Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd My Beautiful Shadow
Book SynopsisKayo is a young Tokyo housewife and mother. Outwardly, she is no different from other young mothers, but her secret sets her apart. She belongs to a kind of club, which involves luxury, beautiful clothes and accessories. The club makes it possible for Kayo to escape her tedious life, to become someone else and to embrace a dazzling new world. But it quickly becomes an obsession, a drug, the way to both paradise and hell. Can she find her way out of the dark underworld of debt, lies and prostitution? Or is she doomed to exchange one form of loneliness for another? A deeply absorbing novel about the "holes" that suddenly appear in women's lives, My Beautiful Shadow is a powerful cautionary tale about consumerism gone mad.Trade Review"From the pen of a young Indian writer, this is a hypnotic novel about consumerism, and more. It talks about solitude, sex and the role each of us play in society. And it hides all this in a wonderful world of clothes, handbags and high heels." Elle (Italy); "A fascinating book on the seductive (and toxic) power of shopping. Stronger than the pang of conscience we suffer every time we hand our credit card over with a smile to the shop assistant." Marie Claire (Italy); "A first-person tale, intimate and incisive, carefree and disturbing." Femina (France); "[My Beautiful Shadow] is a fascinating and dangerous novel. Very much like display windows, it knows how to attract us to make us fall into its trap." Page (France); "An acerbic critic of the cult of beauty and luxury, the author presents an unexpected portait of Japan that is nothing like we imagined." Lire Supplement (France); "An intimate and incisive, carefree and disturbing first-person tale." Femina (France); "Radhika Jha describes perfectly the lack of self confidence that can lead to robotic and destructive addiction." Telerama (France)
£10.42
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd From Pasta to Pigfoot
Book SynopsisSparks fly and cultures clash in Frances Mensah Williams' romantic ode to self-love and multiculturalism.Dismissed as a cultural lightweight by the man she is desperate to please, under-achieving PA, Faye Bonsu, is on a mission to find love. A disastrous night out leaves pasta-fanatic Faye's romantic dreams in tatters and underscores her alienation from her African heritage.Leaving her cosy middle-class life in London's leafy Hampstead to find out what she's missing, Faye is whisked into the hectic social whirlpool of Ghana where she meets the handsome Rocky Asante - a cynical, career-obsessed banker with no time for women... until now.Transported into a world of food, fun and sun, and faced with choices she had never thought possible, Faye is forced to discover that no matter how far you travel, you can't find love until you find yourself.
£10.99
Open Letter North Station
Book SynopsisThe first English-language short story collection from one of Korea's most exciting young writers.
£14.39
Open Letter Her Mother's Mother's Mother And Her Daughters
Book SynopsisA history of Brazil from 1500 to the present day, told by daughters down the matrilineal line.
£14.39
Transit Books We All Loved Cowboys
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£11.39
Catapult The Summer Demands
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£14.39
Two Lines Press Days Come and Go
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£19.79
Two Lines Press So Many People, Mariana
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£16.19
Willow Winters Publishing LLC Bought
£16.14
Scribe Us Sisters in Arms
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£15.30
Winter Editions In Many Ways
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£15.20
Simon & Schuster Good in Bed (20th Anniversary Edition)
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£17.09
Simon & Schuster None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were
Book SynopsisPerfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this ?laugh-out-loud gem? (Beck Dorey-Stein, New York Times bestselling) of a debut novel follows Ramona through the forty-eight hours after her life has been upended by the discovery of her husband?s affair and an approaching hurricane.Ramona has a bratty boss, a potty-training toddler, a critical and over-sharing mom, and oops?a cheating husband. That?s how a Category Four hurricane bearing down on her life in Savannah becomes just another item on her to-do list. In the next forty-eight hours she?ll add a neighborhood child and the class guinea pig named Clarence Thomas to her entourage as she struggles to evacuate town. Ignoring the persistent glow of her minivan?s check engine light, Ramona navigates police check points, bathroom emergencies, demands from her boss, and torrential downpours while fielding calls and apology texts from her cheating husband and longing for the days when her life was like a Prince song, full of sexy creativity and joy. Thoroughly entertaining and completely relatable, None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive is the ?keenly observant, fast-paced? (Amy Poeppel, author of Musical Chairs) story of modern womanhood.
£16.20
Simon & Schuster The Writing Retreat
Book SynopsisIn this instant New York Times bestselling and “utterly addictive thriller” (Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author), a young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding nightmare.Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesn’t dampen her excitement. But when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshell—they must all complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. Determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, Alex buckles down and tries to ignore the strange happenings at the estate, including Roza’s erratic behavior, Wren’s cruel mind games, and the alleged haunting of the mansion itself. But when one of the writers vanishes during a snowstorm, Alex realizes that something very sinister is afoot. With the clock running out, she must discover the truth—or suffer the same fate. A claustrophobic and “audacious psychological thriller debut” (Publishers Weekly), The Writing Retreat expertly explores the dark side of female relationships, fame, and the desire to have our stories told.
£15.30
Penguin Putnam Inc The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
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£12.75
Penguin Adult Happy & You Know It
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£14.39
Random House USA Inc Mad Honey: A Novel
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£13.50
Random House USA Inc The Challenge: A Novel
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£9.45
Random House USA Inc Beautiful: A Novel
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£9.09
Random House USA Inc Suspects: A Novel
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£8.74
Random House USA Inc The High Notes: A Novel
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£10.35
Random House USA Inc The Wedding Planner: A Novel
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£9.49
Random House USA Inc The Whittiers: A Novel
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£10.35
Random House USA Inc Without a Trace: A Novel
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£10.35
Elena Aitken Choosing Happily Ever After
£16.14
Rising Action Publishing Beverly Bonnefinche Is Dead
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£15.29
Wendy Hewlett Runed
£11.90
BoD - Books on Demand Petites grandes histoires de FrancheComté
£999.99
Sudarènes Editions Chasseurs déternité
£20.31
hansebooks SnowBound
£13.41
hansebooks Vanity Fair
£25.11
BoD - Books on Demand Es war einmal ... ganz anders
£12.35
Books on Demand Schabrackenblues: Ein heiterer Frauenroman
£999.99
Books on Demand Emma
£25.55
BoD - Books on Demand Crimson Shadows Memories of a Vampire
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£17.20
BoD - Books on Demand Die gute alte Zeit
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£14.24
BoD - Books on Demand In the Eye of the Storm
£13.30
BoD - Books on Demand Hans im Glück
£10.92
IUDICIUM Verlag GmbH Von Amaterasu bis Olympia 45 historische und
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£15.20
Herzsprung-Verlag + Papierfresserchens Mtm-Verlag Dunkle Wolken über Südtirol - Conducit
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£999.99
Next Chapter Nineteen Days
£10.99
Next Chapter Calamity Jane: When The West Began
£13.86
Next Chapter Dark Angel
£999.99
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El sueño de la crisálida / The Dream of the
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£28.00
BoD - Books on Demand Nissen fra Møllehuset
£10.26
BoD - Books on Demand Det vi glömmer
£15.21
BoD - Books on Demand Karsk Blir Viking
£15.60
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Women of Prey (Shikari Auratein): Stories
£17.92
