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Spoils of war volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's child and will die in childbirth in just a few months......
Author
Language
English
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In the glittery world of charity auctions, big business, and high art, there seems to be more than enough money to spare, and the personalities that perfectly accompany the lavish and greed fuelled business. Fay Weldon, exclusively commissioned to write the novel by Italian jewellery company Bulgari, invites us into the world of a wealthy businessman, his passionate and successful wife, an artist, and two women wearing Bulgari necklaces.
Author
Series
Spoils of war volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbor, and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous as it turned out. Donor no. 116349-- "6'1", blue eyes, blond hair, Oxford BA, action man, aristocrat"-- is the ninth Earl of Dilberne, who gave his seed back in 1979 as a stripling of twenty-two,...
5) Kehua!
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Your writer, in conjuring this tale of murder, adultery, incest, ghosts, redemption and remorse, takes you first to a daffodil-filled garden in Highgate, North London, where, just outside the kitchen window, something startling shimmers on the very edges of perception. Fluttering and chattering, these are our kehua - a whole multiplying flock of Maori spirits (all will be explained) goaded into wakefulness by the conversation within. Scarlet - a...
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