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Joe Jackson is an adventurous twelve-year-old boy from the boring English town of Highcross. His exploration of the site of an unexploded World War II bomb will see the beginning of the most amazing experience of his life where he will meet up with Max, an extra-terrestrial from the planet Proxima Centauri b. Joe, Max and their friends, Mo and...

Joe Jackson is an adventurous twelve-year-old boy from the boring English town of Highcross. His exploration of the site of an unexploded World War II bomb will see the beginning of the most amazing experience of his life where he will meet up with Max, an extra-terrestrial from the planet Proxima Centauri b.

Joe, Max and their friends, Mo and...

Amelia's dad has been missing for a year.

She's been pretending that's fine. She's almost convinced herself. Then she plays a song on his piano and the bookshelf opens.

Behind it is a secret room, a hidden spy agency, and the truth: her father isn't a rare-books dealer. He's Agent Silver of the ICID. He's been captured. And the device now clamped...

There are vampires in Highcross. Amelia is fifteen, she can turn into any animal on Earth, and she has absolutely no idea what to do about it.

Fortunately, someone does. Unfortunately, that someone is a stranger who appeared in her back garden at midnight, knows far more than she should, and won't explain why.

Amelia doesn't trust easily. She's...

Amelia Wainwright is eighteen, has three A-levels in three weeks, and has been secretly able to transform into any animal on Earth for the past five years.

She’s almost used to it.

Then the stars start moving wrong.
Ancient entities are descending on Earth. Vast, skeletal, utterly indifferent to the seven billion people in their way. They have done...

Amelia Wainwright is nineteen, at Oxford, and finally feels something like normal.

Then she’s captured mid-flight, wakes in a cell in Myanmar, and discovers that someone has built a device that turns her greatest ability into her worst vulnerability.

His name is Marek Volkov. He’s polite, methodical, and completely sincere in his belief that the...

Amelia Wainwright is twenty, at Oxford, and has decided to be ordinary.

She’s stopped transforming. Stopped consulting for the ICID. Stopped waiting for the next crisis. She has a life now, and she intends to keep it.

Then someone begins committing crimes in Oxford that only a shapeshifter could commit.

The fifth book in the Amelia Wainwright...

Amelia Wainwright is twenty, powerless, and hiding in Brazil.

She’s been there for months. False name, dyed hair, bar work, no plan. The crimes the Beast committed are on her record whether she chose them or not, and the world has not forgotten.

Then a woman walks into the bar. Auburn hair, hard eyes, the same face Amelia sees in the mirror.

She...

The End begins with a chilling silence — the absence of wildlife in an African safari park, a subtle foreshadowing of the cataclysmic event to come. In London, Martin Larkin, a disillusioned teacher, and Katie, a successful barrister, are about to face a world far removed from their ordinary lives.

The arrival of Bohr’s Comet, initially a source...

Liam wakes in a prehistoric wilderness with nothing but his name. Amélie wakes a mile away with nothing but hers.

Neither of them remember how they arrived.

The city they find on the horizon is called Eterna: an impossible collision of every era of human history, governed by two men with very different ideas about what order looks like. In...

The Eternity Spa and Hotel sits at the foot of Pendle Hill in Lancashire, where in 1612 ten people were hanged for witchcraft. The grounds are immaculate. The staff are all young, all red-haired, all choreographed in their warmth. The lake on the grounds is always perfectly still.

James and Laura Goodwin are a couple in need of exactly this: a...

On the night the meteors fall, the world changes. Those whose blood carries the traces of forgotten peoples (the merfolk, the fae, the werewolves of legend) begin to transform. Some welcome what they become. Most do not.

Biology lecturer Josh Bennett watches his wife Jessica swim into the sea and not come back. He will spend the next fifteen...

The fisherman left at dawn.

By midmorning, his boat was drifting. Engine running. No body. No explanation.

In Padstow, journalist Emma Carlisle has been keeping a list. A beloved B&B owner who attacked his wife without warning. A dive instructor arrested for manslaughter, bewildered by her own hands. A snorkelling group that never came back. A...