Gwyneth Jones: 8 books

The first episode in the Bold As Love sequence. It's Dissolution Summer, Europe is in turmoil, and the United Kingdom is about to break up into separate nations, The Counterculturals have gathered at Rivermead for a festival where everything's allowed. Among them is a talented little brat called Fiorinda,...

Moving into a proper house with a garden was a dream come true for Diesel and her mum and dad. The dream quickly turned sour when they found out they were living next door to the notorious Knight brothers (a crime wave all by themselves). Every night, all night it was noise and loud music. When the...

A dreadful secret hangs over the deserted house on Roman Road. What is it that keeps drawing Andrei to it? Why is his mother so afraid of the place? And what is the unknown presence, not human, not a ghost that seems to be stalking the family: Andrei and his mother, his little sister (who believes...

Maurice's family has left for the Middle East: Maurice: asthmatic, plagued by allergies, self-centred, impossible semi-invalid, is sent to live with his great aunt in Brighton, and becomes fascinated by the eerie and romantic old cemetery next door. Asthmatic, plagued by allergies, isolated from the...

Jessica Raven dreams of finding a cure for her brother's fatal illness, but she knows it isn't going to happen. Then on holiday in France she meets a strange ragged band of children. Who are they? What do they want from her so urgently? And who is Jean-Luc, the attractive but mysterious young man...

Stacey vanished three years ago. Alan knows she's dead: he knows what happened because it was all his fault. But his mother refuses to believe it. Mum's endless, hopeless search for her baby, her lost little daughter, is the worst misery of Alan's life-after-Stacey. Going nowhere, filling shelves;...

Robs Hayward, a talented young pianist, is thrilled when she's recruited by Maddy Turner and Darryl (Jef) Jeffries, to join an experimental techno band. She's fourteen and a shy loner, Maddy and Jef are sixteen and super-cool. When their rehearsal space at school becomes a new car park, it's Robs...

Elinor's father died in a terrible fire. Her mother abandoned her; or so she's been told. She lives with her cousins, but there's no place for her in the Madison family. She used to love looking after little Dekkie. But now he's a big boy of six, he's as nasty and spiteful as the others; and her aunt...