The Breakfast Museum

A funny, lively tale of heartbreak and hope, roses and romance. From the author of From Above with Love, G. S. O. H. and Love Street

A good and unusual story of life in and out of school

Andrew Matthews read English and Modern History at Reading University before qualifying as a teacher and teaching English for over twenty years. He has written three previous novels for young readers and, in 1994, left teaching to concentrate on writing as a full-time career. Married and the owner of several cats, his love of animals has led him to become a member of the UK Wolf Conservation Trust and his other interests include music, astronomy, reading and playing the guitar.

Tod stretched out his hands. 'Shall we go and celebrate?' 'Celebrate what?' I asked.'That we're three unique individuals in a world of clones.' Andie reckons the Breakfast Museum - a greasy spoon caf- - is the perfect place to hide out in when her boyfriend dumps her and she spur-of-the-moment bunks off for the day. Only losers and drop-outs go there, don't they? Wrong! For it's there that Andie meets Tod and Rally and discovers that the Breakfast Museum can provide much more than a plate of egg and chips and something that pretends to be coffee.

G.S.O.H.

A sizzling read for summer from the author of Love Street.

Andrew Matthews read English and Modern History at Reading University before qualifying as a teacher and teaching English for over twenty years. He has written three previous novels for young readers and, in l994, left teaching to concentrate on writing as a full-time career. Married and the owner of several cats, his love of animals has led him to become a member of the UK Wolf Conservation Trust and his other interests include music, astronomy, reading and playing the guitar.

Katie is fifteen, and in the library of all places on a hot August day. She is searching the WLTM (would like to meet) columns for a partner- not for herself but for her mum. And it is this search which forms the basis of a wonderful new romantic comedy from this fine writer.

Love Street

Nothing's simple when you've got Love Street on your mind!

Suzanne is pretty ordinary, apart from Love Street. She has the equivalent of a TV inside her brain, the only thing is that the same programme is playing day in and day out and she's lost the remote control. Whenever she is stressed out, furious or just plain bored, the TV flashes to life and shows a sequence from the soap called Love Street - the problem is, things get weird when the soap itself begins to imitate the life of her friends, and herself.

Andrew Matthews

Sam is sixteen - and fighting a war with his own body. Sam has been diagnosed with an incurable illness that gives him only months to live, meaning that now he has so little left, time has suddenly become very important to him. And nearly a hundred years ago, another Sam - a lieutenant in the British Army - is off to fight a different kind of war, on the Western Front. He knows that he may not survive. Linking the two is a girl named Marion. But is Marion just a figment of Sam's imagination - a hallucination caused by his medication - or something far more extraordinary? Could she somehow be . . . a bridge across time itself?

Andrew Matthews

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