If someone told you that your brother committed a terrible crime, would you believe them? If your sister told you that she had been raped, would you believe her? This is the basic premise of the Jenny ...

After Mikey's 15-year-old younger sister Karyn accuses college student Tom Parker of raping her, Mikey plans to avenge her. But when he goes to the Parkers' sprawling house, heavy spanner in hand, he ...

Let the Light In, Jenny Downham and Louis Hill’s YA novel of family grief, is so seamless you would never guess two pens are at work Emily Bearn has been the children's books critic for The Telegraph ...

A bookshop becomes a sanctuary in a post-apocalyptic romance, a connection is forged through food – and a codebreaker learns the language of big beasts Let the Light In (David Fickling) sees ...

The eloquent dying teen can seem a staple of the YA novel, but this British debut completely breaks the mold.Downham holds nothing back in her wrenching and exceptionally vibrant story about a 16-year ...