Heroni hates being a witch – especially as only her familiar, the Emerald Hare, is capable of preventing the dangerously evil Priestess Ezmara from abusing the High Temple's 'Ladder to God'. Heroni's wand is equally powerful, but becomes ever more irresistibly corrupting each time it is used. Worse still, the wand's captive spirit is working on breaking free – by helping Ezmara become a goddess.

In the depth of a never-ending Victorian winter, Helly's grandfather draws on unnatural means to make his glass-plate photographs move and come to life – foolishly enabling a story-book winter queen to step fully formed into our world.Helly has her own problems, too, when a twin version of her takes her place.And now her only friend and ally against the queen is a goose…

The Heart of the Great Deer Anam, the heartbeat of the world, is faltering, dying.The elk are leaving, and Odhna's tribe faces starvation.As the apprentice of the shamaness Chli, she and her spirit guide Druien, a tiny wren, set out to discover why the Deer Mother has deserted them.Yet Chli vanished on a similar journey: how can Odhna hope to succeed where her teacher perilously failed?

The land was dying. Crops withered. Animals starved. Worst of all, people were magically transformed into stone. And despite Mara's back-breaking toil, the hard-baked soil of her parents' farm only gave up the aged artefacts of an ancient villa that once stood here. Her parents tell her to throw away an alabaster jar she finds; but then a woman appears, whispering 'Awaken me – to awaken the land…'

Worked unjustly hard by her people, Wen constantly longs to sleep: for in her dreams, a horse that flies like the wind carries her off to far kinder lands.Then one morning, while she sleeps in, the horse casually trots into her village…

Anna Burke is far too young to be a grave robber: and so when she finds a magic ring briefly bringing the dead back to life, she offers them the chance to write letters to those they've left behind. It's a thriving business – until the day a girl not much older than Anna determinedly refuses to go back into her grave.

When sea raiders kill Tuonela's parents, a girl with golden hands helps her flee: only for an old blind woman to fool her into sheltering in a deserted palace and loosening a dangerous prisoner's shackles. As Tuonela tries to slam the dungeon's door, her hands dissolve away to nothing – and they can only be replaced, she gradually learns, when the moon sheds tears of gold.

Birthed from a coming together of ice and snow, Eira was never meant to be: she was nothing but an afterthought, unintendedly formed when magicians created a girl from summer flowers to be their king's queen. It was a deadly mistake – for like a cruel winter, Eira feels nothing as she kills anyone preventing her from reaching Queen Blodeuwedd.

While playing the wanton Columbine in a travelling show, Anneis is forced by the master El Nino to similarly entertain her richest admirers.Although Lulu, the famed trapeze artist, tries to help, no one can protect Anneis.Until Columbine's tambourine goes missing – and in its place, Anneis finds a flute that plays all by itself…

Soon Andraetra will be a privileged Gorgesque: half her face exchanged with that of a hideous person, to share the burden and ensure she recognises the truth that she can never be wholly good. But her ‘intended’ Courundia abducts Andraetra, hoping to reveal the lies surrounding her fiancé’s return to life after dying in the revolution. All that’s revealed, however, is that no one knows the truth.

You can never leaveHow close have you come to finding yourself enrolled at Heartache High?Closer than you think, probably, if you’ve ever been in love with someone who didn’t seem to think you even existed.Or someone who broke up with you, leaving you broken-hearted.At Heartache High, you’ll find yourself surrounded by students just like you.People who endlessly hope it won’t always be a hopeless love.Problem is, once you’ve enrolled at Heartache ...

I meet a dream boy on holiday, accept his invite to his dream mountaintop castle; but when I get here, it's a nightmare of invisible staff (apart from old, sour-faced Lisa) and gardens of either freezing white snow or sheer darkness. Oh, and magpies who appear out of nowhere.Now I've found a book for 'young wytches'; but will it help me survive the castle, or is it just another trap?