SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017' Brilliantly inventive & blazingly smart' Garth Greenwell' Impossible imperfect unforgettable' Roxane Gay'A wild thing covered in sequins & scales blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link & Helen Oyeyemi' New York Times In her provocative debut Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism & science fiction comedy & horror fantasy & fabulism Startling narratives map the realities of women's lives & the violence visited on their bodies both in myth & in practice A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about a store's dresses One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest Bodies become inconsequential humans become monstrous & anger becomes erotic A dark shimmering slice into womanhood Her Body & Other Parties is wicked & exquisite ...

In her apron & rubber gloves a smile lipsticked permanently across her face the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful to have sloughed off A homely compliant creature she knows little or nothing of sex & stands no chance at all of having a career She must marry or die But what if there was another side to the story? In this book Rachel Cooke tells the story of ten extraordinary women whose pioneering professional lives
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- paved the way for future generations Muriel Box film director Betty Box film producer Margery Fish plantswoman Patience Gray cook Alison Smithson architect Sheila van Damm rally car driver & theatre owner Nancy Spain journalist & radio personality Joan Werner Laurie editor Jacquetta Hawkes archaeologist Rose Heilbron QCPlucky & ambitious they left the house discovered the bliss of work & ushered in the era of the working woman

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DEBUT SOLO NOVEL FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF DEAD SIX Air Force weapons expert Mike Kupari co-author of Dead Six & Swords of Exodus offers up a science fiction adventure When privateer Captain Catherine Blackwood is enlisted to rescue her brother from a treacherous warlord she finds herself on her most dangerous mission yet It&s been years since Catherine Blackwood left the stodgy repressive colony world of Avalon Now the captain of the privateer vessel Andromeda she is the master of her own destiny But Catherine soon finds herself back on Avalon after receiving a plea for help from a most unlikely source her estranged father esteemed Avalon Council member Augustus Blackwood It seems Catherine&s brother the heir to the Blackwood aristocracy has gone off in search of treasure on the failed chaotic world of Zanzibar But Cecil Blackwood&s plans have gone very very wrong & he has been taken hostage & held for ransom by a fearsome local warlord Augustus knowing his daughter is the only one who can be trusted to return his son safely swallows his pride & hires Catherine to bring her brother home Catherine takes the job—but it won&t be easy Just getting to Zanzibar proves treacherous & once she arrives things only get worse If she is to save her brother Catherine Blackwood must face down danger at every turn & uncover a mystery four million years in the making ...

DEBUT SOLO NOVEL FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF DEAD SIX Air Force weapons expert Mike Kupari co-author of Dead Six Swords of Exodus & Alliance of Shadows offers up science fiction action & adventure on a grand scale When privateer Captain Catherine Blackwood is enlisted to rescue her brother from a treacherous warlord she finds herself on her most dangerous mission yet It&s been years since Catherine Blackwood left the stodgy repressive colony world of Avalon Now the captain of the privateer vessel Andromeda she is the master of her own destiny But Catherine soon finds herself back on Avalon after receiving a plea for help from a most unlikely source her estranged father esteemed Avalon Council member Augustus Blackwood It seems Catherine&s brother the heir to the Blackwood fortune has gone off in search of treasure on the failed chaotic world of Zanzibar But Cecil Blackwood&s plans have gone very very wrong & he has been taken hostage & held for ransom by a fearsome local warlord Augustus knowing his daughter is the only one who can be trusted to return his son safely swallows his pride & hires Catherine to bring her brother home Catherine takes the job—but it won&t be easy Just getting to Zanzibar proves treacherous & once she arrives things only get worse If she is to save her brother Catherine Blackwood must face down danger at every turn & uncover a mystery four million years in the making ...

A family built on lies A dark & twisty psychological thriller in which a young girl is abducted & her family is confronted with a horror from deep in their past Perfect for fans of BA Paris & Sue Fortin A young girl has been taken Abducted never to be seen again Joe & Hannah her traumatized parents are consumed by grief But all is not as it seems behind the curtains of their suburban home Loretta the Family Liaison Officer is sure Hannah is hiding something
- a dark & twisted secret from deep in her past This terrible memory could be the key to the murder of another girl fifteen years ago & as links between the two victims emerge Joe & Hannah learn that in a family built on lies the truth can destroy everything
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The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller As tantalizing as Rear Window Gone Girl The Girl on the Train & The Talented Mr Ripley 'I loved it! A brilliantly original premise delivered with panache' CLARE MACKINTOSH Sunday Times bestselling author of I See You Following a brutal attack Kate Priddy makes the uncharacteristically bold decision of moving from London to Boston
- in an apartment swap with her cousin Corbin Dell But soon after her arrival Kate makes a shocking discovery Corbin's next-door neighbour Audrey Marshall may have been murdered Far from home & emotionally unstable her imagination playing out her every fear who can Kate trust?
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A little girl lives happily with her mother in war-torn Paris She has never met her father a prisoner of war in Germany But then he returns & her mother switches her devotion to her husband The girl realizes that she must win over her father to recover her position in the family She confides a secret that will change their lives ----- Why Peirene chose to publish this book ' This is a poetic story about a girl's love for her father Told from the girl's perspective but with the clarity of an adult's mind we experience her desire to be noticed by the first man in her life A rare examination of the bonds & boundaries between father & daughter' Meike Ziervogel Publisher ...

Caitlyn there's something I have to tell you About Sara Caitlyn thinks her marriage to Patrick is a success For one thing he is one of the few people not to fall head over heels for her beautiful friend Sara Life is lived on his terms but they are happy Aren't they? When a devastating accident turns her existence upside down Caitlyn is forced to reassess everything she thought about her marriage what she truly knows about Patrick & his real feelings for her best friend In the refuge of an old manor house she begins to discover the truth In 1947 the worst winter in decades hits England cutting off entirely the inhabitants of Kings Harcourt Manor For Tommy Carter widowed at the start of war it is particularly hard the burden of the family falls on her She has the solace of her children & the interesting presence of her brother's friend Fred But there is also Barbara a mysterious figure from her past who appears to want a piece of Tommy's future as well Her Frozen Heart is a thrilling mystery from Lulu Taylor top ten bestselling author of The Snow Rose ...

A utopia where the most privileged get to do whatever they want to do with their lives indulging their slightest whims via the bodies whose wombs they occupy; a soldier's wife tries to love a husband who is little more than backup memory; a society in which the citizens all make merry for nine remarkable days & on the tenth get a taste of hell; the last ragged survivors of an expedition to a savage backwater world hunt down an infamous war criminal; a divorcing couple confront their myriad troubles to gain resolution reason respect
- but not without sacrifice Introducing these stories (and more) from Adam-Troy Castro whose short fiction has been nominated for two Hugos three Stokers & eight Nebulas
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Her Las Vegas Wedding From a convenient fiance To an inconvenient attraction! After Audrey Girard's wedding of convenience is called off she's left to contend with her ex-fiance's brother
- wild brooding chef Shane Murphy! There's certainly nothing safe about Audrey's attraction to Shane
- could a Las Vegas wedding be on the cards after all? A Proposal for the Officer She was used to flying solo Combat pilot Molly Markham didn't come to Sugar Falls to get serious about a man she barely knows! But when billionaire Kaleb Chatterson becomes her unexpected hero she agrees to date him to keep their secret All's well until Kaleb starts to turn into the man of her dreams

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