Hurt & confused by the sudden end of her strange love affair with Venetian millionaire Marco Donato Sarah Thomson takes her bruised heart to Paris where she tries to forget her yearning for Marco by throwing herself into a new project: a study of the life of notorious nineteenth-century courtesan Augustine Levert whose sensual charms parted many a man from his fortune. It is while she is in France that Sarah meets her ex-boyfriend Steven who is hoping for a reconciliation. They rekindle their psychologically & sexually tortured relationship but when her life begins to parallel Augustine's story Sarah realises she will never erase Marco from her heart. Faced with a choice between safety & overwhelming passion will both women make the right decision? ...

Leaving the heartache of sexual betrayal behind her in London historian Sarah Thomson intends to make the most of her research trip to Venice. But she soon finds her attention consumed by mysterious millionaire Marco Donato. Despite their deepening relationship however the handsome playboy persists in playing a secretive game. What exactly is Marco hiding? The subject of Sarahs research is eighteenth-century Venetian Luciana Giordano. At a time when debauchery is the citys favourite pastime virginal Luciana is kept out of trouble by a zealous chaperone
- until she meets a man who promises to help her escape her restraints. But just what does the worldly stranger want to teach her in return?
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Born at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 Mary & Walter Tilfords baby daughter is named Thursday. It was meant to be a message of hope for the future
- but they could not foresee that by the time Thursday celebrated her 21st birthday Britain would once again be at war with Germany. Thursday is determined to help in the war effort & volunteers as a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. She is attached to the Royal Navy & begins her service at Haslar Hospital on the shores of Portsmouth Harbour. The realities of war are brought home to her when the casualties begin to arrive from Dunkirk & Thursday begins to understand the true meaning of courage. While experiencing all the natural hopes & dreams of any young woman finding pleasure & joy as well as sorrow in her work Thursday is given her own opportunity to show strength & bravery in the face of war
- & find a lasting love.

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From the moment she takes her first step inside the Police station in her brand new Dr Marten boots PC Sally Gentles roller coaster ride in this male dominated environment begins. Girl Cop follows Sallys tentative start in an eye opening career which offers her some extraordinary experiences ranging from fascinating hilarious & emotive to the downright incredible. Will the spark between Sally & her tutor constable Alex ever be ignited? Will summary justice be served on the station bully? Will Sally complete the Bennetts Lane Challenge to become an honorary bloke? ...

Jane Green author of the best-sellers Second Chance" & " Straight Talking" examines love friendships & their limits in her moving & entertaining novel " Girl Friday". Since her divorce a year ago Kit Hargrove feels she has finally got her life back on track. Gone is the lonely Wall Street widow she used to be & in her place is a happier more fulfilled woman with a new job she loves
- working for uberfamous novelist Robert Mc Clore
- a small but cosy new home with her children & the beginnings of a tentative friendship with her exhusb&. She even has time for yoga classes with her new best friend Tracy. The only thing missing is a man. & when Tracy introduces her to Steve
- charming romantic & attentive
- Kit wonders if he could be the final piece of the jigsaw. But Kit doesnt know that Tracy is hiding a secret one that could destroy their friendship her happiness with Steve even her new life. Torn between suspicion & love Kit doesnt know which way to turn. For there are some betrayals that a friendship cant survive... Praise for Jane Green "A densely plotted brew of love & mistakes." (" The Times"). " Green keeps us transfixed until the very last word." (" Heat"). Bestselling author Jane Green has captured the imaginations of readers in the UK & the US with her frank & funny approach to those day-to-day issues that affect women everywhere. Other titles also published by Penguin include " The Other Woman" " Jemima J." " Babyville" " The Love Verb" (published as " Promises to Keep" in the USA) " Life Swap (Swapping Lives)" " The " Patchwork Marriage (Another Piece of My Heart)" " Spellbound (To Have & to Hold)" " The Beach House" " Mr. Maybe" & " Bookends". " Girl Friday" is published in the USA as " Dune Road"."



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For Josie Flynn the war was just the start of a journey that began in heartbreak when she was sent to live with her aunt & uncle. Life took her to Barefoot House as the paid companion of an elderly woman; & seemed to promise lifelong happiness in New York with the handsome charismatic Jack Coltrane. But once again life is not turning out the way Josie imagines & she finds herself back in Liverpool alone. As she renews old loves & former friendships & reflects on her time at Barefoot House she embarks upon a career which is as unlikely as it is successful. ...

The Girl from Hockley is a new revised edition bringing together in one new volume this remarkable story. Born into the industrial slums of Birmingham in 1903 Kathleen Dayus became a legend in her own time. She vividly recalls her Edwardian childhood & her life as a young munitions worker during the war marriage & life below the poverty line in the 1920s. Early widowhood & the Depression forced her to relinquish her children to Dr Barnado's homes until eight long years later she could afford a home for them again. Her autobiography is a testament to the indomitable spirit humour & verve that characterised her life. Her extraordinary memory for the sights sounds & smells of her youth her marvellous sense of the comic & above all her spirited refusal to do anything but live life to the full deservedly made her one of the most compelling storytellers of our time. ...

Catherine Cookson was born 100 years ago in a run-down area on the south bank of the Tyne. Forty-four years later her debut novel Kate Hannigan established her as a bestselling storyteller of rare talent. But what readers didnt realise was that Kate Hannigan also represented the first step of the authors triumph over a nervous breakdown & a period of confinement in a mental asylum. Still in the throes of her illness she was transforming her fears out of necessity through her art. Piers Dudgeon was granted exclusive interviews over a 15-year period until Catherines death in 1998. Now in the company of her family & others who declined to be interviewed during her lifetime he sheds new light on the tortured drama of her personal life & her legacy to the nation. This revised biography is a revealing tribute to an enduringly popular writer in her centenary year & will fascinate her many loyal fans. ...

'A typical day on the 4 to 12 shift as I am at present so that the sheer agony of it may be placed on record for me to look back on perhaps one day in the far distant future when this period may be seen like a nightmare & be mercifully semi-observed in oblivion so that I shall remember only the glory of my position as the first & only woman on the watch & holding the most responsible position of any woman in the Hut.' October 12th 1942. When Elisa Segrave uncovered a cache of wartime diaries written by her mother she had no idea that she would be brought face to face with a character utterly different from the troubled woman who had become so reliant on her. Now on the pages before her Segrave encountered Anne Hamilton-Grace a young woman who had grown up in immense privilege & luxury but who leapt at the first opportunity to join the war effort. Through determination she excelled in the world of secret intelligence. Leaving the world of finishing school & hunt balls behind her Anne's journey took her to Hut 3 at Bletchley Park to Bomber Command in Grantham & finally to a newly liberated Germany. In The Girl From Station X Segrave opens the pages of her mother's diaries to us & recreates her life both before & after the war. At once a vivid recreation of a dramatic era & a powerful portrait of a mother-daughter relationship this is an original & affecting work about what it means to come to know someone through their writing; about how Anne unwittingly found a way to link her life with her daughter's decades after they had given up trying to communicate. ...

Gillon
- red-haired intelligent vulnerable
- comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy conventional socially

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