Charlie Sanderson

After their mother is killed, Nessie Carson will do anything to keep her family together. When they are evicted from their Nuneaton home, she and her brothers and sisters take on jobs as live-in assistants to a local undertaker. But even in the darkest of times, and saddest of places, when you're as spirited as Nessie, there is light, love and the promise of happiness - if you're only brave enough to search for it ...

Instead of snoring in their space pod like the rest of her family, Astra is wide awake. With her robot friend, Pilbeam, she goes exploring and soon finds out the ship is in deep trouble. It's been knocked off course and invaded by a gang of Poglites, an alien salvage crew searching for spoonage (they just love collecting spoons)! But even the Poglites need Astra's help when they discover something far more sinister lurking in the canteen!

Lottie Brooks is back for spring term at secondary school, and with her best friends, Jess and Molly, at her side, she can face anything. No more trying to impress mean girls Amber and Poppy. And absolutely no more being nicknamed Cucumber Girl. Plus, the spring musical means Lottie can dazzle her mega-crush, Daniel, with her talent as a singing crustacean. But her friendship with Jess and Molly seems to be going off the rails, however much she tries to keep them all together. What's she going to do? Three isn't really a crowd...is it? Book two in the series

'Dear Santa, For Christmas this year, I would like: Two hundred KitKat chunkies (full-size not multipack), Baby Bella to not vomit on my presents like last year, a new brother who doesn't fart on me and call it a "tasty air biscuit", Antoine (the Handsome French Boy) to surprise me on Christmas day in the style of a Netflix rom-com, sparkly eye-shadow, a new diary (I'm really getting through them!) Lots of love, Lottie Brooks. p.s Please could you put a chocolate orange instead of a real orange in my stocking this year?'

Christmas is complete chaos this year! The whole Brooks family are visiting for the festive break, there's a Secret Santa to organise AND Lottie has to prepare for her big performance in the Christmas play as the back-end of a reindeer. Will she survive the festivities intact?

Widow, Dilly Carey, has struggled out of poverty to make a life for herself. But she is troubled by a secret she must never share. It's time for Dilly to make her peace with a choice that she was forced to make but will she also find a way to a new happiness - and a new love?

One thing unites the wealthy Farthing family and hardworking Dilly Carey - Olivia, the daughter Dilly gave to the Farthings years before. Dilly is still living with the consequences when unmarried Olivia arrives on her doorstep, with a baby girl in tow, begging for help.

With her husband unable to work and four children already, Dilly can't afford to feed her new-born baby. Heartbroken, she delivers her baby girl to the Farthing family who have just lost their own daughter to measles. This act of desperation will change the lives of both families irrevocably.

Sometimes all it takes is a little magic to find your voice. Alice Tonks is eager to make friends at boarding school, but she's always found it hard to fit in. Then she discovers she is a switcher and can talk to animals. As she starts to explore her newfound abilities, to her horror she learns that creatures are going missing. Only Alice holds the key to solving the mystery, but she'll need to harness her full powers first. And to do that she'll need a bit of help from her new friends - animal and human alike. A story about finding your voice, friendship and unlikely heroes.

Lottie Brooks is 11 ¾, and her life is already officially over - not only is she about to start high school without any friends or glamorous swooshy hair, she's just discovered she's too flat-chested to wear a bra! She might as well give up now and go into hibernation with her hamsters Sir Barnaby Squeakington and Fuzzball the Third. First book in the series

Green and Blue are sisters. Foxlowe is home. Outside is Bad. There really is no reason for anyone to want to leave... A chilling, compulsive story about group mentality, superstition and betrayal - and a utopian commune gone badly wrong.

Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman’s purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house.

Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including Flabberghast, a young wizard who’s particularly competitive at hopscotch. Its inhabitants have been placed under an extraordinary spell, which they are desperate for Nine to break – and if she can, maybe they can offer her a new life in return…

Emily loves living on Funfair Moon - especially when she gets to help Jinks & O'Hare, the extraordinary repair team. But when chaos strikes during a crucial funfair inspection, Emily has to act fast.

Can she deal with a violent fudgesplosion, a gravity inversion and a marauding candyfloss creature? Or does this spell doom for Funfair Moon?

Emily loves living on Funfair Moon - especially when she gets to help Jinks & O'Hare, the extraordinary repair team. But when chaos strikes during a crucial funfair inspection, Emily has to act fast.

Can she deal with a violent fudgesplosion, a gravity inversion and a marauding candyfloss creature? Or does this spell doom for Funfair Moon?

At Treetops Foundling Home in Victorian Nuneaton, one special little girl brings sunshine and joy wherever she goes. Kitty grows into a beguiling young woman, but she quickly discovers that her beauty is no protection against the peril she finds herself in, as this innocent young girl makes her way in the music halls and theatres of the big city…

Woe is me. So much is wrong in my life... Still look like a tomato. Am stuck indoors whilst my friends go bowling without me (rude). My parents are leaving me to go out on a 'Date Night'. GROSS! After a summer of meeting handsome French boys and getting a tiny bit sunburnt. OK, fine - a lot sunburnt, Lottie's heading off on a week-long residential school trip. A whole week away from embarrassing parents and Toby's tasty air biscuits! But the trip soon turns into a total disaster. The other girls staying at the camp are MEGA-MEAN, best friend Jess is spending all her time with new girl Isha, and Lottie's diary gets stolen! Who knew a school trip could cause so much DRAMA?!

Ginny’s drunken father, devastated by the death of her mother and three siblings, ends up imprisoned for murder. Charlie, Ginny’s 8-year-old sickly brother, is taken to the workhouse. Ginny is forced to flee her job and the unwanted advances of the baker. Close to breaking point, her beauty leads her to become Lady’s Maid to the difficult Miss Diana at Lamp Hill Hall. However, all Ginny wants is to find her brother.

At long last Lottie and Daniel are an official couple and everything seems to be going brilliantly (except for Amber being increasingly mean and jealous, but what's new there?).

Meanwhile Toby's new year's resolution is to get a dog, and for once Lottie and him see eye to eye. Pot Noodle, the cockapoo, becomes the newest member of the Brooks family. He's VERY cute but also not toilet trained AT ALL.

Lottie soon finds having a new boyfriend and a new dog means she has little time for anyone else, leaving her best friends pretty upset. How is Lottie meant to keep everybody happy and stop Pot Noodle from pooing on the carpet?!

Lottie Brooks is back for more extremely embarrassing adventures as she goes on holiday and gets her very first boyfriend! Daniel and Lottie finally have their first date. A trip to a fancy gelato in Brighton. But how do you eat ice-cream in front of your crush and is Lottie ready for her first kiss? I mean he's nice and all but boys are still a bit gross, right?

The school holidays are looming, and with Lottie off camping to France for two weeks and Daniel spending most of the summer on a fancy Greek island, it looks as if the young lovebirds will be cruelly ripped apart. But then Lottie makes friends with a French boy called Antoine—the language is an obvious barrier but does it matter when he's that good looking?

Warwickshire, 1840s: boys are destined for the pit and girls for the mill. Despite this, Maryann is happy there. Then she is offered a position as nanny to the daughter of the mill owner, Wesley Marshall. But their close relationship doesn’t go unnoticed, threatening to unleash a world of problems on them all…

It's 1884 and 14-year-old Sunday Small has been in the Nuneaton workhouse since she was abandoned at birth. The regime is cruel and now she's attracted the unwelcome attention of the seedy workhouse master. It's time for Sunday to strike out alone in the world, but the brutal world of the workhouse will not let her go without a fight...

Young Nelly Dean has been living at the great house, Wuthering Heights for as long as she can remember. But when the master brings a wild child into the house, Nelly must follow in her mother’s footsteps and be called servant. When a new heir is born, a reign of violence begins that will test Nelly’s spirit as she finds out what it is to know true sacrifice.

Kelda has always protected her little sister Isla from danger on the rivers, and from the suspicions of their community. For Isla cannot breathe underwater - and so her very existence is forbidden by silvermen's Lore. Now the rivers of England are growing sick: monstrous creatures are awakening and a fierce torrent of blame falls upon Kelda's family.

When betrayal comes, the sisters escape on a desperate journey upstream. Joining forces with a mysterious boy, Kelda discovers the darkest depths of her kind's secret history. But to save both her sister and the very life of Britain's waterways, Kelda will have to make a sacrifice - one that will change her life forever. 

Everyone knows Nell is not the adventurous type. But, when her boyfriend doesn't turn up for their romantic mini-break, Nell has the chance to prove everyone wrong. Alone in Paris, Nell meets the mysterious Fabien. Could this turn out to be the most adventurous weekend of her life? Quick Reads.

Nuneaton, 1911. When Holly Farthing's overbearing grandfather tries to force her to marry a widower twice her age, she flees to London. In the big smoke, Holly begins nurse training and meets the dashing Doctor Parkin. He is everything she has ever dreamt of. But soon she discovers some shocking news and her life is suddenly thrown into turmoil. Can Holly ever find the happiness she so truly deserves?