Haven must infiltrate the Ouroboros Society, charm Adam Rosier, and lure him into a trap. It's a plan the underground group known as the Horae believe will save the world--but Haven and Iain fear that it may destroy the happiness they've been chasing for two thousand years.
Not since he faced his fears has Charlie had so many bad dreams. Whenever he falls asleep, he finds himself in a Netherworld field, surrounded by a flock of creepy black sheep. They're not counting sheep. They refuse to jump. Even eerier, though, is that it's not Charlie's nightmare. Somehow he's trapped in someone else's bad dream
When Rachel’s brother disappears under mysterious circumstances, she must come to terms with his apparent death, though there is no body.She travels to Joburg to support her sister-in-law, Maya, with the memorial – also to escape her stifling life as a wife and mother.Rachel is unsettled when Max, her ex-lover, arrives. Despite poet Sizwe’s efforts to steady her, Rachel reels from grief and longing.Then Rachel, Maya, Max and Sizwe are involved in a confrontation that will change them forever.
"Twelve-year-old Charlie and his friends must find out why their neighboring town has become overrun with sleepwalkers before what's going around reaches them and it's too late."--
‘A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change * * * *
A roar of rage, a pacy page-turner, I loved it with all my broken heart. Read it. You'll love it' Marian Keyes. 'I loved this wild mystery about a group of midlife women who have just about had enough. I couldn't put it down' Erin Kelly. 'A feminist thriller for our times' Nina Pottell, Prima. 'A propulsive plot and characters that roar off the page, this is a novel that's unafraid to take on societal misogyny while being satirical and even funny at the same time' Guardian. 'An addictive, fast-paced crime novel like nothing you've ever read before' Red magazine. Nessa, Jo, and Harriett, each grappling with their own struggles, find newfound powers and decide to take matters into their own hands. Widowed Nessa hears voices of the dead, while Harriett, on the cusp of fifty, undergoes a stunning transformation after her marriage and career collapse. Jo, battling her body image and menopause-induced rage, learns to channel her anger. Together, they discover the abandoned body of a teenage girl, ignored by the police. Their investigation uncovers more victims and a world of wealth where the rules protect villains rather than the vulnerable. Now, these three women are determined to avenge the innocent and punish the guilty. IT'S TIME. Readers and authors are GRIPPED: 'A proper smash-the-patriarchy read with tension and a compelling plot to boot . . . Loved it' Harriet Tyce. 'An exceptionally well-written, vivid, and powerful piece
All the yearning, the passion, and the wantonness of lust are explored in this broad-ranging anthology of sensual stories, poems, and fables on a perennially hot topic. From Italo Calvino's humorous observations in The Loves of the Tortoises and Simone de Beauvoir's bittersweet reflections in The Prime of Life to the dark desires of The Vampire Lestat and the taboo obsession of Lolita, Lust offers an uncensored collection by some of the world's most respected writers, both classic and contemporary. With an elegant, two-color design as alluring as its contents are captivating, Lust makes a thoroughly pleasurable gift for a lover, or a perfect literary bedside companion.
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Advises the reader on many aspects of being eight, from how to make rubber cement boogers to how to smell delightful or where to hunt for fairies and gnomes.
Prague is a city outside of time. This concentric metropolis mixes the ancient, the merely old, and the modern in a most enigmatic and luminous way. In Prague, the selection of excerpts, essays, and poems perfectly captures this juxtaposition - baroque churches with twenty-five cents beer, gas lamps with neon, Kafka's Castle with cement skyscrapers - in the writing of eleven international authors. This wide-ranging anthology collects unexpected pieces, such as Bruce Chatwin on dwarf and porcelain collecting and Janet Malcolm on a surreal night in modern Prague, as well as the work of Vaclav Havel and Josef Skvorecky, writing about the former Czechoslovakia with candor and humor. Patricia Hampl provides a patchwork look from an overseas admirer, while transplanted Englishwoman Rosemary Kavan writes about her life in Communist Czechoslovakia in the late '40s and early '50s. Each facet of this prismatic city is illuminated and revealed in this richly textured anthology.contentsArticle 202 / Vaclav Havel --The castle / Franz Kafka --Utz / Bruce Chatwin --The house of Doctor Faust / Alois Jirasek --Bohemia / Ingeborg Bachmann --Pirates / Josef Skvorecky --A night in Prague / Janet Malcolm --The good soldier S[c]hweik / Jaroslav Hasek --Freedom at a price / Rosemary Kavan --The book of laughter and forgetting / Milan Kundera.
