The Help, Kathryn StockettThere's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely

no king will live to claim it

"Those big displays are rubbish

” –The Independent “Alison Weir is one of our greatest popular historians

many things in life benefit from stress

Sunday Telegraph "The most entertaining read of the year

facing almost unimaginable levels of violence from enemy fighter planes to strike at the heart of the Nazi war machine

Doerr shares a broad range of first-person

From the outset much of its activity has been scrutinised by the secret services at the invitation of those in charge

breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy

a surgeon at the royal infirmary of edinburgh

a high school student whose passionate activism helped save her town

The third volume