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Lily wants to get home. Her friends want to get even. Lily needs a ride - a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha'...

Frankie Parsons is 12, going on old man. An apparently sensible boy, he carries a drumbeat of worrying questions that steadily gain volume in his head. Only Ma takes his catalogue of persistent anxieties seriously, but it is Ma herself who is the cause of the most worrying question of all.

Her name is Jane Smith. But to friends and foes, she's Jane Effing Smith. Why? Because she's the best criminal defense attorney in the Hamptons - the elite world of New York's rich and infamous. Because she's as good an investigator as she is a lawyer. Because she's tough. She's strong. As Jane i...

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? 'Abroad in Japan' charts a decade of l...

Marianne is fifteen when she falls helplessly and absolutely in love with Simon. Simon owns a Morris Minor, is in his final year at school and has a dazzling future ahead of him. Desperate to escape the stifling 1950s suburbs she has been raised in, Marianne feels sure she will be able to find tr...

Two years ago, I tore her world apart. Now, I'm going to make her my best friend. A psychological thriller from Claire Allan.

Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But three of his employees admit to the crimes, and Morton's wife and girlfriend each provide him with an alibi. T...

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an enti...

Think history is just a boring list of facts and dates? Think again! History is hectic, exciting, and unpredictable - in fact, it's absolute chaos! Join Greg Jenner on a riotously fun journey through ancient Egypt, from brilliant beginnings to epic ending. Accompanied by expert Egyptologist Dr Ca...

July 1940 - as Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk, she and her friends scour the hills around their Lake District home, watching for any signs of the long-dreaded Nazi invasion. But as the war drags on, with little g...

An engaging board book for very young children, with sliding panels to reveal images hiding below. Babies will love moving the sliders to make a bush baby peek out from its tree trunk home, meerkats pop up from their underground burrows and a monkey swing through trees. It's full of vivid colours...

An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author.

'The Army That Never Was' tells the remarkable story of the deceptions, hoaxes and misdirections carried out by the Allies ahead of the most pivotal moment of the Second World War - the D-Day invasion. The most audacious of these schemes aimed to convince German forces that plans to storm Normand...

Years have passed since the clash of shieldwalls echoed across the land. The Saxons are now the lords of Britain. And yet the bards still sing of Arthur - 'In our darkest time, when we need him most, shall he come again'. Yet old Beran has no love of bards' songs. Nor of people, unless they are p...