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At the scene of a tragic accident, life changes immediately for everyone involved. finding it impossible to stay in bristol, jenna gray moves to a remote cottage on the welsh coast. she is desperate to escape the past, but is haunted by the accident, by the loss of her son, and by her own fears. di ray stevens is determined to get to the bottom of this case. the investigation takes him away from his family and he finds himself growing closer to kate evans, a young and forthright detective on his team. but jenna’s past is about to catch up with her, with devastating consequences

The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. he’s looking forward to telling his friends it’s his birthday, too. but although jack is a normal child in many ways – loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions – his upbringing is far from ordinary: jack’s entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet; as far as he’s concerned, room is the entire world. he shares this world with his mother, with plant, and tiny mouse (though ma isn’t a fan and throws a book at mouse when she sees him). there’s tv too, of course – and the cartoon characters he thinks of as his friends – but jack knows that nothing else he sees on the screen is real. old nick, on the other hand, is all too real, but only visits at night – like a bat – when jack is meant to be asleep and hidden safely in wardrobe. and only old nick has the code to door, which is otherwise locked… told in jack’s voice, room is the story of a mother’s love for her son, and of a young boy’s innocence. celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.

It isn’t easy making a living as a lady’s companion when one possesses a sharp tongue and an original mind. that’s why emma greyson has gone through three such positions in six months. then an extraordinary encounter with the legendary edison stokes leads to a secret position as his assistant. stokes is on a peculiar mission, searching for an anonymous thief who has stolen an ancient book of arcane potions. he suspects his quarry is among the party’s guests – and that the villain is looking for an intuitive woman on whom to test a certain elixir. a woman just like emma… for emma, the new post brings unexpected passion and chilling danger. but when murder strikes, she realises the awful truth. unless she and edison devise a scheme to outwit a merciless killer, she could forever lose the man of her dreams – and maybe her very life….

Each summer, jenn and her husband greg return to deia, on mallorca’s dramatic west coast. this year the arrival of emma, jenn’s stepdaughter, and her new boyfriend nathan threatens to upset their equilibrium. beautiful and reckless, nathan stirs something unexpected in jenn. as she is increasingly seduced by nathan’s youth and the promise of passion, the line between desire and obsession begins to blur. what follows is a highly-charged liaison that puts lives and relationships in jeopardy. for jenn, after this summer, nothing can ever be the same.

It is 1939. eva delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old russian émigrée living in paris. as war breaks out she is recruited for the british secret service by lucas romer, a mysterious englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. since the war, eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically english wife and mother. but once a spy, always a spy. now she must complete one final assignment, and this time eva can’t do it alone: she needs her daughter’s help.