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The Dropout offers a sly, edgy new twist on themes from The Graduate and American Pie and is a 21st-century ‘coming-of-age’ drama. 19-year-old Paul Barrett is having a tough time at university. His American girlfriend Meredith is a Silver Ring virgin who won’t put out. Their best friend Neil...

“Just think, Alice, right now Owen could be putting a hex on you!” When Alice Hart’s husband runs off with his secretary, she runs off with his dog to lick her wounds in a North Yorkshire village. Battling with loneliness but trying to make the best of her new start, she soon meets her neighbours,...

Set in a post 1992 university, Dr Jenny Jordan, an intelligent, brunette in her thirties, has recently been promoted to Head of English, where she now faces an impossible task– to significantly increase the percentage of students leaving with first class or upper second class degrees. If she fails...

The Avrah Stories were born out of bedtime tales spun for two little boys. Woven into each story are the threads of peoples thoughts and emotions. An introduction for a child into the mechanics of the heart and mind that underlie a persons actions and define their character.

What do you gain if you can go anywhere, but can never stay? Chloe Walker is a perfectly ordinary sixteen-year-old schoolgirl from a rich area of the UK. She has a mum, a dad, a younger brother and a dog called Buttercup. She goes to school, hangs out, parties with her friends and has endless chats...

The Invisible Agent is the debut children's novel from R. B. Maxwell. When the crash-landing of an alien spaceship unravels a chain of events, a new division of MI6 is created for the housing, protection and training of selected super-agents and police dogs. Top agent 001, Max the teenage super...

Never Mind the Botox is a series about four professional women all working on the sale of a high profile cosmetic surgery business. Each book reveals how the women cope with one of the most glamorous but challenging deals of their careers, and the dramatic impact it has on their personal lives. With...

This is a collection of varied stories that will make you smile at some experiences of being ’thrown in at the deep end’ of life. We start with a true story about how a very ordinary student set off from Liverpool for London equipped only with a Ford Cortina and a sleeping bag and ended up working...

Whatever you know about ghosts – forget it. They don’t haunt, go headless or vanish in white floaty sheets. But they do have a tendency to reek like foul, rotting flesh – something that Sethaliss, a soul-stealing Grey Ghost masquerading as the village undertaker, is somewhat proud of. With extendable...

A book about the problems of life after death, the phenomenology of death and the question of whether immortality would be truly desirable. Looking at personal identity, the mind-body problem, near death and out of body experiences, Stephen H. Smith, delivers his core thesis that no theory of post-mortem...

Ninety years after the death of its author, Jerome K Jerome’s ever-popular Three Men in a Boat is taken down from the shelf and the dust blown from its pages to reveal surprising facts and stories. John Llewellyn’s debut book explores the life and work of author Jerome K Jerome, exposing the fascinating...

How can a memory so vivid be wrong? In the summer of 1986 Robin and Izzie hold hands under The Faerie Tree and wish for a future together. Within hours tragedy rips their dreams apart. In the winter of 2006, each carrying their own burden of grief, they stumble back into each other’s lives and try...

A light-hearted, illustrated look at the French language, concentrating on the words and phrases that could trip up unwary students. If a French person asks you for ‘assistance’ they are not asking for your help, but your attendance at an event. When they say ‘attendez’, they are not inviting...

Tony Sharp is an ambitious manager in a company leading the creation of a new business unit. Six weeks into the job, his division is under threat, his staff won’t take responsibility and attempts to improve efficiency have had little effect. He realises that a more radical approach is required,...