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While Dad and Gran battle it out in the kitchen, Mum tries to balance the books while serving quiche to hordes of hungry pensioners. Meanwhile Hope's dramatic sister Stacey is determined to turn all of life into a stage and her "wishes-he-was-on-Wall-Street" cousin Connor decides to buy novelty costumes to advertise the business. And then Auntie Rita rocks up. Café Crumble is tipping straight into Café Chaos!

The perfect boredom-busting book for long winter evenings with the family, Richard Herring's Would You Rather? is packed with hundreds of the biggest questions to face us all, including: Would you rather have a conversation with a dolphin or an elephant? Would you rather fall in love or fall into a swimming pool full of your favourite biscuits? Would you rather live in a giant shoe or a giant peach? Would you rather own a car with Jimmy Carr, a lorry with Laurie Anderson or a van with Van Morrison?

Hope's mum has mistakenly over-ordered the beans and they only have two months to get through them all! Several hilarious family meetings take place to discuss ideas: Aunt Rita comes over all 'flavours of Mexico' while Connor wants a bean-eating competition to catch the post-gym crowd. Hope is trying to distance herself from it all in a bid to have 'time to be a child' and let her family sort out their own crises. But she can't deprive her family of her problem-solving abilities for long.

'Funny, bleak, delicious, totally terrifying. I could not put it down' Ella Risbridger 'An acerbically witty and haunting state of the times debut' Charlotte Paradise Danielle MacKinnon's nearly thirty and still hasn't got her life sorted. She's broke, hates her job as PA to the blithely...

'Wonderful, compassionate, unpredictable' GRAEME SIMSION, bestselling author of The Rosie Project 'After I finished, I just thought "Yes, this is why I read". To find gems such as this' ***** Reader Review 'I loved this original, at times painful but truly thought-provoking book. A triumph'...

After thirty long years, Louisa’s daughters can finally look after themselves … or so she thinks. Because suddenly, they’re back – apparently for good. Meg’s second-guessing her marriage. Jo’s career hangs in the balance. Amy has inexplicably quit university. None of them empty the...

Trying to get your life together? Got three dead houseplants, no debit card and an exploded yoghurt in your bag? Useful, funny and life-affirming, Nobody Panic is an instruction manual for anyone with absolutely no idea what they're doing. From the creators of the critically acclaimed podcast comes a series of how-to guides for everything from job interviews to leaving a WhatsApp group, from understanding the oven to dealing with your best friend's new (astoundingly dull) partner. There's also a poem about taxes.

In the first instalment of this epic trilogy, Stephanie Marchant conveys in her own innovative and cutting style an entertaining catalogue of truly unbelievable stories. Stories all about a lovable bunch of rogues getting up to all sorts of antics, fun, and frolics. Stories strung together over a period of years that includes mystery, intrigue, tragedy, secrets, and lies. Plus a little bit of "How’s yer Father?"