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Bumble is back! The funny, forthright and not infrequently filthy author of best-seller ‘Start the Car’ and star of Sky Sports returns with a new collection of yarns from his years at the crease and at the microphone. It’s the book that Bumble’s many fans have been longing forAfter three long years, Bumble is finally back! The outspoken author of best-seller ‘Start the Car’ returns with a whole ne…
‘Will send shivers down your spine’Teen Vogue‘A work of unforgettable vision and imagination. This book is everything I love about science fiction’Jay KristoffBlack Mirror with a touch Westworld re-wiring, STRONGER, FASTER, AND MORE BEAUTIFUL is a novel in six interconnected parts about what it means to be human – and where those boundaries lie.Set in our world, spanning the near to distant future…
Everyone’s favourite furry friends are BACK in this fourth hilarious adventure!The temperature is rising – and Stick Dog and his pals are feeling the heat! The dogs need cold, cold ice cream on this hot, hot day – but their quest to find a sweet treat is threatened when Stick Dog is spotted by a human and the police are hot on his tail…Funny, furry and loveable, this four-legged hero is destined t…
The supreme fantasy epic of magic, love & treachery – Book 3The three sisters thought they had rid the world of evil, that dark sorcerer Orogastus was banished to the Chasm and set to perish.But after many long years Orogastus is stirring and Kadiya’s trillium talisman is losing its power.Their world is out of balance, trouble is looming. The stage is set for a dramatic confrontation that could de…
The wonderful story collection from the author of Standard Deviation‘Heiny's work does something magical: gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve and makes you laugh along the way’ Lena Dunham‘Like Cheever mixed with Ephron’ New York Times‘Simply wonderful, I savoured every page’ GuardianMaya’s dog is dying, and she is planning to leave her boyfriend. On the whole she feels…
'A wonderful, artfully addictive novel' IAN MCEWANWhen Jonah and Raff wake up on Monday, their mother Lucy isn’t there.Although he’s only nine, Jonah knows enough about the world to keep her absence a secret. If anyone found out she’d left them alone, who knows what could happen to him and his little brother?As the days go on, he puzzles over the clues left behind: who sent Lucy flowers? Why is he…
A tale of sorrow, joy and passion against insurmountable odds. Perfect for fans of Anne Bennett.Niall may be poor but he is a good man. He does his best for his wife and their five children, in difficult circumstances in their small, cramped house in the back streets of York.But this loving home is torn apart when his wife dies tragically and Niall finds himself alone. His children run him ragged …
Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones’ Robert MacfarlaneFrom the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet.In the third of his watery books, the author goes in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Of people enchanted or driven to des…
The fourth sparkling novel from the bestselling author of THE TRIALS OF TIFFANY TROTT, THE MAKING OF MINTY MALONE and OUT OF THE BLUE has Rose, a prickly agony aunt, fall for the charms of Theo, accountant by day, astronomer by night. who soon has her starry-eyed. But the starcross’d lovers have many obstacles to overcome on the path of true love.Agony aunt Rose has more than a few thorns digging …
‘Intense, beautifully crafted . . . Her talent is electric. Get ready for a shock’ GuardianThis is a work of fiction. Keep telling yourself that.America has changed. For women, it has changed for the worse.Ro, a single high-school teacher, is desperate to become a mother. But with IVF now illegal – along with abortion and other reproductive rights – parenthood looks increasingly unlikely for her. …
The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector.‘Beautifully written… wonderfully absorbing with a clever twist in the tale’ Isabel Wolff, author of GhostwrittenMae Fanning seizes on a job at a tiny, exclusive Boston antiques shop as the fresh start she desperately needs. It opens a window to new world, one peopled with rare and rich characters. But the d…
The second novel by the phenomenally talented author of Solitaire, Alice Oseman – the most talked-about YA writer right now.What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside.But when Frances meets Aled, the shy geni…
Kara Winters is always striving for perfection. But when her anxiety takes over, the price of perfection spirals out of control…'Perfect' Kara Winters has always hated her nickname. Especially now that she no longer lives up to it. She used to have normal friends, she used to be normal. Now all she wants is to get into Harvard and leave high school behind.So when the pressure to ace her exams fina…
A gripping, suspenseful debut that will haunt you long after you have turned the final page…Angie Chapman is only 13 when she gets lost in the woods in the middle of the night.The next thing she knows she’s returned home, scars around her wrists and ankles, physically exhausted. Her parents collapse into tears when they see her, but Angie doesn’t understand – until they tell her she has been missi…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDONIn Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards.‘Sublimely funny’ Jason Hazeley, author of the Ladybird Books for Grown Ups‘My favourite Twitter account is now my favourite book. Irresistible!’ Jill Mansell‘This book is an absolute treat’ Holly Walsh‘Transfixi…