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The car crash that left her best friend dead has left Jenna with scars both emotional and physical.  She feels as though her life is over - but then Ryan turns up.

Hayley Long creates a vivid and believable picture of family life in north west London in this warm-hearted and highly readable tale with a brilliantly unexpected twist.

When Satchel tells Chelsea about a creature he’s seen on the mountain, she becomes convinced it is the last-ever Tasmanian wolf and that finding it will save them both.

Sag Harbor is a warm and funny piece of literary comedy that is laidback like the summer it depicts and staunchly proud of its identity.

When Kit moves to a village with his parents to care for his grandfather, he becomes involved with a dangerous boy who organises the Game of Death.

Dante is waiting for the postman. It's 'A' level results day and he has high hopes, but a knock on the door brings an old girlfriend and some news that will change his plans for good.

Mina and Jacob find themselves relocated to the desert town of Grymm, home to a host of very odd and sinister characters.

As bitter as Chocolat was sweet, Five Quarters of the Orange is a tale of food and fishing, crêpes and collaboration, love and the Loire that dives into the murky waters of guilt and memory.

Megan would never have met Jackson Dawes if she hadn't had cancer.  But as the only teenagers on the children's ward, they soon form a powerful and unconventional bond.

Written in similes that drip with cultural relevance, rhythmical intelligence and poetical sibilance, she weaves textures into a simple tale where a punk rock girl falls in love with a hip-hop guy and obsesses over the perfect memory of a summer they once spent together.

This mysterious, dark tale looks at how death can teach us so much about life, love, friendship and what really matters

After a huge earthquake strikes every continent on Earth, strange and terrible start happening. Four young surivors come together to fight an unknown evil that threatens to take over their world.

Wonderful collection of stories full of the joys and horrors of childhood from some of the best writers in contemporary fiction.

In the second installment of the Mortal Instruments series, Clary finds herself falling deeper into New York City's underworld of demons, werewolves, vampires and Shadowhunters.

Sofia and her family flee their Mozambique village after her father is killed by bandits. They attempt to start afresh, but the dangers of war are ever-present

In this second collection, the women have moved on, but their relationships are all on the turn in some way.

The author of the prizewinning Deafening returns with a poignant and compelling novel in ten stories.

Like the flower of the book’s title, she is a rare debut novelist who made me care for her characters so much that, whilst travelling on a plane, I cried openly at their plight, completely engrossed and unaware of the looks from my fellow passengers.

A Little Piece of Ground cleverly combines an exciting story with pressing political issues and as such is sure to encourage passionate debate.

As ever, Meg Rosoff writes beautifully, drawing the reader in with slow, languid prose

Credible, hardhitting and couched in the street language for which he is well-known, this will be welcomed by fans of Rai's fiction.

Nin must do what she can to save The Drift from destruction by uncovering the spell which hides the last of the Seven Sorcerers, Simeon Dark. But time and luck may be running out...

The disturbing story of a group of teenagers on the slippery slope into heroin addiction

Part classic country house novel, part surreal fantasy, The Uninvited Guests marks a very different approach for Sadie Jones

An intriguing blend of psychological thriller and fantasy, this is an impressive and unusual debut.

As well as being a compelling tale of love and friendship, this is an outstanding and thought-provoking exploration of the futility of prejudice.

In the second of this intelligent and humorous fantasy series, we meet Maggie Rede, living among the ruins of Universal City, who also bears a mysterious runemark.

Set in small-town Minnesota, Stiefvater’s moving and poetic novel of human/wolf interaction and relationships is a werewolf story like no other.

17-year-old Cassandra lives an eccentric existence with her bohemian family in a crumbling castle in the English countryside, in this delightful classic coming-of-age story.

I Could Ride All Day … highlights the diversity and sheer excitement of Hobbs's writing. It also proves that well-written short stories are more than a match for their longer and flabbier cousin, the novel.

When Eddie's brother Steve is killed whilst working undercover for the police, 17-year-old Eddie finds himself following in his footsteps and taking on the job to infiltrate the dangerous Kelly family.

In Calcutta in 1916, after the deaths of both their parents in bizarre circumstances, two babies are separated at birth.

A tense, aggressive, but moral tale of boys on the brink of adulthood

Matt, Coop and Sean have been friends forever.  Each summer, they set themselves a goal, and this year tops the lot - they must see a real live naked girl. 

Growing up in Guernsey in the 1990s, timid Flo struggles to deal with her dysfunctional family life - until rebellious extrovert Renee unexpectedly befriends her.

A New England idyll rooted in friendship, particularly female friendship, weaving stories and conversations, imagery of sea, sky and earth, the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs.

Wallis Stoneman sets out to look for her birth mother, but soon finds herself in danger in this gritty, fast-paced young adult thriller.

In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.

Clem's coming-of-age story is woven around a tense account of the mounting Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of looming nuclear war, leading to a shocking and unexpected climax.

Holly agrees to meet her secret admirer and is shocked when he claims to be her real father. Furious and upset, she confronts her mother, who eventually admits it to be true.

Set in modern Tokyo, with the Capulets and Montagues recast as organised-crime rivals, this racy retelling gets to the heart of the love story and the foolish rivalry that dooms it.

It seems like Flynn has it all - but he's also a manic depressive and two small daily pills represent the border between functioning normally and chaos.

This beautifully-written coming of age story interrogates family, identity, memory and the myths and superstitions we create for ourselves.

When Clary visits a nightclub, she discovers that she is one of the Shadowhunters - a group of demon-hunters living in a world of vampires, werewolves and warlocks.

Beautiful young aristocrat Jenny is the closest friend of Mary, the young Queen of Scots. When she overhears a whispered plot against Mary she sets out to become a spy to keep her friend safe, little realising how much danger she will soon encounter.

'How many people get to hear what their friends think about them?' Gerard Donovan asked an audience at the 2008 Edinburgh international book festival. It is an excrutiating thought, and one that comes true for Jim, a character in the first story from Donovan's collection Country of the Grand.

Matt Haig takes an original and witty approach to the supernatural genre in this quirky young adult novel..

Accused of witchcraft, Mary flees from the Puritan settlement of Beulah into the icy wastes of the New World.