The River and the Book

8 best books like The River and the Book (Alison Croggon): Laura & Emma, Princess in the Spotlight, Princess in Love, Death in the Spotlight, Maybe This Time, Under the Pendulum Sun, Jolly Foul Play, A Spoonful of Murder

Laura & Emma
AuthorKate Greathead
ISBN1501156608
A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion.

Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early...
Princess in the Spotlight
AuthorMeg Cabot
ISBN0064472795
She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom...
News Flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo meets her at the airport!)

Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.)

Shock of the Century: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is prime princess...
Princess in Love
AuthorMeg Cabot
ISBN0064472809
Princess Mia may seem like the luckiest girl ever.

But the truth is, Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entrée into Genovian society, slogging through the congestion unique to Manhattan in December, and avoiding further smooching from her...
Death in the Spotlight
AuthorRobin Stevens
ISBN0141373822
Someone will take their final bow . . .

Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge: acting.

But the Detective Society is never far away from danger, and it's clear there's trouble afoot at the...
Maybe This Time
AuthorJill Mansell
ISBN1472248449
The deliciously uplifting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of MEET ME AT BEACHCOMBER BAY. Not to be missed by readers of Lucy Diamond and Katie Fforde.

When Mimi first visits her dad's new home in the Cotswolds, she quickly falls in love with Goosebrook and its inhabitants....
Under the Pendulum Sun
AuthorJeannette Ng
ISBN0857667270
WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMER
WINNER OF THE JOHN W CAMPBELL AWARD

Catherine Helstone's brother, Laon, has disappeared in Arcadia, legendary land of the magical fae. Desperate for news of him, she makes the perilous journey, but once there, she finds herself alone...
Jolly Foul Play
AuthorRobin Stevens
ISBN0141369698
The fantastic new mystery from the author of Murder Most Unladylike.

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean for a new school term, but nothing is the same. There's a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects - and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs.

Then,...
A Spoonful of Murder
AuthorRobin Stevens
The sixth mystery from the bestselling, award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike.

When Hazel Wong's beloved grandfather passes away, Daisy Wells is all too happy to accompany her friend (and Detective Society Vice President) to Hazel's family estate in beautiful, bustling Hong...
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