Reg was a quiet unemployed unassuming man living on his own in his small red-brick terraced house in Walford. Until one day he read an article on Einstein's Theory of Relativity in a newspaper, he discovered a fundamental flaw in the Theory that was to be the making of him and taking him on a fabulous journey through the Universe. Through the fabric of time and space itself.

The sensational final instalment in comic legend Sue Townsend's hilarious and iconic Adrian Mole series'Effortlessly hilarious. Brilliant satire and tragedy' Times'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAYRead as Adrian continues to struggle with his love life, endures a painfully awkward school play and contempla...

A serial killer stalks post-WWII London in a gritty detective novel featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Troy.An old flame has returned to Troy's life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty's amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner don't ruin her husband's political career. But he also wants to know why Kitty has been spotted with Danny Ryan, whose twin brothers, in addition to owning one of...

'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAYThe hilarious SEVENTH BOOK in Sue Townsend's bestselling series, sees Adrian fall in love, be inconvenienced by the war and face his new nemesis: a swan from the local canal . . ._____________Wednesday April 2nd

When Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin watches fire destroy the studio of his client, tattooist Finbar Rogan, he suspects it is no accident. And when a bomb is planted under Finbar's car, Harry is left in no doubt. Someone hates Finbar enough to want him dead. Meanwhile, another client is provoking Devlin's curiosity. Why should Rosemary Graham-Brown and her husband suddenly be so anxious to leave their luxurious home and emigrate to Spain? After a brutal murder occurs, the two puzzles beco...

Discover the story of a good woman with a terrible, haunting secretEve should never have married Don Hathaway . . .The man is a bully – but, after one drunken rage too many, Eve takes their children and leaves him. Don, however, is bitter. And getting away from him entirely proves impossible. Until the day Eve decides to teach Don a lesson – and it all goes horribly, hideously wrong.And this poor mother fears she’s lost everything.

A Richard and Judy Book club selection.In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy and her parents willed him to survive. They did not know then that there are many and various fates worse than death.

A little pony sparkling with magic. But his big wish is for a special friend!And so Eleanor's lonely school holiday suddenly looks like it might gallop by when playful New Forest pony Comet appears in her life.

“Townsend’s wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Townsend is [a] comic genius.”—The Village Voice (a Top Shelf selection)“The latest careening satire to emerge from Sue Townsend’s wickedly literary rocket launcher, combining love, politics and credit-card debacle into a not-to-be-missed novel.”—The Seattle Times“Complex, funny and wrenching.”—Publishers Weekly

From the moment that Jimbo and his best friend Charlie bug the staff room and overhear two of their teachers speaking to each other in a secret language, they know that nothing is as it seems. But what does "spudvetch" mean, and why do Mr. Kidd's eyes flicker with fluroscent blue light when Charlie says it to him? Perhaps the teachers are bank robbers speaking in code; perhaps they're spies, or aliens. Whatever they are, Jimbo and Charlie know that there is a big adventure on its way: a nu...

Magic pony Comet needs the help of a very special friend to help him find his lost twin-sister Destiny in the seventh Magic Ponies adventure.

‘I hadn’t been in Hackney for 24 hours but I knew that the way I saw life and people had changed forever. There was such goodness here but there was a sadness I had never imagined before, and it wasn’t even lunchtime yet …’On a hot summer’s day in 1969, fresh-faced 17 year old Nurse Sarah Hill arrives at Hackney General Hospital in London’s East End.Battered suitcase in hand, she takes eager steps in her white calf-length Mary Quant boots towards the towering sandy-grey bui...