As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to...
Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade a...
Bette gets paid to party... And she can hardly believe her luck. Running with celebs, gaining VIP access to Manhattan's hottest clubs and meeting "everyone worth knowing" is a million miles away from her old banking job.
When she turns up in the goss...
A wonderfully well-written, funny and sharp novel about the trials of playing hip happy families and the conflicts at the heart of modern motherhood.
For every mum who has trodden on one plastic brick too many, or looked at her phone instead of loving...