A timely debut novel from an exciting new voice in women's fiction about cancel culture and appearance versus reality.It's an ordinary Tuesday morning when Ruby Williams' name starts trending online.She's uploaded an interview that has outraged journalist Felicity Cartwright, a social media personality who has built her profile by policing exactly what women are allowed to say and how they're allowed to say it. Ruby is at the centre of a brutal public shaming, watching on i...

The most uplifting rom-com you’ll read this year – a fresh take on the friends-to-lovers trope, brimming with heart, joy and puppies!Sera loves owning a pet shelter – even if it’s often tricky to make ends meet, and her mother thinks she's wasting her life. Thankfully, she can always rely on her steadfast best friend, Toby, who just happens to be the local vet.And then famous actor Ethan James enters the scene. After Sera 'saves' Ethan from a friendly Germa...

Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way — so pregnant with misanthropy — that it’s obvious I hate her.Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms....

'Reid is the talent to whom every smart young novelist who follows her will be compared - or hope to be.' - Meg MasonMichaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other in their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and popular - the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something happens one night in Orientation week - a drunken encounter, a fo...

Opposites attract in this laugh-out-loud rom-com about a heart-throb actor, the grumpy woman who minds his beloved dog, and the cat that steals his heart.Ethan James has a problem: he’s about to start shooting a movie and he needs someone to mind his anxious dog, Harry. This film could make or break Ethan's career, and he knows he has to give it all his attention, but Harry's new minder turns out to be more of a hindrance than a help. She's gorgeous and funny, and ...

From the author of Love & Virtue, Seeing Other People is the darkly funny story of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to breaking point.Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousness—that sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes from Eleanor’s loving gaze. Her throat taut with tears, she swallowed. ‘You’re a good sister, Eleanor.’‘Don’t say that.’After ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses inherent in the social infrastructure of African states, especially healthcare and social security systems. African states were characterized by a high level of unpreparedness with scientific and technological insufficiency to address the pandemic emergency. This in turn worsened the impact of COVID-19 on all fronts, thus, many African states experienced issues with high mortality rate, rampant job losses, and arbitrary and erratic state respons...

What happens to a family when a child goes missing? In a busy street market, Abbie lets go of six-year-old Sarah’s hand. She isn't a bad mother, just exhausted. But when she turns around, her daughter is gone.Six years on, Abbie is in love and getting married. But her fragile peace is constantly threatened: not knowing what happened to Sarah.Then she receives a phone call from a man claiming to know what happened, but if Abbie tells anyone she’ll never find out the truth.

A breathtaking debut that explores love, science, loss and the so-called feminine ideal.'Dark and poetic . . . beautiful writing.' - Alice Sebold, author of the international bestseller The Lovely Bones'Astonishing. The writing is visceral and affecting, the sentences muscular and beating with a linguistic pulse which makes the book feel like a live creature. The Breeding Season is a creature that might, in turn, rip your heart out or blanket you in a comforting hug. Craft ...

INCLUDING ENHANCED AUDIO FEATURESFormer social worker Elle Castillo is the host of a popular true-crime podcast that tackles cold cases of missing children in her hometown. After four seasons of successful investigations, Elle decides to tackle her white whale: the Countdown Killer, or TCK.Twenty years ago, TCK established a pattern of taking and ritualistically murdering girls, each a year younger than the last. No one’s ever known why—why he stopped abruptly with his elev...

What happens to a family when a child goes missing?In a busy street market, Abbie lets go of six-year-old Sarah’s hand. She isn’t a bad mother, just exhausted. When she turns around, her daughter isn’t there.Six years later, Abbie is in love and getting married. But her fragile peace is constantly threatened: not knowing what happened to Sarah is like living with a curse.Then she receives a phone call from an unknown number.A man claims to know what happened...

Den sanna historien om en 6-årig pojke med en fruktansvärd hemlighet.Oskars lärare slår larm. Oskars mamma är utomlands och under tiden bor han hos vänner, men har kommit till skolan hungrig, ovårdad och med blåmärken på armar, ben och kropp. Den erfarna familjehemsföräldern Cathy Glass ombeds ta hand om honom, men allt eftersom veckorna går blir hon alltmer oroad. Oskar är alldeles för tyst för ett barn på sex år och han är uppenbart rädd för något eller någon.Och vilka är...