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When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact, some seemed to have forgotten that she had died and others just walked right on by. The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft in a wrecked house. As those around him fuss and flap and bring him casserole after casserole, Aaron busies himself at work at the family firm, publishing a successful series of Beginner's Guides to every stage and aspect of life. But then Dorothy starts to materialise in the oddest places. At first she only comes for a short while, leaving Aaron longing for more. Gradually, she stays for longer and as they talk they also bicker...and Aaron gradually realises that maybe, as a beginner himself, there is a way of saying goodbye. -
The French Riviera of the 1920s is 'discovered' by the stylish couple Dick and Nicole Diver, who turn it into the playground of the rich and glamorous. Among their circle is Rosemary Hoyt, the beautiful starlet, who falls in love with Dick and is enraptured by Nicole, unaware of the corruption and dark secrets of their marriage. When Dick become entangled with Rosemary, he fractures the delicate relationship with Nicole and the lustre of their life together begins to tarnish. -
Good Behaviour: Molly Keane
$12.00Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behaviour. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. Keane wrote plays and novels under the name of M.J. Farrell from 1926 to 1961 when her last play, Dazzling Prospect failed. She did not write again until 1981. Good Behaviour may not have seen the light of day if not for Keane's friend actress Peggy Ashcroft's reading of the manuscript and urging her to publish - for the first time - under her own name. -
Young widow Holly Brown has no interest in celebrating Christmas - so when she's asked to look after a remote house on the Lancashire moors, the opportunity to hide herself away with the perfect excuse to ignore the festivities is irresistible. The owner of the house, sculptor Jude Martland is also avoiding Christmas since the last one saw his brother run off with his fiancèe. But forced to return home unexpectedly on Christmas Eve, he is far from delighted to find his family running amok and Holly seems to be at the centre of it all. Suddenly, the blizzards come out of nowhere and the whole village is snowed in. With no escape, Holly and Jude get much more than they bargained for. -
Code to Zero: Ken Follett
$18.00A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there; he does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken bum, it isn’t until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he suspects all is not what it seems. The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite in a desperate attempt to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the space race. As Luke Lucas gradually unravels the mystery of his amnesia, he realizes that his fate is bound up with that of the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral. And as he relearns the story of his life, he uncovers long-kept secrets about his wife, his best friend and the woman he once loved more than life itself. -
London, 1914. Two young women dream of breaking free from tradition and obligation. Suffragettes are on the march and war looms, but at 35 Park Lane, Lady Masters, head of a dying industrial dynasty insists that life is about service and duty. Below stairs, eighteen year-old Grace Campbell is struggling. Her family believe she is a secretary, but she took the only job she could find - third housemaid in the Park Lane mansion. Asked to send home more money than she earns, Grace is soon entangled in an ever-thickening web of lies. Upstairs, a jilted and humiliated Beatrice Masters is determined not to return to the New York of her childhood before she has salvaged her pride. She secretly joins Emmeline Pankhurst's militant suffragettes and is steadily drawn into the violence rocking the city - and in the path of a man her mother wouldn't allow through the front door. Neither girl really grasps that the coming war will change the boundaries of both their worlds for ever. -
Convoy: Dudley Pope
$7.00A deadly game of cat and mouse evolves as Lieutenant Yorke must find an answer to one vital question: how are German U-Boats sinking merchant ships from inside the convoys? Amidst the heroism, intrigue and suspicion, Yorke discovers the fate of one entire convoy. Only his wit and daring can lead to its survival and his own. -
Three miles deep in the Atlantic lies a cargo to tempt the brave and the foolish: gold and atomic secrets. The diving-support ship, the Eventyrer, is positioned right over it with a Russian-built submersible - the Crab - ready for launch. Despite the ship's compliment of skilled technicians, only one man aboard is capable of operating the Crab's claws - its exterior manipulators: Mark Jaeger, an estate agent from Brighton. His girlfriend Lucy works for the tycoon financing the operation and when Mark is 18,400 feet down on the ocean floor in pitch darkness and an ambient sea pressure of four tons per square inch, those two will be up in the sunshine enjoying a much closer relationship than usual between employer and employee. Mark has his own reasons for taking the place of a professional pilot and there's a rival French team ready to step in if this lot back off. But in the thrill and adventure of the dive, will they forget that to reach the ocean bed is only half the journey? Cover art by Paul Wright. -
Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England. In the year 1666, a village self-isolates to keep the plague out. But an infected bolt of cloth from London brings it into the community and housemaid Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. The story is told by Anna as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and the villagers turn from prayers to madness and murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. A story that once read, is never forgotten.
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