Collection: Playaway

1222 metres above sea level and the worst snow storm in recent Norwegian history is raging. Marooned in a mountain pass and with night falling, 269 travellers are forced to abandon their train and decamp into a centuries-old mountain hotel.

1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is hunting for the story that will make her name. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs an explosive scoop for the boys' club to take her seriously. Allie and fellow junior reporter Danny Sullivan aren't afraid to raise ha...

From smelly sewers to pongy penguins, there's always a rotten reek on Stinky Street. Put some pickles up your nose and join Brian and his friend Nerf for a series of revoltingly runk, truly toxious and sickeningly smell-odorous adventures.

When a beautiful woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate. Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for fun? Or did she finally make the decision to leave behind her claustro...

It is 2005 in Logar, Afghanistan, and 12-year-old Marwand has returned from America with his family for the summer. He loses the tip of his finger to the village dog, Budabash, who then escapes. Marwand's quest to find Budabash, over 99 nights, begins. The resulting search is an exuberantly told ...

Last year Pierce died, just for a moment. And when she was in the space between life and death, she met John: tall dark and terrifying. There's a fierce attraction between them, but Pierce knows that if she allows herself to fall for John she will be doomed to a life of shadows and loneliness in ...

Follow Abby down the rabbit hole into Wonderland! Together with her three friends, she'll encounter talking rabbits, mad hatters, caterpillars, and mean queens - and attend an unforgettable tea party. But if she can't solve a curious riddle in time, Abby could be stuck in Alice's story for good!

'Be strong, my Abela'. These are the last words of Abela's mother in their HIV/Aids stricken African village, where it seems that to live or to die is just a matter of chance. It takes all Abela's strength to survive her Uncle Thomas's scheming to get to Europe, but what will be her fate as an il...

A body has washed up from the Grand Canal. A woman, wearing the robes of a priest - a desecration known as the Abomination. The trail leads Captain Kat Tapo from the backstreets of Venice to an abandoned Catholic asylum. Suddenly the case is closed down.

Tess Brookes has always been a girl with a plan. But when her carefully constructed plan goes belly up, she's forced to reconsider. After accidently answering her flatmate Vanessa's phone, she decides that since being Tess isn't going so well, why shouldn't she try out being Vanessa? With nothing...