Expectation: The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the yearHannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends. Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what

When the world tells you to be one thing and turning thirty brings with it a loud ticking clock

Each stage of the War

From the author of The Stars Look Down and Dr Finlay's Casebook comes the gripping medical drama which influenced the foundation of the NHS

it's time we stop directing our anger and insecurities onto ourselves

wealth and freedom - a story that twists and turns from Greece and Rome

and the exciting photos combined with fun illustrations provide lots to talk about

According to the state and federal government

and the pastry chef and lifelong vegetarian

a volunteer is killed as a weapons cache beneath it explodes

But Tomás resists the call of fate - until one foolish day he makes an avoidable mistake - setting in motion events that will affect the rest of his life

introducing his roller-coaster ride of mayhem to a new generation of readers

Otto Kraus's autobiographical novel