Childrens British Fiction

*The Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author is back with her unputdownable new thriller!* SHE INHERITED HIS FORTUNE. AND HIS SECRET SON... Isla Hanson has the perfect life: a big house in the suburbs and a doting, older husband, Jerry. Only one thing is missing - a baby. When Jerry dies...

A USA TODAY bestselling novel! As Paris rebuilds in the aftermath of World War II, Kat Fontaine never expected the skills she learned in a French chateau kitchen to be the key that unlocks the secrets swirling in her new post-war life. "Balancing action-packed scenes with entertaining...

Bloomsbury presents The Geneva Trap, the seventh novel in the Agent Liz Carlyle series by Stella Rimington. Read by Amy Noble. When a rogue Russian spy warns her of a plot to hack into the West's military satellite systems, MI5's Liz Carlyle finds her past catching up with her... Geneva, 2012. A...

Bloomsbury presents The Moscow Sleepers, the tenth book in the Agent Liz Carlyle series by Stella Rimington, read by Amy Noble For fans of Spooks, Homeland, McMafia and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington’s gripping espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a...

The next BRAND NEW nostalgic, feel-good novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Gervase Phinn. 'Gervase Phinn has a unique understanding of children and a glorious sense of humour which make his books much loved best sellers. I’m a huge fan.' Esther Rantzen Yorkshire, 1956. When Helen...

Bloomsbury presents Children of the Siege by Diney Costeloe, read by Georgia Maguire. Heart-stopping and gripping, this classic Diney Costeloe story shows the courage of one family in the face of great danger. Nineteenth-century Paris is in flames, houses ransacked, streets barricaded. Most...

In Regency England an advantageous match could set up a lady for life. Julia knows Matthew Blake, copper mine owner and very eligible bachelor, is the gentleman she should set her eyes upon. But why can’t she steal her gaze away from his younger brother, Isaac? Cornwall, England, 1818: Julia...

Bloomsbury presents The Sisters of St Croix by Diney Costeloe, read by Nicolette McKenzie. A gripping story of love, death and danger in Nazi-occupied France from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. When Adelaide Anson-Gravetty finds out her father is not the man who raised her...

The complete series of Father Christmas letters written by JRR Tolkien for his own children between 1920 and 1943. Can you imagine writing to Father Christmas and actually getting a reply? Every year, the children of J.R.R. Tolkien would write to Father Christmas, and the letters they received...

A young widow faces an uncertain future . . . until an unexpected encounter with her first love gives her heart a second chance. This low-spice Regency romance is perfect for fans of Poldark, Julie Klassen, and Mimi Matthews. England, 1817--Charlotte Grey thought she had seen the last of Anthony...

The twenty-first novel in Number One bestselling author Peter Robinson's critically acclaimed DCI Banks series. Ex-college lecturer Gavin Miller is found dead; his distorted body strewn across a disused railway track near his home. There's no sign of a struggle, and no concrete evidence except...

Discover this heartbreaking novel based on the powerful true story of the children of Lingfield House. An astonishing account of healing in the face of unimaginable horror. In 1945, twenty-five child survivors of the Holocaust, between the ages of four and fifteen, were welcomed to Sir Benjamin...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes “a poignant, searing tale” (O: The Oprah Magazine) about a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world. “A powerful book, rich with empathy and charged with...

'A hugely entertaining mystery' – Fiona Noble, The Bookseller Children's Previews 'One to Watch' Greenwich, London, 15th February 1894. Luna thinks that an evening at her aunt's butterfly club sounds deathly boring. But it turns out that the meeting, held in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich...

A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of tales Robert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Long John Silver and David Balfour to Dr Jekyll...

Sunday Times Novel of the Year Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. Whilst dining at the Bantrys, Miss Marple is asked to tell a murder mystery. She recounts the time she could tell from a man’s behaviour that he was planning to kill his wife. But at the time of the...

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in this collection from the unique, fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon. These twelve stories range from Holmes' very first case to the epic struggle between Holmes and Moriarty high above the Reichenbach Falls. The stories are...

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. A woman violently attacked in her bed. A billionaire businessman on trial at The Old Bailey. As the world’s press gather outside London’s luxurious Tribeca hotel, can Jon Roscoe protect his own family from the...

She wished she might be able to keep him from an absolute declaration. That would be so very painful a conclusion of their present acquaintance! and yet, she could not help rather anticipating something decisive. She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a...