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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...

Crossan... , Conaghan...

YA stars Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan join forces to break readers' hearts in this contemporary story of star-cross'd...

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,...

The personal, funny and poignant tale of a young refugee, from acclaimed storyteller Benjamin Zephaniah

Acclaimed performance...

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...

Meet Bradley Chalkers. He's the oldest child in the class. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls. The teachers say...

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...

When Moose Flanagan and his family move home, yet again, and become residents of the famous prison island Alcatraz, things get...

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her...

Childhood best friends decide to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young heiress embarks on a secret affair,...

It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, a group of New Yorkers has...

Not all that is hidden is lost.

For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed...

On a boat offshore, a fisherman guts a mackerel as he anxiously awaits a midnight rendezvous.

Villagers, one by one, disappear...

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities:...

Alice is just twenty when she becomes involved with Louis, a brooding, older man who has spent his life building some of the...

Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen...

Another day! And then another and another and another. It seemed as if it would all go on forever in that exquisitely boring and...

A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little...

On a beautiful spring day, a small village in Western Germany wakes up to an omen: Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is...

What would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours?

For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with...

Deftly weaving from one end of life to another - from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an...

July, 1981. London.
Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen-years-old, he dreams of being a fashion designer....

A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A group...

An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands; a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle...