When fourteen year old Diana Daniels settled in to watch the boys while her dad was out, she didn't expect much trouble. Next thing she knows, there's a psycho werewolf on the loose and a mysterious woman who claims to have known her mother is her only chance for making it through the night unscathed.A mermaid named Lily goes on an adventure with her dolphin friend, Cory. They see many sea creatures on their travels. Then, they go to the above ground world.

'Super-assured ... Wholly convincing' WILLIAM BOYD'Deeply satisfying' Guardian'O'Riordan imbues his narrative with an acutely modern awareness of power and capitalism' The Times__________________Manchester, the summer of 1890. A city humming with industry and gleaming with affluence.But for Charles, cloistered in his middle-class parents' suburban villa on holiday from university, the city's vibrancy holds no charms. Bored and a little listless, he spends the summer in pursuit of his little sisters' governess, Hettie. Before the summer's end, both must face the consequences of their affair - consequences they will live with for the rest of their lives.Charles's sisters come of age as women of the new century - and experience a very different Manchester from their brother and guardian. In the smog and glitter of the city, both sisters will discover the very different things...

Maybe I'm just crazy, but I'm pretty sure a snowman isn't supposed to be this hot...</b>As a single mother living in small town USA, I really should be thankful for all I have. I have a roof over my head, a bakery I inherited from my parents, and my ten year-old-daughter Jule.I absolutely love the stuffing out of her, but the holiday season is rough for both of us this year. This has been our first Christmas since my divorce from her father, a deadbeat dad who never really supported either of us.I do my best for Jule, but I worry sometimes that my best isn't good enough. And with the bakery really struggling financially right now, I'm afraid that this might end up being one of our worst holidays ever.But that all changes one weekend, when Jule and I build a snowman together in our front yard.He's nothing special at first glance. Three snowballs, a carrot nose, and some tattered old clothes thrown together. But that night there's a raging snowstorm outside my window, like nothing I've ever seen before.By the time it all dies down, there's an extremely cute naked guy standing outside my door, claiming to be our snowman brought to life. <b>Has the stress of the holidays finally made me lose my marbles?Or could this ice-cold stranger be exactly what my daughter and I have been missing this holiday season?</b> 

Small-town schoolboy Murray Leinster, fourteen going on ten, finds his life revolutionised when he falls in love with new transfer student, Eve Chandler. The resolute girl takes him by the hand and leads him into a world right on his own door-step that he never dreamed existed―A nine-year-old crime lord, an enchanted Garden of Cats, and a pair of very strange Japanese girls are just some of the wonders that await him.The town is struck by a series of sexual assaults, and these attacks are somehow connected with the Asteroid Belt Mining Project (which may or may not be a colossal hoax) and a mysterious green cloud with something very nasty lurking inside it. Super-spy Mark Hunter and Dodo Dupont, his TV psychologist associate, arrive on the scene to investigate.As cosmic events draw ever closer to one small town and one small boy, many questions need to be answered: What is the secret of the ruined abbey in the woods? Why does Eve Chandler have a wristwatch communicator? Why...