Jane Colgan

When Monica is offered a three-month placement in LA, she hires Ursula as a housekeeper and nanny to care for nine-year-old Ruby, toddler Luca and her husband Daniel, during her absence. But there is a dark secret in Ursula's past, which has left her closed-off and reserved. Will her growing attachment to Ruby bring it to the surface, and will Monica regret leaving the children in her care?

In a damp parsonage on the Yorkshire moors in 1846, a family seems cursed with disaster: a mother and two children dead; a father sick; a son destroyed by alcohol; and three intelligent young women, reduced to poverty, with nothing to save them except their literary talent.

Frances Bird has been a loner for so long that she's given up on ever finding real friendship. But then she's asked to show a new girl around school, and the two girls click immediately. Frances finds out more about her new best friend - her past, her secrets, her plans for the future - and she starts to examine their friendship more closely. Is it, perhaps, just too good to be true?

In these stories, Cornish folklore slips into everyday life. Hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, wrecker's lamps, standing stones and baying hounds, and relationships wax and wane in the glow of a moonlit sea.

August 2018 in Stockholm, fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg decides politicians have to do something to save the environment, so she goes on strike in front of Sweden’s parliament building. Greta has spoken at COP24, the UN summit on climate change, and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This is her story, but also that of many other girls and boys around the world willing to fight for a better future.

Evita (real name Molu, but she’s always had a tendency towards the theatrical) is stuck in a 9 to 5 job until she hears the irresistible beat of a drum, summoning her to follow her dream. It takes her to faraway places and people, but the rhythm of change is also to be found closer to home.

By looking at the history of thought, this guide will help you do things which support your well-being, free yourself from the various disturbances of life, overcome irrational expectations that cause us distress, and understand the causes of suffering.

Part memoir, part rant, 'How To Be A Woman' follows Caitlin Moran from her terrible 13th birthday, through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, fat, abortion, TopShop, motherhood and beyond. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and triumphs as a nanny to a London family. From the mystery of the unpaid milk bill, to mealtime discussions on pie filler, this is a hilarious portrait of London, and a wonderful celebration of bad food, good company and the relative merits of Thomas Hardy and Enid Blyton.

Vet Maz Harwood loves her job as a partner at a country vet practice in the picturesque town of Talyton St George. To add to her happiness, she's in love with the gorgeous Alex, and he seems to love her back. As the new year dawns, Maz can't help feeling that she's never been happier. But when her business partner Emma suffers a terrible tragedy, it's up to Maz to keep the practice going. Suddenly life is spiralling out of control, what with working all hours, fending off insults from Alex's parents, keeping one eye on the lusty locum, and dealing with Emma's precarious emotional state. It won't take much to upset the apple cart. So when Maz discovers she's pregnant, life gets even more complicated...

It is the sweltering summer of 1997, and Karen is a strait-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex, she is soon drawn into their world - but something terrible is about to happen, and someone's going to end up dead. Richard & Judy Bookclub

Rayne leaves home to get away from her mum and her boyfriend, but she finds Morton’s Keep very creepy. She starts to feel better when she meets St John but everyone warns her away from him. Finding out the truth proves difficult; everyone has a secret to keep and she doesn’t know who to trust.

'You're not Mia Thermopolis any more, honey,' Dad said. 'You're Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo. Princess of Genovia.'

A PRINCESS?? ME??? Yeah. Right.

One minute Mia's a totally normal Manhattan fourteen-year-old. Next minute she's heir to the throne of Genovia, being trailed by a bodyguard, taking princess lessons with her uncontrollable old grandmere, and having a makeover with someone called Paolo. Well, her dad can lecture her till he's royal blue in the face, but no way is Mia going to turn herself into a style-queen. And they think she's moving to Genovia? Er, hello?

This powerful collection of personal letters from people with first-hand experiences of depression will serve as a comforting resource for anyone on the journey to recovery.

It would seem that even a pretend engagement cannot keep Lady Rose Summer from trouble. She befriends Dolly Tremaine, a beautiful young girl newly arrived from the country and overwhelmed by the demands of the Season. Their friendship is cut tragically short, however, when Dolly is found dead in the river. Rose immediately summons her fiance, Captain Harry Cathcart, to help solve the mystery of Dolly's death.  Book 3 of series.

Terri Apter considers the many aspects of the sister relationship from birth through adulthood. The need to fight to differentiate oneself from a sister, as well the protectiveness one feels for that same person, is explained by reference to extensive psychological and biological evidence.

Prue is not someone you would notice willingly. She likes to keep herself to herself and fade into the background. If it weren't for the birthmark on her left cheek, she might actually succeed at becoming invisible. She spends all of her time with her blind father, Vince. Scarred by a difficult past, they sit together in silence and ignore the vibrant city just on their doorstep. That is, until something forces them both to go outside and see what they have been missing. For Vince, that means discovering how to see the world without his sight. For Prue, that means finding the courage to finally love and be loved in return. 

A unique and surprising insight into life on the Home Front. Through May Smith's observant, witty and sometimes acerbic diary, we gain a new understanding of how the people of Britain coped with the uncertainty, the heartbreak and the black comedy of life during wartime.

Ellen's sister Lydia is knocked down and killed outside Jonathan Goldman's London flat whilst he is on the train to his Oxfordshire home. He has just said goodbye to the gladiatorial Sonia, to return home to his wife. All these characters' lives become twisted together through bonds of passion, friendship and bereavement.