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Mara Nichols, a terminally ill career woman, wife, and mother, and Scott Coffman, a middle-school teacher whose eight-year-old foster son is about to return to his former inmate mother, traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones.

It is the 17th century in quiet Castile, northern Spain. Giovanni, an orphan at an early age, is brought up with a duke's youngest son on the duke's country estate, where his father, a minor Italian noble, had been the administrator. A combination of his aristocratic environment and his own inferior ...

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that ...

Fantasy adventure set in the magical land of Ramion and Kent village of Shoreham. When the storm summoned by the witch Griselda (unwitting tool of the Princess of the Night), attacks The Old Vicarage, the boys' father is carried off along with Griselda, Boris, the dwarves, and the boys' mother as a child ...

If you're on the list you're marked for death.

The envelope is unremarkable. But for the nine complete strangers who receive it - each of them recognising just one name, their own, on the enclosed list - it will be the most life altering letter they ever receive.

The highly anticipated, groundbreaking and hugely entertaining novel from one of the all-time great storytellers.

'Excellent . But she is finding it hard to maintain.

Increasingly preoccupied by her son Tom's disappearance, Ruth is shaken when a new patient arrives at the unit - a young man who looks shockingly like him.

Bestseller Maureen Lee returns to Bootle in this heart-warming tale set between Liverpool and London in the post-war years.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC ONE DRAMAA beautifully written love story set in 1960s Soho amid the revival of fascism.

A shocking, relentless, read-it-in-one-night debut novel.

Set against the backdrop of the tube bombings in London in 2005, Underground Fugue interweaves the stories of four characters who are dislocated by shock waves of personal loss, political violence, and, ultimately, betrayal. A powerful and moving novel, Underground Fugue skillfully weaves the stories ...

Abandoned as a newborn at the doors of the local YMCA and then bounced between foster homes, Shannon eventually finds stability in the home of Miranda, a single mother with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her questions. Will she ever belong? Who is her true family?

The new novel from the author of number one bestseller The Versions of Us

For fans of Hanif Kureishi and Margaret Atwood, this collection of thirteen gripping and intriguing short stories are about sexuality, death, obsession, and religion. Sometimes bleak, occasionally violent, and often possessed of a dark humor, each story contains characters who are flawed individuals ...

Two iconic stories in one book, by rock & roll author Nick Cohn.

When Audrey Marshall sends her daughter Emily to the religious boarding school where she herself was educated a generation before, memories return - memories of a culture of child sexual abuse presided over by a highly-regarded priest. Audrey turns to barrister Ben Schroeder in search of justice for Emily and herself. But there are...

Winner of the 2016 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize The birch is a quiet tree. It listens. Eight-year-old James and his family live in a beautiful house perched on the edge of a forest, within the curve of a giant glass dome. They circle each other like fish in a fishbowl. Aquila - James's philandering ...

He proposed. She had her doubts. She said yes. Now what? Everyone tells Sarah Giles how lucky she is to be engaged to Paul O'Brian-a handsome hotshot who's financially secure, knows how to throw the perfect dinner party ... and taught Sarah how to, uh, take care of herself. Everyone thinks he's great. ...

Marijuana is the everyman drug. Teenagers surreptitiously toke on it, politicians refuse to inhale it, even your mum and dad have had a go. Marijuana is a mellow, let's put on a Barry Manilow CD, open a bottle of vino, and order a pizza drug. It's the easy drug. The no howling at the moon drug. No shooting up and losing your job....