If you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on, in a novel that is "warm, funny, and gives you all the feels" (Good Housekeeping). In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Birdpaints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfillment. But it's a lie. In reality, Hubert's days are all the same, dragging on without him seeing a single soul. Until he receives some good news — good news that in one way turns out to be the worst news ever, news that will force him out again, into a world he has long since turned his back on. The news that his daughter is coming for a visit. Now Hubert faces a seemingly impossible task: to make his real life resemble his fake life before the truth comes out. Along the way Hubert stumbles across a second chance at love, renews a cherished friendship, and finds...

Their holiday brochure said 18 30 . . . But they’ve just turned 35. After ten years together Charlie Mansell has been dumped by his live-in girlfriend, Sarah. All he wants to do is wallow in misery, but mates Andy and Tom have a better idea: a week of sun, sea and souvlaki in Malia party capital of the Greek islands. But Charlie and his mates aren’t eighteen any more. Or even under thirty. And it shows. It isn’t the cheap beer, the late nights or even the fast-food that’s the problem. It’s girls. And life. And most of all . . . each other.

After a long and successful relationship from their student days, Jim and Alison broke up and divided their worldly goods. Three years on and with new lifes and loves, a chance encounter throws them back together.

Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling for most of his twenties, he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he split up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him. Unable to cope with his future falling apart, Matt temporarily moves back to his parents. During his enforced exodus only his old school mates can keep him sane - friends he hasn’t seen since he was nineteen. Back together after a decade apart. But things will never be the same for any of them because when you’re turning thirty nothing’s as simple as it used to be.

Finding friends is hard to do…When Rob’s girlfriend asks him to leave London and live with her in Manchester, not only will it mean moving cities and changing the only job he’s ever had, it’ll also mean leaving behind his best mate in the entire world. Six months later Rob realises that sometimes making friends in your thirties can be the hardest thing to do. With drastic action needed, his girlfriend places an ad in the classifieds for him, but after three excruciatingly embarrassing “bloke dates”, Rob begins to truly despair. Until his luck changes. There’s just one problem. Apart from knowing less than nothing about music trivia, football, and the vital statistics of supermodels, Rob’s new friend has a huge flaw. She’s a girl.

When Dave Harding holds his friend’s newborn baby, the biological clock he never knew existed starts ticking. Loudly. Which wouldn’t be so bad except his partner Izzy has no nine-month plans for fat ankles or trips to Baby Gap. Then the music magazine he works for folds and Dave is temporarily forced to become Agony Uncle for Teen Scene. Knee deep in the adolescent outpourings of his readership, Dave opens one letter from a girl who doesn’t want advice about boys - she wants to know about Dave. Because she’s convinced that Dave Harding is her dad. And she’s got the facts to prove it.

A warm, funny and moving tale set across a year of leaving dos, birthday parties and anniversaries celebrating love, life and special moments spent in the kitchen at parties.

Would a proper adult ignore the spilt milk under the fridge for weeks? Would a proper adult take three years to post a solitary Christmas card? Would a proper adult have decades-old underwear in active service? Mike Gayle is nowhere near being a proper adult — even though his tenth wedding anniversary is looming; his second child is due any moment; and in less than twenty-four hours he is going to be officially closer to forty than he is to thirty. Appalled by this lack of maturity, Mike draws up a To-Do list containing every single item he's been meaning to do but just keeps putting off...He's got a lot of stuff that needs doing. But unlike previous To-Do lists, he promises himself that this one will actually get DONE. And along the way, Mike will learn stuff about life (323), love (999), friends (1004) and family (9) and finally work out what it means to be a grown up (846).

A hilarious, original story for anyone who has ever been dumped, dumped or lived in a dump - with the cross-over and bestselling appeal of BRIDGET JONES, HIGH FIDELITY and THIS LIFE.