In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you’re offered something irresistible – not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love . . .
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.To see what kind of person you really were.For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.Before he gave it all away.He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . .A magical, time-travelling love…
This does not bother her much: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been raised by her Aunt Isabelle, with assistance from the Butler, and has spent a pleasant childhood of afternoon teas and riding lessons. Now, however, her parents have left detailed instructions for Bronte in their will. (Instructions that, annoyingly, have been reinforced with faery cross-sti…
All Betty Widdershins wants is an adventure--one that takes her far away from Crowstone, the gloomy island where she's always lived. But instead of an adventure, Betty and her sisters, Fliss and Charlie, are given of a set of magical objects, each with its own powers: a scruffy carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls, and a gilt-framed mirror. And these magical objects come with their own ter…
The family curse has been lifted and the Widdershins sisters: Betty, Fliss and Charlie are free to leave the prison island of Crowstone. But when a mysterious girl arrives at the Poacher’s Pocket with a pocketful of hagstones and accompanied by a will-o’-the-wisp, it seems another adventure has landed on their doorstep. And when Charlie goes missing, it’s up to Betty and Fliss to journey …
Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the earth itself . . . Daisy Thistledown has escaped from boarding school and has a mystery to solve. Her search for her missing mother will lead her across London and through a hidden doorway to another world, filled with plants and bursting with magic: the Greenwild. But all is not well in th…
Daisy Thistledown's magical adventure continues in The City Beyond the Sea, the spellbinding sequel to Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year, Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson. Across the ocean, a magical adventure awaits . . . Daisy Thistledown and the Five O'Clock Club might have defeated a terrifying enemy, but their journey to find the missing Botanists is just be…
With the support of the Iffenwilders and their mighty water magic, Daisy and her friends are finally setting off to rescue the Botanists held prisoner in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. But their rescue mission is sent spinning off course when Daisy and Max are separated, and Max shipwrecked on an impossible shore with no way of escape. Even Daisy's arrival at the forest in the sky - the st…