Containing miracles, mystery, romance and humour, this work features eighteen of Britain's authors who have written stories especially for this collection. From Louisiana mud-swamps where enchantment is for sale to a bra-making workshop where dreams come true, it is British fiction at its fizziest, least predictable and best.

Imagine what might happen to Bridget Jones if she'd grown up a bit, got married, had a kid and still wasn't quite ready to give up her boozy nights out with the girls.

Gil McNeil's hilarious and heartbreaking new novel is about family life, celebrity and knitting.

Life hasn't been a bed of roses for Londoner Molly Taylor lately. Newly divorced and struggling to find a new home and a way to support her three boys, she's stunned when her beloved Aunt Helena dies and leaves her Harrington Hall, a three-hundred-year-old manor house on the Devon coast, where Molly grew up. But does Molly really want to run a bed-and-breakfast in an old house where the only thing that doesn't need urgent attention is Aunt Helena's beautiful rose garden? Or care for Uncle Bertie, an eccentric former navy officer with a cliff-top cannon? Or Betty, his rude parrot that bites...