Heidi Perks is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Now You See Her, which was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Come Back for Me, Three Perfect Liars, The Whispers and The Other Guest. The Last Resort is her sixth novel. Heidi is a voracious reader of crime and thrillers and is fascinated by the darker side of our closest relationships. Heidi lives in Bournemouth with her husband and two children.

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James Patterson

Jacky Hart finally knows the thrill of having people laugh with her (not at her). She tries to put her comedy and theatre skills to use in her summer job-but the boardwalk crowds aren't exactly adoring. So Jacky jumps at the opportunity of a lifetime: an all-expense paid trip to theatre camp! 
 
When Jacky gets to Camp Footlights, she realises she's way out of her depth. The highly trained campers all seem to know everything about performing, and exactly how to command the spotlight. All Jacky wants is to prove she fits in, but the more she tries, the more she stands out-and not in a good way. With help from her new friends, can Jacky Ha-Ha earn her place in the spotlight... or will she flop?

Jacky Ha-Ha Gets the Last Laugh

(Jacky Ha-Ha 3)

It's not easy being Rafe Khatchadorian's sister. He's got quite a reputation around school, and Georgia's got it hard enough as is! With a super secret crush on her classmate Sam Marks, a Rube Goldberg machine challenge to dominate, and constant confrontations with vicious Missy Trillin and her evil Princess Patrol to look forward to, Georgia can't help but throw all her energy into the one thing that makes her happy: her kick-butt, all-girl rock band, We Stink! 
 
When Georgia's favourite rock band, Lulu and the Handbags, advertise a major music competition where the winner gets to jam with Lulu herself, Georgia will pull all the stops to make sure We Stink wins - even if it means asking her annoying older brother, Rafe, for help! Will his crazy ideas work, or land her in serious trouble?

Middle School: Born to Rock

(Middle School 11)

Just when school was at its suckiest, things take a turn for the better when a cool, mysterious new girl shows up. Not only that, she actually wants to be my friend! 
 
But, you guessed it, things aren’t that simple. And when HOLLYWOOD suddenly rolls into Hills Village, things get very weird very fast. 
 
Somehow, unbelievably, I, Rafe Katchadorian, am in the movie business… 
 
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!

Middle School: Hollywood 101

Kathy Reichs

Tory Brennan, great-niece of Tempe Brennan, and her three friends, contract a strange virus and discover they have developed canine abilities. Calling themselves the Virals, they find their new powers useful when it comes to solving crimes.

Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet. 
 
Morris Island has barely had a chance to return to normality after the high profile trial of the Gamemaster, when two local students seem to vanish into thin air. 
 
Tory Brennan and the Virals pack move quickly in their attempts to discover what has happened to their twin classmates. But the pack’s canine powers are growing wilder, and it is becoming ever harder to conceal the secret which protects them. 
 
When Tory and her friends find evidence of blood in the students’ basement, they realise that the disappearance is no game. 
 
But in order to save the twins, the Virals must risk the exposure of their powers, and in doing so put even their own lives in terrible danger.

Exposure

(Virals 4)

Someone—or something—has it out for MK’s Detective Club.Minerva Keen is the absolute best kid detective Chicago has ever seen, and she’s hungry for a new mystery to solve with her friends.Standing in her way is the know-it-all new girl, Zoe, who tries to take control of MK’s Detective Club. Worse still, the club adviser who has always had a soft spot for Minerva takes Zoe’s side, and that’s just the start of the strange decisions Ms. Voyant is suddenly making.Add in terrifying nightmares, the return of Minerva’s parents, and shocking new developments — MK’s Detective Club just might have more mysteries than they can solve.With nowhere to turn, the club walks right into danger.…Will they be able to find their way out?

Minerva Keen’s Detective Club: The Double Trouble Puzzle

A terrifying new adventure for Tory Brennan – great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan – and the Virals as they come face to face with their greatest enemy. 
 
Tory Brennan and the Virals pack are forced to confront the existence of a rival pack – The Trinity – who want them off the scene – declaring war by engraving ‘One Territory. One Pack’ on a local landmark. What’s more this pack’s powers seem stronger and their eyes glow red rather than golden when they flare. 
 
Chance Claybourne, who now owns his father’s pharmaceutical company, shares The Trinity’s powers – he accidentally infected himself and his ex-lab tech Will Speckman. Chance claims he’s on the Virals’ side but can they trust him? And if Speckman is one of The Trinity, who are the other two? 
 
As the tension mounts between the two packs an even greater threat looms. Covert government agents are closing in on them, determined to find out exactly how their powers work, to experiment on them. Have The Trinity pack given them Virals to save themselves? Or are both packs at risk?

Terminal

(Virals 5)

With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation – even when she really, really shouldn't – twelve-year-old Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous, faraway war, and a dad who's hardly ever home. 
 
But no matter how much fun Jacky has, she can't seem to escape her worries. So one starlit night, she makes a promise to keep her family together... even if she has to give up the one thing that makes her happy. But can she stop being Jacky Ha-Ha, if that's who she really is?

Jacky Ha-Ha

(Jacky Ha-Ha 1)

Keir Graff

Living in the luxurious Arcanum building - with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbours behind every apartment door - has always been fun and games for twelve-year-old Minerva Keen . . . until her neighbours start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself. 
 
To clear her name and help the police crack the case, Minerva starts her own detective club. So what if it only has two other members, one Minerva's accident-prone daredevil brother and the other the biggest and quietest kid in school, who happens to be afraid of his own shadow? Minerva knows that with her brainpower, the club's sleuthing skills, and case files full of suspects, they can unmask the poisoner . . . hopefully before it's too late.

Minerva Keen’s Detective Club

Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer – but her parents have other plans for her. Jacky reluctantly signs up for a summer job in her resort town of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, where tourists come to enjoy the beach and fun carnival atmosphere. 
 
Now she has serious responsibilities like her job and babysitting her younger sisters, but Jacky longs to perform in the summer stock performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Can she handle all of her important commitments and still have fun with her friends – or will she learn that juggling isn't one of her many talents?

Jacky Ha-Ha: My Life is a Joke

(Jacky Ha-Ha 2)

I'm running away. Not to a place - to a person. 
 
Eleanor is happiest when she's left alone to dream up elaborate stories. Sam is outgoing, fun and popular. Despite their differences, the sisters have always been there for each other - until everything changes. 
 
Now Sam is somewhere in Seattle, and Eleanor runs after her. Nothing is easy in the big, unforgiving city. As Eleanor faces setbacks, she also makes new friends and tells new stories. 
 
Eleanor can rewrite her life in so many ways ... but can she make a happy ending her reality?

The Runaway’s Diary

Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian - even if he always seems to 'choke' in the spotlight. When Jamie finds out about a contest called the Funniest Kid on the Planet, he knows it's time to face his fears and enter. But are the judges rewarding him out of pity because he happens to be in a wheelchair, like his bullying cousin Stevie suggests? And will Jamie ever share the secret of his troubled past - and reason for his disability - instead of hiding behind his comedy act? 
 
In this highly illustrated book that's as heartfelt as it is hilarious, James Patterson dishes out heaps of jokes that will have readers rolling on the floor and cheering for more.

I Funny

(I Funny 1)

A Middle School Story

Containing never-before-seen snapshots of a road trip of a lifetime 
 
When Axi Moore decides to take a road trip across the US, the only person she wants to go with her is her best friend Robinson – who she also happens to be secretly in love with. She’s planned it all out, and all he has to do is say yes. 
 
Axi has had a tough life: her little sister died young, her mother walked out and her father turned to the bottle for comfort. Her parents escaped their grief in their own ways; this trip will be hers. 
 
But life doesn’t always work out as you plan it, and there are some things you just can’t run away from.

First Love

They thought nothing could tear them apart…

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
Becca Greenfield, 17, disappeared one morning on her way to school. 
 
Everyone from her town, including her twin sister, is desperately searching for Becca. 
 
They won’t find her. 
 
Becca is being held prisoner in the crazy house. 
 
She's on death row, but is completely innocent. 
 
No one has ever gotten out of the crazy house alive. 
 
But there’s always a first time.

Crazy House

In James Patterson's first highly illustrated 'diary fiction' story for teens, the mega-bestselling author's most endearing and original teen heroine ever proves that everyone can use a helping hand once in a while. 
 
Margaret 'Cuckoo' Clarke recently had a brief stay in a mental institution following an emotional breakdown, but she's turning over a new leaf with her 'Happiness Project'. She's determined to beat down the bad vibes of the Haters, the Terror Teachers, and all of the trials and tribulations of high school by writing and drawing in her diary. And when life gets really tough, she works through her own moments of uncertainty through imaginary conversations with her favourite literary characters. 
 
Cuckoo's also got a nearly impossible mission: she, along with her misfit band of self-deprecating friends (who call themselves 'the Freakshow') decide to bridge the gap between warring cliques and 'bring the Nations together'. Not everyone is so willing to join hands and get along, but Cuckoo never stops smiling... until one of her closest friends, pushed to desperation by a Hater prank, decides that enough is enough.

Homeroom Diaries

Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca. 
 
Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the bestselling Middle School series, is ready for a fun summer at camp – until he finds out it’s a summer school camp! Luckily, Rafe easily makes friends with his troublemaking cabin mates and bunkmate, a boy nicknamed Booger Eater, who puts up with endless teasing from the other kids. Rafe soon realises there’s more to a person than a nickname, though, and Booger Eater might be the kind of friend you want on your side when the boys from the Cool Cabin attack. 
 
This fourth book in the massively popular Middle School series is an unforgettable summer of hi-jinks, new friends, and surprises, all told with the hilarity and honesty readers have come to expect from blockbuster author James Patterson.

Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill

(Middle School 4)

Maximum Ride lost her fight to save the world. But from the ashes of the old world, a phoenix has risen… she calls herself Hawk. 
 
Hawk doesn't know her real name. She doesn't know who her parents were, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that they told to wait on a street corner until they came back for her. 
 
That was ten years ago. 
 
The day that she finally gives up waiting is the moment her life changes for ever. Because the promise becomes reality: someone is coming for her. 
 
But it's not a rescue. It's an execution.

Hawk: A Maximum Ride Novel

(Hawk 1)

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, knows just three things: 1. She was one of the last people to see her parents alive. 2. She and her brothers are the only suspects. 3. She can’t trust anyone – maybe not even herself. Having grown up under their parents’ intense perfectionist demands, none of the Angel children have come away undamaged. 
 
Tandy decides that she will have to solve the crime on her own, but digging deeper into her powerful parents’ affairs is a dangerous game. As she uncovers haunting secrets and slowly begins to remember flashes of disturbing past events buried in her memory, Tandy is forced to ask: What is the Angel family truly capable of? 
 
Returning to the genre that made him the world’s bestselling author, James Patterson introduces a teen detective on a mission to bring her parents’ killer to justice, even if it means uncovering her family’s darkest secrets – and confessing some of her own.

Confessions of a Murder Suspect

(Confessions 1)

Ellen Banda-Aaku

Sophia Krevoy

Jama is a clever and sensitive young Maasai girl who likes elephants better than people. 
 
She decides to escape the classroom gossip about the new boy, Leku, by going to the watering hole outside her village. There, she befriends a baby elephant that she names Mbegu. 
 
When Mbegu's mother, frightened by poachers, stampedes, Jama and Mbegu are blamed for two deaths - one elephant and one human. Now Leku, whose mysterious and imposing father is the head ranger at the conservancy, may be their only lifeline. 
 
A beautiful, heart-pounding story of a girl, an elephant, and their life-changing friendship.

The Elephant Girl

CONFESS IF YOU DON'T FEEL SAFE. 
 
Young women from New York's most exclusive neighbourhoods are being murdered, and the police aren't looking for answers in the right place. 
 
CONFESS IF YOU DON'T TRUST ANYONE. 
 
Enter Tandy Angel. The first case she nailed was the mystery of her magnificently wealthy parents' deaths. Now she's working to exonerate her superstar brother in his glamorous girlfriend's murder. And danger just got closer. 
 
CONFESS IF YOU'RE IN TOO DEEP. 
 
One of the victims of the recent murder streak was a student at Tandy's own elite school. She has a hunch it may be the work of a serial killer, but the NYPD isn't listening to her... and Tandy can't ignore the disturbing fact that she fits the profile of the killer's targets. Can she untangle the mysteries before she becomes the next victim? 
 
THE CONFESSIONS REVEAL ALL.

Confessions: The Private School Murders

(Confessions 2)

One viral photo. 
Four expelled teens. 
Everyone's a suspect. 
 
Theo Foster’s Twitter account used to be anonymous – until someone posted a revealing photo that got him expelled. No final grade. No future. 
 
Theo’s resigned himself to a life of misery in a dead-end job when a miracle happens: Sasha Ellis speaks to him. She was also expelled for a crime she didn’t commit, and now he has the perfect way to keep her attention: find out who set them up. 
 
To uncover the truth, Theo has to get close to the suspects. What secrets are they hiding? And how can he catch their confessions on camera…?

Expelled

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‘Has all the characteristics of his work . . . pace, action, mystery and cool’ SUNDAY TIMES 
 
Nobody said saving the world would be easy . . . 
 
 Until now, Max and her best friends have lived a lonely existence: hunted, tortured and pushed to the fringes of society. But things are changing. 
 
 The flock have finally found acceptance for their extraordinary skills. But fame always comes at a price, and Max soon realises a life of celebrity isn’t all she expected. 
 
Meanwhile, something deadly is lurking in the depths of the ocean. As the flock uncover a terrible secret that is set to threaten the world, they must prepare to save the day. 
 
But is this a disaster too tough to tackle – even for them? 
 
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This book was recently reissued with a new cover, so stock may vary.

Max: A Maximum Ride Novel

(Maximum Ride 5)

After a few early glitches in their relationship, Sammy and his 'bro-bot' E are now best friends. In fact, E is such a valued member of the family that the other electronic members of the House of Robots are feeling sorely unappreciated. And when Sammy's inventor mom becomes distracted by a top-secret project, the robots soon begin to fall into disrepair. 
 
Cue a robot revolution, with the droids wreaking harmless havoc in the house! Armed with pranks like glue in the shampoo bottles and flying toast missiles, the robots demand to be cared for. It's up to Sammy and his sister Maddie to keep the peace until his mom reveals her secret project... and why it was worth the wait.

House of Robots: Robot Revolution

NORBERT RIDDLE lives in the United State of Earth, where normal means following the rules, never standing out, and being exactly the same as everyone else. He's been normal his whole life - until a moment of temporary hilarity when he does a funny impression of the country's dictator ... and gets caught! 
 
Now Norbert's been banished to the Astronuts Camp on planet Zorquat 3, where kids who defy the rules are exiled forever. He's been taught his whole life that different is wrong, but everyone at Astronuts seems crazy creative ... or are they just plain crazy?

Not So Normal Norbert

In the dramatic conclusion to the bestselling Confessions series, Tandy Angel's next murder case could be her own! 
 
Tandy Angel is losing her mind – or so she thinks. Even as she's forced to fight for the family company, she's imagining new dangers in every shadow. And as her detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, she has to face the very real possibility that the stalker she's convinced will take her life could be all in her head – or the very real danger that finally brings her down.

Confessions: The Murder of an Angel

(Confessions 4)

The world is changing - the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend. The new government is clearly trying to suppress life, liberty ... and the pursuit of being a normal teenager. 
 
Imprisoned together and condemned to death, Wisty and Whit begin exhibiting strange abilities and powers they never dreamed of. Maybe there is a reason they were singled out. Can this newly discovered witch and a wizard master their skills in time to save themselves, their parents - and maybe the world?

Witch & Wizard

Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the Resistance against the evil regime that governs their world. And now its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One, has executed the only family they had left. 
 
Wisty knows that the time has finally come for her to face The One. But her magic and her fire only channel more power to this already formidable being. How can she and Whit possibly defeat the ruthless villain who devastated their world - before he can become truly all-powerful? 
 
In this amazing third instalment of the epic Witch &amp; Wizard series, the stakes have never been higher - and the consequences will change everything.

Witch & Wizard: The Fire

Jamie Grimm is back and better than ever in the third episode of James Patterson's bestselling I Funny series. Finding himself one step closer to his dream of being the best kid comic in the world, Jamie faces his biggest challenge yet. 
 
After scoring big on national TV in the semifinals contest, everyone back home is jumping on the Jamie Grimm bandwagon, and all the attention might be going to his head. Not only are his friendships starting to suffer, but the pressure of coming up with his best material ever for the ultimate standup act to snag the final win in Hollywood is pushing Jamie to the brink. Suddenly, life isn't looking very funny anymore. Can Jamie take the grand prize without pushing away his fans, friends and family?

I Totally Funniest: A Middle School Story

(I Funny 3)

Ever since Whit and Wisty Allgood were torn from their home and family in the middle of the night, the soldiers of the New Order government have relentlessly tried to capture and execute them for 'collusion, conspiracy, and experimentation with the dark and foul arts'. But this supremely skilled witch and wizard have instead boldly spearheaded the fight against the cruel and brutal regime. 
 
The villainous leader of the New Order is just a breath away from the ability to control the forces of nature and to manipulate his citizens on the most profound level imaginable - through their minds. There is only one more thing he needs to triumph in his evil quest: the Gifts of Whit and Wisty Allgood. And he will stop at nothing to seize them.

Witch & Wizard: The Gift

Max Einstein is never going to be your average 12-year-old kid. She . . . 
is on the run from a group of villains 
talks to Albert Einstein 
spends time searching for information on her parents 
saves the world with the help of her genius friends 
 
Totally not ordinary stuff - unless you're Max Einstein! 
 
Now Max and her friends are back and ready to take on their biggest problem yet: world hunger. While the Change Makers tackle this huge issue, Max must also avoid the evil Corp and her nemesis, Dr. Zimm. But they're not the only ones looking for Max, and as she finds herself on the run, she discovers that Einstein created a time machine. And it might give her clues to her past - her distant past . . .

Max Einstein: Saves the Future

David and his best friend Michael were tagged with awful nicknames way back in preschool when everyone did silly things. Fast-forward to seventh grade: 'Pottymouth' and 'Stoopid' are still stuck with the names – and everyone in school, including the teachers and their principal, believe the labels are true. 
 
So how do they go about changing everyone's minds? By turning their misery into megastardom on TV, of course! And this important story delivers more than just laughs – it shows that the worst bullying doesn't have to be physical, and that things will get better.

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