Bruno doesn't like his new house. He had to leave all his friends behind in Berlin, and there are no children to play with here - until Bruno meets Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the wire fence near Bruno's house, and who wears a...
John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. He is the author of ten novels for adults, five for young readers and a collection of short stories. Perhaps best known for his 2006 multi-award-winning book The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas , Johns other
Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 full of ambition and hope. Forty years later, he has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed and young lives destroyed, and he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected insti...
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's...
Paperback edition of Boyne's Dickensian ghost story, set in a sinister hall in Norfolk. In 1867, Eliza Caine arrives at Gaudlin Hall to take up her position as governess, but soon founds that mysterious and terrifying events occur. From the author...