Joan Didion’s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.
This title features three hilarious short stories in one book: Penny Dreadful and the Best Friend; Penny Dreadful is Incredibly Contagious and Penny Dreadful becomes a Tycoon.
The Cookie Jar's busiest time of the year also happens to be the most wonderful time...for Christmas cookies, Hannah's own special plum pudding - and romance!
BB is in his 40s, still living with his mother and making his living with an unrewarding (in every sense) hospital job. His 'real' world is a virtual one. On a website which he has called 'badguysrock', he has an avatar - ....
When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock....
Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade...
Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear.
When Alice Farrell is drawn to Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley's gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed.
One beautiful March morning, a student goes to school with guns instead of books, and starts shooting.Ten people are killed, and the local town is left reeling.
Meet Oliver, a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairy tale and transported into the real world.Meet Delilah, the girl who wished Oliver into being.