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The Wild Girl
Kate Forsyth
Once upon a time there were six sisters. The pretty one, the musical one, the clever one, the helpful one, the young one . . . And then there was the Wild one.
Dortchen Wild has loved Wilhelm Grimm since she was a young girl. Under the forbidding shadow of her father and the tyranny of ...
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The Happy Room
Steven Gordon
Dean McAdam, a witty and streetwise teenager, is recovering from an horrific car crash which killed his mother, pitched his sister into a permanent vegetative state, and left him paralysed from the waist down. Dean nurtures a fierce ambition to become a microbiologist; to this end he conve...
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The Basic Eight
Daniel Handler
In their affluent San Francisco high school, Flannery Culp's group, the Basic Eight, are dismissed as a pretentious clique, but to Flan they are indispensable. She needs Kate, despite her incessant gossiping. She needs Gabriel, even though he has a barely requited crush on her. She needs V...
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Watch Your Mouth
Daniel Handler
When Joseph goes off to stay with his girlfriend Cynthia for the summer, he knows that she's close to her family. And why not? Her mother's a fantastic cook, her father is a caring, sharing kind of guy and it's obvious that Cyn's affectionate younger brother, Steven, has been missing her s...
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The End Of A Primitive
Chester Himes
Jesse Robinson wakes from his nightmare to find dirty, fitful life in a Harlem slum. Kriss wakes up alone, divorced, disillusioned, in her plush Manhattan apartment. They have nothing in common: just an amazing, passionate weekend seven years ago in Chicago and a desire to meet again.
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