Natasha Farrant's Books to Sweep You Away
By Faber Children's
Natasha Farrant's Books to Sweep You Away
By Faber Children's
Natasha Farrant, the Costa award-winning author of Voyage of the Sparrowhawk, shares her favourite escapist reads for children and adults.
Natasha's latest middle-grade adventure, The Rescue of Ravenwood is Bookshop.org's Children's Book of the Month for March 2023. This beautiful, soulful story is about holding onto what's precious, and guarding the extraordinary nature that surrounds us.
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The Rescue of Ravenwood: Children's Book of the Year, Sunday Times
Natasha Farrant
£7.99 £7.59'One of my very favourite authors.' Emma Carroll
October, October: WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL 2022
Katya Balen and Angela Harding
£7.99 £7.59October lives off grid in the forest with her father, but the year she turns eleven everything changes. She rescues a baby owl, Dad falls out of a tree and the woman who is her mother comes back into her life… A wild, fierce hug of a book.
Sisters of the Lost Marsh
Lucy Strange
£7.99 £7.59Strange draws you into her books by what feels like magic. Six motherless girls working a farm, living in fear of their cruel father and the superstition that obsesses him – the Curse of Six Daughters. When the Full Moon Fayre arrives, a new chain of events is set in motion.
The Skylarks' War
Hilary McKay
£7.99 £7.59An evocative and absorbing story of family and friendship in wartime. In all her books, McKay’s characters have a way of winding themselves around your heart (even those you don’t like).
Still Life
Sarah Winman
£9.99 £9.49From London’s East End to sun-drenched Florence, World War 2 to the hippy revolution, a host of unforgettable characters (including an Amazonian parrot called Claude) sweep you up into a story as funny as it is bittersweet.
The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller
Amor Towles
£9.99 £9.491950s America. A young man comes out of prison, set on driving to San Francisco to start a new life with his younger brother. Unfortunately, two fugitives are in the trunk of his car – bent on going the other way. An epic road trip ensues, with a whirl of unforgettable characters.
My Cousin Rachel
Daphne Du Maurier
£9.99A masterclass of a thriller set in du Maurier’s wild, romantic Cornwall, that will keep you guessing to the very last line.
War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Leo Tolstoy
£12.99 £12.34A magic novel, this. I’ve read it three times and each time it’s been totally different. The first reading was about love. The second, war. The third, social reform. What stays true each time is the humanity of his characters. And nobody writes family like he did.