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Miguel is beautiful. His beauty is so rare and miraculous that it has made him the object of cult-like devotion in the city. Santiago, his older brother, watches with a mix of admiration and disquiet the prodigious effect that Miguel's looks have on his mother and father, on passersby, their neig...

In a windowless building in a remote part of town, the newly employed Josephine inputs an endless string of numbers into something known only as the database. After a long period of joblessness, she's not inclined to question her fortune, but as the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine ...

This novel is set in India in 1947 at the time of Partition. Although the backdrop is this key event in Indian history, the novel is even more far-reaching, touching on the importance of tolerance, love and family. The main character is Bilal, a boy determined to protect his dying father from the...

One summer's day India Opal Buloni goes down to the supermarket - and comes back with a dog. Winn-Dixie is big, skinny and smelly with a winning smile. Through him, Opal gets to know lots of people and finally discovers what happened to her mother.

Ramona's sister, Beezus, tries very hard to be patient, but how many nine-year-old girls have to put up with their embarrassing, annoying little four-year-old sisters?

Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with horrible side-effects, Tessa compiles a list of things to do before she dies. And number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa wants new experiences to make her fe...

Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is 24, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - worse - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, she is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charisma...

A whirlwind romance followed by a picture-perfect marriage, Hannah Reilly seizes her chance at happiness. However, one day her husband fails to come home. The more questions she asks, the fewer answers she finds. But are the secrets that Mark has been keeping designed to protect him or protect he...

Whilst in Thailand to marry a sex worker he met through a marriage agency website, Raymond, a lonely industrial designer, who has just lost his job, is informed that his father's body has been discovered in an isolated villa on the Belgian coast. Soon, he moves into the villa with the intention o...

Moving with stark contrast between the Coronation year celebrations and life in the trenches during the First World War, this debut novel tells the story of a family observed by one of its members.