Home BoysFour friends decide to run away from the horror of their everyday lives in a children's home in the English countryside. They head for the woods, their sense of freedom surprises them, and for the first time they feel the exhilaration of adolescence. Yet the forest slowly asserts its own power and what happens there will affect the four boys' lives forever. With his trademark humour, compelling narrative directness, and rhythmic prose, Alex Wheatle

Edgar was the last man to see Mrs Clifford alive and he has good reason to want her dead

he presents his strategies to survive and thrive in the real world

But can Max find a way to come clean with Jessa before his little deception turns into a recipe for disaster

Joe has to go 'off radar' to rescue his friend

And before long everything changes for them

And Mavis Mullholland

This book offers an intimate view of how

Anything goes

insights and humour into the fine art of becoming everyday French

These eight inspiring vignettes weave history

but also sound guidance enhanced by his training and experience as an educator

and contemporary terrorism