Series: Essential Modern Classics

One of the wittiest, sharpest children’s fantasies ever written – Katherine Rundell Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones classic award-winning favourite, featuring Chrestomanci – now a book with extra bits! Everybody says that Gwendolyn Chant is a gifted witch with astonishing powers, so it suits her enormously when she is taken to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Her brother...

Essential Modern Classics are relaunched in gorgeous new covers, bringing these timeless stories to a new generation. Feather Boy introduces us to Robert, a boy who can do anything—or so old Edith Sorrel at the nursing home tells him. Robert doesn't think that's true, knowing as he does that he is the school geek. But something compels him to do...