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A Great American Novel – from the author of ‘Borrowed Finery’.Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked outside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighbourhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives, revealing the faultlines and fractures in a marriage – and a society – wrenching itself apart.Includes an introduction by Jonathan Franzen.
Elphame's Choice
From the bestselling author of the «House of Night» series comes the award-winning world of Partholon, rich in goddesses, intrigue and magic.Part-human, part-centaur, Elphame has always been different. OK, make that very different. The hundreds of shimmering butterflies sent by the goddess Etain to mark her birth were only the beginning. When Elphame is asked to breathe new life into the remote MacCallan Castle, she goes along with it (well stranger things have happened. . . ) and finally she's found her true calling.But Elphame hadn't banked on her life being threatened when the bizarre Fomorian descendents (bat-like humans – it's a long story) return to MacCallen with their own devastating agenda. Nor the fact that she may have finally found her lifemate. . . at the most inconvenient time!
Divine by Mistake
I get this bizarre mirror world filled with a horse/guy who I have the serious hots for, creatures who are terrorising civilisation, deodorant-less armpits that probably stink and no toilet paper. This sucks. The only excitement Shannon Parker expected while on holiday was a little shopping. Finding herself flung through fire into the world of Partholon (and left with a massive headache, thank you very much), she’s now being treated like a goddess. Somehow Shannon has stepped into another’s role in another world.And while there’s an upside – who doesn’t love lots of pampering? – it also comes with a ritual marriage to a centaur and threats against her new people. Can Shannon survive this new world and ever find her way home?
Cause For Alarm
Nineteen-year-old Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the parents of her child.Julianna knows that Richard is the man of her fantasies, the one she’s been waiting for. As tormented Julianna begins to mould herself in Kate’s image, she insinuates herself into Richard’s life, determined to tear their perfect marriage apart and have Richard for herself.But for Kate and Richard, the nightmare has only begun. Because Julianna is not alone. From her dark past comes a man of unspeakable evil…
Catch a Mate
How to catch the love of your life. . . with his trousers down! Jillian Greene is always getting caught in the act. After all, it’s her job! Working at Catch a Mate, Jillian gets paid by suspicious wives to smile, flirt and prove that no man can be trusted around the opposite sex. But she never gets physical – until a heart-stoppingly gorgeous male walks into the office. Marcus Brody has just been hired to test female fidelity.But the last thing Jillian needs is a partner…especially an infuriating, irresistible man who’s got her fantasising about tearing off his clothes!
Brought to Book
The Winners of the 1994 IAN ST JAMES AWARDS.The 1994 Ian St James Awards attracted the greatest number of entries – and the highest calibre of finalists – in the history of the competition up to that point.There is a mixture here of shorter and longer stories which are as diverse as they are entertaining.Each of the authors starting a career in this book was selected from thousands of entries.
Boy and Man
After the critically acclaimed Boy in the World, comes the follow-up novel from bestselling author, Niall WilliamsBoy and Man follows J as he continues in his search for his father. We left him in Ethiopia under the caring wing of Sister Bridget. But he still feels the pull to find his missing father – the link between his past and his future, and the piece that will link up the jigsaw puzzle of his life. He sets off to search Europe once again.As moving and poetic as Boy in the World, Boy and Man will appeal both to Niall Williams’s admirers and also fans of Paulo Coelho.
All About Evie
CASTING CALL NOTICE: Seeking actress for role of ditzy former Vegas showgirl Sugar Dupont. Must possess strong vocals, outgoing personality and great gazongas. Well, two out of three ain’t bad. A showbiz veteran, Evie Parish knows she has the chops to sing and dance with the best. A Wonderbra should take care of the rest.YOUR SCENE PARTNER: Arch, aka Charles Dupont, a doting older husband.The Gig: Eight days of smooching, fawning and otherwise making a PDA spectacle of yourselves on a Caribbean cruise. And…the Catch: Arch is one of a team of former con men staging a sting to catch a grifter – and, under his stage makeup, he’s the sexiest hunk ever to don a fake moustache…This will either be the role of a lifetime or the end of her career!
Falling out of Heaven
Hauntingly told and emotionally charged, this is an immense story of consuming addiction and the betrayal of trust.'I knew that the black dot of pain that lay in the centre of his eyes also lay in mine, and that it was a stain that no amount of washing or praying could shift. I think of my loneliness, how it coils around the centre of my being like a long thread of steel and realise that my father must have been the same, he stood on the outside of our family condemned as an ogre, just as I do now.'Gabriel O'Rourke seemingly has everything: a loving wife, an adoring young son, a worthwhile job. He is rooted in a community, is part of a family, has a home. Yet, gradually, his world slowly pulls apart, until Gabriel finds himself homeless and destitute, living out of rubbish skips on the street. In a psychotic haze he is admitted into a secure unit, his body addled by alcohol, his mind broken. Here, by confronting the blighting reality of his own alcoholism, Gabriel is forced finally to unearth the muddled spectre of the past: the black betrayals by those around him, his traumatic relationship with his father, and the true darkness of some obsessions.Learning to navigate a landscape pockmarked with trauma to undergo a journey of painstaking absolution and halting reconstruction, Gabriel understands that only by untangling the mistakes of the past can he hope to reclaim his future.