When twelve-year-old Kent helps his father in a daring underwater rescue, he wins the respect he has always craved.

When twelve-year-old Kent helps his father in a daring underwater rescue, he wins the respect he has always craved.

Surprising and funny debut collection from a multi-talented Midwest author.

Kent doesn't believe in monsters. But he knows he saw two gleaming yellow eyes beneath the surface of Cedar Lake when he and his buddies were camping at the lake. When he sneaks out alone a few nights later to investigate, the eyes return -- and they seem to be following him. Kent and his friends are determined to solve the mystery of the Cedar Lake monster. But what they discover one dark summer night is just as surprising as a monster -- and just as dangerous.

A roadrunner, embarrassed when he is named "Thunderfoot" because his feet swelled due to a rattlesnake bite, is determined to prove his worth and becomes a legend when his family hears about his accidental feats of cunning and strength.

Dubbed a "coward" by the bullies in his school, Bailey will prove his courage when his family moves from Texas to Montana and he faces down a grizzly bear in order to save his own sister, in a turn-of-the-century adventure. Original.

Chuck is thrilled to have two new playmates, the new gray cat Roscoe and his sister Rikki. But Roscoe and Rikki think dogs are awful -- and Chuck's best friend is Willy, the Rottweiler who saved his life. Willy's wise enough to say, It's okay to have more than one friend, but things aren't quite that simple. Chuck fears he'll end up with no friends at all -- until a happy surprise promises to keep the two best pals together forever.

One by one they go missing. And in the lake a voice cries out: “Save them. . . .” In the darkness, in a lake in the middle of a prosperous college town, Rachel Matre feels the water caressing her bare skin, teasing her senses, drawing her body into a lush erotic embrace. For twenty years she has communed with the lake spirits this way—and told no one. The price is simple: She must help those in need. But now a series of young women have gone missing. The police don’t have any bodies, or even a single suspect. Only the spirits seem to sense the truth. Through them, Rachel finds herself drawn into a madman’s web. She alone can save the missing women. But who can save her?

In a story told from both canine and human points of view, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma town, but Don's dog, Frank, is determined to make the holiday special.

_______________ 'Unexpectedly funny' - New York Times 'Full of imagination, humour and invention ... A glorious debut' - Irish Times 'Mesmerising ... She writes with a heartbreaking clarity ... and is dexterously able to evoke emotional extremity through pitch-perfect narrative compression' - The Times _______________ THE EXQUISITE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF WEATHER, SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 To eight-year-old Grace Davitt, her mother, Anna, is a puzzling yet wonderful mystery. This is a woman who has seen a sea serpent in the lake, who paints a timeline of the universe on the sewing-room wall, and who teaches her daughter a secret language which only they can speak. For Grace's father, however, the only truth is science, and increasingly he finds himself shut out by Anna as she draws Grace deeper and deeper into a strange world of myth and obsession. _______________ Selected as a Book of the Year in Guardian, Telegraph, Observer, Irish Times and New York Times 'The charisma and damage of madness lend a desperate glamour' - Elle 'A gem of a book' - Tatler 'Brilliantly captures the confusion of childhood' - Red