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You’ve seen the amazing trailer for everything, everything starring amandla stenberg and nick robinson . . . now read the incredible #1 new york times bestselling story before you see the movie, in cinemas soon. ‘can’t wait to see this! absolutely loved the book’ – zoella maddy is allergic to the world; stepping outside the sterile sanctuary of her home could kill her. but then olly moves in next door. and just like that, maddy realizes there’s more to life than just being alive. you only get one chance at first love. and maddy is ready to risk everything, everything to see where it leads. ‘powerful, lovely, heart-wrenching, and so absorbing i devoured it in one sitting’ – jennifer niven, author of all the bright places and don’t miss nicola yoon’s #1 new york times bestseller the sun is also a star, in which two teens are brought together just when the universe is sending them in opposite directions.

Jane hasn’t lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. she keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. now the idyllic seaside town of pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and jane finally feels like she belongs. she has friends in the feisty madeline and the incredibly beautiful celeste – two women with seemingly perfect lives – and their own secrets behind closed doors. but then a small incident involving the children of all three women occurs in the playground causing a rift between them and the other parents of the school. minor at first but escalating fast, until whispers and rumours become vicious and spiteful. it was always going to end in tears, but no one thought it would end in murder.

‘gregory is an experienced storyteller and doesn’t let you down. tidelands is a gripping and intelligent portrait of a woman fighting to survive in a hostile world’ the times the brand new series from the sunday times number one bestselling author england 1648. a dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . midsummer’s eve, 1648, and england is in the grip of civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. the struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. instead she meets james, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. this is the time of witch-mania, and alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. ‘the first in a planned series . . . the author crafts her material with effortless ease. her grasp of social mores is brilliant, the love story rings true and the research is, as ever, of the highest calibre’ elizabeth buchan, daily mail ‘vivid and beguiling – philippa gregory at her best’ woman&home ‘a compelling novel that shines a light on the struggles of 17th century women’ daily mirror ‘the novel’s power lies in gregory’s evocative portrayal of the tidelands and the everyday lives of those who are bound to them’ sunday express ‘philippa gregory returns with an english civil war novel that excels in everything she does best. historical events are written with breathless immediacy, keeping the reader enthralled even if they know the outcome. she pays close attention to the plight of women in the past, so often unchanged despite men’s wars, and gives them a voice . . . fans will not be disappointed’ alys key, the i ‘shines a light on the struggles of 17th century women . . . if this novel is the first sign of what’s to come then readers are in for a treat’ emma lee-potter, daily express ‘tidelands evokes a world of suspense and superstition. its fascinating fictional heroine, alinor, is caught in a net of in-between spaces . . . i was completely swept up in this wonderful, immersive story set in the english civil war when women who lived unconventional lives risked being accused of witchcraft’ tina jackson, writing magazine

‘nobody does get-away-from-it-all romance like jenny colgan’ sunday express ___________________________________ in a little cornish town by the sea, a warm summer breeze brings stirrings of change. . . ‘a total joy’ sophie kinsella ‘gorgeous, glorious, uplifting’ marian keyes ‘irresistible’ jill mansell ‘just lovely’ katie fforde ‘naturally funny, warm-hearted’ lisa jewell ‘a gobble-it-all-up-in-one-sitting kind of book’ mike gayle voted best feel good read by women & home readers! summer has arrived in the cornish town of mount polbearne and polly waterford couldn’t be happier. because polly is in love: she’s in love with the beautiful seaside town she calls home, she’s in love with running the bakery on beach street, and she’s in love with her boyfriend, huckle. and yet there’s something unsettling about the gentle summer breeze that’s floating through town. selina, recently widowed, hopes that moving to mount polbearne will ease her grief, but polly has a secret that could destroy her friend’s fragile recovery. responsibilities that huckle thought he’d left behind are back and polly finds it hard to cope with his increasingly long periods of absence. polly sifts flour, kneads dough and bakes bread, but nothing can calm the storm she knows is coming: is polly about to lose everything she loves? ___________________________________ why readers adore jenny colgan ‘her books are so compelling that you can feel the cool breeze on your face, smell the salty air’ ‘her descriptions of scenery (and food!) are beautiful’ ‘i wish her places were real’ ‘her books are so good i want to start over as soon as i have finished’ ‘there’s something so engaging about her characters and plots’ ‘her stories are just so fabulous’ ‘she brings her settings and characters so vividly to life’ ‘the woman is just magic’

Arthur and george grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century britain: arthur in shabby-genteel edinburgh, george in the vicarage of a small staffordshire village. arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; george a solicitor in birmingham. arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, george remains in hardworking obscurity. but as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as the great wyrley outrages. george edjali’s father is indian, his mother scottish. when the family begins to receive vicious anonymous letters, many about their son, they put it down to racial prejudice. they appeal to the police, to no less than the chief constable, but to their dismay he appears to suspect george of being the letters’ author. then someone starts slashing horses and livestock. again the police seem to suspect the shy, aloof birmingham solicitor. he is arrested and, on the flimsiest evidence, sent to trial, found guilty and sentenced to seven years’ hard labour. arthur conan doyle, famous as the creator of the world’s greatest detective, is mourning his first wife (having been chastely in love for ten years with the woman who was to become his second) when he hears about the edjali case. incensed at this obvious miscarriage of justice, he is galvanised into trying to clear george’s name. with a mixture of detailed research and vivid imagination, julian barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but the inner lives of these two very different men. the reader sees them both with stunning clarity, and almost inhabits them as they face the vicissitudes of their lives, whether in the dock hearing a verdict of guilty, or trying to live an honourable life while desperately in love with another woman. this is a novel in which the events of a hundred years ago constantly set off contemporary echoes, a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race; about what we think, what we believe, and what we know. julian barnes has long been recognised as one of britain’s most remarkable writers. while those already familiar with his work will enjoy its elegance, its wit, its profound wisdom about the human condition, arthur & george will surely find him an entirely new audience.

Nina is a bookworm who dreams of running her own little bookshop. but real life is a bit trickier than the stories nina loves, as she discovers when she moves to the beautiful wild highlands of scotland to turn her dreams into reality.