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In aramanth, exams are everything. when kestrel rebels, her family are sentenced to the harshest punishment. to save them, kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer and she sets out to discover the true source of the evil that grips aramanth

The number 1 sunday times bestseller and richard & judy book club 2017 pick a new sunday times bestseller from bryony gordon, telegraph columnist and author of the bestselling the wrong knickers. for readers who enjoyed matt haig’s reasons to stay alive and ruby wax’s sane new world, mad girl is a shocking, funny, unpredictable, heart-wrenching, raw and jaw-droppingly truthful celebration of life with mental illness. ‘i loved it. a brilliant fast and funny and frank look at something that absolutely needs to be talked about in this way’ matt haig bryony gordon has ocd. it’s the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager that her world is about to come crashing down: that her family might die if she doesn’t repeat a phrase 5 times, or that she might have murdered someone and forgotten about it. it’s caused alopecia, bulimia, and drug dependency. and bryony is sick of it. keeping silent about her illness has given it a cachet it simply does not deserve, so here she shares her story with trademark wit and dazzling honesty. a hugely successful columnist for the telegraph, a bestselling author, and a happily married mother of an adorable daughter, bryony has managed to laugh and live well while simultaneously grappling with her illness. now it’s time for her to speak out. writing with her characteristic warmth and dark humour, bryony explores her relationship with her ocd and depression as only she can. mad girl is a shocking, funny, unpredictable, heart-wrenching, raw and jaw-droppingly truthful celebration of life with mental illness.

As conditions worsen in the fayz, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free

Every day i am someone else. i am myself – i know i am myself – but i am also someone else. it has always been like this. each morning, a wakes up in a different body. there’s never any warning about who it will be, but a is used to that. never get too attached. avoid being noticed. do not interfere. and that’s fine – until a wakes up in the body of justin and meets justin’s girlfriend, rhiannon. from that moment, the rules by which a has been living no longer apply. because finally a has found someone he wants to be with – every day . . . a stunningly original novel that will make you view the world from a different perspective

For the ‘normals’ the buck must stop somewhere – with the ‘freaks’. more and more kids are developing strange powers and, just as frightingly, so are the animals in the fayz: talking coyotes, swimming bats and deadly worms with razor-sharp teeth are just the beginning. for sam temple the strain of leadership is beginning to show and he’s got more that just dwindling rations and in-fighting to worry about. caine is back with the psychotic whiphand, drake, by his side. and in the background lies the greatest danger of all – and he needs to be fed.

Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay simon spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity–and that of his pen pal–will be revealed.

Set in a future world a boy realises that all towns are not like the town he lives in.

Claire has her share of challenges. like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. on the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. but when a local fraternity throws the dead girls’ dance, hell is really going to break loose.