Still functioning. Quietly breaking.From the outside, Alice looks fine.She's managing work, family, and responsibility - the person everyone depends on.Inside, she's exhausted.Caught in a cycle of anxiety, alcohol, and a relentless inner voice telling her she's not enough, Alice keeps promising herself she'll change... from Monday.There's no dramatic collapse. Just a slow erosion hidden behind competence, routines, and coping.

Brought to you by Penguin.**WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems.Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too.The city is in flames and the authorities are losing control. As matters fall into frenzy, and as the lines between fantasy and truth, right and wrong, begin to blur, who will the...

A vivid and brutal reimagining of Homer's Iliad, set in the Troubles of the late twentieth-century.That was the start of it. A terrible business altogether. Oh, it was all kept off the news, for the sake of the talks and the ceasefire. But them that were around that part of the country remember every bit.Wait now till you hear the rest.Northern Ireland, 1996.After twenty-five years of conflict, the IRA and the Briti...

Brought to you by Penguin.'Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent about the interwoven strengths and frailties of the human heart.' Kamila ShamsieHeartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man takes a job driving a haulage lorry through France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails.With a week on the road together, man and girl must attempt to restore thems...

‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis. Are you ready? Let’s get started, we have work to do.’The Good Ally is an urgent call to arms to become better allies against racism and provides a thoughtful approach, centering collective healing, to do so....

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age – thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween.It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexpla...

THE FUNNY, INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR THAT SHOWS YOU HOW TO STOP DRINKING AND START LIVING - BY THE AUTHOR OF THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT'The best 'quit-lit' on the market' - Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An excellent book. It will help a lot of people' - Lorraine KellyWith a highly successful career in advertising, Clare Pooley never expected to find herself an overweight, depressed, middle-aged mother of t...

The completely addictive and gripping UK Top 50 bestseller by John NichollShe’s on trial for murder… Now it’s her turn to tell her story…The truth is that I loved James with my whole heart. We were soulmates: meant to be together forever. I had just found out I was carrying his child.But it’s time to tell my side of the story. It’s time everyone knew what happened on our wedding day, on our honeymoon, and on that fateful last drive together. It’s ...

The sensational bestselling psychological thriller everyone's talking about.Alice Jefferson has a new friend. He wants her dead.He's been in her house while she's been sleeping. He follows her every time she leaves the house. She knows exactly who he is.The police can find no trace of him having ever existed.And then she uncovers a shocking secret that turns her entire world upside down, and leaves her unable to trust anybod...

A brilliantly funny guide to the trials and tribulations of hospitals and convalescence - from No. 1 bestselling author Maeve Binchy.Get the feel-better factor from Maeve Binchy as she teams up with artist Wendy Shea to bring us ACHES & PAINS. This gem of a book includes:Five things you can say to annoy the patient in the next bedHow to put on elastic stockingsSix ways to make non-alcoholic drinks bearableHow to be the perfect hospital ...

If only everything in life was as simple as baking a cake...Jennie Copeland thought she knew the recipe for a happy life: marriage to her university sweetheart, a nice house in the suburbs and three beautiful children. But when her husband leaves her, she is forced to find a different recipe. And she thinks she's found just what she needs: a ramshackle house on the outskirts of the beautiful Talyton St George, a new cake-baking business, a dog, a horse, chickens......

A delightful and comforting new collection of real-life angel encounters—to show you that there’s always an angel by your side.In I Can See Angels, you’ll read about:• the grandma who attended her granddaughter’s wedding—even after she’d ‘passed away’.• the angel who saved three people from drowning—before mysteriously disappearing• the teenager who was dramatically rescued from a soon-to-be demolished building• and the mysteri...