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Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and...

2013's most talked about debut comes out in paperback

Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A...

Two pensioners and a whippet sail their English narrowboat down America's 1,000 mile long Atlantic Intracoastal...

Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe...

The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast...

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house...

It's 1991. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. Only lately, he's been feeling dead...

Does 'friends' ever really mean just 'friends'?

Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends ever since they were...

At first their ages made no difference...

Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be...

Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a...

The soldiers are coming home – after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives and girlfriends and...

The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller about the marriage of an American First Lady: A rich, utterly absorbing, powerful story of...

For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine...

A fascinating and revelatory journey along the Danube to appeal to fans of Michael Palin's New Europe.

The Danube is Europe's...

Here is a truth that can’t be escaped: for Mia ‘Rabbit’ Hayes, life is coming to an end...

Rabbit Hayes loves her life,...

Small, well appointed future. Semi detached.

If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to make...

A thrilling, poignant story of hope and loss set during World War 1, from Carnegie Medal-winning author Theresa Breslin.
The war...

A gripping and powerful story of two boys from rival backgrounds, for fans of The Hate U Give and The Upper World.

Glasgow is...

The year is 1969 and Jack Sheffield is a young teacher in need of a job.

In a room full of twenty-nine other newly qualified...

Travel back in time with this enchanting novel from Jack Sheffield...

For the residents of Ragley, the small Yorkshire...

Ragley, 1952.

Lily has just arrived, ready to begin her first year as a teacher at the village school. There to welcome her is...

A brilliantly funny travelogue from the comedian and game show host Alexander Armstong.

In an adventure of a lifetime,...

It's 1986 and Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his tenth rollercoaster year as headteacher.

It's the year...

What happens when what you wish for is only half the story...?

Three strangers and a funeral, that’s all it takes for these...

1984 - and it's an important time for the children of Ragley-on-the Forest school... Their school choir is to sing a carol in a...

The fourth installment of the hilarious Ragley-on-the-Forest village school series

It's 1980: recession and unemployment have...

It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV, Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister, Abba is top of the pops, and in...

It's 1978, and Jack Sheffield begins his second year as headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. There...

When a shameless rugby legend and a distinguished grey lady get together sparks are bound to fly.
And when that legend is South...

Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on...