In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, wh...more
The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon's ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because its lower-case letters indicate so...more
When Amber Pepper’s jewellery-buyer boyfriend Hugh asks her to accompany him on a business trip to the paradise island of Tahiti she’s not keen – Amber loves big jumpers and rain. She’d rather be pedalling through puddles in her hometown of Oxford than lolling in the gel-blue waters of the South Pacific. But the prospect of ...more
When Lara Richards jets off to glamorous California, the last thing she’s expecting is to find her old friend Helen transformed from a clipboard-clasping frump into a shimmering surf goddess. The secret of her blissful new life? The mysterious California Club. So the offer of guest membership -- one wish, guaranteed to come true by the end of...more
The gorgeous new novel from the bestselling author of The Paradise Room.Latte-lover Ava Langston knows exactly what she wants: her very own café in a vintage arcade in Bath and a life free of complicated relationships. But her plans go awry when her long-distance dad phones insisting she hop on the nextplane to Costa Rica to meet his brand new wif...more
Jamie and Izzy, friends for ever, have a dream: a spangly double wedding in Las Vegas. And, at twenty-seven, they decide they’ve had enough crap boyfriends and they’re ready for crap husbands -- all they have to do is find them. So where better than Las Vegas itself, where the air is 70% oxygen and 30% confetti?
The irresistible new novel from the bestselling author of Divas Las Vegas.Sundrenched days, moonlit nights, heart-melting romance…What more could a girl need for a perfect holiday?
International Bestseller#1 U.K. BestsellerThe Wall Street Journal BestsellerLos Angeles Times Bestseller In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another thirty years, he would never return to this country. Little is known about the week he spent in Manhattan,...more
Warm, funny and sad, this is a story about growing up, and learning you’re never too old to be a kid – from the authors of Come Together and Come Again.It’s the 1980s in the sleepy English village of Rushton, and Mickey Maloney and Fred are neighbours and best friends. They’re convinced that nothing will ever keep them apar...more
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