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... it's really like with a bad boy in your life. Keyon has been through more than enough drama in her young life. She tries to put as much distance between her and the past in Louisiana, taking the opportunity to move to ...
... a man, 'the clicker'. Every two weeks, she travelled out to the Rest Centre, to visit her 'half', Marie, her spitting image, who lay in an induced coma, her body parts available whenever the woman needed them. As a form ...
... autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy. Born in Alessandria in 1876, Aleramo lived a tormented life and - according to her biographers - she argued she lived three lives. The first, as ...
... like a lion does an antelope. Remi is so over men wasting her time that she doesn't want to play. Will Uzi eventually shoot an arrow in her heart? Remi's younger sister, Tweeti, was always overlooked as a child. Now, all ...
... , La Page Cachee. But when a young woman and her child knock on his door one night and beg ... in the London Library on the pretext of research. She lives in south London and when not locked away in her study can be seen in ...
... , already thrice married and a pawn in her father's plans, is discovering her own power. And then there is ... for many years she presented The Late Show - she was editor of War of the Words (Virago 1994). Her two previous ...
... , The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle , widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with ...
... Trenton, New Jersey. While incarcerated at a woman's federal camp in Lexington, Kentucky, she began writing fiction. Her first two novels, Thugs and the Women Who Love Them and Every Thug Needs a Lady , appeared on the ...
... and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much ...
... the meanings of work and the ways a woman learns to love women 'Can I get a refund?' I asked ... her mother and twin sister and trying desperately both to forget her roots and disown her ambition, she's lost and confused in ...
... water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck, the two ... Woman, an alluring member of a travelling theatre company. She catches his eye and seems as fascinated by him as he is by her ...
... THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK AWAY FROM TRAGEDY AND TOWARDS REGAINING CONTROL OVER HER LIFE. A young woman once told Thomas Keneally her life story. It was to lodge in his mind and haunt his imagination, becoming the kernel for ...
... is stunned but so are the three men who loved the woman in the painting, the woman on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an isolated cottage in Australia. Here they must try to untangle the lies and betrayals ...
... she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman ... The Reader , as well as several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in ...
... JOHN FOWLES was born in 1926. His books include THE COLLECTOR, THE ARISTOS, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, THE EBONY; TOWER, ... Vintage Classics Modern Vintage Classics Contemporary Literature Vintage Other Novels & Reading
... naughty and the nice who live by the code of the street. In "Secret Santa," after her children's Christmas presents are stolen, a woman has to decide what she's willing to sacrifice to give them the holiday they deserve ...
... baseball, American fiction, and American Jews. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, Reading Myself and Others features his long interview with the "Paris Review." Author: Philip Roth. Format ...
... look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got far more information out of a ... women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping. When she discovers her husband's tendency to lust after every ...
... and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. Her lover, the singer Ormus Cama, cannot accept that he has lost her, and so begins his eternal quest to find her and bring her back. His journey takes him ...
... Come Dine With Me, Loose Women, Good Morning Britain and Judge Rinder. Helen writes her novels on the train to work in London from her home in Essex, which she shares with her husband and their two children. Author ...
... find is a bloodbath. A man has been killed and a woman brutally beaten, left for dead. The victims are Lois Craven ... a violent killer on the loose, and it looks like her team members are the new targets. With no leads and ...
... I've read ... written with passion and honesty, and poetry' Daily Mail Mornings in Jenin is ... her six-month-old son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, her son is snatched from her ...
... , Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers ... sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes ...
... . In "Missus", we read about the adolescence and courtship of Hughie Darcy and the innocent Margaret in the ... meet is hard in the slums of Sydney, and love is not kind to Roie as she takes her first steps into adulthood ...
... people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the ...
... realizes he was fooling himself if he thought his violent past would just go away. When his pregnant girlfriend is hit in a drive-by shooting, Rosario has to make some hard choices. Revenge means a return to his old ways ...
... including ' The Muses Are Heard' , on his trip to Communist Europe in the 1950s with the cast of Porgy and Bess. In all, A Capote Reader demonstrates the chameleon talents of one of America's most versatile and gifted ...
... people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the ...
... 's One Hundred Years of Solitude , also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'The nearest thing to sensual pleasure ... celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among M rquez's best fiction' The Times ' ...
... British Novelists in 2003, and in 2011 she received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Field Study , a collection of short stories, received an award from PEN International. Her second ...
... . The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, ... the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim ...
... who can handle it to keep. About the Author Jerome David Salinger was an American writer known for his widely-read novel The Catcher in the Rye . Following his early success publishing short stories and The Catcher ...
... who can handle it to keep. About the Author Jerome David Salinger was an American writer known for his widely-read novel The Catcher in the Rye . Following his early success publishing short stories and The Catcher ...
... to redeclare his love for Fermina Daze comes, when her husband is killed retrieving a parrot from a mango tree ... About The Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 in Aractaca, Colombia. His most recent book, ...
... , is the author of several academic articles, and has participated in various educational, cultural, and editorial projects. She is writing her second novel. Author: Maria Duenas. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern ...
... , stoolies, thieves and whores' James Buchan, Guardian 'An unrivalled and vivid portrait of life in wartime Berlin' Philip Kerr 'I had to read this book to see why the publisher was reviving a book first published ...
... joins an anthropological expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he ... the internationally bestselling A Little Life . She lives in New York City. Author: Hanya Yanagihara. ...
... candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers, and moral fables all in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection by George Saunders, this generation's literary voice of wisdom and ...
... . Told from several points of view and structured in a series of intersecting flashbacks and interior monologues, the ... desire, mother-son bonds, and those between men and women. Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) was one of Turkey's ...
... near Oakland, California, and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system. And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek "the Canon" Fanon, a homegrown product of the city ...
... driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill and savage humor, "A Week in December" explores the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life; as ...
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson’s ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the ... Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories History ...
... to do both. These young guys are four hard-working professionals who also have an addiction to club life. Keith is in the banking field, trying to rise to the top as easily as possible, but it is not happing as fast as ...
... mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural ...
... clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Their search ...
... house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the ...
... is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock coffin - of a leading Soviet scientist. But, as he soon discovers, this deception hides an ...
... the first time, as well as a large cast of other characters, all lovingly and intimately portrayed. Exquisite and musical, In the Skin of a Lion is a novel that challenges the boundary between history and myth. It is a ...
Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry ...
... and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished ...
... the miracles of European literature.' Guardian Author: Marcel Proust. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Fiction in Translation Penguin Modern Classics
... will An electrifying, high-octane thrill ride; the new must-read standalone from a Sunday Times bestseller. You won't be ... all up to raise her family. But something about this case reignites a spark in her... But you'll ...
... , the first woman to be elected to the Academie francaise. Her first novel Alexis was published in 1929; in 1939 she was invited to America by her lover Grace Frick, where she lectured in comparative literature at ...
... woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far', a woman ... Should All Be Feminists . A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time ...
... hero Pip starts to come alive for Matilda. She writes his name in the sand and decorates it with shells. Pip becomes as real to her as her own mother, and the greatest friendship of her life has begun. But Matilda is not ...
... way. An unsuspecting wife finds herself in a love triangle that threatens her safety when her husband's side chick decides she wants her out of the way. Brooklyn is a fierce, no-nonsense woman who is about stacking paper ...
... should win for her the larger American readership she so richly deserves. "On February 15th, 1952, at two o'clock in ... story of those around her, men and women whose only hope of salvation also lies in some recognition of ...
... woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in ... should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in ...
... read in a long time" Guardian , Books of the Year Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she ...
... it is love at first sight. After nine months of living in the lap of luxury with Kennard, skeletons from Unique's past ... those who are out to get her. And she is determined to be the last woman standing . . . Author: Nikki ...
... Villette Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bront 's final novel appeared in 1853. "It ... in her society with whom she can live and still be free. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women ...
... in their suburban home as she covered up the whereabouts of Isabel's absent father. Fuelled by anger, frustration and resentment, Isabel refused to attend college and spent her ... whether she should give up her gold-digging ...
... a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Lying in bed with her European lover, ... -three samples of her vibrant artistry. Interweaving the real and the magical, she explores love, vengeance ...
... she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts - who never leaves survivors - her ... funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long time' Los Angeles Times 'Both modern and ...
... the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity, she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now ...
... what it meant to be a woman - slave or free' Oprah Winfrey 'A resonant, illuminating novel' Observer Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. Her mother says she's difficult and her father says she's remarkable. On Sarah's ...
... I should have let my brother stab me . . . Margaret is doing everything in her ... in the arms of anonymous men, Margaret numbs her loneliness with self destruction, wondering when she'll take things too far. And when she ...
... the Arts Council England. She also runs writing workshops. She grew up in inner city London and attended state school in Camden. Nikki has been in love with words since she wrote short stories in her scrapbook at primary ...
... young woman is found dead in her own bedroom, the Canterbury police are baffled. There's no sign of a break-in and ... Gina, has her own ideas about how to bring her attacker to justice. As Ed investigates, she soon realises ...
... conclusion that she's thrown herself at him, ruining her chances to marry a normal, boring man of her age and religion. The reader is overcome with the powerlessness of this brilliantly voiced narrator in her own story ...
... host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story, a small farming village comes together ...
... of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist ... in her own hands: in order to secure the future of her father's business, she is married off to a widower with three children. When her ...
... the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate. Read Caroline Baum's Review Few works of literary fiction ... as a stylist, Tartt has such mastery that she keeps you in her thrall till the narrative picks up momentum. About ...
... Series. "Other Women's Husbands" by Anna J- Nobody wants a bone but a dog. That's been Zaria's motto for as long as she can remember. Gorgeous in the face and thick in the waist, she drapes every inch of her plus-size ...
... house. Missing objects. Stopped clocks. Noises in the night. Should she doubt her very sanity? Can she swallow her pride and make herself reach out to her friends in time? Does she have a choice? A moving story of loss ...
... house. Missing objects. Stopped clocks. Noises in the night. Should she doubt her very sanity? Can she swallow her pride and make herself reach out to her friends in time? Does she have a choice? A moving story of loss ...
... all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde. Jean Rhys was a talent before her time with an impressive ability to express the anguish of young, single women. In Good Morning, Midnight Rhys created ...
... woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in ... first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion ...
... year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she falls in love ...
... feel sympathy for her? Anger? Both? In her own way, was Alice ever a good mother to Jack? Do you think she would have been a different mother, or woman, had William Burns chosen to stay with her? As a reader, you also ...
... young woman who, ... in her fiction, and a spirited defense of the relevance and lasting importance of her art. Katherine Anne Porter wrote of Woolf: "The world of arts was her native territory; she ranged freely under her ...
... woman from a working-class family is courted by a very eligible, very upmarket man. An ageing actress falls in love for the first time but can only express her feelings through her stage performances because her ...
... Wyeth’s life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends, anesthetized to pain and pleasure, Wheth is a woman who has run out of ...
... reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in ... About the Author Gwendoline Riley was born in London in 1979. She is the author of the novels Cold ...
... between individual lives and the forces of society and history. She was particularly concerned with women's experience, not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of feminist polemic, A Room of One's ...
... pact with an unknown woman. Her family home, secluded in a leafy upper-middle class suburb, has suffocated her with her dead father's presence. She wants Shimokitazawa to become a refuge where she can create a life ...
... are making it impossible. If only she didn't feel so guilty To escape her past, Anna takes a job at ... up The million-copy bestseller is back in her darkest, twistiest book to date. Read it if you dare! About the Author ...
... hers because he held an important role in her life that should ... her own child. But her husband's sneaky moves are in the way. It takes her limousine driver, Angelo, to open her eyes to the immediate danger that she is in ...
... teachers in Cambodia. She lives with her husband and two young daughters in Hurstbridge ... unfolding of the young women's natures. The other quality that makes this such a pleasurable read is the fine observation of ...
... born in Leeds, and by the age of twenty was an editor and columnist on Fleet Street. Her first novel, A Woman of ... movies have been made of her books. She lives in New York City with her husband, television produces Robert ...
... magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between ... as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations ...
... a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend ...
... she's far from prepared to produce a Snakeskin clone. When her Skin fails to turn to dust as expected, she must decide whether she ... produce duplicates every seven years and, in the process, rejuvenate. In parallel with ...
... L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money ...
... inhospitable, world. But Fanny eventually wins the affection of her benefactors, endearing herself to the Bertram family and the reader alike. In her Introduction, Carol Shields writes, Mansfield Park's overriding theme ...
... the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss. Now, in her dazzling new novel--her first in more than a decade--Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and ...
... every girl simply demands: an impossibly rich fiance'. It shouldn't be too tricky. After all, her ... in Pearls , the first in her Oxford Girl Mysteries series. She is a Contributing Editor at American Vogue where she ...
... sharp sketch Miss Brill , in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is ... in The New Age , to which she became a regular contributor. Her first book, In a German Pension , was published in 1911. In 1912 she ...
... , and can work a plank just as well. After a rip in her biofilm she is placed in solitary confinement until they can guarantee she is without disease. Her story is one part of our gateway into this uniquely constructed ...
... with her radical mother while keeping secret the desperate crush she has always had on Destiny's father . . . a passion with an older man that just may be reciprocated. As the women try to overcome-or give in to ...
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