Running in Heels
10 best books like Running in Heels (Helen Bailey): Noughts & Crosses, A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1), Rachel's Holiday, Double Cross, Release, The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas, My Sister Jodie, Girls in Love, Knife Edge, Checkmate
| Author | Malorie Blackman |
| ISBN | 0552555703 |
Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice in an alternate society.
Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought -- a “colourless” member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The...
A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
| Author | Ronald Holt |
| ISBN | 0582416396 |
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”
So begins the very first story in the very first collection of stories about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective with a phenomenal brain, Sherlock Holmes. A Scandal in Bohemia...
| Author | Marian Keyes |
| ISBN | 0060090383 |
Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that her family has forked out the cash for a spell in Cloisters – Dublin’s answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She’s only agreed to her incarceration because she’s heard that rehab is wall-to-wall jacuzzis,...
| Author | Malorie Blackman |
| ISBN | 0385615515 |
I enjoyed this book but I think the series should have ended on the last book as this one seemed pretty unnecessary and didn't add much to the overall series.Double Cross was definitely good but it was my least favourite out of the series as it follows a pretty irrelevant character,Callie's best friend,Tobey.
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| Author | Patrick Ness |
| ISBN | 1406377279 |
Inspired by Mrs Dalloway and Judy Blume's Forever, Release is one day in the life of Adam Thorn, 17. It's a big day. Things go wrong. It's intense, and all the while, weirdness approaches...
Adam Thorn is having what will turn out to be the most unsettling, difficult day of his life, with relationships...
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is - each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. The White...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 0385610122 |
Pearl and Jodie are sisters. Pearl is the younger one, small, shy and anxious. Jodie is nearly three years older, bold and brash and bad and Pearl adores her. When their parents get new jobs at Melchester College, a Victorian Gothic mansion, the girls spend a bizarre summer holiday in the boarding school...
| Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
| ISBN | 0552551317 |
Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic' and Ellie, well, Ellie thinks she is unattractive and boring and that no boy will ever be interested in her. The three girls have been best friends 'forever' even though they don't seem to have much in common. But one thing they all want is a boyfriend!
Join...
| Author | Malorie Blackman |
| ISBN | 0552548928 |
WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . .
Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for...
| Author | Malorie Blackman |
| ISBN | 0552551945 |
Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father,...
| Author | Michael Shaw Bond |
| ISBN | 1780743440 |
Teenage cliques, jihadist cells, army units, Arab Spring protesters, polar expeditions, and football hooligans – on the face of it, each of these groups might seem exceptional, but the forces that bind and drive them can affect us all. In recent decades, psychologists have uncovered how and why...
Gotham City Sirens, Vol. 2: Songs of the Sirens
| Author | Paul Dini |
| ISBN | 1401229077 |
Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn--they're beautiful, they're deadly, and for the first time in their lives, all three are trying to fly the straight and narrow. Can they trade their lives as supervillains for a life as (relatively) normal roommates?
Easier said than done. Especially...
Don't Want to Miss a Thing
| Author | Jill Mansell |
| ISBN | 0755355873 |
Dexter Yates loves his fun, care-free London life; he has money, looks and girlfriends galore. But everything changes overnight when his sister dies, leaving him in charge of her eight-month-old daughter Delphi. How is he ever going to cope?
Comic-strip artist Molly Hayes lives in the beautiful...
The Year of Taking Chances
| Author | Lucy Diamond |
| ISBN | 1447257782 |
It's New Year's Eve, and Gemma and Spencer Bailey are throwing a house party. There's music, dancing, champagne and all their best friends under one roof. It's going to be a night to remember.
Also at the party is Caitlin, who has returned to the village to pack up her much-missed mum's house and...
