Wellbeck

The first ever mass-market book on politeness and the important role it plays in our work, relationships and lives, from professor and pioneer of Politeness Theory, Louise Mullany

When your present meets your past, what do you take with you - and what do you leave behind?

Have you heard the one about the four guys from south London who went to Ibiza for two weeks, were taken on a musical journey while off their heads on a new wonder drug and then returned home armed with modern dance music? If not, well, you might be in for a shock.

A refreshing, laugh-out-loud, feel-good novel about what happens when you let go of the past and make room for the unexpected later in life - for fans of Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare and Marian Keyes' Grown Ups.

Beleaguered businessman Kevin Tyler's life is imploding: he's spent months setting up a deal to open an office in Northern Germany, risking everything he owns to push the project through - but at the last possible moment, his partners renege on the agreement when another party sweeps in with a better offer.

AT 40,000 FEET UP... THERE IS NO PLACE TO HIDE. A fatal crash on a rain-slick road and a brutal murder in an English village set off a deadly chain of events, leading from stormy skies over the Mediterranean Sea to an explosive confrontation on a remote airstrip in North Africa...

Careful what you look for. Careful what you find.

Drawn from unseen records, The Traitor of Colditz brings to light an extraordinary, never-before-told story from the Second World War, an epic tale of how MI9 took on the Nazis and exposed the traitors in their midst.