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This pertinent, timely, intelligent and incredibly compelling exploration of the relationship we have with our own bodies opens in Bali. Natalie, its protagonist, is uncomfortable in her own skin. Her most recent relationship is long since over, and she's become disillusioned with her career as a teacher. Adopting a tried-and-tested attempt at self-discovery, she packs her bags to go travelling. Natalie travels to Bali, New Zealand, Australia, Dublin, rural Ireland and the Netherlands to try to find her place, but her isolation abroad only heightens her sense of unease.

After being dumped (by text!) by Gavin the man-child and rejected from yet another audition, Cassie decides she's done with London. As if moving back to Dublin to live with her Mam wasn't enough embarrassment, on her first day of her new dog-walking gig she's flattened by the biggest dog she's ever seen. She's flat on her back in the mud only to be confronted by a super-cute guy.

The brand new book from the international bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop! 'Heartwarming and full of wonder … a spellbinding tale’ Barnes & Noble Reads 🎻🎻🎻 On any given day, there are thousands of items slowly gathering dust in the Lost and Found of Heathrow Airport. Unknown...

Grace and her four best friends, Jenny, Rachel, Adie and Una, are failed witches - and they have a notebook full of useless spells to prove it. But one night, they stumble upon real magical powers - and their notebook takes on a diabolical life of its own. The girls watch, helpless, as, one by one, their spells start to work, moving relentlessly towards the worst one of all.

Empathetic and highly sensitive, Alice reads other people’s moods in a heartbeat—she sees both the worst and the best in everyone without them having to say a word. But growing up, Alice’s gift marks her out as disruptive, an oddity. She and her brothers live in dread of their mother’s unpredictable temper, of whether there will be food in the house, or bills paid. And despite her being desperate to find her own way in the world, she is instead pulled tighter into the embrace of the family she feels so ambivalent about—a family even Alice can’t always see the best in. 

Tabitha Plimtock lives in a house at the very edge of the world. She is a go-getter - that is, a dogsbody forced to go and get things - for her nasty relatives Gower, Gristle, Bertha and Cousin Wilbur. One of Tabitha’s endless chores involves descending the cliff face, via a net that hangs from the back of the house, to collect eggs, nuts and other things from the inhabitants of the wall. When rumours begin to circulate of monsters climbing from the base to gobble up unsuspecting wall-dwellers, Tabitha is worried for all her friends on the wall.

Trainee witch Grace and her four best friends love to have fun with their spells. So when the dazzling Ms Gold comes along offering to help the talented young coven, they jump at the chance. Before long they are becoming blonde bombshells, creating cute pets out of thin air, not to mention taking fabulous flying lessons! But the daring friends make a magical mistake that drags the past into the present. Suddenly Grace has to work out who she can really trust....