SELECTED FOR THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB'Mrs Dickens has my whole heart . . . I was enthralled' Jennie GodfreyLondon, 1835. Nineteen-year-old Kate Hogarth falls in love with the young journalist Charles Dickens. In the early days of their marriage, Charles is infatuated with his bride and Kate delights in her new life, the balm to her husband's irrepressible spirit. But as he finds fame as a novelist and the family rise through the ra...

From the Costa-shortlisted, beloved author of All My Mothers, Joanna Glen Is it ever too late to figure out who you were meant to be?As children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each other’s side.But childhood friendships can stretch and warp as you grow up, and in the summer of 1976, the year they turned 14, Hester di...

Perfect for fans of One Day and Talking at Night.Every morning, Sophie boards the same train.Every morning, she spots him – tall, unreadable, always with a novel in hand…often the same one she is reading.Soon, their commute becomes a silent exchange of titles, a game only they seem to be playing. But how long can a love story stay between the lines before someone dares to take it off the page…Ask Me What I’m Rea...

**AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERA LibraryReads PickA hilarious love story about a disillusioned divorcée who agrees to let her children play matchmaker*.***Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a man when she has two kids, a cat, and uncontested control of the TV remote? Besides, she’d rather be single than subject herself to the hell of online dating. But her office rival is vying for her column, and no co...

'I wish I could skip to the good part, where my life is sorted. I'm so tired of being broke and single and stuck . . . I just want to get to the good part of my life.'What if you could fast forward to your happy ever after?Lucy Young is twenty-six and fed up with life, so when she stumbles upon a wishing machine, she wishes to skip ahead. When she wakes up the next day to the perfect life, Lucy can't believe it's real . . . especially when she looks in the mirror and sees h...

Is living the life you’ve wished for really a dream come true?Lucy Young is twenty-six and tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, sick of going on disastrous dates, and done with living in a damp flat with roommates who never buy toilet paper. After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life....

Fans of Beth O'Leary and Mhairi McFarlane will LOVE this fresh and funny rom-comChloe Fairway has found the perfect man . . .Stuck in a Production Assistant job and living at home with her parents after a painful breakup, it's fair to say that thirty-one-year-old Chloe isn't where she wants to be in life.The last thing she needs is to face the people who once voted her "most likely to succeed" at her upcoming ten-year colle...

This second edition of The Cherry Picker's Daughter is an exquisite portrait of growing up Aboriginal on the fringes of outback towns in NSW in the mid-twentieth century. Its an important book for school libraries and classrooms, with profound insights into the extraordinary strength, resilience and ingenuity of Aboriginal families to overcome extreme poverty, persecution, racism and cultural genocide.The strength of family ties in Aboriginal communities is clearly evident when thr...

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year, a hilarious love story about a disillusioned divorcée who agrees to let her children play matchmaker...Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a man when she has two kids, a cat, and uncontested control of the TV remote? Besides, she'd rather be single than subject herself to the hell of online dating. But her office rival is vying fo...

She's found the perfect man . . . There's just one big twist.Stuck in a Production Assistant job and living at home with her parents after a painful breakup, thirty-one-year-old Chloe Fairway isn’t where she wants to be in life. The last thing she needs is to face the people who once voted her "most likely to succeed" at her upcoming ten-year college reunion. And she definitely doesn’t want to see her former best friend, Sean Adler, who is now a hotshot film direct...

Meet accidental time traveller Lily Tripp as she bounces throughout history navigating friendship dramas, first love and family. It's LOTTIE BROOKS meets BACK TO THE FUTURE!WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE MONTH June 2026'Laugh-out-loud, brilliantly funny. . . I can't wait to see where Lily goes next'HANNAH GOLD, author of The Last Bear'All the heart and humour...

The start of a brilliantly funny accidental time-travel diary series for tweens. It’s Back to the Future meets Judy Blume, with a 13-year-old girl who tackles timeslip mishaps, laugh-out-loud embarrassing moments, and one unpredictable adventure after another.Hi! I’m Lily. My birthday is in two weeks and I have a big secret: Every New Year's when the clock strikes midnight, I time travel to a new century. Mind-blowing, right!?Thank goodnes...