Bøker av Shirley Day

A domestic noir with a creepy contemporary-gothic feel. Scratch, Becca, and Finn grew up roaming the moors, scaring themselves silly with ghost stories. One place they loved to 'haunt' was Old Man Byrde's-a creepy farmhouse high on the escarpment. All went well till one day, Byrde threw himself to his death.Years later, it's Finn's stag do. The three friends hire Byrde's old house, and the past is all too eager to come knocking.

Twelve-year-old Jamie's world turns upside down when he discovers his grandad's been reincarnated as a cat, Theo. Grandad has wrongs that need righting, and the 'family fortune' is on the line. Jamie and Theo battle pesky aunts, a meddling uncle and even the odd dog in their attempt to get the family back on track. Along the way, the duo begin to realise that true wealth is not about cold hard cash but the love and support of family and friends.A heartwarming adventure about a boy and his cat.

Mattie and the team arrive at the ghost hunter's convention, keen to pitch their ideas to the broadcasters. Mattie knows that it's make or break time for her family; in order to stay together, they need to secure a lucrative TV deal. Only someone, somewhere, is stealing their ideas and sabotaging their plans.

Mattie's parents have always been keen on taking their daughter to work. But there's a problem: work is a reality TV show. Shiver and Spook are ghost hunters, and last season ghost hunting got tricky. Mattie was roped in to play the 'spooky girl.' It got worse - in postproduction, mum made Mattie's head turn 360 degrees. Mattie is never going to live it down. She's determined - this is the last time her family will drag her along.

The world is in peril; it's sinking. Space and commodities are running short. Repatriation is a government priority. Seventeen-year-old Marco has always been keen to keep his head down; he's part of a prestigious government academy. But when his friends start being shipped out, Marco begins to question the foundations of this post-disaster world and sets out on a path to save the people he loves.

In this suspenseful thriller, a journalist writing about a reclusive billionaire finds herself caught in a madman's maze. Sophie regrets leaving her much-loved ex-boyfriend over Christmas, but she can't pass up the opportunity of a lifetime: writing a personal history for the enigmatic billionaire Tim Henderson. A pioneer in the early days of fertility treatment, Henderson now lives a reclusive life on his private Greek island. Sophie soon discovers that the ancient labyrinth on Henderson's property has a dark history, steeped in myth and legend. Even more worrying is the island's equally sinister present. Can Sophie find a way out of Henderson's delusional trap before her future is destroyed?

Long-listed for the Bath Novel Award: An estranged brother and sister reunite, stirring up dark truths about their childhood, in this brooding mystery.As children, siblings Gareth and Helen went ignored and utterly unsupervised in their isolated English farmhouse while their mother obsessively tended to her beloved, exquisite garden. When they were little, Gareth would occupy himself by trapping insects under glass and Helen would find ways to entertain herself-but the older they grew, the more sinister their lives became, with no attentive parent to shield them from the predators of the world.Decades later, Helen is in the same crumbling house, unhappily married and looking after their bedridden mother, and Gareth finally returns home. Evidence of a long-ago crime has recently emerged, and in its wake will come a series of shattering truths . . .