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Pearls
They were beautiful. They were rich. They were famous. They were powerful. Catherine Bourton: With a face like the Mona Lisa she storms the men-only bastions of London’s square mile to become the world’s most bewitching tycoon. Monty Bourton: Internationally fêted rock star whose raw sexuality and heartbreaking voice expose her obsessive need for love. Princess Ayeshah: A woman with secrets, a dark, mysterious queen of the night who catered for men’s desires with the ruthlessness of one who understood the degradations of lust – and used them Then one morning the Bourton sisters each wake up to find a priceless pearl hidden under their pillows. Why? So begins a journey back into the past that will change their lives . . . ‘Readers will devour it’ Independent
Writing Historical Fiction
Writing Historical Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an invaluable companion for a writer working in this challenging and popular literary genre, whether your period is Ancient Rome or World War II. PART 1 includes reflections on the genre and provides a short history of historical fiction. PART 2 contains guest contributions from Margaret Atwood, Ian Beck, Madison Smartt Bell, Ronan Bennett, Vanora Bennett, Tracy Chevalier, Lindsay Clarke, Elizabeth Cook, Anne Doughty, Sarah Dunant, Michel Faber, Margaret George, Philippa Gregory, Katharine McMahon, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Hilary Mantel, Alan Massie, Ian Mortimer, Kate Mosse, Charles Palliser, Orhan Pamuk, Edward Rutherfurd, Manda Scott, Adam Thorpe, Stella Tillyard, Rose Tremain, Alison Weir and Louisa Young. PART 3 offers practical exercises and advice on such topics as research, plots and characters, mastering authentic but accessible dialogue and navigating the world of agents and publishers.
Harvest
Grace, the lover, clever and passionate, ran away to find new happiness, but can't escape her guilt. Jane, the wife, loves her children, her brilliant career and her French farmhouse, but wakes up crying and alone. Imogen, the daughter, is beautiful and talented, but is also a wild child, hungry for revenge. Three women who all make the same mistake -- loving Michael Knight: a TV star, a public figure, but also, in private, a serial adulterer driven to destroy the women whose love he craves. Now, as friends and family gather to celebrate his birthday, Michael reaps what he has sown.
Sunset
Tropical sun, cheap booze and more natural beauty than you could shake David Attenborough at, Kim came to Los Acazares for the same reasons as all the other people who are stuck out here. She had to get away. Los Alcazares is a holiday paradise. It’s also a place of fantastic dreams and incredible secrets, an island in the ocean where ley lines cross and tectonic crash, a geological hot spot where you can’t trust anything – not even the earth itself. Kim trusts Matthew, her lover. She trusts Stella, her friend. But she may have been wrong. A man has been killed on Los Alcazares and both of them were there when he died. That’s what they’re saying anyway; but the island is full of talk. At the beach bar where there is no beach, Kim waits for Matthew to find out finally what she can believe. ‘Brayfield is a fine prose stylist; her characterisation is good, as is the sense of place’ Sunday Times
Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists
'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' Vice In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should be. Bypassing the London cultural elite, their work reached audiences of millions around the world, paved the way for profound social changes and la...
Getting Home
There is only one rule in a suburb – never trust your neighbours. Westwick, the ultimate suburb. Nothing ever happens in Westwick; that’s why people live there. Nice people, like Stephanie Sands. Loving husband, adorable son, dream job and a beautiful garden – life is just about perfect for Stephanie until the day her husband is kidnapped. Big mistake, losing your husband in the suburbs. The neighbours turn nasty. The TV totty sees Stephanie as a media victim and the totty’s husband sees Stephanie as ‘lonely’ – codeword for desperate. Stephanie discovers that she isn’t the kind of woman to take this lying down. Suddenly it’s a jungle out there – adultery, blackmail, sleaze in high places and lust on the lawns, until Westwick scrambles the helicopters and takes to the streets with an army of eco-warriors in the hilarious live-TV climax. ‘Deliciously comic – lightening flashes of wit and scalpel-sharp observation.’ Daily Mail ‘With a sharp wit and snappy dialogue Brayfield has produced a very funny, cleverly plotted novel that displays Fay Weldon’s understanding of the pleasure to be derived from seeing the bad get their just desserts’ Daily Telegraph
White Ice
Prima ballerina Lydia Kusminskaya, whose talents saved her from starvation in imperial St Petersburg, trusted her beauty to secure her place in the gilded cocoon of the court – unaware of the cataclysm about to destroy it, and her hopes. Eighty years later, in London, the legacy of Lydia’s beauty snares a woman and two men in the trap of their own obsessions: Alexander Wolfe, the desirable American who worships women and glamour; formidable businesswoman Bianca Berrisford, who believes beauty always has its price; and Lovat Whitburn, her bitter ex-husband, for whom beauty, once an ideal, is now a weapon. Now the three are chained to Lydia and each other in a lethal struggle for wealth, love and, above all, power. But the illusion of beauty which betrayed Lydia is lying in wait for them, too . . . ‘A breathtaking achievement’ Woman’s Own ‘Ms Brayfield knows what she is doing . . . her women sound and act like real women’ Anthony Burgess in the Independent ‘A wonderfully written novel about men, women and a burning obsession’ Me
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Wild Weekend
Oliver Hardcastle scrapes an existence as an organic farmer. Miranda Marlow is a high-earning international town-planner. They may live in the same country but their values and lifestyles are so far apart they could have come from different solar systems. All they have in common is a string of disastrous relationships. Little wonder they have never met. Until one weekend in Suffolk when Miranda and her mother Clare, recently appointed Under-Secretary for Agriculture, are directed to the Manor believing it to be a country house hotel. It is in fact the private home of Ollie's mother, Bel Hardcastle, and a constant drain on her dwindling inheritance. Ollie immediately sees the opportunity to have a litte fun and make a bit of money - and the Marlows' luxury weekend turns into three days of hell at Manor House Hotel. Disasters strike, sparks fly and Miranda and Ollie loathe each other with something very close to passion...
