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As usual, happily married Sarah arrives at the school gate to pick up her two stepchildren, Izzy and Patrick. But when they don’t run out to meet her, she knows something must be wrong. Sarah can’t believe her ears when the teacher tells her that her husband, Mike, removed them …

A rare theatrical event: a special reading of Equinox, a new play by Laurie Slade, directed by Sean Mathias and performed by Ian McKellen. The play follows Ed, an older man trapped in a strange room, wrestling with his past, conflicted desires, and visions of alternative realities. At once witty, …

A missing heiress. A haunted Welsh castle. A seamstress with a sharp eye for secrets, mystery stitches itself into every shadow at Castle Gloaming! Glamour, greed and ghosts — Jemima Flowerday is back in Kay’s second book in this marvellous series.  Natalie Meg Evans writes as Kay Blythe for No …

Mutya Buena was only thirteen when she became one third of the original line-up of the iconic girl band Sugababes. This is the story of the girl the tabloids never saw. “The odd, lurid life of a very young pop star…If confirmation were ever needed that the Naughties were a …

London, 1940. Irish Grace Whelan has escaped her troubled family for a new life in the East End. Working as nurse and romantically involved with Owen, an RAF pilot, she shares lodgings with Jess and Betony. The three girls sharing a room couldn’t be more different. Yet as they endure …