![]() ![]() ![]() She lives near the sea on the east coast of Australia, where she's losing her battle with an overgrown subtropical garden. When she's not writing passionate, intense stories featuring gorgeous Regency heroes and the women who are their destiny, Anna loves to travel, especially in the United Kingdom, and listen to all kinds of music. Her books have twice been nominated for Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA Award and three times for Romance Writers of Australia's Romantic Book of the Year. Anna has won numerous awards for her historical romances, including the RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice, the Booksellers' Best, the Golden Quill (three times), the Heart of Excellence, the Aspen Gold (twice), and the Australian Romance Readers Association's most popular historical romance (five times). Once she discovered the wonderful world of romance novels, she knew exactly what she wanted to write. Always a voracious reader, Anna Campbell decided when she was a child that she wanted to be a writer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One scene features some topless groupies, and a single woman nearly has sex with a married man, but there's only one actual love scene in the book, and it's tastefully described with an emphasis on the couple's emotions, not the act itself. Some of the characters occasionally use strong language, and the entire story is permeated by the red-hot chemistry between the main characters. ![]() There are underage characters who drink and young adults (their age is unclear) who smoke pot, take ecstasy, and drink to excess. A story of love and friendship in Los Angeles, Sinner contains mature references to recovering addict Cole's sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll past, as well as his ongoing impulses to score. ![]() Parents need to know that Sinner is a stand-alone companion book to Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver trilogy, but, instead of focusing on that series' central couple, Sam and Grace, it follows former rock star (and werewolf) Cole and emotionally fragile beauty Isabel. ![]() ![]() In WOLF CREEK: KIOWA VENGEANCE, Wolf Creek is threatened by marauding Kiowa warriors who seek to avenge the deaths of their comrades at the hands of buffalo hunters. Satterlee and his posse must overtake the outlaws before they reach Indian Territory-but the chase is complicated by the secret pasts of several posse members… In our first adventure, WOLF CREEK: BLOODY TRAIL, the town of Wolf Creek is assaulted by a small army of former Confederate guerrillas, who rob the bank and leave dead innocents in their wake. ![]() Each author writes from the perspective of his or her own unique character, blended together into a single novel. Here in this first boxed set you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]()
![]() ![]() Vivian Dudro: The simple answer to why it was written is because the author wanted to write it! Aidan Nichols is a Dominican, scholar, and big fan of Sigrid Undset, and he just felt a desire to write it.Īs far as the timing goes, one of Undset’s big historical novels– The Master of Hestviken–is being re-translated, so maybe people will be introduced to her work through that and then want to find out more about her. ![]() Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts, a new biography and study of Undset by Aidan Nichols, O.P, published by Ignatius Press, sheds light on the remarkable breadth of Undset’s thought.ĬWR spoke with Vivian Dudro, Senior Editor at Ignatius Press, to discuss the new book and Undset’s significance as a Catholic convert, novelist, polemicist, and underappreciated intellectual of modern times.ĬWR: Why was this book written? Why should someone read this book, and why now? But she wrote much more than that epic work of historical fiction. ![]() Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) is most famous for her award-winning Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Matt Haig is a marvellous writer: limpid tender passionate. “Full of wisdoms and warmth” NATHAN FILER “Brings a difficult and sensitive subject out of the darkness and into the light” MICHAEL PALIN “Maybe the most important book I’ve read this year” SIMON MAYO “For anyone who has faced the black dog, or felt despair, this marvellous book is a real comfort, dealing sympathetically with depression, written with candour and from first-hand experience. Words, just sometimes, really can set you free.’ The tunnel does have light at the end of it, even if we haven’t been able to see it. ![]() The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view. ‘I wrote this book because the oldest clichés remain the truest. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.Ī moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It was named as one of Entertainment Weekly’s Must-Read Books of 2016.Īged 24, Matt Haig’s world caved in. It has been published by 29 publishers around the world. Reasons to Stay Alive is a Sunday Times number 1 bestseller and was in the top ten charts for 49 weeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amelia thinks of it as him being good at running away, especially from reality. Recently he's been trying to look after himself rather more - taking up running half marathons. ![]() It's one of the reasons why he hides behind his work: it's safe. ![]() He can't even recognise his own face in the mirror. He's more likely to recognise her by her shape or her perfume. He can - and has - walked past his wife in the street. He suffers from prosopagnosia - the inability to recognise faces. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.Īdam's different. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the idea. Summary: A brilliant plot with so many twists you feel dizzy! Exceptionally well done and highly recommended.Īmelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Loves cats and dogs, therefore she often writes about her own pets in her books. Influenced by writer James Agee, Cynthia decided to write her first book, “When I Was Young In the Mountains”, which reflects her own life as a child growing up in West Virginia. The areas that she grew up in did not have public libraries or bookstores, so this was a new experience for Cynthia. At this time, Cynthia was working in the children's section of the public library. She had been a comic book and romance novel reader prior to college, but never a writer. ![]() Cynthia first began writing in college while taking an English class. Her books often include characters and events that are inspired by people and events in her own life. In her autobiography, "But I'll Be Back Again", Cynthia describes the loss of her father as part of the reason she was inspired to begin writing.Ĭynthia writes about her childhood and the experiences that she had growing up in the mountains of West Virginia and Ohio. Cynthia had very little contact with her father, and he passed away when she was only thirteen. Her parents divorced when she was very young, and as a result Cynthia was raised by her mother and her grandparents. Cynthia Rylant was born in Hopewell, Virginia in June of 1954. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I never felt like one of them wasn’t needed, they all had their place within the novel. I thought the writing was done beautifully and loved the transitions between present day and forty-eight hours earlier. It was definitely a page turner and I had trouble putting it down. Not only was I shocked by the killer’s reveal but also by this person’s motives and history. I thought to myself “it’s so obvious who it is, that’s so disappointing.” Imagine my shock when I get almost to the end of the book and it’s NOT who I thought it was at all. ![]() ![]() While reading the book, I thought I had the killer figured out right away. I found her review interesting so I wanted to pick it up and check it out for myself, although I am always disappointed when I can pick out the killer early on. She reviewed it on her channel and said that she guessed the killer halfway through the book. I heard about this book from booktuber Andbookhoarding. Nora has to piece together what happened and as she does so, revisits parts of herself that she would rather keep in the past. forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital only knowing that someone is dead. Leonora “Nora” is a crime writer, who one day receives an invitation for a weekend getaway in the English countryside to celebrate an old friends “hen” a friend that she hasn’t seen in ten years. In A Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware is a psychological thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Stepping Out of the Shadows Jean Sasson and the Princess focus on how, despite recent reforms, such as women being afforded the right to drive unaccompanied, Saudi women still suffer horrific physical and psychological abuse. ![]() And with women very much in the headlines today, and the Saudi Crown Prince making his own headlines with his determination to modernise the Kingdom, Stepping Out of the Shadows, couldn't be more relevant or timely. Written with Princess Al Saud, each book follows the extraordinarily glamorous life of this Saudi Princess, her friends and her family.īut there's a much darker, more serious side to the PRINCESS series - the side which focuses on human rights abuses - and most particularly the appalling treatment of women in Saudi Arabia. With more than 1.8 million copies sold across eight titles, Jean Sasson's PRINCESS series has achieved remarkable success for more than 21 years. ![]() |