The Supreme Lie
Twice Carnegie-medal winning Geraldine McCaughrean’s new novel is set in a word paralysed by natural disaster and dangerous politics. Fifteen-year-old Gloria is maid to Afalia’s tyrannical Head of State, Madame Suprema. When the country is hit by unprecedented flooding, Madame Suprema runs away, fearing she will be blamed for the crisis. To cover up this […]
Where the World Ends
In the summerof 1727, a group of men and boys from St Kilda are put ashore on a remote seastac to harvest birds for food. No one returns to collect them. Why? Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they have been abandoned to endure storms, starvation and terror. And how […]
