Item category 2: Quick reads

Welcome to your dream home. Salma Khatun is extremely hopeful about Blenheim, the safe suburban development to which she, her husband and their son have just moved. Their family is in desperate need of a fresh start, and Blenheim feels like the place to make that happen. Meet your new neighbours....

Suad misses her husband. He died unexpectedly during an argument at work, and she never got to say goodbye. But Suad knows she is lucky. Her three children have promised to look after her. After several false starts, Suad receives a warm welcome from her oldest son and settles down with his famil...

Dan, an employee at Asco supermarket, is a refugee who has had terrible and sad things happen in his past. One day, something happens that may well change his future. This book is an adult beginner reader that is ideal for use in literacy and ESOL teaching.

This is an adult beginner reader for use in literacy and ESOL teaching. Supermarket assistant Pam shares her secret with a fellow worker, in this tale of misplaced trust and broken hearts.

When a hen night in Glasgow leaves the bride-to-be dead on a toilet floor, Dr. Rhona MacLeod and her team are called in to find out who committed the crime. But as they go through the evidence, they find themselves in world where sex is bought and sold, and nothing is as it seems.

A surf-obsessed brother and sister from South Wales, Caio (19) and Chloe (25) embark on a journey in a campervan. The van was given to them by their father Geoff, a well-known local surfer who has just passed away. Geoff had a reputation for telling wild and wonderful stories from the past, and h...

These four short stories from a master storyteller are packed full of twists and turns. Jeremy finds out exactly the best way to steal the perfect ring for his fiancee. Albert celebrates his 100th birthday, and is pleased to be sent The Queen's Birthday Telegram. In Russia, businessman Richard pl...