Upstairs at the Party'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to explain.' In the early seventies, a glamorous and androgynous couple known as Evie Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers

until the arrival of a mysterious

the enigmatic residents of former logging communities

a bit of a challenge for him

this is an ideal read for globally conscious readers aged 11 and up

whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside

"If you're going reach your highest potential in life

and written with biting candour

and on to the present day

Mariela’s group encounters a mysterious shrine in a gloomy bog

Kirito nearly falls to a plot hatched by the enemy Salamanders

But when Newell realizes this dance is for the entire school

It will be a unique insight into the organisation we entrust to enact the will of the British people exploring the role civil servants have to play in running the country how decisions made in SW1 have significant consequences for everyone and what Brexit revealed about the cracks in the system