A warm, contemporary classroom story about creative Maple Mehta-Cohen and her dyslexia, perfect for fans of Lisa Thompson, Helen Rutter and R. J. Palacio. A dyslexia-friendly book.A story for anyone who has ever felt different.Maple Mehta-Cohen has a secret: she can't read very well....

Aand warm, wittyand novel about love and friendship with a funand time-travel twist'and HELLO MagazineNumber one bestselling author Louise Pentland is back with her brand new novel that will make you laugh, make you cry and thoroughly charm you!Sometimes you have to go back,...

A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home…The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.Suspicion naturally falls on the old...

A well-known figure in Pune, Achyut Athavale is a retired economist of wide-ranging interests and some social standing. He is often invited to give lectures and speak at public events. One such speech results in a riot taking place in the city, leading a...

A whimsical picture book about a young girl counting down to her birthday while learning about all the other wonderful celebrations to be had throughout the year.All kids ask a lot of questions, but Winnie is stuck on one in particular: "Is it my...

A wickedly funny and prank-filled adventure starring one of Roald Dahl's most hilarious and popular creations, The Twits.This brand-new and deliciously revolting story is brilliantly written by internationally bestselling authors and children's literacy advocates Greg James and Chris Smith and illustrated by Emily Jones.Mr...

A wide-ranging collection of essays by one of America's most perceptive critics of popular and literary culture From one of America's most insightful and independent-minded critics comes a remarkable new collection of essays, her first in more than fifteen years. Daphne Merkin brings her...

A witty, moving story of adolescent love and loss from the acclaimed, prize-winning author ofand Breasts and EggsAand Japan Timesand Book of the decadeA young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her...

A witty, moving tale of monsters and modern life from the award-winning author of Cackle and The Return. For readers looking for a story of sisterhood, complicated families and love with a bit more bite...Rory Morris isn't thrilled to be moving back to her...

A witty, suspenseful and inventive debut that asks what makes a person a friend and a house a home.Sam and Asha. Asha and Sam. Their friendship is so long established, they take it for granted. Just as Asha takes for granted that Donnybrooke, the...

A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the...

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea...

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea...

A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for...

A woman relinquishes her four-year-old son to tourists passing through town. Losing him, she loses the story of her future. A world away from her, the boy becomes a man without the story of his past. Decades on, the mother struggles on her deathbed...

A woman tries to come to terms with loss of a lost baby; two strangers, a young man and a young woman, both with a love for Fyodor Dostoyevsky s Crime and Punishment board the same aircraft; a woman ponders over giving a second...

A wonderful collection of stories, extracts and poems about cats and dogs from one of our most beloved writers for children, Jacqueline Wilson.and and and and and This special anthology features the very best stories about cats and dogs from the world of children's...

A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for baseball that borders on genius. But sometimes it seems that his only friend is big Mike Schwartz -...

A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."-The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems...

A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1and Sunday Timesand bestselling author ofand Recipe for Love, A French Affairand andand The Perfect Match.Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English...

A wonderfully warm and relatable story from the brilliant Jill Murphy who has sold over 4 million books featuring the much-loved Bear Family and a charming third story to follow classic picture booksand Peace at Lastand andand Whatever Next!Mr and Mrs Bear wake up...

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss-and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life-from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth...

A World Book Day 2020 AuthorWINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2019WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2019Told with heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child's perspective on the refugee...

A world-defying love is put to the ultimate test in theand New York Timesand andand USA Todayand bestselling sequel to Veronica Rossi's "masterpiece,"and Under the Never Skyand (Examiner.com ). In this second book in her spellbinding Under the Never Sky trilogy, bestselling author Veronica...

A writer arrives in Bombay on a book-related visit and finds himself in search of the city he grew up in and barely knows, a city shaken to its core not long ago by the 2008 terrorist strikes-even as he takes for granted his...

A writer is savagely slain while on a publicity tour-a literary provocateur who craved headlines, but whose last book may have gone too far. His revelations about secret language buried in the U.S. Constitution-and hints about an explosive missing letter of Thomas Jefferson's-may be...

A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything'and New York Times'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Wood,and Guardian'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with...

A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his parents. Jayojit is no more accustomed to spending time alone with Bonny-who lives with...

A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a...

A young girl with a tragic past and a rhinoceros facing life in captivity form an unlikely and magical bond after a fateful storm and a shipwreck bring them together. A moving tale about love, connection and the healing power of friendship for readers...

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as...

A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster … The prescient, deeply shocking prequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed...

A young man arrives in a small town, hoping to leave his past behind him, but everything changes when he takes a job in a peculiar old shop, and meets a lonely single mother ... A chillingly hypnotic gothic thriller and a mesmerizing study...

A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal… A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie's acclaimed play.When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes...

A young woman begins a new life as a dragon master for a handsome earl in this tale of high fantasy romance. Melissa is a maid-in-training at the royal castle, where her greatest joy is caring for the majestic steeds of the royal Dragon...

A young woman found murderedA scandal in the makingWhen Mrs Bantry wakes to find a body in her library, there's only one woman to call: her good friend Jane Marple.But she hasn't called her old friend for comfort.The body in her library has been...

A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of her country during World War Two in Spy, by the world's favourite storyteller Danielle Steel. At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary. She is...

A young woman is making a living, faking it as a cut-price psychic working at Spiritual Palms (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage - mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she...

A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration.Wilson's protagonist, witness to Cook's brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with...

A...humane and very beautiful book'Garth Greenwell, author ofand What Belongs to Youand A young boy has fled his home. Crouched in his hiding place he hears the shouts of the men hunting him. When the search party has passed, what lies before him is...

A book of pure fineness, exceptional.' - Diana Evans,and Guardian'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal-and brilliant.' - Zadie SmithWinner of theand Dylan Thomas Prize 2021Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2021Edie is just trying to survive. She's messing...

A deeply moving and riveting memoir.' Arianna Huffington An incredible personal story.' Don CheadleThis spellbinding memoir opens with a woman receiving shattering news that her husband and son have been in a terrible accident. In that instant, she becomes a widowed immigrant left to...

A dramatic start to a gripping new series . . . meticulously researched and beautifully told by one of our most prolific and talented writers' - Santa Montefiore onand The Last SummerAn Island full of secrets . . .It's the summer of 1929 and...

A FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER'and PAULA HAWKINS WRITTEN PRE-COVID - GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE'and IAN RANKIN THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF'and A.J. FINN GRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!'and SARAH PEARSE, author ofand The Sanatorium BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE'and JENNY COLGAN AN ENGROSSING...

A gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness' - Florence WelchOur Wives Under The Seaand is the haunting novel from Julia Armfiled, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It's a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in...

A haunting, beautiful and necessary book' Nicola Yoon, author ofand Everything, EverythingA Barnes andamp; Noble Best Young Adult Books of 2016and |and A New York Public Library Best Books for Teens in 2016|and An Amazon Best YA Books of 2016A heartbreaking, triumphant, funny and...

A heartfelt and exciting debut . . . a wise and honest story of how it feels to be a young woman in search of yourself'Taylor Jenkins Reid,and Sunday Timesand bestselling author ofand The Seven Husbands of Evelyn HugoMeet Nora Hughes - the overworked,...

A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'. At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over...

A lovely, sunshiney story, bursting with wit and joy'and -and MILLY JOHNSON Has the Bella Osborne hallmark combination of wit, wonderful characters and meaningful conflicts … a fantastic read'and -and SUE MOORCROFTThe brand-new summery rom com from Bella Osborne, full of laughter, love and...

A modern spin on a folk tale where the improbable can happen … the twists are lovely; dark and deep'and The Times Golding folds together a folklore-inspired plot with the modern twists and tension of a police procedural novel to create a bitingly unnerving...