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Big Change for Stuart (#2) by Lissa Evans
Category: Junior 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
Big Change for Stuart (#2) by Lissa Evans
Category: Children's | Series: Stuart
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 s ...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
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
Category: Fiction
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 unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel's mourning his godmother, Mattie, a former ...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 by Lissa Evans
Category: Children's
As if being tiny and also having S.Horten as your name isn't bad enough, ten-year-old Stuart Horten is moved (by his very clever, but not very sensible parents) to Beeton, far away from all his friends. But in Beeton starts the strangest adventure of Stuart's life as he is swept up in a quest to find hi ...Show more
Small Change for Stuart (#1) by Lissa Evans
Category: Junior 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: Junior 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
Smudger the Dog Saves Christmas by Lissa Evans
Category: Children's
One wintery night, Smudger the dog finds himself on a walk with a difference. There appears to be a sleigh, a man in a red suit, and some reindeer... Could Smudger be about to save Christmas?
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