The Black Crescent
Bringing 1950s Morocco vividly to life, Jane Johnson's masterful new novel, The Black Crescent, is a gripping story of murder, magic and divided loyalties...
Bringing 1950s Morocco vividly to life, Jane Johnson's masterful new novel, The Black Crescent, is a gripping story of murder, magic and divided loyalties...
A spellbinding, epic and heart-racing magical adventure from an exquisite new storytelling talent.
In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s.
No future, dear reader, can break a woman on its own
Body of Stars is an urgent read about what happens when women are objectified and violently stripped of choice - and what happens when they fight...
'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!'
An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
How far would you go to protect yourself? Your...
Wish We Knew What to Say will help all parents, carers and educators give children the tools and vocabulary to talk about people's differences and similarities in an open, non-judgemental,...
Elena is married to one of the most powerful men in the country, she is teacher at an elite school and has two bright and beautiful daughters.
Everyone in society exists in a system where...
Such a Fun Age explores the awkwardness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone ‘family’, the complicated reality of being a grown-up and the consequences of doing the right...
Offred is a Handmaid living in what once was America and is now known as The Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed.
Those in charge expect them to give themselves over to the new...
In the isolated village where Tierney lives it is forbidden to talk of The Grace Year. The year when all sixteen-year-old girls are banished to release their magical hold over men. This magic causes...
Starr walks a fine line between two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she grew up and the expensive school her parents have sent her to. In each world she is a different person. Then after a party...
Silence can be deafening.
Jean spends her days in almost complete silence, limited to a quota of just one hundred words a day.
No woman is able to speak over this limit without punishment by...
Life Honestly is a guide to modern life from some of today's most talented and insightful writers.
Within this book there are stories from bad sex to bad boys, from inequality to the joy of...
The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton is set in 1960’s Sabden, Lancashire at a time of great fear for the local community with the memory of the Moors Murders fresh in their mind and three local...
Jojo is thirteen and determined to prove himself as a man. He idolises his grandfather Pop and longs to impress the man who has been one of his sole role models.
Jojo's three year old sister...
In 'The Odyssey' the story of Odysseus’ return home after twenty years is told. His story tells of heroic deeds and sex with goddesses. He is well known for his wit and his wily ways....
In a small town in rural Georgia, two babies are born - one light skinned and one dark. Their mother, Elma Jessop is a white sharecroppers daughter and the birth of her children causes a scandal in...
Tarnished City starts where Gilded Cage left off with Abi and her family separated from each other. Luke is imprisoned and on his way to a remote island as punishment for a murder he didn’t...
The Secret Life Of Bees is a coming-of-age story about a young girl named Lily. Lily grew up in South Carolina on a peach farm with her dad. Lily is tormented by memories of holding the gun that...