Imploring Hind Div for help when she is assigned the task of arranging the escape of the ailing Viscount Shrewsbury from Persia to England, Japonica Fortnom and Hind share one night of intense passion, sending Japonica into a loveless marriage that ends in tragedy and leading her once again into the arms of Hind, now Devlyn Sinclair, the new Viscount, who has no memory of their shared passion. Original.
After his death James Fox inherited the obsession and a commitment to continue in pursuit of the story both in England and Kenya in the late 1970s.
"A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England" (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist.
When the independent Imogen Waterstone convinces infamous explorer Matthias Marshall, Earl of Colchester, to help her lure a ruthless enemy to ruin by posing as her suitor, the result is scandalous passion and sinister threats.
Dog Man meets Despicable Me in this crackling, hilarious middle grade graphic novel series from author-illustrator Ken Lamug, starring Mischief and Mayhem—a dynamic duo that falls into supervillainy after they’re kicked out of superhero ...
The streets swarmed with hucksters, ganefs, and handkerchief girls who solicited in the shadows of buildings draped in black bunting. Every day the funeral trains of cholera victims plied the market crush, displacing vendors crying ...
"Published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd., 2013."
It is Vienna at the beginning of the last century, and Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst - and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is only just developing and viewed...
"In an ancient town famous for its witches, the Janara are causing trouble with their nightly mischief, and it is up to the Twins and their friends to find a way to stop them"--
Susan Silverman's ex doesn't call himself "Silverman" anymore--he's changed his name to "Sterling.
A reissue and a new look for this delicious romantic comedy from the Sunday Times bestselling author