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It is 1740 and when Louise Fletcher, a young dairymaid on an Essex farm, is offered work in the bustling port of Harwich, as a maid, she leaps at the chance. 15-year old Luke is in a Harwich tavern when it is raided by His Majesty's Navy and he is press ganged and sent to sea on board the...

Touchy Subjects is about things that make people wince: taboos, controversies, secrets and lies. Some of the events that characters crash into are grand, tragic ones: miscarriage, overdose, missing persons. Other topics, like religion and money, are not inherently taboo, but they can cause acute...

This is a book about memories, love, sex and the power of the imagination to see us through the most difficult times. The women of Reality, Reality are mesmerising, whether in love or in solitude. Jackie Kay’s newest and most luminous of collections is full of compassion, generosity, sorrow...

1980. Three schoolgirls visit St. Valentine's shrine in Dublin, to write petitions for love. 2010. These same women have discovered that finding love was the easy part; it's what you do with it that's tricky. When one of the women returns home unexpectedly from California, all three are forced...

Can you ever really know anyone? Is blood always thicker than water? One moment Shelley has everything - three beautiful children, an adoring property magnate husband and the life of her dreams. Then Charlie’s business empire crashes and he vanishes. When Charlie’s estranged mother, Vera...

The Convict and Other Stories is a superb collection of stories set in and around the American Deep South and its charismatic people. From New Orleans to Dallas, with excursions further afield in Korea and Vietnam, James Lee Burke's characters live out lives of laughter and tragedy, mystery and...

Tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the award-winning author of Red Dust Road This fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Jackie Kay captures her characters’...

One winter’s afternoon, Sonia, 43, married and respectable, answers the door to fifteen-year-old Jez. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn't going to let him leave. As Sonia's desire to keep Jez hidden and protected from the outside world...

Teen TV celebrities Jenna and Jonah can't stand to be in the same room as each other. But to boost the TV ratings their agents make them a 'real life' couple. When the truth is uncovered by the paparazzi, Jenna and Jonah must disappear. It’s only when they're far from Hollywood that they...

It's 2067 and the world has become virtually uninhabitable with all the pollution and toxins created by mankind. Ruling classes live holed up in the cities and workers live in Stations, safe from the outside world. But one day Station 27 is taken over by rebels. Nero, from the ruling classes...

What begins as innocent correspondence between a librarian in Seattle and a Book Shop owner in London gradually spirals out of control...

Robin Ballantyne is investigating the murder of a British man in Beijing. Is his death linked to a recent series of brutal attacks on women? In a city thick with paranoia and corruption, Robin struggles to separate rumour from reality. Meanwhile, Chinese private detective Song rescues a young...

Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatised child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot is the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives are brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier...

Libby always thought her life was well-ordered, charmed even: three gorgeous daughters, a husband who adores her, friends to see her through thick and thin. But lately, with one daughter in a constant fit of teenage sulks, a ten-year-old questioning everything in the universe and beyond, and a...

One Woman, many personas. But which is telling the truth? Alexa Wú is a brilliant yet darkly self-aware young woman whose chaotic life is manipulated and controlled by a series of alternate personalities. Only three people know about their existence: her therapist Daniel; her stepmother Anna...

It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord. Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor disappeared, supposedly having run off with an unknown man. But when the girl's body is found in the rubble of one of the recently...

தனது புடவை முதல், கணவர் வரை அனைத்தும் ரெடிமேடாக வேண்டும் என நினைக்கும் ரெடிமேட் ராதிகா. அதற்கு நேர் எதிரான கொள்கையுடைய சிவாவை ஒரு சந்தர்ப்பத்தில் திருமணம் செய்கிறாள்.

जयवंत दळवीलिखित मराठी नाटक 'सूर्यास्त' समाजजीवनात कधीकधी असा एखादा काळाकुट्ट कालखंड येतो की, त्यावेळी नि...

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As the world is shaken by a virus, Shobhaa De – a writer who understands the human heart and how it beats – felt the need to document not just what she is going through personally but what the entire world is experiencing. And out of this need emerged many unique narratives ... Lockdown...