Anywhere: Old School (Keywords)

Anna is depressed. She doesn't like her job, doesn't know the joy of love and friendship and her dream to become a writer is fading away. That's until she bumps into an old high-school friend.

Sixteen-year-old Sonja is attending a finishing school in West Berlin in 1952 when her uncle takes her to the East and opens her eyes to another Germany.

In Belgium, Lionella, 17, of Italian origin, lives only for the cello. As she searches for a new piece, her best friend brings her an old box that contains a score and a diary. The young woman then plunges into the eighteenth century into the fate of Ada, an orphan who lived in a boarding scho...

The second book in the absurdly funny Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody series by multi-award-winning author Patrick Ness.When Daniel arrives at the school bus stop sporting a salmon-coloured hat, Zeke is shocked. Don’t only birds wear hats? As if this isn’t strange enough, the school suddenly ha...

Welcome to the Kennedy household:Lila wrote a bestseller about keeping your marriage alive, before discovering her ex was playing happy families with another woman. A woman she sees everyday at school pick-up.Bill, her stepdad, moved in after Lila’s mum died. He’s kind, old-fashioned and driv...

"I must make it. I will make it. And I will tell their stories."Thirteen-year-old Samim is a loyal friend, a gifted chess player -- and a refugee. After his family is killed in a bombing, Samim makes a long, dangerous journey from Afghanistan to the UK. But even then his safety isn't guaranteed...

For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice.When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the fin...

The long-awaited sequel to the #1 international bestseller The Cat Who Saved Books—a delightful and heartwarming celebration of books, libraries, cats, and the people who love them.A chronic asthma condition prevents thirteen-year-old Nanami from playing sports or spending time with her friends...

I Would Die For You, is an electrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick The Other Woman and The Guilt Trip, Sandie Jones.Now: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in a small seaside Californian town with her husband and daughter. She is not expecting...

I Would Die For You, is an electrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick The Other Woman and The Guilt Trip, Sandie Jones.Now: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in a small seaside Californian town with her husband and daughter. She is not expecting...

Welcome to Spring Hill, home to a square of independent shops and cafes, a thriving local community and nearby the newest venture, Ray’s Diner. Here a group of women meet once a week over a cup of something warming. Amanda is primary carer to her elderly mother and one of the only women in a male...

‘Is that Mrs Bennet?’ The chirpy voice of the school receptionist tinkles down the phone line. ‘This is St Mary’s. Do you know what time you’ll be here to pick up Isla? Only it’s almost four and the school day finishes at three o’clock.’This is the day my life changes for ever.It started so n...

Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She's come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenage son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her. Some trouble at school, back in the day. A certain defensiveness. N...

13-year-old Tom Morgan and his friends live on the streets of an alternate London, shining shoes and picking pockets - until one day Tom's friends are caught and sent to a brutal workhouse. Frantic and without a way to save them, Tom bumps into the mysterious Corsair, who offers him an opportun...

Welcome to the Kennedy household:Lila wrote a bestseller about keeping your marriage alive, before discovering her ex was playing happy families with another woman. A woman she sees everyday at school pick-up.Bill, her stepdad, moved in after Lila’s mum died. He’s kind, old-fashioned and driv...