Celia Rees

It all started as stories - playground tales handed down for generations, plague graves, vanished children, and hidden steps leading to a festering underworld....

Germany, 1946 History hides many secrets One woman will hunt for the truth… *Previously published as ‘Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook’* ‘A perfect summer read; gripping, original, well-drawn and compassionate’ Joanne Harris 'Celia Rees is a superb writer, and this novel has one of...

Ellen is 16 and dying of an unknown illness. She begins to read her great-grandmother's diary, but it soon becomes difficult to distinguish her own life from the events recorded in the book....

Finn's not at all sure about the Salt House. Overlooking Westwater Bay, it brings back all her nightmare fears of drowning. Of the ghosts of the dead reaching for her. And Westwater is dangerous.

Reports of miraculous phenomena are coming in...a crying statue. A bleeding crucifix. Around the globe, strange signs point to the end of days.....

It is 1659 and Mary Newbury, theyoung granddaughter of a witch, sees her wise and beloved grandmother tortured and hanged as a servant of the Devil. Then a stranger with hauntingly familiar eyes approaches her with an opportunity–safe passage to America. But the difficult ocean voyage only...

It is the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger, and gold. But two unusually adventurous girls--a rich merchant's daughter, Nancy Kington, and her former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe--take to the high seas from...

"A perfect summer read; gripping, original, well-drawn and compassionate"--Joanne Harris "Celia Rees is a superb writer, and this novel has one of the most irresistible and unique story hooks I've ever come across. This book deserves to be huge!"--Sophie Hannah A striking historical novel about...