Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge

Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge'A grown up gothic fairy tale' one of The Guardian's Five Best YA Books 2023The award winning, bestselling Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett unite for the first time to conjure up a thrilling fairy tale of ghosts and magic, highly illustrated throughout with a luscious blue ink. On the island of Merlank, the Dead must not be allowed to linger. The very sight of their ghosts can kill you. When young Milo is thrust into the role of Ferryman following

but its finest hour came with the launch of airborne operations on D Day

Heart-healing

**Get ready to meet Perla – the feisty

Instead of massages

is a sleeping beauty

pencils and pens

The adventure continues in this spectacularly imaginative fantasy world by Waterstones prize-shortlisted author Anna Kemp perfect for fans of Nevermoor and Podkin One-Ear

he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French

Best friends tell each other everything

frozen depths of the Great Lake to the silvery secrets of the Pensieve

Legend has it that the bottle contains an extraordinary secret that spells doom for the whole of Eerie-on-Sea

and when writers such as Neville Cardus and J