Bread And Jam For FrancesFrances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft boiled egg. She trades away her chicken salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless Mother can come up with a plan, Frances just might go on eating bread and jam forever!

it exerts a mesmerising pull on the imagination

sweetly spooky characters

Joy Williams' stories fray away the fabric at the edge of ordinary experience to reveal the loneliness at the heart of human life

culminating in the dramatic sea battles of 1588

Will Rajveer remain the same

and their new ghost-obsessed neighbor

you beautiful nerd

are so extraordinary that his life reads like a page-turning work of fiction

He was certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy mistakenly born as a girl

is out now

Their first big task

'- Jeremy Lee