A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

A novel that is as beautiful and as dangerous as the Oleander Chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her booclub Over a million copies in print

A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club', 'The Kitchen God's Wife' and 'The Hundred Secret Senses'.

A stunning reissue of the international bestseller, from the much-loved author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'.

The 400,000 copy Richard & Judy bestseller reissued with a brilliant new livery, a classic backlist title from the inimitable Jodi Picoult.

Sue Monk Kidd's exquisite first novel has received huge acclaim. 'Wonderfully written, powerful, poignant, and humorous... Do read it' Joanna Trollope

Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of 'The Stone Diaries', winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and 'Larry's Party', winner of the Orange Prize.

From one of America's best loved and most prolific novelists: the story of a woman coming to terms with the violent death of her mother, and uncovering all the hidden secrets stowed away over the years.

Ellen Gulden is a successful New York journalist. When her mother gets cancer, her father insists she come home. As she looks after her mother, their relationship deepens and Ellen is forced to confront painful truths about her adored father. But as Kate lies dying, and in the days that follow her death, events take a shocking and unexpected turn.

Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. She steps over a boundary she never dreamt she would even approach. But while her act is almost unconscious, it also seems like the fulfilment of a lifetime's buried desire.

An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' bestselling and much loved previous novels, Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets!

The internationally bestselling author re-introduces us to the much-loved heroine of GOOD IN BED, Cannie Shapiro: older, wiser and (seven pounds) thinner, raising her lovely and rebellious daughter, Joy.

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Through sisterly squabbles, their happy times and sad ones too, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do.

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. But strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog?

Set in occupied wartime France, this is the story of a successful woman whose carefully constructed and hidden past threatens to be exposed by her profiteering nephew.

On the outside, Macy Queen is cool and calm. On the inside, she's breaking. Silently struggling with her Dad's death, Macy is smiling her way through - she's 'fine'. It's only when she meets a group of new friends that she realizes she can wear her heart on her sleeve sometimes. Because life doesn't stop when someone disappears.

Seeking refuge in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has stopped - at least for a while. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, and everything begins to change.

The perfect pattern for close-knit friendships, this novel is refreshing in its warmth and you'll be imediately welcomed in.

Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of a woman's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence, and very selfhood.

* A passionate novel about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, set among an Anglo-Iranian family