Peters Books for Schools

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way...

It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season...

Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.

The Black Loch takes us on a journey through family ties, hidden relationships and unforgiving landscapes, where suspense, violent revenge and revelation converge in the shadow of the Black Loch.

Whether you're preparing for a bake sale, celebrating a birthday, or simply indulging on a rainy Sunday, with help from Jane, you can master the baking essentials to get perfectly crispy pastries, dreamy fluffy sponges and deliciously gooey cookies every time.

You know your neighbours are plotting a crime but no one believes you . . .

"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own . . .

A cunning killer. A race around the world.

WARNING - this book includes: heavy crimes, car journeys, dreadfulness, large fruits, romance, planning applications, and a lot of pie.

You can't alter destiny . . .

I was the guy who always found a way.

Imprisoned for killing a faerie, a young huntress must find a way of escape before she falls in love with her guard

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story, and translated by Polly Barton.

It's time to put the guns down, Detective Cross. Even if you knew the way out of this place, we would catch you.

Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel in Rhode Island wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mistaken for one of the wedding people - but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall Inn who isn't here for the big event.

In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet so many of us don't talk about it at all.

*Soon to be a hit Netflix series starring James Nesbitt and Ruth Jones*

We're all so busy, caught up in life's moments, big and small . . .

There's no place like home...

Become happier, more confident, and secure with a simple, viral, life-changing tool from Mel Robbins, host of the #1 Mel Robbins Podcast and New York Times best-selling author.

No word, no story, no grave . . .

As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can't risk losing this job - not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe . . .

Stop people-pleasing and achieve true happiness.

As the much doted-on daughter of the local doctor Violet Stroud had a comfortable, happy childhood - despite a distinct lack of love from her cold-hearted mother.

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last . . .

London, 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison.

A beautiful Chelsea town house. A chance to fulfil her dreams. A life adventure awaits...

Some secrets are too dangerous to keep . . .

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she's still waiting for her life to begin. She'll do it later, she always says. She has time.

It's Camilla's first day back at work, her daughter's first day at nursery.

'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet . . .'

When their thirteen-year-old daughter Barbara goes missing at summer camp, all eyes fall on the Van Laars family.

As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in Paris.

'I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he'd done it with his clothes on.'

Feyre must learn to harness her new Fae powers while coming to terms with her emerging feelings for Rhys, High Lord of the Night Court.

Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is Sal Giordano, an acclaimed astrophysicist - and a man Scarpetta once loved.

The Women is a novel of epic love and devastating loss. And it is a story of a memorable heroine, and her deep friendships, whose idealism and courage under fire will define an era.

This is not a book about business strategy. Strategy changes like the seasons.

Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It's the end of the season and a storm is imminent.

The love story of the century

"You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way...

In the shadow of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of The Manor hotel - and a sumptuous feast.