Hweilan is the last of the line of Highwatch and--as she discovers--one of the last of the Vil Adanrath, a bloodline of lycanthropes left on Faer�n. Guric, her uncle and the slayer of Hwelian's family, has released a terrible evil in order to resurrect his beloved wife and gain control of the northern countries. When Hweilan escapes Guric's schemes, she is taken in by Lendri, a Vil Adanrath who has stayed in Faer�n to help guide Hweilan to her...

Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. Desperate to return home, she learns that only Professor Marselle can help her... but he's missing. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora's boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the...

J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ?dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told?. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalising glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Baradd�r and the rise of Sauron. It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion...

Joe, Beth and Frannie take their cousin Rick on an adventure he'll never forget. Find out how they escape from the Land of Dreams, what goes wrong in the Land of Topsy-Turvy, and who drives a runaway train in the Land of Do-As-You-Please.

Appearances can be deceptive - this is an audiobook like no other. It contains untold riches - every page a tiny particle of story from the universe of His Dark Materials, made alive for us by the writer's imagination. The story gives you exciting new glimpses of Lyra?s world, as well as astonishing insight into the storytelling mind of Philip Pullman. So step into the imagination chamber. Listen carefully, linger over each story particle. And be...

Milo, Mia and Birdy are on a countryside holiday when they wander into an enchanted wood. Among the whispering leaves, there is a beautiful tree that stands high above the rest. The Magic Faraway Tree is home to many remarkable creatures including a fairy called Silky, her best friend Moonface and more. Little Birdy is only too happy to find that fairies are real. Even her older brother and sister are soon won over by the magic of the Faraway Tree...

Meet Hilda: explorer, adventurer, avid sketchbook-keeper, friend to almost every creature in the valley and star of her very own Netflix show. Fantastic creatures and daring adventures are all just part of another average day for Hilda ... but what will she do if she is forced to move to Trolberg city, far away from her beloved valley home?.

This place is magic ? but it's not the sort of magic that comes from wands and spells ? Can piecing together the past help you change the present? Safiya and her mum have never seen eye to eye. Her mum doesn?t understand Safiya?s love of gaming and Safiya doesn't think they have anything in common. As Safiya struggles to fit in at school she wonders if her mum wishes she was more like her confident best friend Elle. But then her mum falls into a coma...

'Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. I cannot wait for the next installment' Neil Gaiman In this stunning follow-up to his Man Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of African mythology,...

Above, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something - someone - behind. But while she struggles to recall her identity, an imposter wields her name with deadly purpose. Below, North looks to the sky, desperate to join the ones he loves and return to his world. But with only a traitor willing to help him, and others clamouring for him to take Nimh?s place, the journey seems more impossible than ever....