Poe : A Life Cut Short

Peter Ackroyd

Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the Ameri...

Noughts & Crosses (#1 Noughts and Crosses)

Malorie Blackman

Now a major BBC TV series 'Stop it. You're all behaving like animals. Worse than animals - like blankers.' Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she's lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her. Callum is a nought: pale-skinne...