All Books

My name is harriet manners, and i have always been a geek. the fourth book in the award-winning geek girl series. harriet manners knows many things. she knows that toilet roll was invented by the chinese in 600 ad. she knows that a comet s tail always points away from the sun. and she knows that the average healthy heart beats 70 times per minute. even when it s broken. but she knows nothing about making new friends at sixth form. or why even her old friends seem to be avoiding her. and she knows even less about being a glittering supermodel success. which she now is apparently. has harriet s time to shine like a star finally arrived, or is she about to crash and burn?”

1916: the western front. private percy blakeney wakes up. he is lying on fresh spring grass. he can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man’s-land gone? for that matter, where has percy gone? 2015: madison, wisconsin. police officer monica jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive–some say mad, others allege dangerous–scientist who seems to have vanished. sifting through the wreckage, jansson find a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and a potato. it is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever. the “stepper” enables a person using it to step sideways into another america, another wherever that person happened to be, another earth. and if the person using it keeps on stepping, they keep on entering even more earths. this is the long earth. and the further away a stepper travels, the stranger — and sometimes more dangerous — the earths become.

The first book in a highly original and delightfully clever crime series in which queen elizabeth ii secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal duties.

From the author of the million copy bestselling the devil wears prada. three best friends. two resolutions. one year to pull it off. emmy has just split with her boyfriend of five years. a serial monogamist, she suddenly realises how much she’s missed the thrill of single life. a new job travelling across the globe could offer her the one thing she is craving, so she vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-strings-attached fun. adriana is stunning and can have any man she desires. yet all she wants is an eligible bachelor who’ll slip a five-carat harry winston diamond on her finger. leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. but when literary bad boy jesse chapman asks to work with her and more, she just can’t refuse. the three friends make a pact – come hell or high water, they must change one thing in their lives by the end of the year…

More than a thriller, a gripping high stakes human drama with a chilling ‘what if’ premise from master storyteller ken follett.

The second book in this number one, bestselling series from the creator of percy jackson. thor’s hammer is missing again. the thunder god has a habit of misplacing his weapon – which happens to be the mightiest force in the nine worlds. but this time the hammer isn’t just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. magnus chase and his friends must find it, fast. if they don’t, the mortal worlds will be defenceless against an onslaught of giants, and the nine worlds will burn. but the only person who can help them is the gods’ worst enemy, loki – and the price he wants is very high.

A novel is set in the world of fashion.