In this dazzling debut novel of love and secret histories, a young woman unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a hidden family ability which will alter the path of her life forever. ‘Wildly inventive … Allison King is a talent to watch’ LIZ MOORE, author of The God of the Woods Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-confessed recluse, she finds herself escaping...
Lady Susan (Cactus Classics Large Print)
by Jane Austen and Marc Cactus
In My Paris, a Canadian woman keeps an extraordinary journal of her time in a Parisian studio. Not a typical tourist, she prefers indoor spaces, seeing Paris go by on TV or watching from her window the ever-changing displays of men's designer clothing across the boulevard. Or she roams the streets, caught between nostalgia and a competing sense of the present day, between Paris's rich cultural traditions and the realities of Western imperialism. Disillusioned by her inability to reconcile these...
Originally published in 1991, this remarkable collaboration came about when Carol Shields and her friend Blanche Howard decided to tell two sides of the same story. Carol wrote the man's version and Blanche the woman's. A Celibate Season is the story of what happens when Jocelyn and Charles, who have been married for years, are faced with a possible ten-month separation. In order to economize, they choose to write to each other rather than use the telephone. Through their letters, we follow the...
*** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *** *** THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER *** *** A WATERSTONES BEST CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR *** *** A FINANCIAL TIMES CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR *** *** FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE APPEAL, THE TWYFORD CODE, THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE ALPERTON ANGELS AND THE CHRISTMAS APPEAL *** 'The queen of cosy crime' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A joy to read' - SUNDAY TIMES 'A huge treat' - INDIA KNIGHT Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now.....
From the creator of the New York Times bestselling Griffin & Sabine series, Nick Bantock, whose work is collected across the globe. From the creator of the bestselling Griffin & Sabine series comes a visual puzzle book posed by a mysterious character named Magnus Berlin. Readers must study Berlin's introductory note, list of clues, and 16 multifaceted notes and envelopes to decode cryptic anagrams, pictograms, number puzzles, and wordplay. When solved, each clue reveals one word—but the rest re...
Love and Friendship (Hesperus Classics) (Women's Press Classics S.)
by Jane Austen
Writing stories to amuse her family, young Jane Austin discovered from the startthe characters and society, the humour and wit which make her a novelist of genius.
The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse.
Dear Aline, You asked me to write to you and tell you things about life in England, so here I am again… Alasdair Took, resident of Knaresbridge (based on Knaresborough, North Yorkshire), keeps up a regular correspondence with a woman in Vermont he met only once; the escapades of his daily life seem utterly fantastical and too odd to be true, but is that really the oddest part of all of this? Alasdair’s letters certainly raise more questions than can possibly be answered, including (but not lim...
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The Monarch Papers (The Briar Archive, #1) (Monarch Papers, #1)
by C J Bernstein
