AlphabetIn Thatcher's Britain, barely out of his teens, highly intelligent but illiterate and with a childhood of care homes and fostering behind him, Simon Austen is sent down for life for murdering his girlfriend. He did it but he doesn't know why or maybe doesn't want to know why. Or both . . . Then Simon makes an important decision to rehabilitate himself on his own terms. He learns to read and write; then, daringly, from his high security prison, begins

'A blisteringly new brand of hero' - SARAH HILARY

and his own sense of who he is

'Adventure

He also meets Houghton's partner

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is on her way west when she detours into Nota Lake (pop

and how they learn to survive

where they hid me in a pie

Kramer is an unforgettable and heartrending story of love and devotion in the wake of divorce

THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY explores what it means to be a hero

George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip

Using some rather unusual ingredients

desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany