When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl.For the Oliviera family - mum Carol, daughters Angel and Marie - autumn 2009 in the once-prosperous beach town of Ashaway, Rhode Island is the worst of times. Money is tight, Carol can't...

When Isabel's god-daughter, Emily, turns up after years of no contact and in need of help, she feels duty-bound to take her under her wing. To her surprise, Emily is determined to be independent and takes a job as nanny. Emily's charge turns out...

When Jenny is spotted by a high-profile modelling agency, she goes from ordinary schoolgirl to celebrity overnight. Suddenly her life is a whirlwind of parties and glamour.

When Jingwen moves to Australia, he feels like he's landed on Mars. No one understands Jingwen. Literally. Making friends is impossible, since he doesn't speak English, and he's stuck looking after his annoying little brother, Yanghao. But Jingwen knows how to make everything better....

When journalist Benjamin Schulberg discovers a link between lawyer Jim Grant and a notorious Vietnam-era fugitive, the world that Jim has carefully built for himself and his daughter collapses. Still wanted for murder in a bank robbery gone wrong in 1974, Jim is back...

When Kenneth Earl realises his memory is failing, he advertises for someone to help him catalogue his vast collection of music, and so create a record of his life. Maggie, the final candidate, is his last hope. But he doesn't guess, when he gives...

When lawyer, Jenny Cooper, is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she's hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected files hiding dark secrets and a trail...

When Liz Drake's best friend vanishes, nothing can stop her nightmares. Driven by the certainty he needs her help, she crosses a continent to search for him. She finds Blake comatose in a Vancouver hospital, victim of a mysterious accident that claimed his lover's...

When Max, Henry, and Will steal Bennett away for a weekend of shenanigans and strippers in Vegas, the first stop of the night doesn't go at all as planned. With their scheme for a Guys Weekend completely derailed anyway, Max and Bennett begin to...

When Nicholasand The Notebookand Sparks publishes his first Christmas novel, you know it's going to be special ... A real Christmas cracker'and HEATWhat if the person you needed most, turned up when you least expected them?The internationaland #1 bestselling author ofand The Notebook, Nicholas...

When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby.and She simply cannot be allowed to bring shame upon her family. But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like child she gave away,...

When Omar Yussef travels to Nablus, the West Bank's most violent town, to attend a wedding, he little expects the trouble that awaits him. An ancient Torah scroll belonging to the Samaritans, descendants of the biblical Joseph, has been stolen. But when the dead...

When Phoenix attends a protest rally with her older brother, it ignites a fire in her she didn't know she had. The island city she loves is disappearing and she's determined to capture the moment with her camera. and and Kai never wanted to...

When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and...

When Russell Stone becomes the teacher of a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence, he is both entranced and troubled. How can this refugee from terror radiate such bliss? Is it possible to be so open and alive without coming to serious...

When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in the familiar Jess-shaped crease on her sofa, she couldn't help but wonder what life might have looked like if she had been a little more open to new experiences and new people, a little less...

When Swiv is temporarily kicked out of school, her Grandma gives her an assignment to write a letter to her absent father. Swiv's assignment to Grandma is to write a letter to Gord, her unborn grandchild and Swiv's brother or sister. 'You are a...

When the beautiful 20-year-old daughter of a Moldovan businessman goes missing from her university, British Intelligence will do anything in its power to track her down. Only one man is skilled and ruthless enough for the job - but for the first time in...

When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl.The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old friend of Edgar's. They served together in the war as...

When the concierge of a historic Atlanta apartment building invites his fellow residents to join him for weekly screenings of Downton Abbey, four very different people find themselves connecting with the addictive drama, and - even more unexpectedly - with each other... Samantha married...

When the Greek Queen Helen is kidnapped by Trojans, the Greeks sail in pursuit, besieging the city of Troy. Trapped in the Greek soldiers' camp is another captured queen, Briseis. Condemned to be bed-slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her family, she becomes...

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held...

When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends-to-lovers romance begins to bloom - from the author ofand When in Romeand and TikTok sensation,and The Cheat Sheet.'Sarah writes books that...

When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when...

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead.and With The Testaments, the wait is over.and Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into...

When the world ends and you find yourself stranded on the wrong side of the country, every second counts. No one knows this more than Edgar Hill. 550 miles away from his family, he must push himself to the very limit to get back...

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano...

When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his loyal new friends sharp-witted Ema and the adorkably charming Spoon find themselves at the center of a terrifying mystery involving the shooting of their friend Rachel. Now, not only does Mickey have to continue...

When you have to take on the White House there's only one woman to call -- Jo Beckett. When a rock singer is killed onstage during a concert, Jo Beckett is called in to perform a psychological autopsy. But Tasia McFarland's death causes Jo...

When you try to set your moms life right, be prepared to have your own life turned upside down Seventeen-year-old Ila Isham has a lot to worry about. Theres the angst of being an Ali Zafar groupie, for one. Then there are the extra...

When your best friend is a unicorn, magical adventures are guaranteed!Imagine a school where you meet your own unicorn and have amazing adventures together! That's what happens for the girls at Unicorn Academy on beautiful Unicorn Island.Lily is thrilled but a bit nervous to...

When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacherand - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose - it isn't easy to hitch a ride in Nebraska. At last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman.Within minutes...

Where Do I Belong? follows the life of Rina, a young second-generation Indian living in Denmark, and her family, the Shandilyas, who strive to adjust to the realities of life in a foreign land. Rina meets Hari, a student of theology in Copenhagen, and...

Where do you go if you can't feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can't fathom who you become? In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet...

Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject...

Where there are aunties, there's trouble . . .The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author ofand Dial A For Aunties, winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021It's Chinese New Year, a time to celebrate…Fresh from their honeymoon, Meddy and Nathan meet...

Where there's smoke there's fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is,...

Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie's surname? What is heavy-drinking Rachel Watson known as in the title of a 21st-century bestseller? And what do you get if you...

While a very short novel might be easy to overlook, Nathanael West???s Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) has been compared to The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby. One of the few titles written by West, who died in a car crash at age 37,...

While on the way to help out his friend Deputy Heck Thomas, Clint Adams makes enemies when a poker game at a local saloon goes sour. Now there are three men trailing Clint to Fort Smith: the two cheaters who're aiming to get revenge-and...

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Who are you at 16, if you can't remember anything about your life since you were 12? A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author ofand Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.After an accident that leaves her with partial...

Who doesn't fantasize about a little payback? Revenge is a timeless, all-too-human desire, and it's a common thread inand Yesterday's Liesand andand Zachary's Law -and two classic, fan-favorite novels by #1and New York Timesand bestselling author Lisa Jackson that are now available in one...

Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe? Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.' In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious death in the cellars of a...

Who would you like to see dead? Max Wolfe is back - the two-fisted homicide detective with a small daughter and dog waiting for him at home, and a crazed serial killer waiting for him out in the pitiless London city streets. On New...

WHY BE YOURSELF WHEN YOU CAN BE PERFECT?**As featured on The High Low podcast**'MAGNIFICENT.and Brutally honest and righteously angry but still HUGELY enjoyable and engaging. I bow down!'and Marian Keyes'A thoughtful, intelligent, urgent novel women need to read.'and Dolly AldertonThe highly-anticipated new novel from...

Why did vital civic engagement and fair debate descend into populism and paralysis? Can we compare the demagogue Cleon to President Trump, the Athenian Empire to modern America, or the stubborn island of Melos to Brexit Britain? How did a second referendum save the...

Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake?Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing?Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok?Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they...

Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life tackles head on the pressure cooker of comparison and unreachable levels of perfection that social media has created in our modern world.In this book, Katherine Ormerod meets the experts involved in curating, building and combating the most...