Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world‘Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking’ Joanna BlythmanIt may seem like just a drink, but coffee's dark journey from the highlands of Ethiopia to the highstreets of every town in the country links alchemy and anthropology, poetry and politics, science and slavery. Plots have been hatched, blood spilled and governments toppled to keep you ...
Now a Sunday Times top 20 bestseller‘A rival to Gone Girl for its addictive, twisted plot.’ STYLISTLexie’s got the perfect life. And someone else wants it…Lexie loves her home. She feels safe and secure in it – and loved, thanks to her boyfriend Tom.But recently, something’s not been quite right. A book out of place. A wardrobe door left open. A set of keys going missing…Tom thinks Lexie’s going mad – but then, he’s away more often than he’s at ...
Dark, thrilling, and hilarious, The Black Hawks is an epic adventure perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie and Scott Lynch.Life as a knight is not what Vedren Chel imagined. Bound by oath to a dead-end job in the service of a lazy step-uncle, Chel no longer dreams of glory – he dreams of going home.When invaders throw the kingdom into turmoil, Chel finds opportunity in the chaos: if he escorts a stranded prince to safety, Chel will be released fro ...
This Christmas, the villagers of Middledip are off on a very Swiss adventure…Family means everything to Lily Cortez and her sister Zinnia, and growing up in their non-conventional family unit, they and their two mums couldn’t have been closer.So it’s a bolt out of the blue when Lily finds her father wasn’t the anonymous one-night stand she’d always believed – and is in fact the result of her mum's reckless affair with a married man.Confused ...
‘A superb legal thriller…crackles with tension’ Guardian'A thought-provoking and sparklingly intelligent novel, with the welcome bonus of an unguessable ending’ Daily Telegraph‘Razor-sharp…Much more than a courtroom thriller’ Christina Dalcher, Sunday Times bestselling author of VOX* * * * *IT’S TIME TO TAKE YOUR PLACE ON THE JURY.The victim: A sixteen-year-old girl with facial deformities, neglected by an alcoholic mother. Who accuses the ...
’A brilliantly original and enchanting tale’ Sun‘Wonderful characters make this a great read’ Good Housekeeping‘Truly unique…unforgettable’ Woman’s Weekly‘Warm, romantic and different, in the very best way’ Katie Fforde, Sunday Times bestseller‘I absolutely adored it!’ Ruth Hogan, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost ThingsMay Rosevere has reached the grand old age of one-hundred-and-ten, thanks to several slices of toast with butter every m ...
‘The most brilliant book. I couldn't put it down’Claudia Winkleman‘Brilliantly entertaining’SUNDAY MIRROR‘Gripping’DAILY MAIL‘Fun, pacy… crackles with energy’HEAT‘The best kind of insider gossip’SUNDAY PEOPLE‘Gripping’OK!Sometimes it only takes one night to change everything…Elizabeth Place might have been jilted on her wedding day one year ago, but at least she’s still got her brilliant job producing one of the biggest shows on TV!But when ...
‘Surprisingly funny and very saucy’ OK!‘A laugh-a-minute page-turner, perfect for poolside reading!’ HELLO!‘Surprisingly saucy and distractingly funny’ GRAZIA‘No question about it, there are two little purple lines. I’m pregnant.’ After eight years together, Lil Bailey thought she’d already found ‘the one’ – that is, until he dumped her for a blonde twenty-something colleague. So she does what any self-respecting singleton would do: swipes right ...
The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Taking one last look around her attic room in Covent Garden Nettie knows there is no turning back, they must run for their lives…London, 1875. Thanks to her hapless father, Nettie Carroll has had to grow up quickly. While Nettie is sewing night and day to keep food on the table, her gullible father has trusted the wrong man again. Left with virtually nothing but the clothes they stand up in, ...
