Anansi, your four gifts raised to nyame granted you no power over the stories I tell... This is the story of K. K is sent into care before a year marks his birth. He grows up in fields and woods, and he is happy, he thinks. When K is eleven, the city reclaims him. He returns to an unknown mother and a part-time father, trading the fields for flats and a community that is alien to him. Slowly, he finds friends. Eventually, he finds love. He learns...

Emma is growing up in the beautiful Norfolk countryside with her family. Life seems idyllic, but little does she know things are about to change. Soon she finds her family split. Her younger siblings are destined for the workhouse, whilst Emma takes a job to cook in a wealthy London household. Then she meets a dashing young fireman. As Emma marries and her family grows, so does her happiness. Until tragedy strikes. Will Emma turn her life around once...

Old loyalties die hard on the streets of London. Tommy throws his lot in with the notorious Darling family - even if it means leaving childhood friend Scratch to the wolves. She's destined for a different path, reinventing herself as copper Kim Regan. Now they're on opposite sides of the law. Running Operation Sting, Kim will rip the heart out of the Darling's empire - and only her old pal Tommy stands in her way.

The sequel to 'Me Before You'. Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did 18 months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then,...

Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; sneaking cigarettes and Western magazines on her way home from school; running away to Istanbul to escape an unwelcome marriage; falling in love with a student who seeks...

A bargain set of three funny warm accounts of chaotic family life from bestselling author Fiona Gibson. In Pedigree Mum Kerry?s husband has left her heartbroken and alone with her kids. Can a naughty stray dog lead her to a new love?Mum on the Run?s heroine Laura hates running. Her nightmare is the Mums? Race at Sports Day. But when her husband starts paying too much attention to a glamorous colleague, Laura is determined to get the spark back in...

All the Button Street children deserve a good home?Alone and on the streets after their mother ends up in hospital, Charlie has promised his little sister Maisie he?ll never let her feel frightened again. That promise is hard to keep when Maisie falls ill.Hope comes in the shape of Susan and the other nurses at the local hospital. Times are tough and lately they?ve seen even more children come through their doors who need kindness and a loving home.The...

When 14-year-old Laura gets pregnant and is disowned by her family, she finds solace in a community of girls just like her who help guide each other through the difficult years to come.

Molly Peel feels trapped by her family: her ex-husband Craig cannot seem to abandon his controlling ways despite abandoning her for a younger woman, her lazy son Brian has long been taking advantage of her generosity, and her selfish daughter Rachel is embarrassed by her. When she is blamed for ruining Rachel?s wedding in circumstances beyond her control, Molly decides enough is enough and makes a clean break to Wiltshire to begin a new life. However,...

As Christmas grows nearer, Tilly, a young maid, is sent away from her home in London to care for a sick child in an old cottage on the Isle of Sheppey, and she little imagines how her life will change. Having settled in with her new family, Tilly dares to believe that the happiness she's longed for could be hers at last, and that she might finally be free from the secrets of her past. But tragedy strikes, and Tilly is forced to return to London, leaving...