Goldengirl was programmed to take, the 1980 Olympics in Moscow by storm — a superbly built, beautiful 19-year-old honey-blonde with a potential $20,000,000 pay-off in commercial exploitation. The stakes were high, the consortium backing her was...
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Well, he was losing weight and always hungry, Michael Rigsby told his wife. But Annabelle wasn’t alarmed. She was disgustingly...
“Earth and High Heaven” is, simply, a drama of human relationships — of two people in love who are confronted by the obstacle of racial intolerance — presented with such cutting truth, such fidelity to life, such compassion and...
Lush prose and penetrating psychological insight infuse Conrad’s first novel with the qualities that have made him one of the most popular and most studied writers in English literature. The novel chronicles the tragic decline of a Dutch merchant...
An instant classic of teenage self-discovery by prize-winning Nicola Barker, an “anarchic and lovingly perverse writer” (Ali Smith) Summer, 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three in her crocheted stockings, is marooned in a...
Gia Tortladze...
Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain Leander Wapshot, venerable sea-dog and would-be suicide; his licentious older son, Moses; and Moses’s adoring and errant younger brother, Coverly. Tragic and funny, ribald and splendidly...
Savage Heir (Oxford Hills Academy #1) by Jagger Cole
Bratva Prince. Beautiful monster. Irresistible villain.
“Just remember…you had the chance to run, and didn’t.”
Our introduction was a warning. Our first...
Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.
Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and unimaginable world: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother...
The Angel's Game opens in Barcelona in the 1920s. David Martin is a young man working in a newspaper office. But late one night the editor of the paper has a crisis – they have just had to drop six pages from the weekend edition and he has...