Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.

It’s not important,” Silena insisted. “We have to find Charlie!” Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery.

After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.

I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.

I grabbed a pair of glowing red legs.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

Love was the most savage monster of all.