Featured Books for 14+ readers

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
October 2011 Guest Editor Roddy Doyle: A small boy called Pip is in a graveyard just as it’s getting dark. He’s looking at the grave where his parents and five brothers are buried. An escaped convict jumps out from behind...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 30/01/2003
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
When Gulliver finds himself washed up on the shores of the island of Lilliput inhabited by ‘little people’ and taken prisoner his life is to change forever but that is just the beginning of his story. For following his escape...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2003
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2003
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2003
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2003
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Anne Frank
Chosen by Michael Rosen. First published over 60 years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has reached millions of young people throughout the world. However, the recent major new BBC TV dramatisation has brought her extraordinary writing to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2002
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The Walker Book of Classic Poetry and Poets
Michael Rosen
Age 9+ This is an invaluable introduction to poets and poetry, with lively biographical sketches and fascinating notes written by Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen, this is a classic collection to be read from cover to cover and back again or...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/2001
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Refugee Boy
Benjamin Zephaniah
Haunting, tragic and distressing in what it reveals about man’s inhumanity to man, Refugee Boy is also an affirming story of one boy’s amazing courage and several other individual’s goodness and integrity. Caught up in the war between Ethiopia and...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 28/08/2001
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes AND The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Iain Pears, Ed Glinert
May 2010 Guest Editor Philip Ardagh comments: I discovered the 'consulting detective' Sherlock Holmes when I was about nine and have remained hooked ever since. I've written a humorous adult book using some of the original Strand magazine illustrations. Not long...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2001
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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.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2001
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase
Douglas Adams
The 40 Best Audio books comment: On the day that Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is rescued by his friend Ford Prefect - who turns out to be really from the star Betelgeuse - and taken...
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Format: CD-Audio - Released: 02/04/2001
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When I Lived in Modern Times
Linda Grant
Shortlisted for the Best of the Orange Best 2010 by the Orange Prize Youth Panel.  A naïve young Jewish woman, Evelyn, moves to Israel, the Promised Land, in 1946. The country is coping with an influx of refugees and gradually Evelyn’s eyes are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/10/2000
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Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
Chronicled from the perspective of a fanatical youngster, through disillusioned adolescence, to an adult "who should know better", the author - an Arsenal fan - examines the absurdities and traumas of everyday life and football. Combines anecdote with a wider...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 05/10/2000
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A Kestrel for a Knave
Barry Hines
Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/05/2000
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The Other Side of Truth
Beverley Naidoo
This is the story of 12 year-old Sade and her brother Femi who flee to Britain from Nigeria. Their father is a political journalist who refuses to stop criticising the military rulers in Nigeria. Their mother is killed and they are sent to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/04/2000
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Shadow of the Minotaur
Alan Gibbons
A unique blend of fantasy and thriller and myths and legends but grounded firmly in real present-day life. It was winner of the 2000 Blue Peter Award 'book i couldn't put down category'.  With twists and turns virtually on every...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2000
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An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde
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Format: Paperback - Released: 17/12/1999
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Mr Pye
Mervyn Peake
November 2009 Guest Editor Geraldine McCaughrean on Mr Pye by MERVYN PEAKE Gormenghast towered over my teenage years: that dusty, crenellated castle-world built from the rubble of the author’s crumbling intellect.  But the Peake book  that stays with me...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/12/1999
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented debut novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/1999
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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...
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Format: Paperback (c Format) - Released: 07/10/1999
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Little Soldier
Bernard Ashley
One of the best books ever about the realities of young boys forced into fighting in rebel armies and the effect it can have. Back home, Kaninda has been trained to carry a gun and use it. When he is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/09/1999
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Heroes
Robert Cormier
A provocative story about the return home of teenage war hero and war victim, Francis Joseph Cassavant, to confront his past - the youth leader he idolized and who betrayed him - and the girl he still loves.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/09/1999
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An Enemy of the People, and The Wild Duck, and Rosmersholm
Henrik Ibsen
Written in the aftermath of hostile criticism of Ghosts, Ibsen's three plays all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled not by symbolic figures and abstract concepts, but by complex individuals pitted against, or part of, a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/03/1999
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Bumface
Morris Gleitzman
An attention grabbing title and an arresting opening ensure Morris Gleitzman has his audience hooked. And they will be well rewarded for being so. But alongside its effortlessly entertaining introduction, Bumface is also a thoughtful and serious book about the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/1999
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/1998
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Thrones, Dominations
Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh
November 2009 Guest Editor Geraldine McCaughrean on Thrones, Dominions by JILL PATON WALSH When I set about the sequel to Peter Pan, countless people wailed, “But what sequels have ever been a patch on the original?”  I comforted myself with...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 17/09/1998
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
Animal Farm - the history of a revolution, under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm but it all went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of...
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Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 03/09/1998
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
You’ve no doubt seen the film, but the book is so much darker it has to be read. This will scare you far more than any special effects because not only are Crichton’s descriptions of this genetically engineered park terrifying he looks much...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/1998
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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...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 01/02/1997
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Mary Barton
Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/10/1996
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