Susan is very young when she's evacuated from London during World War II and sent to live in the countryside with a family she has never met. Uncertain of her new surroundings and desperately missing home, she holds out little hope for the months ahead. Then, on Christmas Day, she receives a doll that she names Lizzy. It is the best present she's ever had. Only decades later, when Susan and her great-granddaughter Evie bring the precious doll in for...

Nine and her friends have broken the curse on their marvellous, magical House, and are free to travel the worlds once more. There's only one problem: the House is nervous about travelling - and gets the hiccups! With every HIC! they bounce from one world to the next, and magical mayhem erupts in every room. They try a drink of water (turning on all the taps) and giving it a fright (landing in a monstrous world), but nothing seems to work. Only the...

Sometimes you are a whisper away from magic without even realizing it. Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman's purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including Flabberghast - a young wizard who's particularly...