WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021WINNER OF 2021 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Extraordinary. Vivid, irreverent, heartbreaking.’ NIGEL SLATER‘So funny and so delicious. I could eat it.’ DAWN O’PORTER‘Delicious.’ THE OBSERVERFrom an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be somethin...

From one of the nation's best-loved food writers and inspired by the award-winning podcast, Comfort Eating is a wonderfully delicious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us.'What an absolute TREAT . . . A moving, sweet and funny memoir about the power of comfort foods. The memories and emotions triggered by it warmed my heart and reminded me of those I love.'MARIAN KEYES'Evocative and beaut...

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021WINNER OF 2021 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Extraordinary. Vivid, irreverent, heartbreaking.’ NIGEL SLATER‘So funny and so delicious. I could eat it.’ DAWN O’PORTER‘Delicious.’ THE OBSERVERFrom an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be somethin...

Three unstoppable girls are finally, finally, unleashed from the confinements of school, ready to conquer the world with their infectious energy and unbreakable bond.Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude—known throughout the cosmiverse as Les Bambinos Dangereuses, or LBD for short—have just finished another miserable year at Blackwell School and have absolutely no plans for the summer. Plus, Ronnie’s boyfriend, Jimi Steele, has been a completely selfish loser...

Poppet Montague-Jones is 15, 87th in line to the British throne and soon to inherit a whopping trust fund. Unlike her sister Kitten - legendary wild child and society columnist in London Alive (see Diary of a Chav), Poppet is a troubled and ill-fitting teenager who is at an impressionable age, and doesn't quite know how to launch herself into the world.Poppet spends much of her time daydreaming and getting bossed about by her flamboyant school friends, Vixen Blaze Brocklehurst and ...

Three years ago columnist and author Grace Dent joined new social network site Twitter, mainly as a place to dump her surplus jokes, rant about garbage TV and post exclusive j-pegs of her hot new toenail-varnish. But as every 're-tweet' and 'Follow Friday' saw her audience figures soar by tens of thousands, Dent found herself centre-stage in an all-consuming highly addictive social network revolution. One where the gags, gossip, scandal and backstabbing literally never stop.Here De...

A group of best friends are banned by their over-protective parents from attending a music festival . . . so they decide to host their own!It’s a music thing. It’s a boy thing. It’s the best thing.Astlebury Music Festival is going to be the party of the year—a weekend of loud music, dancing, crowd-surfing, staying up all night, not to mention meeting about a million totally lush festival-going boys.Too bad Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude, collectively kno...

From one of the nation's best-loved food writers and inspired by the award-winning podcast, Comfort Eating is a wonderfully delicious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us.'What an absolute TREAT . . . A moving, sweet and funny memoir about the power of comfort foods. The memories and emotions triggered by it warmed my heart and reminded me of those I love.'MARIAN KEYES'Evocative and beaut...

Shiraz Bailey Wood has made up her mind. She's leaving Goodmayes, waving goodbye to Mayflower Academy Sixth Form and her part time job at Mr Yolk and moving to London with Carrie Draper. Carrie's got herself a place at Tabitha Tennant's beauty school, so she's sorted. Now all Shiraz has to focus on is getting herself a job. She has a bit of trouble finding the most suitable job mind, nothing seems quite right for a girl of Shiraz's originality and wit...And she has to admit, she's missing ...

Poppet is back with Kwame, and keeping it a secret from her family and curious best friends Vixen and Striker...But it is not easy having a double life and sneaking out of Hampstead to an estate in Kilburn twice a week....But when Poppet's mother Jocasta finds out what's going on, Poppet is shocked at how snobby her 'liberal' mother is. Poppet knows she's a lucky girl...she'll never ever know what it's like to be poor...But all the money in the world can't buy you true love...

**A group of mischievous friends with a bond like no other embarks on the summer of a lifetime.“Lovers of guilty-pleasure reading will hit the jackpot with LBD.”—The Horn Book**Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude (known to all as Les Bambinos Dangereuses, or LBD) have signed up for the summer of their dreams. They’re working at a seaside hotel, complete with all-night parties, nightclubs, beach blowouts, and an endless supply of gorgeous surfer lads—with no embarrassing pare...

The divine Shiraz Bailey Wood is back to enlighten us on the multi-layered, rich tapestry that is her life in Goodmayes Essex. Shiraz is astonished to discover that she has passed eight GCSE's and is actually clever! Emboldened, she decides she can't waste her brain power on a job at 'Mr Yolk', the local greasy spoon. No, she'll stay on at the Mayflower Sixth Form 'Centre of Excellence' and get even brainier. Best friend Carrie is of a like-mind and so, armed with text books and pencil cas...