Topic: Friendship

Apart from the company of her flying pet ferret Fernando and her auntie Carla, 13-year-old Nessa Santiago is alone. Her mother died in a circus accident and she has never known her father. But when the day finally comes for Nessa to meet him, everything goes wrong. Her auntie unexpectedly leaves ...

When the truth surfaces, who will sink ... and who will swim? New Year's Eve, 2023. When Hannah and her friends rent a luxury yacht in an Italian marina, they party in style under the stars until they pass out. The next morning, they are horrified to find they have been cut adrift into the open o...

Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a 90-year-old woman who has lived alone in a remote creek for nearly all her life. Recently she has taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She is waiting for something, she is not sure what, but she'll know it when s...

When Ceri Price arrives in the small seaside village in West Wales, she only means to stay for a couple of nights - long enough to scatter her mother's ashes, and then go back to her life as a successful make-up entrepreneur. But when a case of mistaken identities means she lands a job as the bar...

"Yorick is a skeleton who was just dug up after a few hundred years of sleep. He speaks like it too. 'Forsooth, my joy, I barely can contain!' Bones is the hungry dog who did the digging. Though he cannot speak, he can chomp. What will become of these two unlikely companions? Will Yorick ever fin...

A modern twist on Nora Ephron's iconic friends-to-lovers romcom When Harry Met Sally. Ari, a free-spirited struggling comedian, likes to keep things casual, and never sleeps over after hooking up. Josh, born-and-bred Manhattanite, has ambitious plans to take the culinary world by storm, to find T...

Maggie Bowers thinks she knows what to expect her junior year of high school, but when she and her out-of-the-closet best friend Nash have feelings for the same boy she wonders if winning someone's heart means losing her soul mate.

12 summers ago: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 summers ago: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together. 10 summers ago: Alex discove...

What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies. The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she can...

Emily Jones is a new mum: she's bought the swank buggy, planned her labour soundtrack, read the books. Then her little girl actually arrives, and Emily realises: she has all the gear, no idea - and only twelve months of maternity leave to figure it out. Lonely but not alone, it's the women Emily ...

When paramedic Megan Lowe is called to the scene of an attempted murder, all she can do is try to save the victim. But as the man is lifted onto a stretcher, she realises she knows him. She despises him. Why should she save his life when he destroyed hers? Jess Foster is on her way home when she ...

When paramedic Megan Lowe is called to the scene of an attempted murder, all she can do is try to save the victim. But as the man is lifted onto a stretcher, she realises she knows him. She despises him. Why should she save his life when he destroyed hers Jess Foster is on her way home when she r...

"In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and unusual realities with cunning, compassion, and wit. In "Ac...

Joy, Diego, Liv, Ethan, and Dave hold onto their dreams of stardom as their time of training--and friendship--at a prestigious New York City performing arts school runs out.

Three former friends ditch school for old time's sake, with horrible and deadly consequences. Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close/best friends back in middle school. So, when Cal pulls into campus late for class, and runs into Ivy and Mateo, they decide to ditch school. Just like old times. But ...

From the award-winning Korean author Gu Byeong-mo, comes a thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood. What are you willing to sacrifice for a 'better' life? When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she's...

London, September 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Editor, Henrietta Bird, from Woman's Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of becoming a young wartime advice columnist. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles is blossoming, while ...

A story told in letters between an owl who just wants some peace and quiet from the neighbourhood children so he can read, and the squirrel bookshop owner who helps him realize the value of companionship and community.

Something very bad has happened to Alice Toolie. Her very secret diary (with a super cute picture of a baby hedgehog on the cover) has been read by her very worst enemy--Jimmy Cook. It's war! Until Ms Fennel decides that Alice and Jimmy need to make peace. She insists that they become pen pals fo...

An uplifting, warmhearted early chapter book about a crow, who proves you can move mountains (or even dromedaries) and perform truly heroic deeds if you believe in yourself. Zanzibar cooks a fine mushroom omelette,and he is a crow who wears his feathers well. At least he thought so, until a spect...