**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller** Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans.
________________________ 'Tantalising' Sunday Times 'Thoroughly enjoyable' Guardian 'Irresistibly charged' Mail on Sunday ________________________ No one looks twice at the women in the typing pool. No one knows that two of them are trading secrets.
Sunday Times bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a brand new series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water.
June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday ...And into the busy, bustling homes at 66 Star Street slips, unseen, a mysterious visitor. As the couples, flatmates and repentant singletons of No 66 fall in and out of love, clutch at and drop secrets, laugh, cry and simply try to live.
One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number. But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar.
Tara, Katherine and Fenton have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for ten years. And now all three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they're about to discover that if you don't change your life, life has a way of changing you...
Literary black comedy with lashings of thriller. Adult children take revenge on their brutal father, but the victim crawls back ... "A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive" Zadie Smith "Fast-moving, energetic, constantly surprising" Hilary Mantel "Supremely artful" Lionel Shriver
This book is a collection of short stories told from the viewpoints of characters found in the gospel narratives. Caroline Greville brings a fresh understanding to these familiar stories, offering the reader plausible settings, dialogue, and characterization. About the Author Caroline Greville is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at Canterbury Christ Church University and has a PhD in narrative non-fiction. As well as teaching on the BA and MA programs, she runs regular workshops for writers in Kent and at the Canterbury Festival. Pre-order: 14th March 2020
A darkly comic and unflinchingly raw depiction of a young woman trying to navigate her way in the world, QUEENIE is about identity, independence and carving your own path. For fans of Dolly Alderton, Bryony Gordon and Dawn O'Porter, and anyone who loved Fleabag and Dear White People.
Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the 90s about a women s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.