The paperback launch of THE GODMOTHER is one of the most exciting, commercial debuts of the year. Stunning package and innovative genrebusting fiction mean it will be a must-read. Tessa King is successful and unattached. She’s got a lovely apartment and nice clothes, and nothing ties her down – that’s the way she likes it. Tessa also has four godchildren. A 15 year-old pot-smoking rebel who hates his parents. A seven-year-old whose father walked out on her mother when she was still in hospital. And two screaming baby twins who are unattractive, double the trouble, and ruining their parents’ relationship. That’s why Tessa’s not particularly maternal. Sometimes it’s great to have nothing tying you down. And then sometimes, you start to realise something’s missing …

This book is in a good condition with gentle spine creases and scuffing on edges.

300g; 408 pages.

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Elle Wood, University of Southern California sorority president and sociopolitical jewelry design major, is blonde, spoiled, creative and desperately in love with her college sweetheart, Warner Huntingdon III. But when Warner announces he’s off to Stanford Law School, and that while there he aims to find a girl ‘more serious’ than Elle to be his wife, Elle and Underdog, her pet Bichon Frise, hatch a plan to follow him so that he will marry her like he’s supposed to do. Elle’s Stanford misadventures are distinctly unpromising from the outset, and it seems that the one place where blondes definitely don’t have more fun is law school. But then she’s made an intern on the Murder of Malibu case, defending one-time fitness queen and apricot blonde Brooke Vandermark from the charge of murdering her billionaire husband. In a courtroom triumph, Elle vindicates Brooke and all who are blonde at heart with a tip any Cosmo girl should know.

This book is in a very good condition.

160 grams; 284 pages.

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What do you do when you break the glass ceiling and are in place as the most famous female presenter on our national TV screens? Stay there of course… But when the celebrated Patti Ward, beautiful, talented and still young finds her TV role usurped by the up-and-coming Alexandra Khan, maintaining the energy of a twenty-year-old when you’re somewhat older becomes a little difficult. And despite the daily massages, wild sex and constant flirtation with her staff, Patti suspects she’s on the way out. Patti, though, has worked hard to earn her place in the hearts of millions, and she’s not giving up easily.

Softcover in excellent condition.

320 grams; 248 pages.

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Civil War, Fiction – General

A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.

This softcover book is in excellent condition.

438 pages

300 grams.

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Female Friendship, Fiction, Fiction / General, General & Literary Fiction, Modern Fiction

New edition of the international bestseller tying-in to major Warrier Bros. film.  When Siddalee Walker, eldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker (Ya-Ya extraordinaire – part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah) is interviewed about a hit play she has directed, her mother is described as a ‘tap-dancing child abuser’. Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda – devastating her daughter who postpones her wedding and puts her life on hold until she is granted forgiveness. Trying to repair the relationship, the Ya-Yas, Vivi’s intrepid tribe of Louisiana girlfriends, sashay in and insist Sidda is sent ‘The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood’, a scrapbook of their lives together from the day in 1932 when they were disqualified from a Shirley Temple lookalike contest for unladylike behaviour. Expected to raise babies, not Cain, the Ya-Yas are bonded for life in an unforgettable exploration of the complexities of mother-daughter relationships and the power of female friendship.

Edges are scuffed and spine creased. Top and bottoms of pages show some discolouration from storage.

Paperback, 530 pages

280 grams, 182x111mm

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Finding friends is hard to do…When thirty-two-year-old Rob Brooks’s long term girlfriend asks him to leave London and live with her in Manchester not only will it mean moving cities and changing the only job he’s ever had, it’ll also mean leaving behind his best mate in the entire world, Phil Clarke. Believing in love conquering all Rob takes the plunge and convinced of his ability to make new friends Rob tries his best to sort out the situation. But when six months in he still finds himself without even so much as a regular drinking buddy he begins to realise that sometimes making friends in your thirties can be the hardest thing to do. With this is mind Rob begins a strategy that though risky has the potential to deliver the one thing he wants: a brand new friend. His strategy? Advertising in a classified ad in a Manchester magazine. After three excruciatingly embarrassing “bloke dates” Rob begins to despair. But then his luck changes. He finds himself a brand new friend. But there’s a problem. Apart from knowing less than nothing about music trivia, football and supermodels vital statistics Rob’s new friend has one huge flaw. She’s a girl.

Straight from the bestseller lists in the UK comes a novel “full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations” (The Independent on Sunday), an excursion into the world of a modern male that “delivers its punch lines directly to the heart” (Birmingham Evening Mail). Like Helen Fielding’s smash success Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby’s classic High Fidelity , Mr. Commitment promises to make a big splash this side of the Atlantic as well.

Benjamin Duffy is a stand-up comic/temp who, like many men in their late twenties, is forced to face the eternal question: “To commit or not to commit?” After four years of biding her time, Benjamin’s girlfriend has proposed, issuing an ultimatum that sets Benjamin’s head spinning. He knows that Mel’s the one for him, but should he swap his stellar record collection and fridge full of beer for dinner parties and trips to IKEA? Maybe if Benjamin could swap “till death do us part” with “renewable on a four-year basis” he’d be happy, but the choice-as far as Mel sees it-is all or nothing. Now or never. Mel or no Mel.

So after a lifetime as Mr. Irresponsible, does Benjamin have what it takes to become Mr. Commitment?

The men who come to know Irene Boynton never forget her, but their memories of her differ wildly.

Plain speaking, hard-headed businessman Jeffrey Lane believes her to be gentle, loving and honest. He is so enamoured he is prepared to destroy his marriage for her.

Nicholas Steyart, young, idealistic and newly arrived from Australia to spend a year studying at Oxford, finds Irene charming, intelligent and gracious. But by allowing her into his life he nearly brings about the destruction of his father’s marriage and happiness.

Baron Yuri Ressovsky, a shrewd and succesful merchant banker, enjoys her wit and beauty and calls her his ‘darling lady’. But it is his friend, ambitious financier Daniel Herera, who comes the closest to discovering the real Irene.

Released from a prison sentence for manslaughter, Sidney returns home to West Virginia, where, to exorcise the memory of the lover he killed, he must keep his appointment with destiny in the shape of the man known as “the Renderer”. A cult book that Derek Jarman planned to film, this “dark and splendid affair by an authentic American genius” (Gore Vidal) is a shattering novel of sexual passion in the remote Appalachians, and a journey into the dark night of the American soul.

It is the turn of the twentieth century and war is razing the Boer Republics of South Africa to the ground. Kitchener’s army has intensified its most barbarous campaign: to burn down the homes of thousands of obstinate Boers, forcing a desperate migration to disease-ridden concentration camps. Yet the vastly outnumbered Boers still will not surrender to the British. The arena of war is considered to be no place for a lady, but in the midst of these horrors is a group of women, each fighting their own battle. Sarah Palmer is an angelically pretty nurse who arrives from England with her plump, madcap friend Louise, intending to work with wounded British soldiers, but also to escape the constraints of home. Their relationship is threatened when Sarah falls deeply in love with a sick Colonial trooper of humble origin as Louise cannot help but become painfully jealous of her friend’s natural magnetism and beauty. And then arrives the dynamic Englishwoman, Emily Hobhouse, who has come to bring succour to the destitute and dying women and children and to stir the consciences of Britain over the holocaust of the camps. As their dramas unfold, so too does the history of the war – the events that turned what was intended to be a quick annexation of the Boer Republics into a protracted, savage conflict; the involvement of the South African blacks promised the vote if they joined the British side; and the injustices and deep inequalities in South Africa which lie at the heart of the story. No Place for a Lady is historical fiction at its finest. Ann Harries has drawn unforgettable characters and made the period with all its complexities come vividly alive. This is a thrilling, beautifully written, utterly compelling novel.