'Wow just incredible... The killer's identity just took my breath away... Breathtaking suspense and mystery that will blow you away... Outstanding. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐' Surjit's Book Blog⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐In the golden afternoon light, the young woman lies perfectly still, her dark hair fanning out behind her. She is dressed in a rose red sari, shot through with gold. Just like the others.The last time Detective Vijay Patel visited India, he vowed never to return. After a devastating accident, the country holds...
Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. She hasn't got a past.She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town. Not to Salvatore 'Sally' Tomato, the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing. Not to a starving write...
Wearing Purple (Oz Blackstone series, Book 3) (Oz Blackstone)
by Quintin Jardine
Newly married to his childhood sweetheart and happily settled in Glasgow, private enquiry agent Oz Blackstone is looking for a touch of the unexpected in his life. And when he's introduced to the seven-foot, granite-muscled figure of Everett Davis, champion wrestler and head of the burgeoning Global Wrestling Alliance, he knows he's found it. The GWA's televised tour of Europe has been dogged by inexplicable technical hitches and terrifying accidents in the ring - leaving Everett convinced that...
Want. Need. Lust. Just one more night! For book editor Veronica Johnson it's sheer hell seeing her ex Rafael Velez again. He's the man she thought she’d be with for a lifetime, and here he is at her best friend’s wedding! How she hates him still! But he has an outrageous proposition: just one more night together! It’s madness—but achingly tempting. Especially if she walks away without a backward glance, just as he did to her…
I’m risking everything… For my darkest desire. Surrendering to a stranger for one night—that’s my forbidden fantasy. But am I ready to dance for the world’s wealthiest at Paris’s most exclusive sex club? When I see brooding billionaire Sebastian Dumont in the audience, he demands a private performance—no matter the cost. I know he’ll make my dirtiest dreams come true, but will giving him my body mean selling my soul?
¿Cuánto dura el amor? ¿Bajo qué formas vuelve a encenderse? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias del amor perdido? Por la ganadora del Premio Ringuet de la Academia de las Letras de Quebec, del Premio Literario Canadá-Japón y del Premio Gouverneur-Général Aoki Takashi tiene treinta años y trabaja para una prestigiosa empresa de Tokio que exige a sus empleados tiempo y dedicación absolutos. Apenas queda espacio para la vida sentimental, pero Takashi se enamora violenta e inesperadamente de Yuko, una r...
The haunting novel of love and survival that inspired Mexico’s official submission for International Feature Film—now shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards® and streaming on Netflix “Prayers for the Stolen gives us words for what we haven’t had words for before, like something translated from a dream in a secret language. . . . Beguiling, and even crazily enchanting.”—Francisco Goldman, New York Times Book Review FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER PRIZE • AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Ladydi...
Three’s a Crowd: The absolute must-have friends to lovers sexy read for fans of Christina Lauren and Tessa Bailey.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "There is no one like Christy McKellen for fun, flirty and sexy romance with a lot of heart and deep emotional insight" - Jessica Gilmore He was always the right guy, it was always the wrong time…until now? You never forget your first and the saying couldn't be truer for Daisy Malone. Because the moment childhood friend turned Hollywood superstar Zach Dryden reappears in...
Abandoned and alone, you'll do anything to survive… The dramatic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. ABANDONED On the cold stone steps of an orphanage, only a few hours old and clutching the object which was to give her name, Pearl Button had a hard start to life. ALONE Now 16, she's finally managed to escape the cruel confines of the orphanage. Finding work at a...
Now the basis for the major BBC tv adaptation The Paradise, this is a lavish drama and a timeless commentary on consumer capitalism. The Penguin Classics edition of Émile Zola's The Ladies' Delight is based on an acclaimed, vivid and modern translation by Robin Buss, who has also introduced the novel.The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this mighty emporium, unscrupulously exploiting his young female...
It's official. Angela Clarke is in love – with the mostfabulous city in the world. Fleeing her cheating boyfriend and clutching little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins and her passport, Angela jumps on a plane, destination New York. Holed up in a cute hotel room, Angela gets a NYC makeover from her NBFJenny and a whirlwind tour of the city that never sleeps. Before she knows it, Angela is dating two sexy guys. And, best of all, she gets to write abo...
Effie Gillis is a history professor teaching at a major university. She is also a survivor - of a troubled childhood, two failed marriages and numerous relationships which, for the most part, ended badly. Now, out of her past, arrives a man who is familiar and yet mysterious; mature, wise, and full of youthful energy. His presence is a reassurance, but he also carries with him an aura that is menacing. Slowly she becomes dependent on a relationship that's rich in truth and promise - but doomed b...
A gorgeous Beijing-set novel of music, secrets and self-discovery For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. With her marriage, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child.Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived from the province of Yunnan and bringing with her long-buried family secrets. Soon strange parcels star...
The compulsively readable novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul - perfect for fans of Sweetbitter, My Dark Vanessa and Exciting Times'Glittering. A funny, spiky, compulsive story about toxic workplaces, lean-in culture and #MeToo' EVENING STANDARD'A frank study of the psychological, and at times literal, gymnastics that are required of striving women' RAVEN LEILANI, bestselling author of LUSTER'A blistering look at the hidden side of Hollywood' GLAMOUR...
'A gripping story of love, death, art and deceit' - Sofka Zinovieff, author of PutneyAn internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her secret lover, Martin Acla, a prominent businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world implodes; the idea of losing him is terrifying. Desperate to find a way to be present during her lover's final days, Valeria commissions his artist wife, Isla, to paint her portrait - insinuating herself into Marti...
Reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith’s gripping ‘Ripley’ novels and the films of Hitchcock, ‘About the Author’ is a wickedly funny psychological thriller about literary ambition, envy and the lengths an author will go to get on the bestsellers list. Despite a severe case of writer’s block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing an autobiographical novel that will help him escape from his life as a penniless bookstore stockboy in upper Manhattan. Cal’s dream are threatened when he learns that hi...
A roller-coaster of a ride from the No1, million copy bestseller Shari Low about love, life and how a chance meeting can change your life forever.As a flight to St Lucia leaves the runway, four passengers meet for the first time. After escaping her controlling husband, Bernadette Manson is taking the first extravagant holiday of her new life. But when her best friend cancels, will she be strong enough to fly solo? Tadgh Donovan is about to jet off to his destination wedding when he sees a shoc...