Catherine O'Flynn

A lost little girl with her notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screens of the Greek Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective, Kate Meaney, missing for 20 years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, follow her through the centre's endless corridors - welcome relief from the behaviour of customers, colleagues, and the Green Oaks mystery shopper. But as this after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light.

What was Lost

Mr Lynch's Holiday is the charming and comic new novel by the bestselling and prize-winning author of What Was Lost and The News Where You Are, Catherine O'Flynn.'I'm looking forward to seeing you and Laura and getting my first taste of "abroad".' Eamonn Lynch stares at the letter announcing the imminent arrival of his father, Dermot. His first thought is: I'll make an excuse, I'll put him off. But it is too late. Dermot is already here, in southern Spain, and soon he'll discover that Eamonn lives in an unfinished building site; that Laura's left him; and that it'll be just the two of them, father and son, for two long, hot weeks.Dermot doesn't entirely recognise his son; how can he stay quite so long in bed? And where is Laura? Eamonn doesn't seem to know quite what to make of his father's arrival. On the other hand his neighbours - pushy and domineering Roger and Cheryl, smug but disillusioned property developers Becca and Ian - see in Dermot a respite from themselves. Swept up in the British expats' ceaseless barbecuing and bickering, both father and son slowly discover the truth about each other and the family past. But at the same time they uncover a shocking, unacknowledged secret at the heart of this defiant but beleaguered community.Mr Lynch's Holiday is a very funny and moving story about the clash of generations; about how families break apart and come together again; about how living "abroad" can feel less like a long holiday and more of a life sentence.'An awesomely talented writer' Jonathan Coe 'A tenderness and warmth seep through . . . an astute and thoughtful writer, and her warm take on the world is pleasing' Sunday Times on The News Where You Are 'Darkly funny' Independent on Sunday on The News Where You Are 'A comic genius . . . entertaining and often thoughtful' Daily Mail on The News Where You Are

Mr Lynch's Holiday

O que se perdeu

Маленькая Кейт хочет стать детективом. Она одинока и почти ни с кем не общается. Свободное время она проводит в огромном торговом центре, где следит за подозрительными личностями, которые могут оказаться преступниками, и записывает наблюдения в дневник

Что пропало

Lori wants to be a detective, but so far the most exciting mystery she has solved is the disappearance of her nan's specs down the side of the sofa. Max is the new girl at school amd seems a bit weird. She doesn't fit in - but then neither does Lori really. When both Max and some money go missing, Lori is the only person who doesn't think Max has stolen the cash and run away. Even the police don't want to investigate. Suddenly Lori finds it's down to her to solve a real crime.

Lori and Max

Catherine O'Flynn, author of the Man Booker prize winning What Was Lost offers a 'funny, moving, acutely observed story about family and loss' in The News Where You Are.Frank Allcroft, a regional TV news presenter, has just had a ratings boost. His puns, a website declares, makes him 'the unfunniest man on God's Earth'. Mortified colleagues wonder how he stands being a public joke.But Frank doesn't mind. As long as Andrea and Mo, his wife and eight-year-old daughter, are happy, who gives a stuff what others think? Besides, Frank has a couple of other matters on his mind.He has taken to investigating the death of Phil, his (actually quite funny) predecessor, killed in a mysterious hit and run six months ago. Also, he's telling Mo about the architect grandfather she never met by taking her to see vanished and soon-to-be-vanished buildings.Because Frank knows that it is between what we see and what we can't, what has gone and what's left behind, that the answers lie. . . Very funny, warm and moving, The New Where You Are is a story of family, friendship and trying to reconnect with the past before it is gone.'Under the wisecracking surface . . . surprisingly profound' The Times'A flow of laugh-out-loud satire' Independent on Sunday'Awesomely talented' Tatler'Seriously uplifting, hilarious. A funny, moving, acutely observed story about family and loss. A pleasurable, satisfying gem of a novel' Scotland on Sunday'A blend of Dickens and Alan Bennett. I loved it' Fay Weldon'A comic genius' Daily Mail Catherine O'Flynn was born in 1970 and raised in Birmingham, the youngest of six children. Her parents ran a sweet shop. She worked briefly in journalism, then at a series of shopping centres. She has also been a web editor, a postwoman and a mystery shopper.

The News where You are

A stolen phone and an unruly dog; a buried lunchbox and an antique children’s book. Lori and Max must dig through layers of lies to solve two mysteries. Second in the Lori and Max detective series. ‘A wittily told detective story about two eccentric and endearing girls – it’s a real page-turner.’ Jacqueline Wilson

and the Book Thieves

Lori and Max and the Book Thieves

Roman

Was mit Kate geschah

Joanne Harris

Philip Hensher

Ali Smith

Tracy Chevalier

James Robertson

Salley Vickers

Susan Elderkin

Blake Morrison

Kate Mosse

Maggie O'Farrell

Amanda Craig

Maria McCann

Terence Blacker

Tahmima Anam

Richard Mabey

Philippa Gregory

Rachel Billington

William Fiennes

A charming collection of stories and fables inspired by Britain's nineteen species of native trees, written by nineteen of Britain's leading authors. Why Willows Weep is edited by Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, and contains beautiful colour illustrations by Canadian artist Leanne Shapton. With sales in hardback of 10,000 this collection has already helped the Woodland Trust plant nearly 50,000 trees across the United Kingdom, and it is now available in paperback for the first time.

Contemporary Tales from the Woods

Why Willows Weep

Catherine O'Flynn

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