Geraldine McCaughrean

Odysseus longs to return to wife and son on his island kingdom of Ithaca. But between hero and home stands an array of dangers unlike any ever faced by mortal man....

When the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, discovers her husband's mortal son Hercules, she vows to destroy him....

Set in the 1930s, when the devastating effects of World War I are still resonating throughout the world, Peter Pan in Scarlet sets listeners on an unforgettable journey fraught with danger....

A soaring story that will sweep listeners from the docks of China to the court of Kublai Khan as young Haoyou learns to ride the winds strapped to a great scarlet kite....

His mother was a human princess. His father was none other than Zeus, the king of the gods.....

Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they’ve been abandoned - cold, starving, and clinging to life....

Theseus sets off to meet his father and claim the throne of Athens. But first he must defeat many obstacles....

Pepper's 14th birthday is a momentous one. It's the day he's supposed to die....

From award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Geraldine McCaughrean, an utterly immersive and unforgettable novel set during the London Blitz, inspired by the author’s father

From the author of The Kite Rider comes another great historical novel, this time set in the American west, where the residents of a new settlement struggle....

With World War II looming, four young people sit on a train waiting to be evacuated to a safer place...but they don't want to go. They climb out of the carriage window and head back to Greenwich, forming an unlikely friendship.

Swordsman, soldier, poet...and possessor of the biggest nose in all of France! Cyrano de Bergerac was all this and more, for behind his grotesque face beat the heart of a lover....

Every time a lad came fowling on the St Kilda stacs, he went home less of a boy and more of a man. If he went home at all, that is....

Ever since the magnificent Miss Loucien gave up teaching to join the Bright Lights Theater Company, school days have lacked a certain... drama....

McCaughrean introduces a whole new generation of readers to Edmund Spenser's exciting adventures of knights and dragons, sorcerers and hermits, princesses and sea nymphs....

When Mary Pinny dies from a snakebite, she leaves her young daughter, Comity, and husband Herbert in the Middle of Nowhere....