The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism of the modern city & of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture & the changes in sexual attitudes & class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret the stores owner-manager masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to be commodified. This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zolas greatest novels of the modern city. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle
- the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey
- eight years ago.

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A beautifully h&-lettered & illustrated story of a woman & the salvation she finds through chocolate. Edward Monkton's latest stylish & collectable book is the perfect gift for mums on Mothers' Day & any woman worth her salt this Easter & all year round. Each book in this new series is an original tale charmingly illustrated & created especially for this br&-new series of gift books. H&-lettered in the same style as the Edward Monkton cards by the Really Good company the tales are wonderfully packaged with the utmost style & attention to detail making these hugely desirable objects & the perfect gift for special occasions. These creations prove there is a universal & enduring audience for stories that inspire & touch hearts. Their philosophy is to heal unite amuse & delight in equal measures. & what better way to do this than with chocolate? ...

Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony & fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery & determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the world's greatest exponents of non-violent political defiance since Mahatma Gandhi she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only four years after her first experience of politics. In April 1988 Suu Kyi returned from Britain to Burma to nurse her sick mother but within six months found herself the unchallenged leader of the largest popular revolt in the history of Burma. When the party she co-founded won a landslide victory in Burma's first free elections for thirty years she was already under house arrest & barred from taking office by the military junta. Since then ' The Lady' has set about transforming her country ethically as well as politically displaying dazzling courage in the process. Under house arrest for 15 of the previous 20 years she has come close to being killed by her political enemies & her commitment to peaceful revolution has come at extreme personal cost. In November 2010 after fraudulent elections in which she played no part Suu Kyi was again freed. She was greeted by ecstatic crowds but only time will tell what role this remarkable woman will have in the future of her country. ...

From the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring comes a historical tale of love sex & revenge. Jean le Viste a newly-wealthy member of the French court commissions a series of tapestries to hang in his chateau named ' The Lady & the Unicorn.' Nicolas his chosen designer is a talented artist. He is also dangerously attractive to the women around him including le Viste's wife Genevieve & his daughter Claude. Nicolas is at once smitten with Claude but will her social standing prevent her from returning his advances? As Nicolas begins to weave the tapestries so too do the lives & desires of the people around him intertwine. As people fall in love are shunned take revenge find unrequited love turn to the church or to pagan ideals the tapestries become to each an ideal vision of life
- yet all discover that they are unable to make this ideal world their own. Set against the historical backdrop of medieval France Chevalier weaves together an intricate tapestry of love revenge & art in a novel which will appeal to fans of Sarah Dunant Rachel Hore & Philippa Gregory.
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Weathering critical scorn Lady Audleys Secret" quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian sensation fiction sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive cunningly plotted & certainly sensational " Lady Audleys Secret" draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. What is the mystery surrounding the charming heroine? Lady Audleys secret is investigated by Robert Audley aristocrat turned detective in a novel that has lost none of its power to disturb & entertain." ...

The Penguin English Library Edition" of " Lady Audleys Secret" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley uttered a long low wailing cry & threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this outlandish outrageous triumph of scandal fiction a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young beautiful
- & very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely? What exactly is the dark secret this seductive outsider carries with her? A huge success in the nineteenth century the books anti-heroine
- with her good looks & hidden past
- embodied perfectly the concerns of the Victorian age with morality & madness. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."


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Thirty years after she first heard his voice singing to her from a jukebox at her local drive-in Barbara began her love affair with Frank Sinatra. After a tempestuous courtship she finally heard him say the wedding vows that began his fourth final & most enduring marriage; one that would last more than two decades until the end of his life. Generous & jealous witty & wicked Frank comes alive in this poignant inside story of the highs & lows of marriage to one of the world's most famous men. In this her first public love letter to the husband she adored his wife celebrates the sensational singer sexy heartthrob possessive mate & loyal friend that was Frank Sinatra. This book will let his legions of fans see another side of Ol' Blue Eyes". Though Frank Sinatra's children have written memoirs about their father this is the first time his wife of twenty-two years is sharing intimate details of life with the man & the legend." ...

In Chances Lucky grew up in a top crime family. In Lucky she was married three times. & now in Lady Boss she takes on Hollywood & wins! Panther Studios is the prize & Lucky wants it... In her quest for power she meets adversaries & enemies friends & betrayers. & her relationship with her husband charismatic comedian & movie star Lennie Golden is put to the test. Lucky's first challenge is to buy the only movie studio still not controlled by a powerful conglomerate
- Panther Studios owned by the retired irascible old Abe Panther. But Abe won't sell his beloved studio to Lucky until she proves she has the guts to make it in Hollywood. It's his idea that she disguise herself as a secretary & go in undercover to find out what's really going on. It's a challenge that also satisfies Lucky's passion for adventure
- & her desire to take chances... In the process Lucky uncovers a world of financial scheming big-time betrayal & bizarre sex. Panther Studios & Lucky Santangelo...a dangerous mix...

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With its four-letter words & its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse Lady Chatterleys Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928 it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition to the general public. The famous trial of Lady Chatterley heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades & signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery. Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist & the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde & from feminists. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down & of the tender love which then develops between her & her husbands gamekeeper is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations. This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrences bitter indictment of modern industrial society & to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love & sex. ...