In fin-de-siècle Copenhagen, part time prostitute Charlotte and her lumpen sidekick, Fru Schleswig, have taken on jobs as cleaning ladies of dubious talent to tide then over the harsh winter of 1897. But the home of their neurotic new employer, the widow Krak, soon reveals itself to be riddled with dark secrets – including the existence of a demonic machine rumoured to swallow people alive.

Rudely catapulted into twenty-first-century London, the hapless duo discover a whole new world of glass, labour-saving devices and hectic, impossible romance…

The TV game show only has one rule: kill or be killed. Katniss must play or die. But she won’t give up without a fight…

In District 12, where Katniss Everdeen lives, life is harsh and brutal, ruled from afar by the all-powerful leaders of the Capitol. The climax of each year is the savage Hunger Games – where twelve boys and twelve girls from each District must fight to the death on live TV. In this game show, murder is a necessity – and the winner’s prize is nothing but survival. When sixteen-year-old Katniss steps forward to take her younger sister’s place in the games, everyone regards it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature…

Set in a dark and chilling future world, The Hunger Games has got everyone hungry for more. Fling yourself into the arena and surrender to heart-stopping drama with the adrenaline-soaked series that’s just carried away the Red House Children’s Book Award.

Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There they wage battle against the demands of boneheaded marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan’s personal life is being invaded by marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, global piracy and the rise of China. Everybody in both worlds seems to inhabit a moral grey zone, and nobody is excemp, not even his seemingly strait-laced parents or Coupland himself.