Featured Books for 14+ readers

Shadows on the Moon
Zoe Marriott
A prize-winning reinvention of the familiar Cinderella story set in a richly created Japanese setting, this is a powerful and haunting novel shot through with romance. Suzume is a shadow-weaver; she can become whoever she wants except her true self....
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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Halo
Zizou Corder
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book Prize 2010. This is well written with excellent characterisation, particularly of the main protagonist in the story, a girl called Halo.  There is plenty of excitement, action and adventure in the story together with lots...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Tina's Web
Zei Alki
Shortlisted for the 2009 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation.  If you read Junk by Malcolm Burgess, you were probably gripped by it but you didn’t necessarily enjoy it.  Tina’s Web, however, is different in many ways but similar too. ...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/2007
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No Use Crying
Zannah Kearns
This warm and powerful coming-of-age story is a sparkling debut from a brilliant fresh talent, filled with colourful characters that will stay with you long after the book is finished.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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On Beauty
Zadie Smith
Shortlisted for the Best of the Orange Best 2010 by the Orange Prize Youth Panel. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006. Set on both sides of the Atlantic, award-winning Zadie Smith's third novel, On Beauty, is a brilliant analysis of family...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2006
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Dead Beautiful
Yvonne Woon
Dark romance meets haunting murder mystery in this captivating tale of love, death and destiny.  At Gottfried Academy, just one kiss will take your breath away. After Renee discovers her parents dead in what appears to be a strange double...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2011
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Life of Pi
Yann Martell
Pi’s family is moving their zoo when the boat sinks and 16-year old Pi is left afloat in a lifeboat with four animals which includes a tiger.  The book starts slowly but this stunning, unique work is worth persevering with. ...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Educating Rita
Willy Russell
A single-volume re-issue of the well-known play Educating Rita. The story centres on a working-class Liverpudlian woman's hunger for education.
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2001
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Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
This series presents hardback editions of Shakespeare's plays for use in schools. The text is supported by detailed notes and is suitable for GCSE and A level.
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/09/1979
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
This exciting new edition of "Romeo and Juliet" includes a new 32-page section of activities focusing on the four key areas of assessment for the KS3 Shakespeare Test.This Heinemann Shakespeare edition of "Romeo and Juliet" includes: stimulating scene-by-scene activities structured around Character, Theme, Language,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2008
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Julius Caesar - retold by Michael Ford
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s gripping tragedy of Ancient Rome – the assassination and the turmoil that followed - is vividly and faithfully retold in graphic novel format.  It is part of a series of illustrated literary classics retold for young readers, which is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
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Romeo and Juliet (Classics Illustrated)
William Shakespeare
The most famous of Shakespeare's plays is brought to life in glorious technicolour through comic strips.  Brilliant for younger and older readers.   A message from the publisher: Classics Illustrated - A wonderful History - We're delighted to re-introduce these marvellous...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2009
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Rich and Mad
William Nicholson
Full of the myriad and criss-crossing emotions of adolescent love, this is a warm-hearted and finely observed view of two teenagers’ experience. Sixth-formers Maddy Fisher and Richard Ross both want to fall in love. Both want the heady experience of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2009
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Dawn of the Demontide (Witchfinder series)
William Hussey
Cleverly crafted, this is a masterful horror story that will chill readers to the bone as Jake Harker comes face to face with the evil forces of old witchcraft and its links to Matthew Hopkins, the evil Witchfinder of the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Gallows at Twilight (Witchfinder series)
William Hussey
Horror stalks this scary second adventure for Jake who must now lead the war against the Demon Father, newly escaped from hell. Jake’s previous success in closing the demon door shows his prowess but has he the courage to go back into...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Witchfinder 3: The Last Nightfall
William Hussey
This finale in the Witchfinder series is eagerly awaited and the series itself has been universally acknowledged by both authors and reviewers as something special.  The fear unleashed by the author throughout the trilogy is breathtaking but not to be...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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The Princess Bride
William Goldman
Simply one of the best swashbuckling, romantic, adventure stories ever written. From pirates and duels to giants and hunchbacks and romance and comedy there is something here that will appeal to everyone. It may all sound a bit corny but...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008
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Lord of The Flies
William Golding
Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 01/02/1997
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Lord of The Flies
William Golding
William Golding’s iconic and enduring novel is interesting in many ways. Firstly it was a debut book and secondly it was rejected by numerous publishers and editors before it was picked up off the ‘slush-pile’ by a young editor at...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Inheritors
William Golding
This was Golding’s second published novel and hailed by critics as his best, so startling was it that one, Arthur Koestler, described it as ‘an earthquake in the petrified forests of the English Novel’. 55 years on the novel...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Department 19
Will Hill
This is a well crafted debut paranormal novel for teens but it's much more than that for it features a cleverly laid plot that revolves around a government secret agency who pull into the organisation a 14 year old Jamie...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/03/2011
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Department 19
Will Hill
A Lovereading4Kids 'Debut of the Year 2011' selection. 14+. This is a well crafted debut paranormal novel for teens but it's much more than that for it features a cleverly laid plot that revolves around a government secret agency who...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Department 19: The Rising
Will Hill
DEPARTMENT 6 IS THE ARMY. DEPARTMENT 13 IS MI5. DEPARTMENT 19 IS ALL THAT STANDS BETWEEN YOU AND THE END OF THE WORLD. After the terrifying attack on Lindisfarne at the end of the first book, Jamie, Larissa and Kate are...
Format: Hardback - Released: 29/03/2012
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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins, Sandra Kemp, Sandra Kemp
T S Eliot called The Moonstone 'the first and greatest of English detective novels'.  A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/1998
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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
A fabulous diamond becomes Rachel Verinder's dangerous inheritance. Outside her house watch the Hindu priests who have waited many years to reclaim their looted talisman. When the Moonstone disappears, the case looks simple, but no-one is what they seem, and...
Format: Paperback (c Format) - Released: 07/10/1999
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The Woman In White
Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/04/2008
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Les Miserables (Classics Illustrated)
Victor Hugo
A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Misérables is a novel on an epic scale.  One of a range of marvellous comic books created in the '50s and '60s now with artwork re-coloured...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2009
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Divergent
Veronica Roth
This is a heart-pounding and thrilling urban dystopian fiction debut from an exciting young author.  Divergent is a novel of non-stop suspense and twists and turn that you least expect.  There's romance too and a heroine who is determined to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2011
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Divergent
Veronica Roth
This is a heart-pounding and thrilling urban dystopian fiction debut from an exciting young author.  Divergent is a novel of non-stop suspense and twists and turns that you least expect.  There's romance too and a heroine who is determined to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Angelmonster
Veronica Bennett
Sixteen-year-old step sisters Mary and Jane are bored. Longing for romance they dream of attracting the attention of a rich and handsome man who will take them away to somewhere foreign and interesting. When the poet Shelley walks...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/10/2005
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