From the author of the beloved debut Boys Don't Cry - an unforgettable story of love, loss, regret and the indelible marks one person can make on your life.

Summer, 1991.

Dean: sun-stung and sticky with cool ice-pop juice, walks to the middle of The Green to get a good gawk at the new salon. And at the owner's kid. Hands deep in his pockets, his jet-black mop of hair hides the tension in his face and shoulders at the thought of going back home.

Shauna: stands well hid behind her ma - her eyes dark and haunted like the rest of her. The salon is theirs, a fresh start. The smell of her Ma's Body Shop perfume clings to her jumper - Shauna can't be anywhere else other than here.

Instantly inseparable, their friendship blooms. But as time passes and tell-tale blushes and school fights develop into something deeper, conflicting responsibilities threaten to pull Shauna and Dean apart.

When all seems lost, will they find each other under the same blue sky?

The first ever story to contain all the words in the dictionary. Elixir is a fantastical romp through the English language. Follow the adventures of vertically-challenged Elgin as he abandons his demeaning job as an elf to search for the elixir of life. But strange things await him on his quest; for as Elgin is seeking his destiny in the West Country, a power-hungry Inuit entomologist is bent on destroying the world's food supply with his army of giant invertebrates. Unconventional, hilarious, unremittingly alliterative and at times somewhat disturbing, 'Elixir' is set to become a cult comedy classic.

A stunning tale of a submarine disaster. In 1948, Naval Intelligence discovered that the Soviets were building a large submarine fleet, all much faster and deadlier than the German U-boats. Britain's fleet of escort vessels would be outclassed. The government ordered two of our existing slow T class submarines to be adapted to go faster, and then tried out against our existing frigates. The anti-submarine trials were a disaster, not helped by the stormy relationship between two people each brilliant in their field: the young mathematician boffin, Dr Alison Maynard; and her boyfriend Tom Seago, maverick navigator of one of the sub-chasing frigates. For a gripping read, full of passion, danger, ingenuity and moments of cliffhanging fear, look no further.

The road trip was definitely a bad idea. Having already flambeed her culinary career beyond recognition, Rita Clarkson is now stranded in God-Knows-Where, New Mexico, with a busted car and her three temperamental siblings, who she hasn't seen in years. When rescue shows up-six-feet-plus of charming hotness on a motorcycle-Rita's pretty certain she's gone from the frying pan right into the fire . . . Jasper Ellis has a bad boy reputation in this town, and he loathes it. The moment he sees Rita, though, Jasper knows he's about to be sorely tempted. There's something real between them. Something raw. And Jasper has only a few days to show Rita that he isn't just for tonight-he's forever. "One of my all-time favorite authors!" -Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game

Harry Brennan gets nervous playing his buddies at golf for a tenner. Imagine how he feels when he has to face a deadly rival in a three-pronged shoot-out on the links, for a prize like no other. The twists and turns of this ingenious and unique comic gem will keep you entertained and agog right to the final, totally unexpected twist. Golf dub membership is falling fast. This book will change all that. What really goes on in the clubhouse and on the putting greens is a revelation and will have you laughing, crying and gasping in disbelief. And everyone will want to be a member at West Belby. For years Graham Jones wrote regular columns in the Times education section. He made the obscure and remote world of Further Education funny and relevant and had a loyal following of readers. In his first novel at the age of 69, he brings the same qualities of a lively style and off-beat sense of humour to golf dub politics and manners. And the result is amazing. You'll love the characters; you'll love their stories; you'll love this book.

A helter-skelter ride of emotions that takes the reader through an 18-month period that drastically changes the life of a 10 year-old boy in 1950s England. Living in a city but having the nature and mind of the countryside, his story will have you laughing and crying from one chapter to the next. From the terror of an escaped bull to a girl with 'Kingfisher eyes'. Can a 10 year old boy be in love with a beautiful Welsh teacher who wears tight skirts, stockings and high heels? Can a father's love withstand the cruellest of life's blows? And what happened to the missing girl? Laughter, fear, humiliation, love and despair, Stix meets them all.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, comes a breath taking novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren's ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It's about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you've got. And above all, After I Do is the story of a couple caught up in an old game-and searching for a new road to happily ever after. Don't miss the new novel from Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto is Back, out now

Eviscerated Panda - Vulgar Display of Panda is the third book that follows Reading's premier thrash band as they chase musical success and fulfilment. They play gigs in Camden, Coventry, Kentish town, Reading and High Wycombe. Often the need to also attend to the rest of their lives gate crashes their plans. Were it not for paid employment, families and the pursuit of women they would be a global success by now. They find some things are never easy, while some people are always easy. Phil revels in the attention of an interviewer, the Pandas record an album and Suzy's band management career sees her take on another group of men. Ian gets lucky, and then he gets lucky again and again. He'd like you to high five him right now. There's a metal pilgrimage to Wacken for some. The singer of another band troubles the Panda's womenfolk. A baby is born, some criminal activity occurs, a gig with a glam band bemuses. The near waking of a baby is averted by a story about Carrotlicker Tonguewiggle and chums (a band of bunny rabbits). There is a haircut, an engagement and peace made with old adversaries. If this all sounds too exciting rest assured there are also a great many band practices, cosy pub nights in the Green Man and a spot of shopping.The metal soap opera that is Eviscerated Panda continues...

A story of friendship, Armageddon and a dog called Fool... Steve Harris. An ordinary man with an ordinary job in an ordinary life, until one day, in the blink of an eye everything in his world changes. Steve works as a security officer for a pharmaceutical company. He also takes part in company medical trials to make extra cash. He is placed in a cryogenic pod as part of an experiment but when he wakes, a year has passed and he is alone. While asleep, a deadly virus that had been stored at the same facility has been unintentionally released by a paramilitary animal rights group. Which has wiped out 99.9% of the human race. Steve, who is now joined by the Labrador he finds living in the local pub (who he christens Fool), decides to try and make his way to the Greek island of Skiathos. On his travels Steve happens across a rather flamboyant character encamped in an Austrian ski lodge named Eddie Kelsall who reluctantly decides to join with Steve and Fool on their journey. This is the story of Steve, Eddie and Fool's journey from a small market town to a sunny Greek island and the dangers and challenges they face as they go from country to country making new friends and enemies along the way.

This fast-paced suspense thriller is based around the bond of two brothers, orphaned and now living in Manchester, but the circumstances of being there conflict with David's recurring dream, in which he witnesses his parents' deaths every night. Mixed with a combination of unexplained occurrences and mysterious acquaintances, this ignites his natural curiosity to discover the truth for himself, but the spiraling consequences leave him fearing for his life and the safety of his brother. As he battles with the obsession of a one-sided love affair caused by the discovery of TAG, and his own innocence to sexuality. That tragically finds himself witnessing a brutal rape that he is unable to speak about, as he takes it upon himself to ascertain the proof for himself. Everything escalates out of control, as he discovers the true meaning behind his own existence, and the saga unfolds into one day of his life.

When the Chief Executive of the North Pennine Health Scheme is found dead, hanged by the rope of his stable bell, it is generally regarded as the suicide of a guilty man. One million pounds, missing from the health scheme's funds, was apparently withdrawn from the scheme's account by its Chief Executive...and then disappeared. But Police Sergeant Edward Decker thinks otherwise, Maxwell Bull, the late unlamented Chief Executive, was not the kind of man to kill himself. For a start he was much too arrogant and vain. The problem for Edward Decker is that Bull had so many enemies that it is difficult to know where to start. And the final solution is far removed from the one the policeman expected.

Richard Tempest is lost. His boring, prosaic existence has left him wondering if his life has nothing more to offer than teaching ungrateful students, fending off the political manoeuvring of his peers and occassionally indulging in obligatory, unimaginative, unsatisfying sex. That is until he meets the enchanting and mysterious Ligeia.He finds himself drawn into a darker, altogether more exhilarating, reality. Intoxicated by Ligeia's licentious lifestyle, Richard embarks on a journey of self-discovery that all-too-quickly threatens to spiral out of control. As he becomes increasingly infatuated with her, he is plunged into a seductive world that includes late-night sexual encounters in cemeteries, troilism and the occasional episode of terrifying violence. Theirs is a relationship that is as dangerous as it is exciting. Obsessed with sex, art and death, Ligeia leads him along a devastating path that is impossible for him to resist, where choices must be made that will change his life forever.

Encounters is a collection of short stories which encompasses the panoply of writing styles and the whole business of living, whether it's real, imaginary or simply wishful thinking! Encounters are part of the very fabric of life. Each and every story reflects a small nugget of the world we live in, a world where the seemingly normal can end up both funny and touching as well as sometimes sad and visceral. This anthology offers beautifully observed snapshots of life: taking the reader from the pavements of London to the beaches of Mumbai via internet dating and an afternoon at the races. Exploring love, loss, hope and disappointment, essentially this is a product of a group of writers who simply want to tell stories. Some will resonate, some make readers smile, some may even make them laugh out loud. Most of all we hope each and every one will entertain and make us realise that every encounter can make a difference to all of our lives.

"Exceedingly entertaining." -The New York Times "Umbrella Academy meets Tana French. Dark, claustrophobic, and beautifully written." -Andrea Bartz, author of We Were Never Here From the author of The Winter Sister and Behind the Red Door, a family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch-only to find another body already in his grave. At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse is haunted by her upbringing. Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents, she is unable to move beyond the disappearance of her twin brother, Andy, when they were sixteen. After several years away and following her father's death, Dahlia returns to the house, where the family makes a gruesome discovery: buried in their father's plot is another body-Andy's, his skull split open with an ax. Dahlia is quick to blame Andy's murder on the serial killer who terrorized the island for decades, while the rest of her family reacts to the revelation in unsettling ways. Her brother, Charlie, pours his energy into creating a family memorial museum, highlighting their research into the lives of famous murder victims; her sister, Tate, forges ahead with her popular dioramas portraying crime scenes; and their mother affects a cheerfully domestic facade, becoming unrecognizable as the woman who performed murder reenactments for her children. As Dahlia grapples with her own grief and horror, she realizes that her eccentric family, and the mansion itself, may hold the answers to what happened to her twin.

'The Flynns had lived in the Daymo since the time of Brian Boru, and I was damned if I was going to move out to some miserable suburb of concrete, cars and kids just because Peggy said so. The problem was that Peggy's say-so was a powerful thing, and it would take more than my veto to stop it.' Frankie Flynn only asks to be left alone to back an occasional horse, and to enjoy a peaceful pint with his friends and neighbours. Peggy, his wife, has other ideas. She wants to get out of the city, aspiring to a life of dinner parties, kitchen diners and en suite bathrooms. As well as Peggy's threat to his lifestyle, Frankie has to contend with a malevolent dog, armed criminals, his malingering son-in-law, being barred from his favourite pub, and much more.

Following personal heartbreak in the horror that was 9/11, Rose Cottage and Claire Chambers become inextricably linked. Rose Cottage holds a secret and Claire Chambers is the only person who can reveal the mystery that surrounds it. She has been chosen to 'open a door', which some would rather leave closed and are prepared to do almost anything to keep it that way, but why? Claire now walks a path others have trodden, but have not survived unscathed. The path is littered with broken hearts, dreams and lives... For some, there cannot be peace until the final mystery is solved, and Claire must find a way to do this without being drawn into a situation where the path has no way back... All is not as it seems at Rose Cottage, and nor will it be until the bitter and bloody end.