‘Would you ever give up trying to find your child, if they vanished without a trace?’– The Island of Longing [ About The Island of Longing ] One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched her daughter Saoirse cycle into town, expecting to hear the slam of the door when she returned a few hours later. But the…
‘The true story of an extraordinary wartime friendship‘– The Secret Elephant [ About the Book ] As war looms on the horizon, things are changing at Belfast Zoo. Before, screeching monkeys dangled in trees, roaring lions sunbathed on the dusty ground and sniffling meerkats patrolled their enclosure. But now, people have stopped visiting and there…
‘Put me out with the bins’, he said, regularly. ‘When I die, put me out with the bins. I’ll be dead, so I won’t know any different’– Strange Sally Diamond [ About the Book ] Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her…
‘Saoirse was the name that revealed itself. Freedom.’The Queen of Dirt Island [ About The Queen of Dirt Island ] ‘The Aylward women are mad about each other, but you wouldn’t always think it. You’d have to know them to know – in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic…
‘They’d both known something was wrong straightaway. Really super wrong. As if the whole party-chaos-house-smashed-Katie-grounded-forever thing wasn’t bad enough’– Something Terrible Happened Last Night [ About Something Terrible Happened Last Night ] It’s Katie’s 17th birthday – the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Rave-fess, the Raven’s Hill School confession site, is alight…
‘From the team behind the award-winning Illegal comes an important and compelling graphic novel about the real and devastating effects of climate change’ [ About GLOBAL ] Yuki lives in an increasingly deserted Inuit township in Nova Scotia. One day she sets out into the wilderness of the Arctic tundra planning to photograph a rare…
‘A girl is a burden. A girl is a curse.’– The Daughters Of Madurai [ About The Daughters of Madurai ] Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can’t produce a son – or worse, bears daughters they can’t afford. They let her keep her first…
‘A strikingly-original coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of 1980s Michigan.‘– The Polite Act of Drowning [ About The Polite Act of Drowning ] Michigan, 1985. The drowning of a teenage girl causes ripples in the small town of Kettle Lake, though for most the waters settle quickly. For sixteen-year-old Joanne Kennedy, however, the tragedy…
Spurned by a KingRaised by BearsBlessed by a GoddessAtalanta [ About Atalanta ] When a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta is left to the mercy of a passing mother bear and raised alongside the cubs under the protective eye…
I woke up this morning with a awful aching headI woke up this morning with a awful aching headMy new man had left me, just a room and a empty bedEmpty Bed Blues by Bessie Smith (From the book – it inspired the title) [ About Empty Bed Blues ] When Kate Holohan’s husband dies…