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A death in the family rarely brings out the best in people - even the deceased

Jonathan Coulter planned for his death...

Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An...

Just before her twenty-seventh birthday, Jazzy hatches a plan. Before the year is out, she and her best girlfriends will all have...

How do you protect the ones you love from the secrets that hurt them most?

Cassie is adopted. She’s never felt like the odd...

When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl.

For the Oliviera family – mum Carol, daughters Angel and Marie...

Set in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in...

When is it wise to be a fool for something? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall...

From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of...

A fiercely poetic coming-of-age novel following a group of young women of colour in Queens, New York.

Brown Girls dives deep...

The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the...

There’s something not quite right about Linda

Her house is ordinary, even though she doesn't feel quite at home.

Her...

Cat Lady (n.)
Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone…

It's safer for Mia to play the part that people...

Are some memories best forgotten?

Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art of putting herself first. As a widow with a...

As the residents of Edgar Road know, Alfie is no ordinary cat. Since his arrival in the street, he's made every house his home,...

Edgar Road used to be your typical London street; a road full of people who barely said a word to one another. Then Alfie came...

This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer - the summer when everything changes. In a holiday house by the sea, in a big,...

All the time Mum was away,
Eleven long years,
I saved up my hopes
Like little pennies in a jar.

Apple's mother disappeared...

With Pez, the days felt endless – cycling, climbing trees, sucking sour sweets till our tongues burned. I'd give anything to be...

They think I hurt someone.
But I didn't. You hear?
Cos people are gonna be telling you
all kinds of lies.
I need you to know...

In the moving and compelling debut novel from Benjamin Zephaniah, a young man's life is completely changed when his face is badly...

An electrifying novel from hugely popular performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah, exploring the rap music scene,...

What if ... no one knows the truth about you?

It's been thirteen years since Kaylee's infamous birth mother, Crystal, received...

Heartbreaking, life-affirming, brave and bold - Karen Gregory's debut is a completely different kind of love story.

'Is there...

Jackie's life wasn't perfect, but at least it was normal. That is, until her dad received a terminal cancer diagnosis. Then he...

On a frozen Cornish moor, a fourteen-year-old girl lives in a trailer with her dad and little brother. Ennor's mother left years...

Ivy turned on her. 'I told you I'd get you, didn't I? Well,' her next words sent shivers through Katie. 'Tonight's the...