Helen Phillips

"After losing her job to artificial intelligence, May, in a city populated by intelligent robots called "hums," takes her family on a three-night respite to the Botanical Garden, a rare green refuge, where her children come under threat and she is forced to trust a hum to save them"-- Provided by publisher.

Indulge your creativity-and stitch twenty-five fast and easy gifts from the heart. A unique laundry bag, a retro apron, a Christmas stocking...Every one of these gorgeous gift ideas is simple to make, leaving you free to get creative with the embellishments. Yo-yos, appliqué, embroidery, and other stitching techniques add that essential touch of personalization and care to every project. Best of all, they also provide the perfect opportunity for...

"In a spine-tingling new collection, the "unique"(NPR) and "wickedly funny" (New York Times) Helen Phillips offers an idiosyncratic series of "what-ifs" about our fragile human condition.Some Possible Solutions offers an idiosyncratic series of "What ifs": What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if you could suddenly see through everybody's skin to their organs? What if you knew the exact date of your death? What if...

From the author of Abolish the Family, a provocative compendium of the feminisms we love to dismiss and making the case for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we'll need to stand against fascism, nationalism, femmephobia, and cisness. In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable...

The BRAND NEW heartfelt book club pick from bestseller Debbie Howells. A truly heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting story about family, friendship, love and serendipity. Perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond, Beth Moran, and Nicholas Sparks. When Bee loses her job, home and boyfriend – all on the same day that a man accidentally spills coffee all over her; she decides life can't get any worse. So when her mother finally tells Bee the name of the father...

PRE-ORDER the BRAND-NEW, brilliantly funny novel from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson, perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Jill Mansell. This year, their families can deck the bloody halls themselves... Old friends Shelley, Lena and Pearl have reached their limit with the festive preparation that has always fallen to them, and five days before Christmas, they've booked a mini break… without their families. Up until Christmas Eve, they'll...

A new psychological thriller from the author of the number one bestseller, The Doctor's Wife
How far would you go to keep a secret at work? Would you kill for it?
I used to enjoy my job. I was good at it and felt fulfilled. I also used to enjoy spending time with the people I worked with. They say you spend more time with your work colleagues than you do with your family members, but that was fine by me because I made...

Rick Meadows is a retired detective who spent his final years in law enforcement working with the Crimes Against Children unit. In this role he confronted predators inflicting tremendous evil upon innocent children. One day in early May he was called to intervene in the life of a ten-year-old girl, Shantay. Rick quickly discovered that Shantay was not only the victim of one of the worst cases of child abuse in the state of Virginia, she and her sister...

When Christmas-hating Sam moves to Holly Cross, he thinks he's found the perfect home, until he discovers that, each year, Holly Cross transforms into the most Christmassy village in the whole country... Blythe is just one sale away from being Real Estate Agent of the Month, so she twists the truth to sell a home to city boy Sam, who is looking for the perfect house in the perfect location. Little does he know he's just bought a cottage in the middle...

Robbie is a kind and loving boyfriend. As long as you obey the rules. Seline is excited to be starting a new chapter. She has moved away from home to begin her first job-as school art teacher in a quaint Yorkshire village. Life gets even better when she meets the wild and untamed Robbie, with whom she starts a relationship. Robbie is unpredictable and impulsive and Seline loves the excitement he injects into her well-ordered days. But Robbie...