The TruantsJess Walker, middle child of a middle class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour. Drawn into a tightly knit group of rule breakers headed up by their maverick teacher, Lorna Clay Jess begins to experiment with a new version of herself. But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken as they share secrets,

allows us to see Victoria up close and personal

stolen from her home and spirited across the sea

With his groundbreaking

Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women in one of the most critically acclaimed memoirs of all time

witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby

as well as war

She's always getting her spells wrong and she can't even ride a broomstick without crashing it

In her first book

Packed with photographs

looking at the story behind the records and his own experiences as he goes in search of these moments

Everyone knows the King won't stand for a problem queen

A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of 20th century literature