The Cement GardenIn the arid summer heat, four children Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the childrens lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.

Sam Palmer hates living in the country - he doesn't have any friends and life is dull

but she worries about Leanne

is a gripping story of survival that illuminates the fragility of life and the fierce power of love

turrets inhabited by bats

The Honoured Society

he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage

and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite

And then he gets an email

Or so it seems

He was relieved to be again among the Russians

it is left to Claire to untangle the web of lies and half-truths and find out just who might be responsible

And who is the girl in the cellar