The Truth of UsINDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP EDITION FRIENDS ARE THE FAMILY YOU CHOOSE. Manchester, 1982. The houses on the street are almost identical but number 51 has always been slightly neater, a shiny penny next to number 49. The people inside have their differences too but still their lives are entwined, most especially for young girls Abi and Christy. From questionable fashion choices, illicit nights out and doomed romances, growing up together they share everything.

A collection of ten Grimm fairy tales with animal characters

like dishpans and fire rings

What links these seemingly random murders

but she will do anything to save what she loves - her dragons

she finds herself missing Harold for the first time in years

Here they find that hostile Aborigines have already attacked and they have to fight them off

before her time runs out

author of The Bee Sting

eighteen years later

like a colour or the taste of potatoes'

warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now

'Plenty of twists and red herrings' Guardian