Annie Ferguson was one of Manhattan's brightest young architects. But overnight she became mother to her sister's three orphaned children. It wasn't the life she'd planned, but one that rewarded her tenfold for every sacrifice she'd had to make.

Now, at forty-two, with a satisfying career & a fulfilling family life, Annie has reconciled herself to being single. With the children now grown into young adults & confronting major challenges of their own, she is navigating a parent's difficult passage between lending them a hand & letting them go.

Then, an accident leads Annie to a man who will tempt her to reconsider her belief that it isn't too late to fall in love, after all...



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A wholly unexpected, hugely entertaining work of fiction from one of the greatest actors of our time. Anatole ' Annie' Doultry is in his early 50s, a man of imposing physical presence & a reputation on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai. In 1927, he is serving six months in a hellish Hong Kong prison when, on a whim, he saves the life of a Chinese prisoner.-The prisoner's employer happens to be Madame Lai Choi San: beautiful, ruthless & shrewd, she is one of the most notorious gangsters in Asia.

When Annie gets out of prison, she thanks him with an offer of inconceivable wealth if he will join her in the biggest act of piracy of her career. Madame Lai is a seductive & powerful ally, but Annie is about to discover that she can be an even more powerful-and dangerous-enemy.-With his longtime collaborator, screenwriter & director Donald Cammell, Brando worked on this story for years. The result is a rollicking, swashbuckling delectable romp of a novel
- the last surprise from an ever-surprising legend.


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A wholly unexpected, hugely entertaining work of fiction from one of the greatest actors of our time. Anatole ' Annie' Doultry is in his early 50s, a man of imposing physical presence & a reputation on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai. In 1927, he is serving six months in a hellish Hong Kong prison when, on a whim, he saves the life of a Chinese prisoner.-The prisoner's employer happens to be Madame Lai Choi San: beautiful, ruthless & shrewd, she is one of the most notorious gangsters in Asia.

When Annie gets out of prison, she thanks him with an offer of inconceivable wealth if he will join her in the biggest act of piracy of her career. Madame Lai is a seductive & powerful ally, but Annie is about to discover that she can be an even more powerful-and dangerous-enemy.-With his longtime collaborator, screenwriter & director Donald Cammell, Brando worked on this story for years. The result is a rollicking, swashbuckling delectable romp of a novel
- the last surprise from an ever-surprising legend.


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Fanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of EVELINA, one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was also an incomparable diarist, witnessing both the madness of George III & the young Queen Victoria's coronation. To read the journals she kept from the age of sixteen is to step back into Georgian Engl&, meeting Dr Johnson, Garrick & Reynolds, being chased round the gardens of Kew Palace by the King... She was lady-in-writing to Queen Charlotte; she married an aristocratic emigre from the French Revolution & had her first & only child when she was forty-two; she was in Paris as Napoleon's armies marshalled against Engl&, & in Brussels she heard the muffled guns, & watched the wounded being carried back from Waterloo. Kate Chisholm's delightful biography, incorporating the latest research & illustrate with unusual portraits & drawings, is lively, funny, shocking, informative & deeply moving; it paints a vivid portrait of a woman of great talent, against the changing background of England & France, a culture & an age. ...

Fanny Mc Bride was a large, cheerful, indomitable Tyneside widow with a large, cheerful family. When she reached her fifties, she began to feel, for the first time in her life, a little lonely. All but one of her sons & daughters had married & left home, leaving her with spare time on her hands.

Being a woman of resource, Fanny took on a job at the local ' Ladies', which was to prove a surprisingly stimulating experience.

Another new interest was the arrival of some rather odd neighbours at Malhattan's Hall, the tenement block which was Fanny's home. Then there was her long-standing feud with Mrs Flannagan, the problem of the favourite child's unsuitable marriage, & the puzzle of Fanny's one unmarried son, who was far from being a typical Mc Bride...



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In her fifties Fanny Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony, became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Now, twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet: the biography of her old friend Frances Wright, the Scottish radical & feminist. Back in the 1820s the young Fanny Wright erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright had convinced the older woman to follow her to America
- a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships & the most satisfying (and surprising) sensual romance of Fanny Trollope's life. The 'biography soon degenerates into a settling of scores with Fanny Wright & wild digressions on the misadventures of Mrs Trollope's own family.
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