Joanna Nadin

Bloomsbury presents Disaster Diaries: The Worst Show Ever by Joanna Nadin read by Anushka Chakravarti Daffodil Patterson is a small girl with BIG plans - it's really not her fault that they always seem to go wrong!

Soon-to-be eight-year-old Daffodil likes the dictionary, the middle bit in custard cream biscuits, and thinking BIG. She does NOT like her cousin Hugo Patterson-Dent, who has ten more gold stars than she does; the biscuit bit of custard creams; or any sort of catastrophe.

As Edie Jones lies in a bed on the 14th floor of a Cambridge hospital, her adult daughter, Dido, tells their story, starting with the day that changed everything....

According to head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt, 4B is the worst class in the world....

Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt thinks 4B is the worst class in the world. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or fun....

My name is not actually Penny Dreadful.

When Jake Jellicoe signs up as a cabin boy aboard the Flounder, Captain Dreadnought promises him a share of the loot....

With shades of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley, this is a novel about how far people will go to get the life they think they deserve....

Sixteen-year-old Jude has to get out of tiny Churchtown. She has to escape her outcast status at the Royal Duchy School and her pathetic dad, who hasn’t gotten past her mum’s death....

Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt thinks 4B is the worst class in the world. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or fun. It is about learning and it is high time 4B tried harder to excel at it....

Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt thinks 4B is the worst class in the world. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or fun. It is about learning, and it is high time 4B tried harder to excel at it....

Nine hilarious short stories including 'Penny Dreadful versus the Vampire', in which Penny decides to embark on a career as a vampire hunter....

For fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel, comes a story about mothers, daughters and second chances . . . It’s 1981. Eleven-year-old Sadie adores her beautiful and vibrant mother, Connie, whose dreams of making it big as a singer fill their tiny...

Maisie Morris lives with her mum in a titchy tiny turret at the top of Withering Heights Retirement Home and plays gin rummy with the elderly residents....

For fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel, comes a story about mothers, daughters and second chances . . . It’s 1981. Eleven-year-old Sadie adores her beautiful and vibrant mother, Connie, whose dreams of making it big as a singer fill their tiny...

Best friends Stanley and Manjit are part of Class 4B, which Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt says is the worst class in the world. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or fun. It is about learning and it is high time 4B tried harder to excel at it....

The characters in this book are works of fiction. But, then, isn’t everyone . . . ? 1988, Pencalenick, Cornwall. At seventeen, Jason wants much more from life than working at his father’s pub and when fate, in the form of twins Daisy and Bea and their small circle of friends, offers him a...