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Baker Cat by Posy Simmonds
Category: Picture Books
All day long the baker's cat toils in the bakery and all night he is expected to catch the mice that run riot in the storeroom. If he doesn't catch any mice, the beastly baker tells him, he won't get any food. Too exhausted to chase after the cheeky rodents, the baker's cat becomes thin and sad and weep ...Show more
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds
Category: Graphic Novels
Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million. She has become a social pariah, but doesn't much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied the reputation of a West End gallery and has acquired a conviction for fraud, a ...Show more
Fred by Posy Simmonds
Category: Fiction | Series: Red Fox picture book
Who really knows what goes on behind closed cat-flaps? The cat's out of the bag when Sophie and Nick discover their pet, Fred, has been leading a double life. By day he's the laziest cat in the world - but by night he's a singing superstar. . .
Fred by Posy Simmonds
Category: Graphic Novels
Fred's owners, Sophie and Nick think he is the laziest cat in the world, but who knows what goes on after dark? It's only after their beloved pet dies, that they discovers he has been leading an exciting double life..."Enchanting, an instant classic". (Sunday Telegraph). "Fred is pure delight". (Guardia ...Show more
Lavender by Posy Simmonds
Category: Children's
Whenever there is the slightest hint of danger, Lavender the rabbit can be found with her friends the goose and the hens clucking with concern. So when a group of tourist town foxes arrive on a visit to the countryside, Lavender is very wary indeed.
Lavender by Posy Simmonds
Category: Fiction
Whenever there's the slightest hint of danger, Lavender the rabbit can be found. When the town foxes invite the rabbits to a party, she has no intention of going until her fellow rabbits tease her. Incensed, Lavender joins the group. What happens next, as the foxes come face to face with their cousins, ...Show more
Literary Life by Posy Simmonds
Category: Fiction
First published in 2003, Literary Life became an instant classic as readers (and writers) delighted in watching Posy Simmonds skewer the pains and pretensions of the writer's (and reader's) calling with her inimitable flair for witty satire and sharp social observation. As well as all the cartoons and c ...Show more
Lulu and the Flying Babies by Posy Simmonds
Category: Children's
Lulu doesn't want to be stuck in a museum, she wants to play outside in the snow! She sits on the bench and sniffs. Before she knows it the flying babies have escaped a painting and swept her off her feet. Lulu is flown into a whimiscal, magical adventure through a world of pictures, meeting Kings, grow ...Show more
Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds
Category: Fiction
Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for the fun of it. People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. In the remote village where her ...Show more
The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford, illustrated by Posy Simmonds
Category: Classic Fiction
A romantic and comic gem from a precocious Victorian nine-year-old that has charmed readers for a century The Young Visiters is a comic masterpiece that has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1919. A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from th ...Show more
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