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. ...

Part of Penguins" beautiful hardback " Clothbound Classics" series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husbands gamekeeper & embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled existence. Can she find a true equality with Mellors despite the vast gulf between their positions in society? One of the most controversial novels in English literature " Lady Chatterleys Lover" is an erotically charged & psychologically powerful depiction of adult relationships." ...

' 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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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." ...

England 1536. Home to the greatest most glittering court in English history. But beneath the dazzling facade lies treachery.. . Elizabeth Tudor is daughter to Henry VIII the most powerful king England has ever known. She is destined to ascend the throne & deferred to as the Kings heiress but that all changes when her mother Anne Boleyn
- Henrys great passion & folly
- is executed for treason. Elizabeth s life alters in a heartbeat. A pawn in the savage game of Tudor power politics she is disinherited declared a bastard & left with only her quick wits to rely on for her very existence. But Elizabeth is determined to survive to foil those who want to destroy her or who are determined to use her as a puppet for their own lethal ambition & to reclaim her birthright.. .

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Friday is here! The race is on to find the secret of the Middle House. The fifth eagerly awaited installment in Garth Nixs best selling fantasy series The Keys to the Kingdom. Arthur Penhaligons adventures in the House get ever more perilous as the week unfolds. On the fifth day there was fear! Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated & their Keys taken but for Arthur the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue & Fred Initial Numbers Gold have been captured by the Piper & his New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can including turning off all the elevators in the House & blocking the Front Door. Arthur cant even find out what is happening back home. All he knows is that Leaf isnt on earth any more. Shes missing & so are hundreds of other people who were transferred from regular hospitals to a private institution run by a Doctor Friday. From there they have been taken somewhere else in the Secondary Realms for Lady Fridays own horrible purposes. Amid all this trouble Arthurs mother is also missing & he must weigh up an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity he must seize -- before Superior Saturday or the Piper beats him to it. ...

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta better know as Lady Gaga was always destined to be different. She was a talented musician as a child learning piano at age 4 & writing her first ballad at age of 13. But she turned her back on the world of typical teenage girls instead running off to party hard make friends with gogo dancers & drag queens much to the despair of her parents. But she was a born performer & destined to be on the stage no matter what. Forget the fake wannabee starlets who become famous overnight just because some record company exec thinks they can make a ton of money
- Gaga earned her success the hard way working night after night at sleazy bars & clubs performing at every club in New York getting booed offstage
- & then finding herself
- as a singer a dancer a performer
- as an artist. Shes shocked the public with her crazy outfits individual sense of style & headstrong manner. This is one girl who says what she thinks & doesnt care if you like it or not. Shes sold millions of records performed to millions of people & won hearts with her brashness & honesty. & now shes just trying to change the world
- one sequin at a time. Here read the incredible story of the artist that is Lady Gaga. Its Fierce!




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Today one of the most successful music stars in the world Lady Gaga fast became a household name after the release of her first album The Fame" in 2008. Now noted as much for her flamboyant dress sense & extravagant live performances as her undoubted musical ability Lady Gaga fascinates fans & critics alike. A throwback to the glam rock entertainers David Bowie & Queen Gaga is unlike any other musician performing today & such singularity has won her numerous accolades including five Grammy Awards & thirteen MTV Video Music Awards as well as being listed by " Time" magazine as one of the worlds most influential people. " Lady Gaga: The Unauthorized Biography" charts this remarkable young womans rise to the very summit of musical superstardom covering her early years at a Roman Catholic school in Manhattan her first forays into music writing & performing her early struggles to find a break in an industry that didnt initially appreciate her abilities her eventual breakthrough her philanthropic work & of course her look." ...