She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured & incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past & making up something better, & that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look. The narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend & fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; & hit the road with Brandy in search pf a br&-new past, present & future. ...

At the age of sixteen, shy introverted Naomi makes a harrowing adult decision about the future of her baby daughter. Sixteen years later, Carrie faces painful challenges of her own. These two very different girls from two different generations, are linked only by the invisible threads of DNA, but as their stories unfold, moving parallels as well as differences between their experiences emerge, lending unusual honesty & force to this compelling novel. ...

Brought up in a convent in Transylvania, orphaned Justine is confused when wanderer Armand offers her bodily pleasures without the blessing of the church. Disgraced in the eyes of the nuns, she is banished to Waldgraf castle where the Count throws her into the coal mines for a life of servitude. ...

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting & Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell's imagination & England's cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece of 'extreme ingenuity' detailing over four hundred characters & one million words of Powell's lively fifty-year dance of fiction & fact.' Hilary Spurling's exhaustive analysis of the novel's characters supplies a master-key for the reader' Anthony Powell ...

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting & Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell's imagination & England's cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece of 'extreme ingenuity' detailing over four hundred characters & one million words of Powell's lively fifty-year dance of fiction & fact.' Hilary Spurling's exhaustive analysis of the novel's characters supplies a master-key for the reader' Anthony Powell ...