Bøker av Emily Critchley

As the Christmas holidays approach, Gilly can't believe her luck when Violet invites her to spend them at her home, the crumbling Thornleigh Hall. At Thornleigh, Gilly is dazzled by the family's faded grandeur, and above all by Violet's beguiling older sisters who seem to accept her as one of their own.

Living alone with her eccentric mother - who conducts seances for the local Ludthorpe community - she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. When the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. But Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep .

One day Patrick found a polar bear in his freezer. How did it get there? Monty seems to have come to stay!

A story of a a young girl's abusive relationship with an older man. Eleanor is perceptive funny and warm but she is no match for Scott.

Home, the latest collection from Emily Critchley, is part experimental confession, part elegiac plea. It is an exploration of the damage done by, in and to the different manifestations of 'home'.

An experimental collaboration inspired by and dedicated to the poets', artist's and publisher's children. Surreal, imaginative, playful and unlike any picture book of poetry you've read or seen before, alphabet poem is absolutely for kids! no matter how old they really are.

Love / All That /& OK, an anti-confessional by experimental British poet Emily Critchley, brings together a diverse range of work previously published in chapbooks since 2004, and includes new material from the sequences 'Poems for Luke', 'The Sonnets' and 'Poems for Other People'.

A vivid present tense account of life in a dysfunctional family told by a perceptive thirteen year old girl. Lou's dad is in a relationship with a sixth former and her mum is caught shop-lifting and has a 'psychotic episode', but Lou stays cool keeping us informed of the changing scenes through her brilliant and understated notes.