An outrageous and provocative photograph book of cult music hero Peaches, with text from Peaches, Yoko Ono, Elliot Page, and Michael Stipe.“[Peaches] has teamed up with her longtime tour photographer Holger Talinski to look back at a brazen career that has captured the attention of outsider artists and massive pop stars alike, ranging from Michael Stipe to PJ Harvey to Iggy Pop . . . Along with Holger’s uncompromising, often raw imagery, the book includes ...

Crystal Chandelier Tyson-CC-wakes from a heartbreak that nearly ends her. Six months of silence, tea, and tears give way to running, laughter, and a chance park meeting with Phoenix Washington, a smooth-talking restaurant co-manager whose scent lingers like promise. What begins as flirtation over shared salads blossoms into five years of live-in devotion: family dinners, late-night inventory, and a hostess job that feels like home. CC pours everything into Phoenix-body, ambition, grief-bel...

A YA debut about found family and queer awakening, set in the lively world of roller derby, perfect for fans of Whip It and Heartstopper.Eighteen-year-old Casey feels stuck; while her friends are all going to university, she's taking a gap year at home to care for her disabled mother. Then she walks in on her boyfriend blatantly cheating on her. Surprisingly, though, she's not as heartbroken as she thinks she should be. And when a chance encounter with the young wo...

"Delightfully funny, smart and sexy, this slow-burn romance features two fantastic lead characters and a lot of chemistry. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face!" Jane CostelloHearts are set to race on the busiest night shift of the year…Violet Winters is starting her first week of nights and she is petrified. She’s a straight-A student, but practising medicine on real people is another matter entirely. Seems like being a straight-talker can get you in hot water w...

'I laughed and cried my way through this book in all its unputdownable glory. Nancy's writing is utterly sublime.' Julie CaplinWhen did having it all become doing it all?Penny Baker is coping. Just about.Three kids, one dog, one lovely but sometimes oblivious husband. Tick, tick tick.She is even managing to hold her own among the competitive school mums - if you don't look too closely. But when she finds her...

This is a charming compendium of historical oddities, curious customs and strange events from across West Yorkshire. Laid out in an easy to use A-Z format it explores a vast range of subjects, from folklore and legends to Yorkshire's strangest buildings, artefacts and memorials (including a drinker's tomb made from a beer barrel). Here also are some of Yorkshire's most eccentric characters and famous former inhabitants, and the stories behind some of the oddest events that...

'Characters who feel really authentic and wholesome...so so funny and I just love every second.' Olivia BeirneHer daughter has just flown the nest and her pensioner mum has dived headlong into internet dating - can Hattie hold on to her sanity?Hattie is a 47-year-old mother whose daughter, Layla, is just about to head off to university. She's not coping terribly well (Hattie that is - Layla seems to be coping admirably),bursting into tears ...

London, 1868. Someone is hunting the men who built their fortunes on the suffering of children.And London has given him a name.The Black Imp.When a prominent factory owner is found dead, Gideon Locke is drawn into an investigation that reaches far beyond a single murder.Another man is targeted. Then another.The trail leads Gideon and his partner, Eve Archer, through the factories, markets and rooftops of Victorian Lo...

A YA debut about found family and queer awakening, set in the lively world of roller derby, perfect for fans of Whip It and Heartstopper.Eighteen-year-old Casey feels stuck; while her friends are all going to university, she's taking a gap year at home to care for her disabled mother. Then she walks in on her boyfriend blatantly cheating on her. Surprisingly, though, she's not as heartbroken as she thinks she should be. And when a chance encounter with the young wo...

For more than two decades, Hilary Peach worked as a transient welder, and one of the only women, in the Boilermakers Union. Distilled from a vast cache of journals, notes, and keen observations, Thick Skin follows Peach from the West Coast shipyards and pulp mills of British Columbia, through the Alberta tar sands and the Ontario rust belt, to the colossal power generating stations of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. At times edging up to the surreal, Thick Skin...

She showed up to the airport in a white linen shirt unbuttoned two past professional. And Camila Torres — four weeks from a wedding, three years deep in an engagement, a lifetime invested in being fine — counted the buttons.That's the thing about Nora Hartmann. She's been Camila's best friend since college. Her maid of honor. The woman who held her hair back and never once mentioned how her fingers lingered on the back of her neck while she did it. For ten years, Camila filed every...

The first thing he noticed was the sound.Stilettos on concrete — sharp, measured, unhurried — crossing the sixteenth floor of a Manhattan advertising agency like a pulse the whole building organized itself around. Caleb Mori was twenty-six, brand new, and completely unprepared for Sloane Richter.She was his boss. Senior Creative Director. Tall, composed, devastating in heels that cost more than his rent. She didn't flirt. She didn't need to. She dropped a pen near his desk ...