ABOUT US
Division Dialogue, spearheaded by Sharmaine Lovegrove, is home to a variety of phenomenal stories from illuminating voices often excluded from the mainstream.
Established first as an English language bookshop in Berlin in 2009, Dialogue Books was reignited as part of the Little, Brown Book Group in July 2017. In 2023, Dialogue Books was reincarnated once again as its own division within the wider Hachette UK Group.
Innovation, Inspiration and Inclusion are the focus of our venture, with dynamic originality across all areas of our publishing, from receiving manuscripts to connecting with consumers; at Dialogue, we are committed to revealing new worlds through our narratives as we open up publishing to all across society. We continue to build its foundations upon the idea that through storytelling, a dialogue is created to engender a more inclusive, nuanced conversation about experiences in our world that come before, after and next.
We shine a spotlight on stories by, about and for readers from LGBTQI+, disabled, working-class, Black, Asian and marginalised communities. We have a clear focus on distinctive, cross-genre titles that spark a conversation across fiction and non-fiction on our commercial imprint, Renegade Books, and our literary list, Dialogue Books.
At Dialogue, we publish across the spectrum, from international bestsellers and book club favourites to future classics, with an abundance of prize nominations to our name and adaptations of some of our most successful books in production for TV and film. We are committed to reaching a broader and richer readership, and our range of conversation-sparking, ground-breaking and game-changing work is published with every reader in mind.
Dialogue Books: Sparking the Conversation
Dialogue Books is our literary imprint, where we publish across fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Grounded in our activist principles of Inclusion, Innovation and Inspiration, we are home to exceptional writing by authors who boldly illuminate the world around us. This premise unites Dialogue authors from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah to Brit Bennett, Clint Smith to Lisa Ko and Liv Little to Paterson Joseph.
Renegade Books: Books That Break Rules
Renegade Books is Dialogue’s commercial imprint, where we publish the very best fiction and non-fiction for massmarket audiences. We are dedicated to radical inclusion, pairing commercial prowess with our activist core. What we do is inherently political – we believe that books can change the world, and our tagline is ‘books that break rules’, which sums up our rebellious spirit. We’re an imprint with a difference: publishing stories for everyone and publishing them boldly. Our promise is to break the mould, reach readers that mainstream publishing has neglected and forge new routes to market, with a laser focus on high-potential commercial hits.
MEET THE EDITORS
Sharmaine Lovegrove
Managing Director
Sharmaine.Lovegrove@dialoguebooks.co.uk
Hannah Chukwu
Literary Editorial Director, Dialogue Books
Hannah.Chukwu@dialoguebooks.co.uk
Christina Demosthenous
Publisher, Renegade Books
Christina.Demosthenous@dialoguebooks.co.uk
Alexa Allen-Batifoulier
Editor, Renegade Books
Alexa.AllenBatifoulier@dialoguebooks.co.uk
Swift River
Essie Chambers
04/07/2024
ISBN: 9780349703862
A debut novel of first friendships, family secrets and finding the courage to let go, told in a voice full of humour, irreverence and sass.
What if the price of moving forward is losing the only family you’ve ever known?
Summer, 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift River, sixteen-year-old Diamond Newbury is desperately lonely. It’s been seven years since her father disappeared, and while her mother is determined to move on, Diamond can’t distance herself from his memory. When Diamond receives a letter from a relative she has never met, she unearths long-buried
secrets of her family’s past and discovers a legacy she never knew she was missing. The more she learns, however, the harder it becomes to reconcile her old life with the one she wants to lead.
So begins an epic story spanning the twentieth century that reveals a much larger picture of prejudice and love, of devotion and abandonment – and will change Diamond’s life forever.
Spontaneous Acts
Yoko Tawada
11/07/2024
ISBN: 9780349704234
The highly anticipated, exquisite new novel from the award-winning, critically acclaimed Yoko Tawada.
Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though his beloved opera houses are open again, Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed.
He is supposed to give a paper at a conference in Paris, on the poetry collection Threadsuns by Paul Celan, but he can’t get past the first question on the registration form: ‘What is your nationality?’
As Patrik attempts to find a connection in a world that constantly overwhelms him, he meets a mysterious stranger. The man’s name is Leo-Eric Fu, and somehow he already knows Patrik . . .
Yoko Tawada’s mesmerizing new novel unfolds like a lucid dream in which the solace of friendship, reading, conversation, music – of seeing and being seen – is examined and celebrated.
Colored Television
Danzy Senna01/08/2024
ISBN: 9780349705026
A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identityindustrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.
Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane’s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel –a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her “mulatto War and Peace.” Finally, some semblance of stability and
success seems to be within her grasp. Things don’t work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. When she finagles a meeting with Hampton Ford, a hot producer with a major development deal at a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a “real writer”. Things finally seem to be going right for Jane – until they go terribly wrong.
The American Daughters
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
05/09/2024
ISBN: 9780349704913
A gripping historical novel about a spirited girl who joins a sisterhood working to undermine the Confederates.
Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are inseparable. Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the pair spend their days dreaming of a loving future and reminiscing about their family’s rebellious and storied history. When mother and daughter are separated, Ady is left hopeless and directionless until she stumbles into the Mockingbird Inn and meets Lenore, a free Black woman with whom she becomes fast friends. Lenore invites Ady to join a clandestine society of spies called the
Daughters. With the courage instilled in her by Sanite – and with help from these strong women – Ady learns how to put herself first. So begins her journey toward liberation and imagining a new future.
The American Daughters is a novel of hope and triumph that reminds us what is possible when a community bands together to fight for their freedom.
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
bell hooks with an introduction by Yomi Adegoke 19/09/2024
ISBN: 9780349704968
bell hooks’ extraordinary foundational memoir introduced to the UK for the first time.
Stitching together the threads of her girlhood memories, bell hooks shows us one strongspirited child’s journey toward becoming the pioneering writer we know. Along the way, hooks sheds light on the vulnerability of children, the special unfurling of female creativity and the imbalance of a society that confers marriage’s joys upon men and its silences on women.
In a world where daughters and fathers are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about, hooks uncovers the solace to be found in solitude, the comfort to be had in the good company of books.
Bone Black allows us to bear witness to the awakening of a legendary author’s awareness that writing is her most vital breath.
Rebel Takes: On the Future of Food
Catherine Joy White
03/10/2024
ISBN: 9780349702636
In the first instalment of the pioneering new Rebel Takes series, Catherine Joy White proposes a radical reimagining of our relationship with food.
On the Future of Food explores our complex relationship with food on a global scale –from a means to assert land ownership to an indispensable tactic of civil rights movements. Catherine Joy White takes her experience as an advisor to the United Nations to establish the social, personal and political power of food, as a blueprint to life, a flagstone of community and a right that many go without. Demanding we look back to go forward, White tackles issues of food poverty, our disconnect with the natural world and misconceptions of disordered eating, underlined by the knowledge that we can do better.
Rebel Takes is a series that asks its writers to hope. Exploring the past and present of foundational aspects of society and culture, each instalment will envision an alternative future, charge history with radical possibility and answer the question: how can we make change happen?
Curdle Creek
Yvonne Battle-Felton
10/10/2024
ISBN: 9780349703534
This haunting take on the American Gothic pushes the boundaries of inheritance and blame, asking: how far would you go to keep your community safe?
Osira was born and raised in the insular, suffocating town of Curdle Creek. Stuck in time and entrenched in elusive traditions, Curdle Creek has one particularly strict policy: one in, one out – and one day, it is Osira’s turn.
Forced into the great unknown, the sinister reality of her birthplace unravels around her. As she comes face-to-face with those she believed were lost, Osira must reckon with all she has ever been told and confront the insidious cruelties of inheritance.
Defiance: Racial Injustice, Police Brutality, A Sister’s Fight for the Truth
Janet Alder with Dan Glazebrook
17/10/2024
ISBN: 9780349702858
From the sister of Christopher Alder, a damning account of injustice in the UK police system.
Christopher Alder was arrested on 1 April 1998. Mere hours later, he was found dead on the floor of his cell. The death of Christopher in police custody is one of the most notorious cases in the UK – one that has since been regarded as a ‘serious neglect of duty’, followed by the destruction of evidence, a whitewash of an investigation and illegal surveillance. Still, no one has been held accountable for Christopher’s death.
These circumstances have driven his sister’s fight for truth, institutional responsibility and justice for the past twenty-five years. In this probing exposé and unrelenting personal account, Janet Alder discusses the exhaustive evidence that explores in whose hands lays the blame for Christopher’s death. This is a tale of tragedy, epic injustices, stalwart systems of racism and one sister’s unrelenting spirit as she takes on the authorities in the hope of justice at last.
City of Laughter
Temim Fruchter
07/11/2024
ISBN: 9780349704869
An ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality and generational silence, City of Laughter announces Temim Fruchter as a fresh and assured new literary voice.
Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th-century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger –bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need, and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming century.
In the present day, Shiva Margolin, recovering from the heartbreak of her first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father,
Everest
Ashani Lewis
07/11/2024
struggles to connect with her guarded mother, who spends most of her time at the local funeral home. A student of Jewish folklore, Shiva seizes an opportunity to visit Poland, hoping her family’s mysteries will make more sense if she walks in the footsteps of her great-grandmother, Mira, about whom no one speaks.
What she finds will make her question her past, her future and her present.
ISBN: 9780349703329
A collection of diamond-sharp stories from an award-winning writer.
She is momentarily furious. Hasn’t she seen at five the red blood of fishes? Hasn’t she dipped her fingers in their guts, watched them tug at life on her father’s lap, seen them laid out in silver like a cut dream?
In a magnetic follow-up to Winter Animals, Ashani Lewis takes a delightfully candid approach to facets of desire and loneliness, cut through with breath-taking lyricism. Lewis’ debut short story collection creates a
stark world of fleeting infatuations, violent compulsions, unexpected solace and the sombre ghost of memories. A dying woman dedicates her life to Antarctic ice; a romance ends with an imitation oyster; a man believes the mother of his child has become a witch; the success of an engagement is tied to Everest – in these striking stories, Lewis takes a kaleidoscopic, unforgiving look at love: its obsessions, its grotesque demands and the distance it creates between us.
Alter Ego
Helen Heckety04/07/2024
ISBN: 9780349130620
Just as heartbreaking as it is heartwarming, AlterEgo is about learning to love yourself instead of trying to fit in. For fans of Kirsty Cape and Daisy Buchanan.
Six months ago, something happened that changed everything for Hattie. The next morning, she came up with The Plan. It was time for a whole new life. That’s how Hattie ends up in a little cabin in the middle of nowhere, where the woodland stretches for miles and stars light up the night sky. Here, Hattie can be whoever she wants to be.
At two years old, Hattie was diagnosed with a condition that would alter the course of her life. Ever since then she’s had to constantly
explain herself and pretend that the pitying looks don’t bother her.
If she wants The Plan to work, nobody back home can know why she really left, and nobody in her new life can know the truth about her.
But it’s not long before she’s caught in her lies – trapped between who she really is, and who she so desperately wants to be. When everything falls apart, can she piece herself back together?
Costanza Rachel Blackmore
01/08/2024
ISBN: 9780349131092
An unputdownable, sultry and deliciously evocative novel, based on the true story of Costanza Piccolomini – a fierce feminist icon who has been written out of history. For fans of TheMarriage Portrait and The Minaturist.
Rome, 1636. History calls her a Muse. Temptress. Fallen woman. This is her story.
In the scorched city of Rome, the cobbled streets hum with gossip and sin.
Based on a true story, Costanza Piccolomini is a respectable young wife - until she meets Gianlorenzo Bernini, the famed sculptor and star of Roman society, whose jet-black gaze matches his dark temper. From the second they set eyes upon each other, a fatal attraction is born. With every illicit tryst, Costanza’s
reputation is at stake. Meanwhile, Bernini has a dangerous desire: he wants to possess Costanza not just in body, but in marble.
When Costanza’s sculpture is unveiled, their affair is exposed – and so begins a scandal that will rock the establishment to its core. For Bernini would rather destroy Costanza than let her go.
This was meant to be the end of Costanza’s story. But she is no ordinary woman …
Life’s Short, Talk Fast: 15 Writers on Why
We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls
Ann Hood
05/09/2024
ISBN: 9781408749005
A vibrant and page-turning anthology of essays on what Gilmore Girls means to writers from different walks of life.
Gilmore Girls hit our screens in 2000 and has been our autumn obsession ever since. There’s a reason that Vogue calls it ‘the quintessential autumn girl show’. Not only does it get binged by millions of fans ever year, but new audiences fall in love with the iconic series – from mothers and daughters who see themselves in Lorelei and Rory, girls battling it out over #TeamLogan or #TeamJess, or anyone who cherishes the crunch of autumn leaves and pumpkin spiced latte season.
Ann Hood never understood why there wasn’t
anything exploring what Gilmore Girls means to its fans. This essay collection set about to fix this – a joyful, surprising and moving celebration of Gilmore Girls, and what the show reveals about us.
With essays from: Anjanette Delgado, Ann Hood, Annabelle Mei, Cathi Hanauer, Erin Almond, Francesco Sedita, Freya North, Joanna Rakoff, Katie Moulton, Michael Ruhlman, Chris Eigeman, Nina de Gramont, Rand Richards Cooper, Sanjian Sathian, Tracey Minkin and Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
Goddess with a Thousand Faces
Jasmine Elmer
12/09/2024
ISBN: 9781408748244
Steeped in ancient magic, dark divinity and wild ways, Goddess with a Thousand Faces takes you on a historical journey like no other… Perfect for fans of Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola and Storyland by Amy Jeffs.
Blending mythological retellings with historical research, Goddess with a Thousand Faces traverses the world and transports through time to bring ten formidable and inspiring ancient goddesses to life.
Meet Artemis, the Greek goddess of the wilderness, never without her bow and arrow; Sedna, Inuit goddess of the ocean, guarding
the icy waters and all its creatures; Isis, Egyptian goddess of healing, who dwells by the River Nile, just to name a few…
Pour over this treasure trove. See yourself in the faces of these icons. For while their stories might be ancient, today they are more important – and more powerful – than ever.
Perfectly Wicked
Lindsay Lovise
17/09/2024
ISBN: 9781408749159
A small-town, young family of wickeds tries to hide their powers from a handsome ghost-busting TV personality filming on their farm, but when the oldest sister starts to have feelings for him, things get complicated... Perfect for fans of The Ex Hex and Gilmore Girls.
Holly Celeste and her sisters are Wickeds, each of them possessing a supposed-to-be-evil power. But they have remained in the shadows for most of their lives, quietly manipulating their powers for good.
Even though their family’s cider recipe is the most delicious, soon they’ll be forced to sell to their competition. That is until TV personality Connor Grimm, desperate to film his next ghost-hunting series on Holly’s
orchard, offers them a deal. The last thing Holly wants is a sexy grey-eyed star nosing about in her very real secrets, but she has no choice if she wants to keep her family’s legacy afloat.
When Connor finds out what she really is, he is forced to choose between revealing his best paranormal discovery yet or betraying the woman he has come to love.
The Kiss of the Nightingale
Adi Denner
03/10/2024
ISBN: 9780349130408
Stolen Magic.
Two loves. A sister’s fate. Let the curtains rise... Magic meets Bridgerton in this sweeping coming-of-age romantasy novel.
1890, Lutèce: In this city, Talents are everything: precious gems that gift unrivalled skills to their owners. The most coveted, Elite Talents, are claimed by the aristocracy, passed through generations by blood magic.
Cleodora dreamed of inheriting her father’s Tailoring Talent, but when he died, the magic died with him. Now she’s left with empty promises, a dress shop she can’t keep afloat, and her bed-ridden younger sister.
But everything changes when she meets the
dark-eyed Lady Dahlia Sibille. Dahlia offers Cleodora a Singing Talent - a chance to save her beloved sister and rewrite her own fate. There’s just one catch: she needs to steal an Elite Talent from the prestigious Lenoir family.
But the handsome yet infuriating Vicomte Lenoir is nothing like she expected. Soon, the Vicomte’s teasing smiles win her over, even as Dahlia’s seductive whispers linger in her ears. Torn between them, is Cleodora in danger of losing it all?
Who Darts Wins: Bullseyes,
bounce-outs and the greatest game of all
John Woodhouse
17/10/2024
ISBN: 9781408749265
Taking aim at the secrets, the science, and the slingers – this is the game revealed as never before!
Take a flight into the dart-side of life with the ultimate darts gift book – one that entertains, informs, and appeals to darts and non-darts players alike. Written with knowledge, insight, and humour by lifelong darts fan John Woodhouse (Winner – Sunday Times
Sports Book of the Year 2023), Who Darts Wins is the perfect companion book for the darts revolution, which has seen the sport fill arenas and attract multi-millions of TV viewers.
On Cricket
Sir Trevor McDonald
17/10/2024
ISBN: 9780349705064
A memoir on cricket by National Treasure Sir Trevor McDonald exploring his childhood in the Caribbean and his love of cricket.
Sir Trevor McDonald is one of Britain’s most celebrated broadcasters and his devotion for cricket is almost as well known as his legendary professional achievements.
In this inspirational memoir, On Cricket, Sir Trevor explores his childhood in the Caribbean and celebrates his life-long love of the sport that followed him no matter where in the world his illustrious journalistic career would take him.
Sir Trevor offers a wide-ranging commentary on cricket as a common language between England, the West Indies and beyond – a sense of belonging that knows no borders –and celebrates cricket as an engine of national identity and an essential feature of daily life and community.
An exceptional storyteller and commentator, On Cricket is a love letter to the sport and a study of Sir Trevor’s oldest and most consistent passion: watching, debating and playing the gentleman’s game.
I Did Something Bad Pyae
Moe Thet War
07/11/2024
ISBN: 9780349130811
Sexy, slow-burn romance, with an actionadventure twist … perfect for fans of Crazy Rich Asians and Funny Story.
Khin Hlaing is not just a successful journalist, she’s also an early-thirties divorcee looking to win a break-up. So when she’s assigned by Vogue to get a scoop on Tyler Tun, Hollywood’s hottest movie star who has returned to Myanmar to shoot a film, she can’t believe her luck.
The rumour at the top of the food chain is that Tyler’s gearing up for something big: he’s reading fewer scripts and turning down big modelling contracts. But Tyler Tun has done his very best to keep his private life private, and he doesn’t show any sign of
letting down his walls for Khin. But one night on set, a strange man follows Khin into the surrounding park grounds. When he threatens her, Tyler steps in and things escalate fast.
As Khin and Tyler work together to hide their secret and find out more about her attacker, they grow closer. The job at Vogue suddenly looks more promising, but Khin can’t help feel a twang of uncomfortable morality-related guilt. Will they get away with murder? Can Khin get the exposé she needs for her dream job? And is she willing to risk Tyler’s trust in the process?
Paperbacks
The Shoulders We Stand On
Preeti Dhillon05/09/2024
ISBN: 9780349702834
The forgotten history of the UK’s anti-racist campaigners is finally brought to life in this comprehensive account of modern British history, told through ten moments.
Have you heard of the Indian Workers’ Association? The Brixton Black Women’s Group? The Battle of Brick Lane? If the answer is no, you’re not alone. Researcher and historian Preeti Dhillon wants us to reclaim the history that has been kept from us and use these vital movements and inspirational moments to better understand the UK we live in today and how change happens.
The Shoulders We Stand On tells the stories
of ten remarkable movements, campaigns and organisations led by Black and Brown people across Britain from the sixties to the eighties –only a fragment of the long and deep history of activism by Black and Brown people spanning the UK. Their stories can inspire all of us to make a difference, just as they did.
We’re not alone, we’ve been here before and this is the book we all need now.
This Thread of Gold
Catherine Joy White
03/10/2024
ISBN: 9780349702629
This is a narrative of Black women’s resistance.
Weaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White takes us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors.
Throughout history, acts of defiance have taken place in secret, in kitchens, churches, through trusted networks. Others were projected onto a global stage through art, politics and activism.
From Alice Walker to Beyoncé, from Audre
Lorde to Doreen Lawrence, from Aretha Franklin to Zendaya: Catherine Joy White charts her own journey to self-discovery through the prism of extraordinary women to create a beautiful tapestry of Black joy.
Taking on the legacy of Angela Davis’s Women, Race and Class, Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider and Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, This Thread of Gold brings new life to the history of Black women’s resistance.
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness
Nathalie Olah14/11/2024
ISBN: 9780349702247
A bold and original exploration from a renowned radical thinker, exploring the consequences of our obsession with image and taste.
This book is not a taste, nor an anti-taste, manual.
This is an interrogation of the importance we place on seemingly objective ideas of taste in a culture that is saturated by imagery, and the dangerous impact this has on our identities, communities and politics. Dedicated to understanding the industries of taste, from what we eat to how we spend our free time, Olah exposes the shallow waters of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ taste and the rigid hierarchies that uphold this age-old dichotomy.
How did minimalism become a virtue? Who can afford to do it justice?
When did blue-collar jackets become a fashion item?
Who stands to gain from the distinction made between beauty and sex?
Bold, original and provocative, Bad Taste is a revelatory exploration of the intersection between consumerism, class, desire and power, and a rousing call-to-arms to break free from the restrictive ways we see those around us.
Taking Back My Power
Georgia Harrison
01/08/2024
ISBN: 9780349130989
Georgia Harrison’s story as you’ve never heard it before. Explosive and inspiring, Georgia reveals the shocking truth of how she suffered revenge porn at the hands of her ex – and how she fought to get her life back.
In 2020, Georgia Harrison’s ex-boyfriend Stephen Bear shared intimate footage of her online without her consent. With the click of a button, Georgia’s innocence and dignity were stolen. But now she’s taking her power back.
In court, Georgia was finally allowed to tell her side of the story – and Bear was found guilty of revenge porn and voyeurism in what became the most talked-about case in the British media. This culminated in a 21-month
jail sentence, a ruling that has cemented Georgia as a feminist icon.
This is Georgia’s story like you’ve never heard it before. Unfiltered and unflinching, Georgia pulls back the curtain on the nightmare that could have crushed her, but that made her who she is today.
Taking Back My Power is more than just a memoir; it’s an entire movement.
XOXO,
Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual’s Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness
Cody Rigsby12/09/2024
ISBN: 9781408748152
The beloved Peloton instructor chronicles his journey from small-town North Carolina to New York City stardom in an empowering story that reveals his secret to success.
Cody Rigsby has a lot of opinions: Kevin is the hottest Backstreet Boy; grape jelly is a crime against nature; if you wear flip-flops in New York City, you do not love yourself. But if there is one opinion-one truth-that he holds above all others, it’s that we shouldn’t let the fear of looking stupid or being judged hold us back from living our best lives.
Cody didn’t always feel this way. In XOXO, Cody, he opens up about his journey toward
accepting himself, from growing up gay and poor in the South to his migration to New York City, where he went from broke-ass dancer to fitness icon. With raw and inspiring stories about learning how to handle the scary sh*t, XOXO, Cody is a bold and heartfelt reminder that sometimes laughing at yourself is the best medicine. Remember: It ain’t that deep, boo.
Facing the Music: A Memoir
Hannah Spearritt
03/10/2024
ISBN: 9780349131030
The bold and tender debut memoir from awardwinning entertainer, Hannah Spearritt.
It’s time to face the music – the experiences that defined me, the mistakes that shaped me and the loves that changed my life.
From S Club 7 pop star to Hollywood starlet, Hannah Spearritt has been on the stage, screen and airwaves since her teens. As one seventh of an iconic pop band, providing the soundtrack to so many childhoods, she has spent most of her life in the limelight. Now, for the first time ever, she’s ready to open up in this deeply candid memoir.
This is Hannah’s true story. The lessons she has learned, the loves of her life, the dangerous health struggles, the friendships and the fallouts, the joy of being a mother and the heartbreak she has overcome – Hannah holds nothing back.
Brave, unfiltered and hugely inspirational, Hannah can’t wait for the world to get to know the real her.
Hot Springs Drive
Lindsay Hunter07/11/2024
ISBN: 9780349130712
An unputdownable, dark and pulse-pounding page-turner that peels back the fragile veneer of two suburban families – next-door neighbours and best friends – and the secrets between them. Perfect for fans of My Dark Vanessa and Girl A.
Today, she walks in on her husband and best friend having an affair. Tomorrow, her body is found.
Seven years ago, Theresa and Jackie meet in a maternity ward. Sleep-deprived new mothers; instant friends.
Then they become neighbours on Hot Springs Drive – a nice street in a nice neighbourhood, filled with flower boxes and emerald lawns.
The story ends like this: in the depths of a sweltering heatwave, Theresa discovers that her husband and Jackie are having an affair. The next day, Theresa’s body is found.
The truth lies somewhere between the picket fences and pink blossoms, where friendships twist into tragic jealousies and barbecues hide bed hopping and bloodshed. By summer’s end, the residents of Hot Springs Drive will never be the same...
Things We Lose In Waves
Lucy Ayrton14/11/2024
ISBN: 9780349701899
A story of a family pushed to the breaking point, set against the backdrop of a landscape ravaged by the storms, and a town slowly falling into the sea.
Jenny’s world is falling apart.
The news of her father’s sudden death forces Jenny’s return to her hometown from London, but the ravaged landscape now feels like a foreign place. In a small town like Ravenspurn, the rifts between her and those she once knew are so deep they threaten to swallow her whole.
Each day that Jenny remains, the town seems to shrink around her, but she knows soon the pandemic will be over. Soon, she’ll be able to return to her real life.
But the secrets and the unspoken regrets that have come to haunt Jenny are not so easily escaped. In the claustrophobia of Ravenspurn, where can she turn?
