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. ...

' Connie was aware however of a growing restlessness... It thrilled inside her body in her womb somewhere till she felt she must jump into water & swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness. It made her heart beat violently for no reason'. Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who is impotent. Oppressed by her dreary life she is drawn to Mellors the gamekeeper. Breaking out against the constraints of society she yields to her instinctive desire for him & discovers the transforming power of physical love which leads them both towards fulfillment. Banned for many years for its frank depiction of sex Lady Chatterley's Lover" was first published by Penguin in 1960 & was at the centre of a sensational obscenity trial at the Old Bailey. D. H. Lawrence himself called it 'the most improper novel in the world'." ...

Tristan Wemyss Earl of Trentham never expected he'd need to wed within a year or forfeit his inheritance. But he is not one to bow to the matchmaking mamas of the ton. No he will marry a lady of his own choosing. & the lady he chooses is the enchanting neighbour living with her family next door. Miss Leonora Carling has beauty spirit & passion; unfortunately matrimony is the last thing on her mind.. . Once bitten forever shy
- never again will Leonora allow any man to capture her heart & break it. But Tristan is a seasoned campaigner who will not accept defeat especially when a mysterious blackguard with dark designs on Leonora's family home gives him the perfect excuse to come to the lady's aid
- as her protector confidant seducer...and husb&.

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It is 1923 & Evangeline English keen lady cyclist arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful & unyielding leader Millicent but Evas motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home are less clear-cut. As they attempt to navigate their new home & are met with resistance & calamity Eva commences work on her book A Lady Cyclists Guide to Kashgar... In present-day London another story is beginning. Frieda a young woman adrift in her own life opens her front door one night to find a man sleeping on the landing. In the morning he is gone leaving on the wall an exquisite drawing of a long-tailed bird & a line of Arabic script. Tayeb who has fled to England from Yemen has arrived on Friedas doorstep just as she learns that she is the next-of-kin to a dead woman she has never heard of: a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises
- among them an ill-tempered owl. The two wanderers begin an unlikely friendship as their worlds collide & they embark on a journey that is as great & as unexpected as Evas. A stunning debut peopled by unforgettable characters A Lady Cyclists Guide to Kashgar is an extraordinary story of inheritance & the search for belonging in a fractured & globalised world.
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It is 1923 & Evangeline English keen lady cyclist arrives with her sister Lizzie & their zealous leader Millicent at the ancient city of Kashgar to establish a mission. As they encounter resistance & calamity Eva commences work on her Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar... In present-day London Frieda opens her door to find a man sleeping on the landing. Tayeb a Yemeni refugee has arrived in Frieda's life just as she learns that she is next-of-kin to a stranger a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises. The two wanderers embark on a journey that is as great & as unexpected as Eva's. ...

Alison Weir was already one of Britains most popular historians when she wrote her first novel Innocent Traitor" which hit the " Sunday Times" bestseller list to a chorus of praise. Now in her second novel Alison Weir goes to the heart of Tudor England at its most dangerous & faction-riven in telling the story of Elizabeth I before she became queen. The towering capricious figure of Henry VIII dominates her childhood but others play powerful roles: Mary first a loving sister then as queen a lethal threat; Edward the rigid & sad little King; & Thomas Seymour the Lord High Admiral whose ambitions both political & sexual are unbridled. & an ever-present ghost the enigmatic seductive figure of her mother Anne Boleyn executed by Henry whose story Elizabeth must unravel. Elizabeth learns early that the adult world contains many threats that have to be negotiated if she is to keep her heart & her head." ...