A poignant and irresistible story about an improbable hero and the woman who saves him. Sam Holloway is a survivor, but he's not really living. His meticulous routines and quiet lifestyle keep everything nice and safe—with just one exception...Three nights a week, Sam dons his superhero costume and patrols the streets. It makes him feel invincible—but his unlikely heroics are getting him into some sticky situations.Then a girl comes along and starts to shatter the walls Sam has built around himself. Now he needs to decide if he's brave enough to take off the mask and confront the grief he's been avoiding for so long. Heartfelt and delightful, The Secret Life of Sam Holloway is a moving story about grief, love and the life-changing power of kindness.

A group of teenagers comes under the influence of a charismatic outsider and signs a suicide pact, in a riveting and timely debut novel about teenage disaffection and its deadly consequences.Craig Bartlett-Taylor was always trying to kill himself, but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kenna's classroom, Richie thought he'd finally succeeded: it was a real-life Worst Case Scenario. But then the new kid, Freddy, steps in and saves Craig's life, and for Richie the lure of this mysterious newcomer is irresistible. Freddy is like nobody Richie has ever met. Dark, sardonic and dangerous, he gives flight to Richie's imagination, introducing him to a way of life he'd never thought possible. But when a night-time prank goes gut-wrenchingly wrong, Richie begins to question Freddy's motives, and all too soon he finds himself committed to a sinister pact, with inescapably tragic consequences. It's true that Freddy saved a life - but could he take one, too?With great wit...

What happens when hope starts to die? In "The Sadness of Hope", the death of optimism spreads like a disease and the pandemic sweeps the world in waves. Scientists are unable to understand or contain the illness as it rips across the globe. Society collapses the world over as even those who are unaffected start to crumble. Soon there is a blurred line between who is ill, and who is not. And when hope dies, what happens to civilisation?