Joanne Harris

Jay Mackintosh is trapped by the memory of old familiar landscapes of his childhood, to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-lost friend seems to provide both the key to an old mystery and a doorway into another world.

When Vianne Rocher and her daughter arrive in Lansquenet, the village priest is horrified by her plans to open a chocolate shop. The village is divided when Vianne suggests an Easter Chocolate Festival, but who will triumph, the Church or Vianne?

For generations wealthy La Houssiniere and impoverished Les salants have fought for the control of the beach of a tiny Breton island. When a local girl returns home after aten year absence, she finds her home village, Les Salants, dying. And decides to redress the balance between the two communities!

After 30 years at St Oswald's Grammar, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. With insolvency looming, a new broom has arrived at the school, and while Straitley does his sardonic best to resist his march to the future, a shadow from his past is stirring. A boy who even 20 years on haunts his teacher's dreams. A boy capable of bad things...

Secretive Framboise returns to her former home, a ruined farm, in the village of Les Laveuses. Gradually she relives the tragic wartime events of her childhood, which caused her family to leave the farm.

With his notorious reputation for trickery and deception, Loki is a Norse god like no other. This is the story of Loki's recruitment from the underworld of Chaos, his many exploits on behalf of his one-eyed master, Odin, through to his eventual betrayal of the gods and the fall of Asgard itself.

Seventeenth century France is a hotbed of religious frenzy and political instability. Juliette, an actress and dancer abandons her travelling ways and joins a remote convent, to create a stable life for herself and her daughter. Several years later, following the death of the Abbess, life in the convent unravels as Juliette's past catches up with her.

Orphaned, lonely, and lost in his photography work, Tom has no intention of falling in love. And yet, love finds him in the shape of beautiful Vanessa, who lives a dangerous double life in the heart of London's King's Cross.

Tom's pursuit of Vanessa leads him to discover an alternate world, hidden amongst the streets and rooftops of London - and inhabited by strange and colourful beings. In this mysterious realm, two ancient factions - one of night, one of day - have waged war for centuries over a forbidden love and a long-lost prince of sun and starlight.

But when Tom finds a secret market that appears only in moonlight, where charms and spells are bought with memories, he starts to wonder whether he's been here before...

When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet. But returning to her old home, Vianne is completely unprepared for what she is to find there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and a minaret on the bank of the river.

Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, discovers the perfect model in nine-year- old Ellie. Ten years later they marry, but Ellie is being drawn into a dangerous underground world where she discovers Henry's secret past.

Vianne Rocher has settled down in Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her. With her daughter Rosette, she runs her chocolate shop in the square and is part of the community. But when Narcisse, the florist, dies, leaving a plot of land to Rosette, the sleepy village is once more thrown into disarray. Then the opening of a mysterious new shop in the place of the florist's - one that mirrors the chocolaterie, seems to herald a change: a confrontation, a turbulence - even, perhaps, a murder . . .

One-time teacher and bestselling novelist Joanne Harris has been advising and corresponding with aspirational writers for over six years. This collection of pithy and funny lists of advice provides both hard-won wisdom and insider industry help. All aspects of the writing process and story development are covered - as is the thorny issue of how and where to find readers. From Workspaces and Habits to Plot and Dialogue, these are motivating, problem-solving lists from an experienced and widely respected writer. Uniquely, Ten Things About Writing also takes the reader beyond the stage of finished manuscripts and editorial changes - into the territories of rights, publicity and marketing.

On a warm July evening, Sylviane Rochas scatters her mother's ashes in New York and lets the changing wind blow her to the French seaside town of Marseille.

For the first time in her life, Vianne holds the future in her own hands. Charming her way into a job as a waitress in a local bistrot, she knows that she is not here to stay - when her child is born in a few months, she must be gone.

As she discovers the joy of cooking, making recipes her own with the addition of bittersweet chocolate spices, she realises that it possesses its own magic in this town full of secrets.

Yet Vianne will never forget her mother's warning: that there is danger in revealing the true desires of those around her - and she must flee these cobbled streets before it's too late...

When Alice visits the local churchyard she reads the strange inscription on one of the gravestones which, for some reason, disturbs her. Her ex-boyfriend returns with his new girlfriend and Alice is certain that this beautiful girl is evil.

Seeking refuge in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters live peacefully above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes.