The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School

A brand-new stand-alone novel from the acclaimed author of the Anno Dracula series. Kim Newman is a highly regarded, critically acclaimed novelist: "Compulsory reading... glorious" Neil Gaiman on Anno Dracula. Kim Newman is a very well respected movie critic who makes frequent appearances on radio and television and writes for Sight and Sound, Empire, The Guardian and many others.

Amy Thomsett is sent to Drearcliff Grange School in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular 1920s boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and magicians. When a girls is abducted, Amy and her friends must form a secret society called the Moth Club to rescue her.A week after her mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians. Several of the pupils also have special gifts like Amy's, and when one of the girls in her dormitory is abducted by a mysterious group in black hoods, Amy forms a secret, superpowered society called the Moth Club to rescue their friend. They soon discover that the Hooded Conspiracy runs through the school, and it's up to the Moth Club to get to the heart of it.