Intergenerational relationships: advice & issues

Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, 'Burnt Sugar' unpicks the slippery, choking cord of memory and myth that binds two women together, making and unmaking them endlessly.

In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless artist for a lover, rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman - all with her young child in tow. Years on, she is an old woman with a fading memory, mixing up her maid's wages...

In a remote Nigerian village, twelve-year-old Simi is desperate to uncover a family secret. But it's when she's caught in the red quicksand of a forbidden lake that her adventure truly begins. Can she bring her family back together and restore peace to the village?

Kitt is a young financier who turns everything he touches to gold. Os is a failed methic with a strange talent. But when a terrible accident causes Lundain to be consumed by toxic feelings, only they can heal the city - but it will cost one of them everything.

At her dull Victorian finishing school, fourteen-year-old Winnie dreams of becoming a top inventor like her father. Then, she's recruited into a league of young women guarding Her Majesty the Queen. Soon, Winnie is not only serving royalty but learning what she needs to save her Papa.

Sunny loves jigsaw puzzles - the bigger the better. When she completes one, she gets a warm, happy honeybee buzz. One day, her Gran gives her a ONE-THOUSAND-PIECE puzzle. Piece after piece, all by herself, she puts together the picture, until - DISASTER! The final piece is missing. Sunny may be s...

Nisha and her mother, Amma, flee the war in Malaya to take refuge at her father's ancestral home in England. Here, however, Nisha must follow her stern grandmother's countless rules - and most of all ignore the ghost child beckoning her from the weeping tree high on the cliff top.

A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. 'Of Women and Salt' is a story of shared heritage, populated by magnetic, fascinating, flawed women whose voices demand to be...

Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters Payton and Ani have grown up in a hospital. When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside-down. The sisters find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a dark ...

Jomi's Mum left him to find their destiny in Lagos. Now, Jomi and his friendly bush baby follow her - but their only starting place is a TV dance competition his mum used to love. If Jomi and his new Lagos friends can get on that TV show, then maybe Jomi's mum will see him and they can find their...