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Bloomsbury presents Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror by Natasha Farrant, read by Becky King. 'Mirror, mirror on the wall... what makes a princess excellent?' An enchantress flings her magic mirror into our universe. Reflected in it are princesses who refuse to be pretty, polite or obedient...

What makes a princess excellent? Eager to learn the answer, an enchantress casts her magic mirror into our universe. Reflected in it are princesses from around the world and across centuries who refuse to be pretty, polite, and obedient. Princess Leila of the desert protects her people from the...

From the Costa Award Winning author of Voyage of the Sparrowhawk comes an epic adventure with a call to arms: we must fight to save the most treasured things on our planet. Ravenwood. A place where things happen . . . On the top of the hill, overlooking the sea, that's where you'll find a...

Olivia hat eine besondere Freundin: die Eiche. Ihr kann sie all ihre Wünsche und Sorgen anvertrauen. Als ihr Vater beschließt, den alten Baum zu fällen, um ein Sommerhaus zu errichten, bleibt Olivia nicht viel Zeit: Sie verspricht ihrer Freundin und allen anderen Bäumen, sie zu retten, und begibt sich mit ihnen auf eine magische Reise zu fernen Kontinenten, blühenden persischen Gärten und sogar hinab in die tiefen Unterwasserwälder, wo sich Meermenschen verstecken.

Magical interlinked stories about what one girl learns from talking to trees throughout Time and from around the world. A companion volume to Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror by Costa Book Award-winning Natasha Farrant and Lydia Corry. Trees are storykeepers, witnesses to magic and history...

When Alice Mistlethwaite is shipped off to boarding school in Scotland it's nothing like she imagines. Run by the mysterious Major, there are no punishments and the students are more likely to be taught about body painting or extreme survival than maths or English! Then Alice's dad goes missing...

"Lille spejl på væggen der, det bedste og viseste i landet her, hvad gør en prinsesse fantastisk?" En troldkvinde sender sit spejl ud i verden på en rejse gennem tid og rum for give hende svar på spørgsmålet. I spejlets refleksioner møder vi otte meget forskellige prinsesser, som har det til fælles, at de er fulde af vovemod og handlekraft. Alle nægter de bare at være pæne og lydige, men kan i den grad klare at redde sig selv. Her kommer otte historier om prinsesser til generationen, der elskede 'Rebelske pigers godnathistorier'!

Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES Children's Book of the Year The second sensational middle-grade standalone that follows an epic voyage from England to France in the aftermath of WW1, from the bestselling author of The Children of Castle Rock. In the aftermath...

Deep in the English countryside, Marshwood has always been much more than just a house. When the roof starts to cave in and the money runs out, 80-year-old Bella resists the pressure to sell and instead begins to peel back the layers of the past. As this imposing house gives up its secrets of marriage, war and forbidden love, patterns begin to repeat themselves when Bella's granddaughter's childhood sweetheart returns from the war in Bosnia. And as all three characters explore whether you can ever truly go back, the past and the present collide with shattering consequences.

What will two children do to win an island? From Costa-winning author of Voyage of the Sparrowhawk. Skylar's old friends felt sorry for her but they were too afraid to talk to her. Yakov's old friends were far away, blown across continents by war . . . When Skylar meets Yakov she is still...