n December 1792, Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old, unmarried and fiercly independent, leaves England for a remote mountain village in the wilderness of New York. She does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to establish a school for all the village children - white, black and Native American - a purpose which sets her at odds not only with local slave owners, but her own …
Apa salahnya punya tubuh besar? Bagi keluarga Dawson yang sempurna, itu jelas menjadi masalah. Ayah, ibu, dan adik Victoria berambut dan bermata cokelat, bertubuh indah, serta rupawan. Victoria bongsor, montok, berambut pirang, bermata biru, dan tampak sangat biasa. Bagi ayahnya, dia akan selalu menjadi si “gadis besar”. Dan hanya berat badan Victoria yang ibunya ungkit dalam setiap kese…
Returning to England after a tragic loss, Alfie Budd is disillusioned by his father's infidelity and the effects of age on his beloved grandmother before he engages in a series of meaningless affairs in his quest to rediscover true love. By the author of Man and Boy. 50,000 first printing.
Khushwant Singh is at his best when poking fun at Indians. There are dozens of Sardarji jokes, all of them charmingly told...and many quite delightful ones on Pakistan. Witty, ribald, hilarious, no string of adjectives would suffice to describe this selection by the wittiest Sardarji of them all, and designed to give the reader a pain in the belly.
Khushwant Singh is at his best when poking fun at Indians. There are dozens of Sardarji jokes, all of them charmingly told...and many quite delightful ones on Pakistan. Witty, ribald, hilarious, no string of adjectives would suffice to describe this selection by the wittiest Sardarji of them all, and designed to give the reader a pain in the belly.
Khushwant Singh, humorist, racounteur, editor, short-story writer, novelist, commentator, has earned a new accolade - "the master spinner of jokes." He has been clubbed together with Birbal, Tenali Raman and Gopal Bhore as one of India's all time great humourists. His ability to make Indians laugh at themselves, and at their own foibles, has earned him a readership and fan following that is unp…
THE OLIVE FARM and THE OLIVE SEASON are television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical accounts of a new life in France; about her house Appassionata and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a 'new' French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community. THE O…
Amber Deckers grew up in South Africa but moved to London to work in journalism where she has written for various magazines, including Marie Claire. She has written the two wonderful Ella Mental books for Orchard, and when she's not writing novels, Amber works as a freelance journalist.
Bared to You will take you to the very limits of obsession - and introduce you to a hero you'll never forget . . .
In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County’s only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age—until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the t…