Do your parents ever stop making you cringe?Chelsea's father sells soup from a van, which is bad enough, but he doesn't have to park it on street corners for all her friends to see!Jemma is determined to be an actress – so why can't her parents be a bit more supportive?Sumitha delights her parents by turning into a total swot – if only they knew the reason behind it . . .Jon is sure he's never going to impress Sumitha when his ghastly, keep-fit fanatic of a father keeps calling her the wrong name, and his born-again student mother spends all her time at demos!Laura's mother, pregnant and seemingly set on destroying the planet, forbids her to go on demos with the buff Daniel. Even worse, her father, now living with the Bestial Betsy, seems to be getting a little too keen on whisky . . .

They thought their parents couldn't be more embarrassing – then they got worse! Well, what could be worse than having a pregnant mother (by Melvyn) like Laura? And they're not even married! Perhaps having a wannabe chef as a father and a mini-skirt clad mother who writes about you in the local paper, like Chelsea? What about Jemma's parents, who tell her she's too young to have a boyfriend – in front of her boyfriend? Or Sumitha's, who tell her boyfriend how suitable he is? And then there's Jon's mother, who seems to be getting on just a bit too well with a fellow interior design student ...

What would happen if the traumas of teenage life and love from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey surfaced in the twenty-first century? Caitlin Morland has always craved excitement. So when she wins an art scholarship to Mulberry Court College, she's delighted to be befriended by the glamorous Izzy Thorpe and intriguing Summer Tilney. As Caitlin finds herself swept up in their exotic lives, she becomes determined to uncover the secrets surrounding Summer. An invitation to join the Tilneys in Italy provides the perfect opportunity...

Parents – Arrggh! Jemma's are out of date. They still think she should wear the hand-knitted jumper with little bears on it to school – and they call her 'petal' in public!Laura's are divorced. Gone is the lovely big house. Now it is a grotty little one. And her mum was seen kissing Melvyn outside Tesco . . . Sumitha's want her to keep their cultural traditions – which don't include boys, make-up or a trendy hair cut . . . Jon's keep bragging about his academic brilliance – but in reality it's not stellar, nor is it where his heart is . . . Chelsea's mum is a writer of ghastly features for the local paper, an agony aunt and a wearer of mini-skirts . . . The five teenagers' paths (and those of their mortifyingly embarrassing parents) cross and part throughout this hilarious book set in Leehampton.

What would happen if Jane Austen's Emma was set in the twenty-first century? Emma Woodhouse is a caring, considerate sort of girl who is well aware of her own good fortune and talent for getting the best out of other people. Which is why, when she meets someone with untapped potential, she puts all her own interests to one side and sets out to change their lives for them. Whether they like it or not.When Emma's childhood friend, George Knightley, needs help at his family's country house hotel over the summer, she sees the perfect opportunity to improve the lot of her new friend, the shy and unfortunate Harriet Smith. But as one after another of Emma's secret schemes go horribly wrong, she finds that nothing (and no one) is ever as simple as it seems. Following the huge success of The Secrets of Love and Summer of Secrets, this is the third book in this series of updated Jane Austen stories.

What would happen if Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was set in the twenty-first century?When Mrs. Bennet inherits enough money to move to the kind of village she has always dreamed of, her daughters find themselves swept up in a glamourous life of partying and countryside pursuits.But Lizzie and her sisters soon discover that, beneath the very smart surface, lurks a web of intrigue and rivalries...