Summoned By BellsSir John Betjeman takes an unashamedly nostalgic journey through his earliest memories in this autobiography. Sunny memories of family holidays in Cornwall contrast with the 'shivering doom' of Marlborough College and his ultimately frustrating studies at Oxford.

Evocative and chilling

A fourth book in the successful 'Pure Dead' series

But will the on-screen tough-guy hero be able to sustain his role off-screen

The birds provide Manda with an escape from her loneliness

Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood

a minor public school steeped in military tradition

to stop Rhino and the trickster jinx box that could wreck both their worlds for ever

lies broken on the steps of the Cathedral

Meet eight-year-old Sam

he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life where he meets reclusive artist Lennie

affecting and beautifully-written

'One of the pleasures of fiction is how suddenly a brilliant writer can alter the literary landscape