A "luminous" story of love and sorrow spanning from London to Romania, from a prize-winning novelist ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Kitty Crozier first laid eyes on Virgil Florescu, a dissident poet who swam across the Danube to escape Ceausescu's Romania, in the hospital. She woke up after surgery to find a stranger sitting beside her bed gazing at her. He just smiled, then stood and left the room.She next sees him in London's Green Park pic...

TWENTY MILLION people have walked the acres of Knott's Berry Farm at Buena Park, California. Its chicken dinners, its wild west atmosphere, its "Ghost Town," are familiarly known to travellers from every part of the world. Less known, perhaps, is the remarkable story of Walter Knott and his family, who have built their strange enterprise into one of the wonder of the west.Here is the story of how a once penniless sharecropper parlayed ten acres of berries into a farm of golden wonde...

'Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece' ROBERT McCRUM, GUARDIAN'An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth' SARAH WATERS'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all' ANNE TYLEROn a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magni...

A rising star on the Chicago Police Force and living with the love of his life, Maddy Richards, Sam Bartel thought he had it all. Then both his career and his relationship end, leaving Sam to start all over again. Sam opens a private investigation agency only to have Maddy step back into his life, begging him to solve her brother's murder. As Sam struggles with the feelings he still has for Maddy, the clues lead him straight to the sexual addiction clinic her new husband owns. As the myste...

Sam Bartell returns in a new mystery for fans of Consenting BehaviorEvery small town has its secrets and Dalton is no different...except these secrets are proving deadly. Chicago private investigator Sam Bartell finds himself caught up in his most baffling mystery to date as a visit to his comatose father leads to the discovery that a serial killer is loose in his hometown.As Sam works to uncover the killer's identity, the body count continues to rise. Will Sam solve the my...

Andy Cooper, a veteran detective on the St. Louis County Police Department faces his most challenging cases as his son, Michael begins his senior year in high school. A professor is discovered atop the atrium at the University of Missouri and Andy meets his new partner, Jason Trimble, a rookie, at the site of her murder.As autumn turns into a brutal winter, dismembered and frozen bodies are discarded along the interstate. The case is stalled until Andy gets his first solid lead fro...

Growing up in inner-city Manchester in the 1970s and 80s was no easy feat-especially for a strong-willed Black kid navigating peer pressure, overt racism, and a system that often looked the other way. Paul Bailey had two choices: fight or flee. He chose to stand his ground.From his early days as a determined student and talented athlete to a 30-year career as a police officer, Paul's journey is one of resilience, defiance, and an unshakable commitment to justice. As the founder and...

A moving tale about middle age, divorce, modern love, and returning home by one of the great American storytellers.Asher’s career as a Hollywood screenwriter has come to a humiliating end; so has his latest marriage. Returning to New York, where he grew up, he takes a room at a hotel and wonders what, well into middle age as he is, he should do next. It’s not a question of money; it’s a question of purpose, maybe of pride. In the company of the arch young poet Mich...

The haunting novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize.At the age of seventy, Andrew Peters looks back across the years to remember life with his doting Uncle Rudolf, who rescued him from fascist Romania as a child. Vivid, often hilarious, stories of Rudolf’s brilliant but blighted singing career are intertwined with the slow unfolding of secrets that have shadowed Andrew’s otherwise happy life. Told in matchless prose, this deeply moving n...

New and experimental ways to capture landscape in acrylics.Landscape artist Paul Bailey's fascination with the natural world is sensationally conveyed in his colourful and semi-abstract paintings. In Experimental Nature in Acrylics, he reveals his techniques for the first time – making it simple for readers to produce their own work that is abstract, evocative and full of vivid colour.Through easy-to-follow explanations and step-by-step demonstrations, Paul...

"Need your attention, don't listen to the princess's screams." Another maid glanced sideways at her, blushing and confiding: "I heard it was a little painful for the first time, but the princess has been practicing martial arts since childhood, her body is strong, I think the princess can handle it."

Outside the gate, there were countless horse-drawn carriages, all of whom came to see the excitement. Because the hunting ground during the match does not allow other people to enter, so these young ladies can only watch it when the cars enter the field, then they can only wait for the game to end. know the results. For all the boring boys and girls, a heart-wrenching dark moment is not the final course of the match, but the final moment of declaring the results, watching the people of the...