When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands.

Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?

Five years ago, Edward Clare was voted in to Number Ten after a landslide
election result. But things are starting to go wrong. The love has gone. The people are turning.

Leaving behind his superwoman wife Adele, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, a policeman on the door of Number Ten, and sets out to discover what the country really thinks of him. Sneaking out of the back door
incognito, they venture into the great unknown: the mean streets of Great Britain.

For the first time in years, the Prime
Minister experiences everything life in his country has to offer - an English cream tea, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and the kindness of strangers, as well as having to wait for trains and undergo treatment in a hospital - and remembers some of the things he'd forgotten he used to really care about ...

GHOST CHILDREN

Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child’s father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by
the loss and he retreated from the world. Unable to accept what had happened between them both went their separate ways.

However, when Christopher makes a horrifying discovery whilst out walking his dog on the heath he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As they start seeing each another again can they avoid the mistakes of the past? And will their future together be eclipsed by those mistakes of yesterday?

A compelling fable of our times, Ghost Children is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain’s most-loved writers, Sue Townsend.

THE PUBLIC CONFESSIONS OF A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN

Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend – sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome …

Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for Sainsbury’s Magazine, covering everything from hosepipe bans and Spanish restaurants to writer’s block and the posh middle-aged woman she once met who’d never heard of Winnie-the-Pooh.

Now collected together for the first time, these funny, perceptive and touching pieces make up this brilliant new book from one of Britain’s most popular and acclaimed writers.