A NOVEL OF LOVE & DEATH IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER The words were gentle strokes drawing her awake. Hello. Hello there." She felt the light on her eyelids & knew that if she opened her eyes they would sting & she would have to shade them with her palm & let the light bleed through a crack. " Feel like talking?" A mans soft voice. & then her mind cleared enough to wonder: who was this man at her bedside? She tried to sigh but no breath came. Her eyes flew open in alarm. The Minus Eighty.. . Where millionaires browse the catalogue of icy women judging on beauty ratings & revival costs. Where a freezers gentle hum plays the background symphony for the worlds most expensive first dates. Where death is only the beginning. Love Minus Eighty is a disquieting vision of our romantic future as hopeful as it is horrifying by a Hugo Award-winning author." ...

Edward Monkton's surprisingly philosophical take on all aspects of love life & happiness have made Monkton's drawings stylish collectors' items & a mark of good taste year in year out. This is the latest offering from the bestselling author. He dreamt of a monkey whose SMILE lit up his soul like sunshine. He held out his heart to her so RADIANT so splendid & so new. She took him in her arms & felt truly perfectly at PEACE. A lyrical & beautiful story about finding true & enduring love. Deeply affecting in its honesty humour & simplicity. It might just be genius. ...

Featuring the only Monster in Cutesville LOVE MONSTER is a wonderfully warm & witty look at how sometimes when you least expect it love finds you! From a phenomenal picture book talent. It can be tough being the only funny-looking Monster in Cutesville but this Monster is not one to hang around & feel sorry for himself so hes off -- out into the big wide world to look for someone to love him. He looks high he looks low & he looks everywhere in-between but its only when hes just about to give up that he finally finds what he is looking for! Featuring an instantly charming main character who will appeal to children & adults alike LOVE MONSTER is a warm & witty tale about the power of taking action from a terrific talent new to the Harper Collins list. ...

Like every woman Kate thought shed never meet the love of her life... Until she did. But are they destined to be together? Kate Miller has lived in New York for three long years. Now with her father ill its time to come home & face everything she left behind... Her friends: Zoe & Francesca bound to her forever as a result of one day when life changed for them all. Her family: her adored father & his much younger wife. The job: she abandoned on a glossy womens magazine. & the man she thought was the love of her life whose heart she has broken. What really happened before Kate left London? & can she pick up the pieces & allow herself to love life again? A modern day love story jam-packed with humour hurt hope & happiness
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'I miss him with every breath & heartbeat. He should have been my happy ending. Instead he is the sad beginning to my story.' Olivia & Luca Felicone had known each other nearly all their lives but when they fell in love as teenagers & eloped to London they broke the hearts of those closest to them. Luca's parents run Marinella's restaurant the colourful hub of life in the otherwise bleak north-eastern seaside town of Watersford & his mother Angela has never forgiven Olivia for causing such a rift in her beloved family. On a freezing January night Olivia's life is shattered when she learns that Luca has been killed in a car accident on the M1. She is left with nothing & after suffering from weeks of overwhelming grief she abandons her job & returns North to where Luca has been buried in Watersford just to be close to him -- even though she knows she will not be welcome at Marinella's. Olivia's chance meeting with Luca's married twin brother Marc leads to the realization that he is experiencing a loss almost as painful as her own. Their desolation draws them into an affair which both know has no future but fills the space where Luca should be. It is a course of action that can only spiral out of control & when it does the consequences are both explosive & cruel. THE LOVE OF MY LIFE is a beautiful novel that portrays both the innocence of childhood & the dynamics of love & loss with deftness & sensitivity. It is above all a stunning debut from an author with a unique & natural narrative voice. ' Sad & lovely. I'm now having trouble finding a book good enough to fill the very deep hole she's left' Milly Johnson author of The Yorkshire Pudding Club ...

In Hanky Park near Salford Harry & Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty exploited by bookies & pawnbrokers bullied by petty officials & living in constant fear of the dole queue & the Means Test. His love affair with a local girl ends in a shotgun marriage & disowned by his family Harry is tempted by crime. Sally meanwhile falls in love with Larry Meath a self-educated Marxist. But Larry is a sick man & there are other more powerful rivals for her affection. ...

In 1904 Texas Ranger Luke Palmer arrives in Brenham Texas with one goal--to capture the gang of outlaws led by Frank Comer. Undercover as a telephone repairman he uses his days on the range to search not realizing theres another pair of eyes watching him. Georgie Gail switchboard operator & birder heads out on a birding expedition but instead of sighting a painted bunting her opera glasses capture her telephone man armed & far away from telephone lines. Palmer is forced to take this alluring troublemaker into his confidence & unwittingly puts her in harms way. The closer he comes to the gang the further she works her way into his heart--and into trouble. Soon its more than just love thats on the line. ...

With his characteristic warmth inventiveness & brilliant wit Alexander Mc Call Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings & goings at 44 Scotland Street the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth & balanced good sense against his insufferable mother & her crony the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn. Domenica sets off on an anthropological odyssey with pirates in the Malacca Straits while Pat attracts several handsome admirers including a toothsome suitor named Wolf. & Big Lou eternal source of coffee & good advice to her friends has love heartbreak & erstwhile boyfriend Eddies misdemeanours on her own mind. ...

With his characteristic warmth inventiveness & brilliant wit Alexander Mc Call Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings & goings at 44 Scotland Street the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth & balanced good sense against his insufferable mother & her crony the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn going as far as to make a short-lived bid for freedom on a trip to Paris with the Edinburgh youth orchestra. Domenica sets off on an anthropological odyssey with pirates in the Malacca Straits while Pat attracts several handsome admirers including a toothsome suitor named Wolf. & Big Lou eternal source of coffee & good advice to her friends has love heartbreak & erstwhile boyfriend Eddies misdemeanours on her own mind. ...

Whether writing of longing or seduction of passion adultery or simple everyday acts of love Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems & always imaginative heartfelt & direct displays all the eloquence & skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time. ' Mysterious yet accessible; both truthful & beautiful; this selection is a paean to the power of love & of language's ability to capture it' Sunday Telegraph ' Carol Ann Duffy is a poet who covers the stormy waterfront of desire devotion & despair.. .from distant yearning to wild new passion through absence boredom & infidelity to break-ups grief & solitude.. . As always she manages the rare feat of building on traditions forebears allusions while stirring & shaking the emotions with muscular unpretentious force' Independent ...