Engeland, 1553. Je denkt misschien dat je dit verhaal al kent. Maar laten we je geheugen toch even opfrissen: Jane Grey had het geluk - of de pech, dat is maar net hoe je het bekijkt - dat haar oma de jongere zus was van de beruchte Henry VIII. Je weet wel, die koning die maar liefst zes keer trouwde en twee van zijn echtgenotes een kopje kleiner liet maken. Letterlijk.

Om een lang verhaal kort te maken: Henry's enige nog levende zoon was ernstig ziek en om de kroon niet in de verkeerde handen...

Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller ‘Full of warmth as well as grief, conveying vividly how precious it is to be alive’ Sunday Times As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside. But the clock is ticking, and every moment Tommo spends remembering how things used to be, means another moment closer to something that will cha...

The first novel in this award-winning sequence about racism set in an alternate reality. Upcoming BBC1 production of "Noughts & Crosses" in a series produced by Mammoth Screen, of Poldark fame, coming in 2017.

How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?She stumbled backwards, her eyes wide, as the figure started coming out of the canvas... She tried to be brave. Well, she said, her hands only a little shaky, at least tell me what I should call you.

... Well, little girl, it replied, I suppose you can call me Pet. There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught.

With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown...