Charlotte Sometimes

Penelope Farmer

It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school, and as she's settling down to sleep, she sees the corner of the new building from her window. But when she wakes up, instead of the building there is a huge, dark cedar tree, and the girl in the next bed is not the girl who slept there last night. Some...

Seahorses Are Sold Out

Katja Gehrmann, Constanze Spengler

A high-spirited story about an enterprising only child and a father’s juggle to work from home. Mika's father works from home and he's very busy! He can never find time for the promised swimming trip. So Dad allows Mika to choose herself a pet from the store while he finishes the project—something quie...

The Secret Heart: John le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

Suleika Dawson

The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carré led a life entirely constructed of secrets – not just in his first career, as a British spy and agent runner during the height of the Cold War or in his second, as a world-renow...