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The no. 1 sunday times bestseller – now including brand new material this is going to hurt was the bestselling non-fiction book of the century – a frank, funny and furious look at the brutal realities of life in the nhs. but it was only part of adam kay’s story. with his stethoscope now hung up, adam shares more suture-splitting anecdotes from both on and off the wards. from the hilarious to the profoundly moving, from the first days of medical school to life after the nhs, undoctored is an astonishing portrait of an extraordinary life, from one of britain’s finest – and funniest – storytellers.

When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary harry potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he’s the last to know. his parents were wizards, killed by a dark lord’s curse when harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. escaping his hideous muggle guardians for hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, harry stumbles upon a sinister adventure when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers which could be valuable, dangerous, or both.

Harry has yet again spent the summer holidays at the dursleys’. he has had plenty to think about, though – from the death of his beloved godfather sirius black, to the terrifying chase through the ministry of magic by the death eaters, to the fierce duel he witnessed between professor dumbledore and lord voldemort. it is the middle of the summer, but there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. harry is waiting nervously for a visit from professor dumbledore himself. he can’t quite believe that professor dumbledore will actually appear at the dursleys’ of all places. why is the professor coming to visit him now? what is it that cannot wait until harry returns to hogwarts in a few weeks’ time? harry’s sixth year at hogwarts has already got off to an unusual start, as the worlds of muggle and magic start to intertwine j. k. rowling charts harry potter’s adventures in his sixth year at hogwarts with a mix of detail and humour that is unsurpassed, pace that is breathless and above all a flair that is magical.

Tessa bailey is back with a schitt’s creek-inspired rom-com about a hollywood “it girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small pacific northwest beach town… where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong. piper bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. when too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. so he cuts her off, and sends piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar… in washington. piper hasn’t even been in westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of beverly hills. so what if piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. how bad could it really be? she’s determined to show her stepfather–and the hot, grumpy local–that she’s more than a pretty face. except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into brendan. the fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in westport, piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. la is calling her name, but brendan–and this town full of memories–may have already caught her heart.