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Big Change for Stuart (#2) by Lissa Evans
Category: Children's Fiction
Stuart Horten (ten, but looks younger) is now the owner of a magician's workshop except that without his Great-Uncle's Last Will and Testament, he can't actually prove it. Which is a problem, since someone else wants it as well; someone who has a lot of money. The workshop contains seven magnificent st ...Show more
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
Category: Fiction
This book is longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2015. When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up living in St Albans with Vera Sedge - thirty-six and drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulou ...Show more
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
Category: Fiction
'Essential . . . Evans is a brilliant storyteller' StylistWhat do you do next, after you?ve changed the world?It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club - an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade.Mattie is a woman with a thrilling past and a ...Show more
Small Change for Stuart (#1) by Lissa Evans
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Stuart
Stuart Horten, ten-years-old and small for his age, moves to the dreary town of Beeton, far away from all his friends. And then he meets his neighbours, the unbearable Kingley triplets, and things get even worse. But in Beeton begins the strangest adventure of Stuart's life as he is swept up in a quest ...Show more
Small Change for Stuart (#1) by Lissa Evans
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Stuart
Stuart Horten - ten years old and small for his age - moves to the dreary town of Beeton, far away from all his friends. And then he meets his new next-door neighbours, the unbearable Kingley triplets, and things get even worse. But in Beeton begins the strangest adventure of Stuart's life as he is swep ...Show more
Their Finest by Lissa Evans
Category: Fiction
Now a major film starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy. It's 1940. In a small advertising agency in Soho, Catrin Cole writes snappy lines for Vida Elastic and So-Bee-Fee gravy browning. But the nation is in peril, all skills are transferable and there's a place in the war effort for those ...Show more
Their Finest Hour And A Half by Lissa Evans
Category: Fiction
In 1940, every draft of every film script had to be approved by the Ministry of Information. Cast and crew were waiting to be called up at any moment, travel was restricted and filming was interrupted by regular bombing raids. And so it is that we find a disparate group of characters whose paths would n ...Show more
V for Victory by Lissa Evans
Category: Fiction
'A book to be treasured and returned to again and again' The Independent 'Funny, moving and utterly life-enhancing' Daily Mail With caustic wit and artful storytelling, Lissa Evans elegantly summons a time when the world could finally hope to emerge from the chaos of war. ___ It's late 1944. Hitler's ro ...Show more
Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans
Category: Young Adult
A hilarious and poignant "down the rabbit hole" adventure from acclaimed author Evans ("Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms") about friendship, danger, and the terror of never being able to get back home again. And it's funny, seriously funny. You're called Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled ...Show more
Wed Wabbit (HB) by Lissa Evans
Category: Children's Fiction
You're called Fidge and you're nearly eleven. You've been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin Graham. You have to solve a series of nearly impossible clues. You need to deal with a cruel dictator and three thousand Wimbley ...Show more
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