A haunting new novel from one of America’s most prolific and respected novelists.Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate – or destiny. After her rescue, she will slowly forget her own origin, her past erased, her future uncertain. The well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous hi…
The author’s most famous and well-loved work, the Starbridge series, six self-contained yet interconnected novels that explore the history of the Church of England through the 20th century.Jon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, an Anglo-Catholic monk.In 1940 Darrow returns to the wo…
Bound by their little girlLeaving Anahera Kopu was the hardest thing Dr Luke Wilson ever did. He was torn by duty and desire, and his decision devastated them both…Now Luke’s reappearance on Wildfire Island threatens to turn nurse Anahera’s life upside down. She lost her heart to him before, but now she has something even more precious to guard. Their young daughter!Luke doesn’t know he’s a dad, b…
Paul Cohen’s sumptumous debut novel captures the high drama and low dealings that lie behind the polished facade of fin de siecle New York.He sang for his lifeShe lived for his loveMario Alfieri is the world's greatest tenor. He is also, if rumours are to be believed, the world's greatest lover. When he arrives in New York in 1894 to prepare for his first season at the Metropolitan Opera House, al…
The next installment in the dramatic new Ravenscar series from the international bestselling author of Woman of Substance.As Edward Deravenel stands alone on the rocky Ravenscar beach he counts his blessings. The war to end all wars is over; he and his brothers have survived. Now he can build Deravenels, the family business empire, into all he has dreamed of.Yet there is a thorn in his side – his …
A fan-favorite story from bestselling Harlequin American Romance author Cathy Gillen Thacker!This marriage is anything but convenient!Dillon Gallagher felt he had an obligation to help Hayley Alexander, his friend's widowed wife. So when she mentioned wanting a real home for her baby daughter, it seemed only natural to have them move into his large house. In exchange for a place to stay, Hayley co…
The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court’s Maze.Larry and his naive young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court Larry discovers a new passion. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession with mazes may help him find a way through the bewilderment deepening about him as – through twenty …
The premise of Lynne Pemberton’s fifth novel is: Did Monroe and Kennedy have a child?Kate O’Sulliavan has only known the harsh regime of an Irish orphanage. Beautiful, wilful and uncowed by the cruelty of the nuns, she falls passionately in love with a handsome young priest. Father Declan Steele struggles to resist Kate’s overpowering sexuality and the tension between fairth and flesh reaches brea…
Переиздание нашумевшего романа Джейми Макгвайр «Мое прекрасное несчастье». Бестселлер New York Times. Права на издание книги проданы в 26 стран. Экранизация уже этой осенью: в главных ролях Дилан Спроус и Вирджиния Гарднер. Первокурсница Эбби Эбернати – прилежная девушка. В ее жизни нет места вечеринкам и алкоголю, только учеба и коллекционирование милых кардиганов. Она уверена, что оставила темны…
Этого загадочного человека называли Ангелом. По пятам за ним следовала слава самого быстрого, самого отчаянного, самого безжалостного стрелка во всем буйном Техасе. Он не верил ни во что, кроме своего смертоносного кольта… до той поры, пока его помощи не попросила юная и невинная Касси Стюарт. И тогда Ангел понял, что на свете есть то, о существовании чего он и не подозревал, – любовь…
New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins welcomes you home in this witty, emotionally charged novel about the complications of life, love and familyOne step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought s…
Прекрасная и гордая Кристина Уэйкфилд не подозревала, что своим отказом больно ранила Филипа Кэкстона. Он поклялся завладеть девушкой, чего бы это ему ни стоило. В далекой пустыне, под бриллиантовыми звездами, родилась вечная любовь.
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey comes an eBook which combines the international bestseller THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE and its sensational follow-up, WITH MY BODY. An explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape is followed by a powerful tale of marriage and desire.The runaway international bestseller and its sensational follow-up in a single eBook volume.THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE: On honeymoon, in the h…
Переиздание нашумевшего романа Джейми Макгвайр «Мое прекрасное несчастье». Бестселлер New York Times. Права на издание книги проданы в 26 стран. Экранизация уже этой осенью: в главных ролях Дилан Спроус и Вирджиния Гарднер. Первокурсница Эбби Эбернати – прилежная девушка. В ее жизни нет места вечеринкам и алкоголю, только учеба и коллекционирование милых кардиганов. Она уверена, что оставила темны…
Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWritten from 1950s to the 1970s, the three plays collected here reflect the social and political concerns of the times, and are rich with Doris Lessing’s characteristic passion and incisiveness.‘Play With a Tiger’ follows the fortunes of Anna and Dave, representatives of the emerging post-war classless so…