UncleIf you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you havent met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent purple dressing gown, Uncle oversees a vast ramshackle castle full of friendly kooks while struggling to fend off the sneak attacks of the incorrigible (and

makes his way to the West

'The thinking man's John Grisham' New Statesman

WHO WOULD BELIEVE IT

This is where the story of the Tudors begins and is historical fiction at its absolute best' Tracy Borman

that the Devil's footsteps are just stones and the Dark Man didn't take Adam when he reached the thirteenth step

Buffeted by high winds and blinded by freezing fog

Rave reports are coming in from 10 to 12 year-olds and from adult fantasy lovers too

Sil is forced to flee the very company she once called home

And only one had made the passage: nine-year-old Amir

and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped

Arriving by ship are the young angel Dill

It is impossible for a work of narrative fiction worth reading to contain less politics than 'Rotting Hill'