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Between looking after her brother, working two low-paid jobs, and trying to take part-time college classes, Lynette is dangerously tired.

How do you carry on, when you lose someone you love? A poignant and moving story about Big Billy Brennan, obese and heartbroken, and his struggle to lose weight while coming to terms with the death of his eldest son.

The number one bestselling first book in The Clifton Chronicles, a multi-generational family saga

The thought-provoking, emotive and page-turning second novel from Katie Marsh, author of My Everything. Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Jodi Picoult.

A curated selection of chilling ghost stories from world literature, introduced and edited by broadcaster Stephen Johnson.

It was only a few weeks ago that Aphra Connolly's life changed completely. She had been living a quiet existence on her father's secluded island resort, until Seth Mulo turned up and stole her heart ...and provided information that led her to find her mom in Seattle. But the reunion isn't quite what she expected.

When Camilla meets the Pirate surfing the Net, she refuses to fall in love with him. But the Pirate doesn't give a yard-arm what she thinks. She's beautiful and he's determined. So he inveigles her into boarding his pirate ship in the Caribbean. The Pirate is free-spirited, outrageous and irascible, and Camilla is brave, resourceful and nutty.

The human head remains in a state of consciousness for one and a half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at a rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by this, Robert Olen Butler wrote Severance, sixty-two vignettes each exactly 240 words in length, that capture the flow of thoughts that go...

Here is the personal diary of Arnold Appleforth - official grumpy old man, ex-tabloid hack and all round wine-fuelled cumudgeon

AD 43. Time is running out for Emperor Claudius's invasion force in Britannia. The second novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series, which includes BRITANNIA, CENTURION and INVICTUS.

Three passionate novellas from The Secret Library range that offer essential, sensual reading.

Alex Fisher is a high-flying lawyer close to making partner and busy planning her perfect wedding to Elliott. But life suddenly becomes complicated when she's faced with a hot junior lawyer on her team and an actress threatening to jeopardise the deal by exposing her dodgy cosmetic surgery...

1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; Inexplicably, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist.

And Wheel of Fortune hostess Vanna White is on the cover of Playboy. Billy and his friends are desperate to get hold of a copy, but no shopkeeper is going to sell one to three fourteen-year-old gaming nerds. But as they set out on their mission to enter one impossible fortress, they have no idea what lies ahead .

An entertaining state-of-the-nation debut set in the north of England, full of warmth, comedy, character and anarchy.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The third spellbinding novel in the Clifton Chronicles

In this new collection of short stories, Martin Malone explores the hidden world behind the front door of family life and the secret world behind the public face.

One of the most absurd true stories you will ever hear...

A modernist tour de force from an exhilarating new talent