Most Popular Books by Celia Rees

Nancy vokser op i England i starten af 1700-tallet. Hendes far har været slaveejer, plantageejer og skibsreder, men en storm ruinerer ham totalt, og da han dør, sendes Nancy til Jamaica. Her har hendes brødre arrangeret, at hun skal giftes med en rig mand for, at hun kan redde familiens økonomi. Men inden tvangsægteskabet kan gennemføres, tvinger et mord Nancy på flugt sammen med slavepigen Minerva. De to unge kvinder ender om bord på piraten Brooms skib, og her venter dem et liv med eventyr og farer, som ingen af dem nogensinde havde drømt om. Celia Rees (f. 1949) er en engelsk forfatter og lærer. Hun har undervist i engelsk på Warwick University og været formand for den engelske sammenslutning af børnebogsforfattere og -illustratorer. Hun debuterede i 1993 med ungdomsbogen "Every Step You Take" ("Vilde unge hjerter") og har siden da udgivet en lang række romaner for voksne og unge.

Finn is haunted by terrifying dreams where a huge wave threatens to engulf her in watery darkness. They have been worse since she arrived at the Cornish cottage. Then she discovers the strange curse that was laid upon the cottage years ago, and she''s sure vengeful Griffiths has something to do with it. She''s seen him, endlessly tying and retying a length of rope, creating the knots that - superstition has it - can conjure storms. Finn knows that she''s in mortal danger if she can''t find a way to break the curse... A superbly spine-chilling teen thriller from the award-winning author of WITCH CHILD

Ten years of Point Horror-not for the faint-hearted. Horror at its hideous best... Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick: The first time Martha sees the house she knows it''s evil. Somewhere so cold and sinister couldn''t be anything else. So she''s not surprised to find that someone was murdered in it. Not surprised, just scared out of her mind. She''s also sure someone''s watching her. Following her. Making creepy phone calls. Martha''s pretty certain that this Halloween is going to be the scariest of her life and possibly her last... April Fools by Richie Tankersley Cusick: Frank thinks he''s King of the Fools. This is his day. So when he and his friends get cut up by some hotshot driver...well, fair game. But the game goes wrong and suddenly things aren''t so funny any more... Two weeks later, the ''pranks'' start. Someone saw what happened that night, and wants to join in the fun. But April Fools'' Day is over and these jokes are for real... Blood Sinister by Celia Rees: The old, leather bound diary is just a diversion for Ellen at first. Sent to rest at her grandmother''s house, she begins reading to take her mind off her mysterious illness. For no one knows why she''s so pale, so bloodless...But the bizarre history that unfolds is so compelling, so strangely tangled up with her own life that Ellen begins to feel even more drained than before...could something be reaching across the centuries to claim her, bleeding her dry...?

In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family''s Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

Corrían el año 1659, y el país de Inglaterra buscaba por todas partes a las mujeres sospechosas de brujería. Una anciana condenada a la ahorca muere delante de su nieta llamada Mary Newbury quien también posee poderes mágicos. La muchacha decide abandonar el pueblo donde vivía con ella y emprende un viaje a América, lugar que promete un futuro mejor para su vida, sin tantas persecuciones. El viaje lo realiza por mar junto a un grupo de puritanos que van como colonos. Mary llega al nuevo continente y se hospeda junto a unos familiares en el pueblo de Salem. Allí, la chica comienza a fomentar la duda entre los ingleses por sus reiterados viajes al bosque en busca de plantas que utiliza como medicina y aún más porque entabla amistad con un indio americano.

En 1794, en Angleterre, Sovay Middleton a 17 ans. Fille d''un riche aristocrate, elle doit prouver que son frère et son père ne sont pas des traîtres et se déguise pour cela en bandit de grands chemins. Son périple la mène à Londres et dans le Paris de la Révolution où, aidée de ses amis, elle doit déjouer les plans de sir Robert Dysart. Roman inspiré d''une chanson traditionnelle anglaise.