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The heart-warming and uplifting sunday times bestseller from giovanna fletcher ‘this book is beautiful’ zoe ball ‘lovely, very moving. giovanna’s books are very very relatable’ lorraine kelly it’s always darkest before the dawn . . . ________ after mike loses pia, his partner of seventeen years, best friends vicky and zaza rally round. but the truth is, in pia’s absence, they all need more than a little help . . . just-engaged zaza fears the next step. mum vicky has lost sight of herself. and mike can’t figure out how to start again. luckily, pia left a list of loving instructions to help them cope. which is why they find themselves trekking in peru. stumbling up mountains. lost in sweltering rainforests. as friendships and hope fray, they cling to their faith in pia. soon they learn anything is possible when you’re walking on sunshine. ________ ‘heartfelt, uplifting. her best yet’ sun praise for giovanna fletcher: ‘tons of charm and genuine warmth’ star ‘a heartbreakingly beautiful story about friendship and unrequited love. i was totally and utterly captivated’ paige toon ‘a gorgeous, gloriously romantic read with buckets of charm – i absolutely loved it!’ jill mansell ‘warm and romantic, this charming read will certainly brighten up your day’ closer ‘a gorgeously tender, funny and big-hearted novel with wonderful characters you’ll fall in love with’ miranda dickinson ‘wonderfully warm and cosy. the perfect comfort read to curl-up with and enjoy’ ali mcnamara

Sunday times top five bestseller elizabeth is missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author emma healey winner of the costa first novel award 2014 shortlisted for national book awards popular fiction book 2014 shortlisted for national book awards new writer of the year 2014 longlisted for the dylan thomas prize 2014 longlisted for the baileys prize for women’s fiction 2015 ‘a thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, i read it at a gulp’ deborah moggach, author of the best exotic marigold hotel ‘elizabeth is missing will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators, real mystery at its compassionate core…’ emma donoghue, author of room ‘resembling a version of memento written by alan bennett’ daily telegraph ‘one of those mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down’ jonathan coe, author of the rotters club ‘every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. gripping, haunting’ observer ‘if you’re after a read you can’t put down, then look no further’ new! meet maud. maud is forgetful. she makes a cup of tea and doesn’t remember to drink it. she goes to the shops and forgets why she went. sometimes her home is unrecognizable – or her daughter helen seems a total stranger. but there’s one thing maud is sure of: her friend elizabeth is missing. the note in her pocket tells her so. and no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, maud will get to the bottom of it. because somewhere in maud’s damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. one everyone has forgotten about. everyone, except maud . . .

In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.

Published with a new preface, this bestseller offers an intimate glimpse into a unique female community. liz dalby, the only non-japanese woman ever to have trained as a geisha, reveals the realities of geisha life.

A special illustrated edition of the ocean at the end of the lane, the bestselling magical novel from master storyteller neil gaiman. breathtaking black-and-white illustrations throughout by fine artist and illustrator, elise hurst. ‘both a pitch-perfect fantasy and a moving examination of childhood memories and their effects on our adult selves … superb’ the times ‘some books you read. some books you enjoy. but some books just swallow you up, heart and soul’ joanne harris this is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane: a dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse. an ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made. a beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile. and dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed. they are memories hard to believe, waiting at the edge of things. the recollections of a man who thought he was lost but is now, perhaps, remembering a time when he was saved…

The fictionalised story of marion ‘crawfie’ crawford, the progressive young working-class woman who, as royal governess for seventeen years, lived on the most intimate terms with princess margaret and the future queen elizabeth ii.

The view from the cheap seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and sunday times bestselling author neil gaiman. from make good art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including terry pratchett and lou reed, the collection offers a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. ‘if this book came to you during a despairing night, by dawn, you would believe in ideas and hope and humans again’ caitlin moran ‘literature does not occur in a vacuum. it cannot be a monologue. it has to be a conversation’ this collection will draw you in to exchanges on making good art and syrian refugees, the power of a single word and playing the kazoo with stephen king, writing about books, comics and the imagination of friends, being sad at the oscars and telling lies for a living. here neil gaiman opens our minds to the people he admires and the things he believes might just mean something – and welcomes us to the conversation too.