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Timeriders (book 1)
Liam o’connor should have died at sea in 1912. maddy carter should have died on a plane in 2010. sal vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, ‘take my hand . . .’ but liam, maddy and sal aren’t rescued. they are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose – to fix broken history. because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. that’s why the timeriders exist: to protect us. to stop time travel from destroying the world . . .
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Eleven Minutes Late
Britain gave railways to the world, yet its own network is the dearest (definitely) and the worst (probably) in western europe. trains are deeply embedded in the national psyche and folklore – yet it is considered uncool to care about them. for matthew engel the railway system is the ultimate expression of britishness. it represents all the nation’s ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humour, capacity for suffering and even sexual repression. to uncover its mysteries, engel has travelled the system from penzance to thurso, exploring its history and talking to people from politicians to platform staff. along the way engel (‘half-john betjeman, half-victor meldrew’) finds the most charmingly bizarre train in britain, the most beautiful branch line, the rudest railwayman, and – after a quest lasting decades – an individual pot of strawberry jam. eleven minutes late is both a polemic and a paean, and it is also very funny.
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Marshmallows For Breakfast
When kendra tamale boards a plane from australia to england she’s leaving behind a painful affair with a married man and the hideous memory of how things ended. she arrives in her home town of london, rents a room from kyle, a divorced father of two, and starts a new job. everything is going to be simple. kyle’s five-year-old twins, summer and jaxon, have other ideas and quickly adopt kendra as their new mother – mainly because she lets them eat marshmallows for breakfast. kendra eventually becomes a part of their lives, even though she has a deep, dark secret that usually makes her keep people at arm’s length. then kendra bumps into the man who shares her awful secret, and things fall apart: she can’t sleep, she can’t eat, she’s suspended from work, and the kids are taken away by their mother. the only way to make things better is to confess all about the terrible mistake she made all those years ago. but that’s something she swore she’d never do …
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The One We Fell In Love With
From sunday times bestselling author paige toon comes a heartrending tale about three sisters—identical triplets—who all fall in love with the same man. even though identical triplets pheobe, eliza, and rose look exactly alike, they couldn’t be more different from one another. phoebe is caught between a rock and a hard place. settle down and get married, or return to the french alps to pursue her passion? eliza is in love with someone who is no longer hers. in fact, he probably never was… and her dream of becoming a successful musician seems to be vanishing before her eyes. rose is out of a job and out of a boyfriend. to make matters worse, she’s been forced to move back in with her mother… but these very different girls have one thing in common. angus. the one they all fell in love with…and now sisterhood and sibling rivalry just got very complicated.
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Starter For Ten
It’s 1985 and brian jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition – to make it onto tv’s foremost general knowledge quiz. but no sooner has he embarked on ‘the challenge’ than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, alice harbinson. when alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. he’s going to win the game, at any cost, because – after all – everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge . . . starter for ten is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years?
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Rsvp
Four women, one wedding and a day they’ll never forget . . . anna’s world is rocked when she receives an invitation to her ex toby’s nuptials – toby was the love of her life, the one that got away. will attending his big day finally give her the sense of closure she so desperately craves? or will it only re-open old wounds? clareis anna’s best friend, the person who was there for her when she and toby split all those years ago. but little does clare know that toby’s wedding day will also change her own life forever. ella is a classic femme fatale. she loves men and leaves them without a backward glance. but the one person who’s never fallen for her charms is toby. as he prepares to get hitched, is it too late for a last-ditch attempt to win his heart? finally, rachelis the blushing bride-to-be. this should be the happiest day of her life. so how come she feels nothing but a terrible sense of foreboding?
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Bernadette fox is notorious. to elgie branch, a microsoft wunderkind, she’s his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. to fellow mothers at the school gate, she’s a menace. to design experts, she’s a revolutionary architect. and to 15-year-old bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum. then bernadette disappears, and bee’s search for her mother reveals an extraordinary woman trying to find her place in an absurd world.
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Goodbye, Jimmy Choo
Under normal circumstances, izzie and maddy would never have met. their lives are a million miles apart – izzie is bohemian and skint, maddy is gucci-clad and loaded. but, thanks to their respective husbands’ careers, both have been dumped into the english countryside, fish out of water with five young children between them. thrown together at a ghastly women’s lunch, they quickly discover a shared longing for mucky london streets and the residents’ parking permits they’ve left behind. when tragedy hits and maddy’s world collapses, they have to make money fast. a chance discovery leads this unlikely partnership to launch a natural cosmetics company from the kitchen table, with consequences beyond their wildest imaginings. then the media spotlight turns on them, and maddy and izzie have to give up all they hold dear to embrace a lifestyle they hate. but just how far are they prepared to go?
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Beware That Girl
For fans of gossip girl and pretty little liars comes a tense thriller of secrets, lies and obsession.
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Queenie
The sunday times bestseller book of the year at the british book awards shortlisted for the costa first novel award longlisted for the women’s prize for fiction ‘brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking’ jojo moyes ‘a must-read novel about sex, selfhood, and the best friendships that get us through it all’ candace bushnell, author of sex and the city queenie is a twenty-five-year-old black woman living in south london, straddling jamaican and british culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. she works at a national newspaper where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about black lives matter. after a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places. as queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, what are you doing? why are you doing it? who do you want to be? – the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them. a darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. a disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.
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We’ll Meet Again
All-round entertainer anton du beke returns with his fourth novel set in the exclusive buckingham hotel. perfect for fans of downton abbey and mr selfridge. as war is declared once more, a shadow falls over britain. the staff at the luxurious buckingham hotel must do all that they can to keep their important guests happy, but behind the scenes they are scared. away from the glitz and the glamour of the ballroom they must face this new reality. newlywed nancy knows that her brave husband, debonair dancer raymond de guise will want to fight for his country and enlist. she loves and supports him but is heartbroken at the thought of them being apart, and the dangers he will face. with a new hotel manager at the helm, no one knows what the future holds but as fashionable society retreats from london and staff depart to sign up for service, one thing is for certain; life at the buckingham will never be the same again.
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Last Voyage Of The Valentina
Alba always feels like an outsider. she hardly knew her italian mother and her english father acts as if valentina never existed. she despises country life almost as much as she despises her stepmother and stepsisters. on board the houseboat named after her dead mother, alba’s life is little more than a selfish search for fun and pleasure. but the discovery of her mother’s portrait sends the girl back to italy to find her family – and the truth about valentina. amid the olive groves of the amalfi coast, its balmy air rich with the scent of figs, a tale of deception and betrayal is waiting to be discovered. it is a tale that takes alba into the past – but also gives her a new future.
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Everyone Is Still Alive
‘incredibly tender’ marian keyes ‘a total triumph’ nina stibbe ‘beautiful, moving and so funny and well-observed’ philippa perry it is summer on magnolia road when juliet moves into her late mother’s house with her husband liam and their young son, charlie. preoccupied by guilt, grief and the juggle of working motherhood, she can’t imagine finding time to get to know the neighbouring families, let alone fitting in with them. but for liam, a writer, the morning coffees and after-school gatherings soon reveal the secret struggles, fears and rivalries playing out behind closed doors – all of which are going straight into his new novel . . . juliet tries to bury her unease and leave liam to forge these new friendships. but when the rupture of a marriage sends ripples through the group, painful home truths are brought to light. and then, one sun-drenched afternoon at a party, a single moment changes everything. the fiction debut from sunday times bestselling author cathy rentzenbrink, everyone is still alive is funny and moving, intimate and wise; a novel that explores the deeper realities of marriage and parenthood and the way life thwarts our expectations at every turn.
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Bridge Of Souls
A stolen destiny. an impossible quest. they survived the dark. but can they trust the light? kara valari and maximus kane have been to hell and back, fighting for their love and their lives. but the path back to normal isn’t as easy as they hoped. a dormant secret in kara’s blood has been awakened, and she needs the help of a goddess to learn its full potential—but also its hidden dangers. shielded from the world in the magical enclave of iremia, the lovers reunite with all the fires of their first passion. but as they bond tighter to each other, kara learns that the underworld has targeted her family in terrifying ways, and the safe world around them starts to splinter. unenamored by iremia’s promises of enlightenment, maximus unravels more of the mysteries—and the powers—that are lurking behind the scenes. but to find his and kara’s true allies, he is forced to seek out his enemies and rewrite his thinking on good and evil. caught in a web of gods, demons, and magic, maximus and kara must build stronger bridges to each other and, as a wave of deeper truths heads their way, have faith that the ramparts of their love will hold.
