David Almond

When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain....

'There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight....

Kit has just moved to Stoneygate with his family, to live with his ageing grandfather who is gradually succumbing to Alzheimer's Disease....

Claire is Ella Grey's best friend. She's there when the whirlwind arrives on the scene: catapulted into a Northeast landscape of gutted shipyards, of high arched bridges and ancient collapsed mines....

Master storyteller David Almond presents a beautiful collection of short fiction interwoven with pieces that illuminate the inspiration behind the stories....

"I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne..."....

Stanley Potts is just an ordinary boy, but when all the jobs in Fish Quay disappear his Uncle Ernie develops an extraordinary fascination with canning fish....

Erin, January, and Mouse live in a children's home, Whitegates. They often dream of escape, and frequently journey into the outside world....

Joe lives with his mother in Helmouth, a forgotten village crumbling on the edge of the suburbs. His days are spent trying to evade the demands of school and the taunts of the local bullies....

There he was, below the bridge....