Showing results for "Models" in Literature & Fiction

Even a good woman can be pushed too far...From bestselling author Tricia Stringer, this beautifully realised multi-generational family story looks at what happens when real-life betrayals and struggling relationships clash with outdated ideas of what a woman should be. Natalie King's life is...

Connor McKnight, former acolyte of film, Zen, and Japanese literature, is not unaware that these avocations are wildly different from his present occupation as a fledgling celebrity journalist. Meanwhile, his longtime girlfriend, the fashion model Philomena, seems curiously remote and soon decamps for the West Coast. Then there's the sister with whom he shared a flamboyantly addled childhood and his best friend, a monkishly neurotic and militantly vegetarian writer.

Is the town eccentric an evil genius or model citizen? Rumors about his past include adventures overseas, Interpol, money laundering, gun running, international terrorism, witnesses disappearing without a trace, artificial intelligence, publishing empire, private jets, luxury hotels, hot women, sex research, an underground complex hidden behind a mausoleum hand-carved into a limestone cliff, and weaponization of humor.