Reading age: 8-18

Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman’s purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters The Bookshop at the Back of Why Women Grow is a much-needed exploration of why women turn to the earth, as gardeners, growers and custodians. This book emerged from a deeply rooted desire to share the stories of women who are silenced and overlooked. In doing so, Alice fosters connections with gardeners that unfurl into a tender exploration of women's lives. The Tower at the End of "Magically warm and wonderfully weird, it's Terry Pratchett meets Diana Wynne Jones" – Louie Stowell, author of A Bad God's Guide to Being Good Nine and her friends have broken the curse on their marvellous, magical House, and are free to travel the worlds once more! Their first The Wizarding Hopscotch Championships. There's only one the House is nervous about travelling.