compelling, powerful and relevant as they were at the time.

Unlike her school friends, who are obsessed with make-up and boyfriends, Symone lives in a world of her own with an unusual imaginary friend, Captain Oates, hero of the Antarctic. A trip to the South Pole leaves Sym fighting for her life; how will she survive her ordeal?