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Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine. In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange limbo. Ignoring the past, she tries to move forward. There is theatre. Love. New friendships. A new...

Paris. The beauty. The grime. The colours and thoughts and songs and sounds and children and dogs. The taste of strawberries, the sky, first métro, last métro, the bells, the dreams … The city of light, it seems, has its own plans for Jayne. Drawn there in an entirely unforeseen way, she...

Regional Screening Day is one step on the way to their dream. If they don't impress the selectors tomorrow, that could be it. At 15, their chance to play elite netball could be gone. For Rachel and Sophie, playing netball is a dream that consumes almost all of their time. And when a chance to try out for the Zone Squad arrives, the girls can hardly believe that they are on the brink of realising their dream. Yet when tragedy strikes Sophie's family, Rachel realises that life sometimes has other priorities.

I am the worst person in the world. Bad mother. Bad lover. Bad worker. Bad woman. Bad friend ... An exploration of motherdom and ego, culture and art, love and pain, The Sea in the Metro tells the story of a new mother in Paris trying to make it work – and failing. What happens when the...