Best Selling Books by Anne Fine

As featured on BBC Radio 4''s Woman''s Hour. 1914: war has broken out across Europe and beyond. Nothing will ever be the same again for those caught up in the conflict. This collection of short stories explores how the First World War changed and shaped the lives of women forever. A courageous nurse risks her life at the Front Line; a young woman discovers independence and intrigue in wartime London; and a grief-stricken widow defends her homeland amidst the destruction of war. Through these and other tales, War Girls presents a moving portrait of loss and grief, and of hope overcoming terrible odds.

Ruggles like to visit all his friends in town. Follow him through the seasons, as he disappears from the garden into the wider world outside. Anything will help him go, from open gates to buckets left close to walls to be used as steps. Suggested level: junior, primary.

When Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas learn that their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a home, they decide to take action and begin "The Granny Project."

Ralph''s relatives come to his house for Christmas and chaos soon follows.

Andrew og Gemma får en lille bog, som en kylling har skrevet! Faktisk er det er vigtigt værk med et stort budskab til menneskeheden

Tuffy decides to run away from home when he feels that his owners don''t love him any more.

It''s not easy for Minna being the only sensible one in her family, even though she is used to her mum''s weird clothes and behavior, but her whole, unusual family does come through for her when she needs them most.

Lovers, colleagues, family - Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous to a fault, with his miserable little children and his manipulative ex-wife. Tilly''s own expertise in the arts of deception and avoidance should be enough to make sure she''s always one step ahead of Geoffrey''s disastrous, crumbling family. But time and again she finds herself staying, brought down by their cowardly backsliding and their barefaced lies. How has she managed to stay so long in a relationship she knows perfectly well has to be doomed? More importantly, how can Tilly plan her permanent escape?

''It was the worst sight that I have ever seen in all my years of babysitting.'' Why does Mrs Mackle think Susan Solly is the worst child ever? Just what did Susan do that was so terrible? And what did it have to do with snails?

In school, Yuri is taught that the revolution liberated his country. He learns how the new leaders are always working for the greater good. But the truth is that life for his family and those around him is a brutal, poverty-stricken struggle. The government does nothing except punish those who protest. And one day, to his shock and horror, Yuri himself is branded an “enemy of the state” simply for dropping a few careless words. In an author’s note, Anne Fine describes The Road of Bones as an adventure-escape story set in “a sort-of Russia, in a sort-of 1930s, under a Stalin-type leader.” This chilling political thriller follows the frantic footsteps of a teenager on the run, a criminal who hasn’t committed a crime, a young man on a path to discovering the truth about how far he will go in order to survive.

Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. A responsible job for the council, visits to his aged mother Norah, and cooking and shopping for her. But no-one knows about his other - much more secret - life that involves a garden shed, a circus acrobat, and a much-adored three-year-old charmer.

The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. Anne Fine has dramatized her own humorous novel, Goggle Eyes, for the series.

So go on, ask me. �Dear, dear Tuffy. Why was your Christmas so horrible?� Well. I couldn�t climb the tree. I couldn�t touch the dangly decorations. And Ellie made me part of her sing-along Christmas performance. Horrible, horrible, horrible! But I showed them. I was Tuffy the Acting Cat, superstar. How was I supposed to know things would get so . . . messy?

His new teacher is so much better than the last three, but Lance worries that the principal might get rid of her so he thinks up a way for himself and Flossie the cow to make his class''s Open Day project a success.

Best friends Jamie and his toy Highland bull Angus tackle a lively playmate, become muddled by a pretend game, and discover that playing is not fun unless they are doing it together.

''Okay, okay. So stick my head in a holly bush . . .'' Tuffy, the Killer Cat, knows what he likes. And he isn''t loving the ''art'' that Ellie''s mum brings home from her new class! So what''s a cat to do . . . Mischief and mayhem rule in Anne Fine''s brilliant new story, with hilarious illustrations by Steve Cox throughout. Perfect for developing readers aged 5�7.

As best friends should, Jamie and Angus share everything. Join them as they have fun at their birthday party, think up some new ways to cry, and deal with a naughty pet gerbil.

A scary skull shape on her bedroom wall makes Chirtmas Eve more like Halloween for poor Pip.

Harry is in trouble. He''s burned down the family kitchen so now has to spend a week of his summer hols with his uncle Tristram - who''s heading off to stay with a new girlfriend - Morning Glory - on a tiny British island. Harry doesn''t expect it to be a lot of fun - with just a wacky competition at the end of the week to look forward to. He certainly didn''t expect to discover all the beards. Or the angel on the mountain. Or the helicopters circling overhead all week. And he definitely didn''t think it would be so wet . . .

Daniel is raised as an invalid in isolation by his mother until the day she is removed to an asylum and Daniel is taken to live with the doctor''s family. Soon Daniel begins to uncover secrets about his mother''s dark family history, and a sinister doll seems to be at the centre of the mystery. First person recount. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

Bliss! A lovely, quiet, nothing-to-do and nothing-on-the-calendar Sunday...Well, that''s until bossy Aunt Susan - an unstoppable force - is on the phone insisting that Harry and his family come down to help her a local event she''s promised to organise: the Great Toadpool Show. It means swinging from a trapeze. Or walking on stilts. Or riding a unicycle...And that''s not counting the fortune-telling tent, the tombola, or the choir singalong. Aunt Susan has no idea of the mayhem she''s about to unleash.

When Uncle Ron comes to visit, he just won''t seem to leave Ian, Mum and Dad don''t quite know what do with him - if he''s not eating them out of house and home, he''s chattering away to the spirits of the dead. But not interesting spirits. All they ever seem to talk about is the colour of doors and what''s stuck behind the fridge. So Ian hatches a plan to get rid of Uncle Ron once and for all.

Quentin Blake - Anne Fine - Michael Morpurgo - Jacqueline Wilson - Michael Rosen - Anthony Browne - Julia Donaldson - Malorie Blackman - Chris Riddell - Lauren ChildThe exceptional talents behind some of the nation''s best-loved books - from The Gruffalo to The BFG, We''re Going on a Bear Hunt to the Charlie and Lola series - the Children''s Laureates are the perfect ambassadors for children''s literature. This beautiful gift anthology marks twenty wonderful years of the Laureateship, with stories, poems and pictures by all ten former honourees. Among others, Quentin Blake tells the stories behind his pictures of weird and wonderful beasts, Michael Morpurgo draws on childhood memories for a moving wartime tale and Michael Rosen plays with language and shapes in his witty, read-aloud poems. Each contribution is designed to inspire children to create their own work, and is accompanied by a note from the authors - rare insights from the finest talent in the world of children''s books. Above all else, Flights of Fancy celebrates the Laureateship''s most important achievement: encouraging children to let their imaginations soar.

The Palmer Sisters Are Close. They See Each Other Often, For Shopping Trips And Casual Suppers. They Care For One Another S Children And Houses And Pets Through Holidays And Emergencies. They Lend Each Other Books And Spare Heaters And Clothes For Special Occasions. Their Phones Ring In A Ceaseless Round Of Chat About In-Laws And Job Plans And Anxieties And Triumphs. They All Agree That Loyalty To One Another Always Outweighs Loyalty To Boyfriends And Lovers And Husbands. And There Are Never Any Secrets. Not Until Now.Stella Tells Bridie A Rumour She S Heard About Liddy S New Boyfriend And, In No Time At All, The Sisters Relationships Begin To Unravel. Should Liddy Be Told? Bridie Is Certain And Persuades Her Sisters To Join Her In This Decision. But When Liddy Reacts Badly, The Other Two Backslide And Bridie Becomes The Outcast, Bereft Of The Support System Upon Which She Has Based Her Whole Life And All Her Values. With Surgical Precision And A Wry Intelligence Anne Fine Exposes The Claustrophobic And Potentially Duplicitous Nature Of Close Family Relationships. Secrets Beget Secrets, After All, And The Final Revelations Are More Than Anyone Has Bargained For.

Natalie, who lives in the large hotel managed by her father, has a dangerous friendship with Tulip, the wildly uncontrollable girl on a neighboring farm.

Will Flowers feels his younger sister, suddenly transformed into a teenaged banshee, is responsible for turning the family home into a veritable war zone.

Can Melanie save Imogen from the magic power of books that is destroying her?

Miranda''s three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband.

Clarrie y su hermano Will se quedan bajo el cuidado de su tío Len, ventrílocuo experto y aficionado a la bebida. Su número favorito lo realiza con una inquietante marioneta, Billy Eltieso, que de repente parece haber cobrado vida. ¿Puede el ingenio de una niña salvar a una familia del desastre? Una estupenda novela que muestra la fuerza de la imaginación para superar las dificultades.

Een man, wiens gezicht in zijn jeugd verminkt is door een woeste hond, is ervan overtuigd dat er voor hem geen vreugde weggelegd is in het leven.

Further adventures of William and Mustapha, the genie. Sequel to À sudden puff of glittering smoke''. Age 7+.

Every Sunday Ally goes with his parents to visit his Aunt Chloe in a mental hospital although it seems like a waste of time to him until he meets and introduces his aunt to the young woman who has planted her own name in the mysterious tangly land on the other side of the lake.

As Lois takes her second - and redeeming - chance at love, she finds herself on a collision course with a society that claims to support and protect. She lays her plans, and suddenly it seems that all those years of nurturing her own deep-frozen heart may not have been so wasted after all.