Showing results for "Publishing Romance" in Literature & Fiction

In this twisty, uproarious debut, a pop culture obsessive uses her reality TV expertise to investigate a suspicious disappearance aboard a yacht ... while falling for a hot deckhand and avoiding confronting her best friend's untimely passing—perfect for fans of The Wedding People and Traitors...

For readers of Shark Heart and Hollow Kingdom, a funny, magical, and tender novel following a lonely, conflict-averse man whose sudden ability to understand animals sends him on a wild romp around NYC, and ultimately helps him discover his own voice. Strolling through Central Park on a blind...

***FROM CELIA IMRIE: STAR OF CELEBRITY TRAITORS ON BBC ONE!*** Bloomsbury presents Meet Me at Rainbow Corner, written and read by Celia Imrie. ‘Walking in time with the beat, clapping her hands, clicking her fingers. How could anyone resist the urge to dance? Dot swirled her Red Cross cape in...

The Last Love Note will make listeners laugh, cry, and renew their faith in the resilience of the human heart—recognizing that while you may never stop loving the one you lost, you can always find love again.

A brilliantly funny and heartwarming debut about a young woman who stumbles, then fights to build a new life after the death of her husband. The perfect book for anyone who has ever been heartbroken, lost someone they loved, or eaten too many Oreos...

When funny, kind and gorgeous Shane proposes, Cara is over the moon, and can't wait to share the news of their engagement with all their friends and family. Excitement, however, quickly turns to apprehension when it seems that everyone has a fixed idea of the perfect wedding and offers to 'help' with the planning. With tussles over the ceremony and the size of the guest list, sibling rivalry and insistent in-laws-to-be, Cara can see her vision of the big day being ripped to shreds.

In this charming, sexy, and "laugh-out-loud" (USA Today) funny romantic comedy, an online dating ghostwriter's life gets hilariously complicated when she recognizes one of her clients' matches--her ex!--and finds herself forced to flirt with him again, on someone else's behalf... We switch. I...

Highly awkward teenager Stanley Owens meets his match in beautiful, brainy Vera Baxter when they tie for first place in the annual National Spelling Bee-and the two form a bond that will change both of their lives. Though their mothers have big plans for them-Stanley will become a senator, Vera...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster and clergyman Edwin Abbott Abbott. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, where of women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. Written pseudonymous by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

"Ging es dir nie so, dass du nach jeder Beziehung weniger Lust hattest, nochmal eine einzugehen?" Isaac ist dreißig. Sein Freund hat ihn gerade verlassen. Seine Katze hasst ihn. Und jetzt will auch noch sein neuer, überaus dreister Nachbar, dass er ihm beim Einzug hilft. Zeit für ein Bier! Kann sich aus Freundschaft eine Beziehung entwickeln, selbst wenn man das Vertrauen in die Liebe verloren hat? Eine Geschichte so romantisch wie Schwarzbier und britischer Humor.

Sofia Khan is just married. But no-one told her life was going to be this way.... Her living situation is in dire straits, her husband Conall is distant and his annoyingly attractive colleague is ringing all sorts of alarm bells. When her mother forces them into a belated wedding ceremony (elopement: you can run, but you can't hide), Sofia wonders if it might be a chance to bring them together. But when it forces Conall to confess his darkest secret, it might just tear them apart.

Florence Saint Claire is a loner. Albert Flowers is a social butterfly. Good friends who think they know each other. But, somewhere between who they are and who people think they are, lies The Best Kind of Beautiful. Award-winning journalist and author Frances Whiting brings her renowned warmth and empathy to this witty and gentle story about bringing out the best in each other.

Jess has decided it's time to get out of her comfort zone. So when her best friend Bryony, a journalist on a gossip magazine, is sent to cover the Cannes Film Festival, Jess decides to seize the day and go along for the ride. Reality soon bites, though, when Jess and Bryony find they're staying in a hotel far away from all the action and Bryony's expenses budget barely covers a glass of wine. Undeterred, the two women are determined to live like the elite and enjoy one night out to begin their holiday. So what if they have to tell a few white lies along the way?

In the follow-up to My Italian Bulldozer, hapless food writer Paul Stewart once again finds himself trapped in a series of hilarious misunderstandings, this time facing off against the second worst restaurant in France. Paul Stewart has returned to Scotland to continue his successful career. His agent and girlfriend, Gloria, has arranged for him to write The Philosophy of Food in Six Easy Chapters, a project he relishes but that will have to be delivered in six months.

Trots sina stora olikheter är Agneta och Carina bästa vänner. Agneta röker som en borstbindare, säger vad hon tycker och har gärna ett glas rött i handen, när som helst. Carina har en mer blygsam, romantisk läggning och är aningen godtrogen när det gäller män. Nu är Carina sambo med Mats, som gåtfullt försvinner veckor i sträck och vars mobil alltid tycks ha dålig täckning.

Philipp ist ein glücklicher Mensch. Er hat einen tollen Job als Reporter und in Mia seine Traumfrau gefunden. Die beiden verstehen sich in jeder Lebenslage. Der Sex ist atemberaubend, das gegenseitige Vertrauen steht bei 100%. Und so beschließt er, dass er sie heiraten will. Den Antrag möchte er ihr im Fernsehen machen. Während er das plant, bricht aber eine Katastrophe nach der nächsten über ihm aus: Sein Makler verschwindet mit Philipps Geld, sein Chef kündigt ihm urplötzlich und dann gibt es noch ein Missverständnis in einem Bordell, in das ihn sein Freund Benny schleppt.

Surviving motherhood? It's all about having the right support network. Lawyer and new mum Cassie has a husband who converses through jokes, a best friend on the other side of the world, and a taskforce of Babycraft mothers who make her feel she has the maternal aptitude of a jellyfish. Husband Jonathan dismisses Cassie's maternal anxieties, but is he really paying attention? Then sexy ex-boyfriend Malkie saunters into Cassie's life again. He'd like to get her into bed again, too...

Playing 'Winter Wonderland' for last-minute Christmas shoppers has got to be the all-time low point of Stephanie Glassman's career. The aspiring jazz soloist and single mother has no singing prospects, no man in her life since her hot fling with a movie stuntman, and a social life that consists of having her two best friends over for high-calorie Sunday brunches. Even her grandmother's having more sex than she is. That is, until toddler Jake's irresistible father hurtles back into her life.

Anna Shapiro's husband has been a hypochondriac for longer than she cares to remember. Now Dan is even frightened to make love, in case the strain gives him a heart attack. Anna is determined to find some fun soon - not to mention some decent sex.Then a sensational new book comes out, suggesting that women are just as capabale as men of having affairs purely for sexual pleasure. Could sex be like going for a facial, except you get an orgasm instead of your blackheads squeezed?

Henry has ended his marriage to Caroline and headed off to Noosa with Mercedes' grade three teacher, Martha. Caroline, having shredded a wardrobe-full of Henry's suits, has gone after them. Craig and Lesley have dropped over briefly from next door to catch up on the fallout from Henry and Caroline's all-night row. And Janice, Caroline's sister, is staying for the weekend to look after the girls because Janice is the sensible one.