Sometimes you crack. Sometimes you didn't mean to yell that. Sometimes you have to lay low until you've figured it out And sometimes, sometimes you have to hibernate until you've healed. This is a new day. Shedding a Skin is a story for our times.

For many, the highlights of seaside holidays are rockpooling and gathering the glorious array of shells left strewn on the beach after the receding tide.

** Available for pre-order now ** 'You'll love every story, swallow them whole and lick the plate clean.' Alice Slater 'No one is writing like Eliza Clark.' Nicola Dinan 'Eleven surreal, troubling and frankly gross little worlds.

'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer. "I didn't know you were interested in football," said Betty.' No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not the marrying sort'.

When Miko moves temporarily to live and study in New York she leaves behind behind Ben, a confused, obsessive, 30-year-old theatre manager who finds himself desperately trying to answer the big questions.

But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.

From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny - the polyphonic story of a troubled teenager, with all of thehumanity and trademark invention we expect from oneof our most exciting writers.

Having immersed himself in the islands of Rhodes, Corfu and Cyprus, Lawrence Durrell turns to Sicily, the largest of the Mediterranean islands, with its long and varied history and its spectacular archaeological remains.