Youngblood Books: 8 books

After more than a decade in the public eye, David Cameron remains an enigma to those outside his inner circle. This dubious biography of Britain's Prime Minister provides a fascinating and fittingly glowing tribute to the man who has brought so many of us to our knees. Based on a few random interviews,...

“Thoughts and feelings, hinted at before, were suddenly blossoming. He knew then that he'd been waiting for his life to begin…” For years Colin Abbott has put his life on hold, living only for his elderly mother. With her gone he is alone, adrift in a world he doesn’t fully understand....

The sound of breaking glass wakes Colin and brings him downstairs. But what he finds in his living room is not a burglar. It's just a boy called Joe who is really much too sad to be any kind of danger. Joe is also much too drunk and talkative to be a comfortable companion for Colin. And that's when...

‘There was no laughing and joking that morning. There could be no relief, no celebration of a fruitful life lived to a natural conclusion. That had never been an option.’ It begins at a funeral, where the truth is hidden away inside the pages of a book no one was ever meant to read. But...

'There are other places to go; places I shouldn’t have put off visiting for as long as I have. This’ll be the last of my sudden disappearances. The last time I’ll be a summer breeze, gone too soon…' From an empty hotel room in London, Scott Drake takes a freewheeling trip across the East of...

‘Sarah was completely different to the women he'd known since his records started selling. She was real and that made her an exception to the boho posing and tragic gracelessness of everyone else. That was also what made missing her even more terrible. So, most of the time, he avoided thinking about...

Lily Green is an attractive middle-aged woman struggling with many things; with loneliness, mortality, an awkward teenage daughter, an angry ex-husband, a grief stricken neighbour and an abundance of guilt for the way she has lived her life. On an unbearably hot summer day, she finally realises that...

Great fun for kids of all ages, these two short stories are not traditional fairytales but like most fairytales, they offer lessons for life, with a little magic and darkness thrown in. The first story, 'Word Queen', tells the tale of a Panda who discovers the secret of words on a journey through...