Liza Kellyanne & Billie are ambitious heroines chasing their dreams in the demimondes of media politics reality television & rock music. Their journey unfolds thrill by thrill shock by shock in an unputdownable story about the illusions of glamour the dark side of success the elusiveness of love & the fragility of relationships. Three incidents will change their lives forever: a career free fall a surprise pregnancy & a brutal murder. & it all happens during one unforgettable season at a summer share in the Hamptons. Tan Lines -- a Valley of the Dolls for the 21st century -- portrays their passions triumphs & heartbreaks with a sly intelligence & a wickedly sharp prose that will be loved by fans of Jackie Collins Jacqueline Susann & a whole new generation of readers. ...

Bestselling author Tana Ramsay knows the challenges of cooking for a demanding family
- as a mother of four & the wife of Gordon
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Tana Ramsay shows how easy it is to cook up real family food to satisfy the entire family. Working with simple recipes & basic ingredients she shares her favourite family recipes for every occasion from school night suppers & weekend breakfasts to birthday surprises & Halloween bites. As a busy mother-of-four & the glamorous wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay Tana knows the challenges of pleasing everybody around the kitchen table -- especially if you want your family to eat real healthy food. With the help of her trademark easy-to-follow & mouth-watering recipes Tana shows how to transform mealtimes with minimum fuss & make real food something you all eat everyday -- without spending hours in the kitchen. Lavishly illustrated with over 100 recipes for every family occasion throughout the year including: / School-rush breakfasts lunchtime bites & quick-fix dinners / Lazy lunches birthday surprises & family parties / Summer picnics Easter feasts & Christmas treats ...

Opulence. Invasion. Terror. & forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore. They were the golden days when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy its future as assured as it was busy. & those days were made even better when as was inevitable I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong & against all unwritten canons of Singapore life we became lovers. ...

Half-African half-Indian & beautiful Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked & violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid & consumed by hatred for the white man Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind & extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own: Peekay an Oxford undergraduate who is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship
- & a white man. & in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences.
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An edge city poised at the northernmost tip of Africa just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe & overlooking both the Mediterranean & the Atlantic Tangier is more than a destination it is an escape & the Interzone as William Burroughs called it has attracted spies outlaws outcasts & writers for centuries
- men & women working out at the edge of literary forms breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time. Particularly in the past century the results were some of the most incendiary & influential books of our time the most prominent being Burroughs' Naked Lunch & Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky. The list of edge" writers who were drawn to Tangier is long among them Ibn Battuta Samuel Pepys Alexandre Dumas Mark Twain Edith Wharton Walter Harris Jean Genet Paul & Jane Bowles Tennessee Williams William Burroughs Brion Gysin Patricia Highsmith Jack Kerouac Truman Capote Gore Vidal Allen Ginsberg Alfred Chester Joe Orton & Mohamed Choukri."
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Horris Kew conjuror & confidence-trickster has returned to the Magic Kingdom of Landover & a chorus of disapproval immediately assaults Ben Holidays ears. Both Questor Thews the Court Wizard & Abernathy the Court Scribe (currently magically transformed into a dog) urge Ben to lock him up or exile him. Fair as ever Ben decides to consider the problem rather than act immediately. Alas this leads to disaster for Horriss return is not what it seems & Ben soon finds himself in deadly peril. Only his lady Willow holds the means to save him. But Willow has disappeared on a mysterious mission of her own... ...

After her antics in A Most Improper Magick Kat Stephenson is back to cause more chaos! Stepmama drags the family to Bath to find Kats sister a new suitor. But unknown to most of its gossipy visitors Bath is full of wild magic. When Kat uncovers a plot to harness this magic in the Roman Baths she finds her brother Charles is unwittingly involved. Kat must risk her newfound magical powers as she defies the Order of the Guardians to foil the plot & clear her brothers name ...

Adria wolf changeling & resilient soldier has made a break with the past. Now comes a new territory & a devastating new complication: Riaz a Snow Dancer lieutenant already sworn to someone else. For Riaz the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It consumes her. It terrifies her. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle. Their coming together is an inferno.. .and a melding of two wounded souls who promise each other no commitment no ties no bonds. Only pleasure. Too late they realise that they have more to lose than they ever imagined. Drawn into a cataclysmic Psy war that may alter the fate of the world itself they must make a decision that might just break them both. ...

Lizzie Delancey is happily married in her early 50s with three grown children. But Lizzie guards a dark secret. At age 18 she had a baby boy & gave him up for adoption. She still thinks of him every day. Then out of the blue she receives an official-looking letter from Kent Social Services. Her son Daniel wants to make contact. On one hand she is overjoyed
- she longs to meet him. On the other she has never told her children that they have another sibling. Tangled Lives follows the effect this revelation has on her family as with Daniel as the catalyst a few small tears in the family fabric suddenly gape wide.
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