BookwormWhen Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. No wonder she only left the house for her weekly trip to the library or to spend her pocket money on amassing her own at home. In this book, Lucy revisits her childhood reading with wit, love and gratitude. She relives our best beloved books, their extraordinary creators, and looks at the thousand subtle

It is a compilation of 100 stories of famous and not-so-famous men from the past to the present day

rediscoveries

loneliness and violence - set against a grim landscape of sink estates

In the Summer of 1940

talking fish and clever spiders

set brilliantly against the context of the utterly contemporary

and her industrial rivals and are the inspiration for a BBC One series starring Suranne Jones

big-hearted and often moving telling of Sara's upbringing is not what you'd expect from the original 'ladette'

Was Maxine's murder a matter of accident

bringing the magic of Harry Potter to new readers with full-colour pictures and a handsome poster pull-out at the back of the book

at the core of it all

'My Thoughts Exactly' is an epic exploration of a messed up mind and a complex life