Anne Fine

How would you feel if your mother had royal-blue hair and wore lavender fishnet tights? It is not easy for Minna being the only sensible one in the family.....

Anne Fine's classic story about Tuffy the murderous cat, fabulously narrated by iconic comedian Jack Dee....

Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his pale face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven....

Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skips school, gives her teachers cheek, and makes herself unpopular by telling lies....

Chester refuses to believe that Joe has learning difficulties and persuades him to change his project from how to write neatly to how to write badly.....

This is a fast and funny look at the pressures facing young girls to conform to fashion - and how they can be avoided - told in a gripping witty style from award winning author Anne Fine....

When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies....

Once best friends, always best friends. That's the way it is with Angus and Jamie....

Monday morning, Bill Simpson wakes up to find he is a girl! Forced off to school in a frilly pink dress, Bill discovers one of the worst, most baffling days of his life is about to begin....

Everyone knows Louis is a chatterbox. He can't stay quiet for even a minute. So no one believes him when he says he's going to do a sponsored silence.....

Anthony the dog has a skin problem. The vet tells him that he must have all his fur shaved off apart from his head and tail....

From the moment Jamie sets eyes on Angus in the shop window, he just knows that they belong together. On Christmas morning, they're finally united....

When a chicken pushes a small book towards Andrew on his way to school one morning, and won't leave him alone until he picks it up, Andrew's friend Gemma finds it hard to believe....

Helly Johnston is miserable. Her mother is thinking of marrying again but Helly doesn’t want a stepfather, certainly not this one....

Harry’s burned down the kitchen (by mistake) and blackmailed Uncle Tristan into taking him along on holiday to a strange island....

In a hurry to find five pupils to join a school trip to creepy old Harwick Hall, Miss O’Dell, their teacher, picks them from one of the ‘special’ columns on her list....

Calling herself Lady Melody Estelle Priscilla Hermione Irwin, Laura weaves a fantastic tissue of lies about herself to her dull penpal. But she's not the only one capable of deception....

'Greetings to all you lowly shivering worms!'....

Hugo has to choose who to stay with while his mum’s having a baby....

It's war in the Flowers household....