***A Radio 2 Book Club Pick***'Utter PERFECTION!' Marian Keyes'Fun, fresh and thought-provoking' Lindsey Kelk'A witty, life-affirming page-turner' Woman & Home'Fun, thought-provoking and unapologetically feminist' Daisy Edgar-Jones'This brilliant novel is a really fun read. Very entertaining!' Jo Whiley

The Good Place meets Sliding Doors, Begin Again is an uplifting novel about life's what if's, missed chances and new beginnings.Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more rewarding job? A relationship? Before she can work it out, she dies in a freak kebab-related accident after yet another dud of a fi...

'A romcom with a difference' Sarra Manning'Funny and clever. I loved every single line' Lucy VineMillie lives in a society where being single is the norm. She's happy, she's successful and she has a close-knit group of friends and family (not forgetting her very grumpy cat, Bruce). Her life is perfectly organised and she likes it that way. The last thing she needs is romance messing it up, thank you very much.That is, until she is p...

'One of those delicious books you just can't put down. Utter PERFECTION!' Marian KeyesSelected for the Radio 2 summer book club.A funny, feminist and all-too-relatable novel about our obsession with coupling up, settling down and the battle we all have with accepting ourselves, The Shelf introduces the freshest new voice in women's fiction.Narrated by Daisy...

The author of The Radio 2 Book Club Pick The Shelf returns with a new hilarious, thought**-provoking and funny novel.**'Genius, funny and thought-provoking. 5 stars' Carrie Hope Fletcher'A romcom with a difference' Sarra Manning'Funny and clever. I loved every single line' Lucy Vine'So clever. I loved it' Sophie Cousens'...

The Good Place meets Sliding Doors, Begin Again is an uplifting novel about life's what if's, missed chances and new beginnings.Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more rewarding job? A relationship? Before she can work it out, she dies in a freak kebab-related accident after yet another dud of a fi...

‘Delightfully romantic’ ISABELLE BROOM‘A compelling, quirky love story’ MIRANDA DICKINSON‘An unconventional romance – real and raw’ ANNA BELLEffie’s not perfect. Neither is Theo. But together, they’re pretty close.Matilda ‘Effie’ Heaton has always felt like she’s swimming against the tide. Everyone around her has life sorted, but Effie’s living with her parents and crying into a wine bottle at...

‘You shall read this with unadulterated pleasure’ Scotland on Sunday‘A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means to be human’ Simon PeggSet in a 2054 where humans have locked themselves out of the internet and Elon Musk has incinerated the moon, Set My Heart To Five is the hilarious yet profoundly moving story of one android’s emotional awakening.Unhappy with his programmed job of dentistry and inspired...

Brought to you by Penguin.HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO BE SOMEONE ELSE?Vanessa has always found it easy to pretend to be somebody different, somebody better. When things get tough in her real life, all she has to do is throw on some nicer clothes, adopt a new accent and she can escape.That's how it started: looking round houses she couldn't possibly afford. Harmless fun really. Until it wasn't.Because a man who lived in o...

Brought to you by Penguin.An unforgettable love story with the energy of Derry Girls and the intensity of The Ferryman__________________________________________________‘If I could go back to being sixteen again, I’d do things differently.''Everyone over the age of forty feels like that, you total gom,' says my best friend Lizzie Magee.When she was young Mary...

Brought to you by Penguin.SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARDAs featured on Graham Norton's Book ClubNarrated by the soul of an enslaved African woman, this is a searing debut novel about hope, redemption and the scars of historyOver two hundred years ago in Africa, a woman tosses her young son to safety as she is hauled away by slavers. After a brutal sea passage, her second child, a baby girl, is sna...

Brought to you by Penguin.'Made me almost tearful with gratitude that a book as clever as this could give such uncomplicated pleasure ... And when you find a book like this, you grab it, and you hold it close.' JOHN SELF'A delight ... As funny and vivid as Dickens, as moving and memorable as Nabokov ... An extraordinarily large-hearted work.' THE CRITIC______________________...