Joanne Harris

A bold and timely novel that explores how women can feel invisible as they grow older-and what happens when they decide to take back control. Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone, even Bernie herself. At nineteen she was full of promise, but now, facing fifty and going through the menopause, she's a fading light. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories, and with them, a talent...

The first headmistress of St. Oswald's school, now open to girls, fights to keep both her own and the school's past buried after human remains are found on campus.

The ambitions of a new headmaster at a prep school reignite old demons for a Latin teacher who remembers the headmaster's involvement in a school scandal decades earlier in which a gay English teacher was prosecuted.

I am as brown as brown can be/And my eyes as black as sloe/I am as brisk as brisk can be/And wild as forest doe. (The Child Ballads, 295) So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless wild girl. Only love could draw her into the world of named, tamed things. And it seems...

"The toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife; the princess whose heart is won by words, not actions; the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size; and the sinister Lacewing King who rules over the Silken Folk. These are just a few of the weird and wonderful creatures who populate Joanne Harris's first collection of fairy tales"-- Provided by publisher.

When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop--with Sunday hours--across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.