Life, Death and Vanilla Slices

She is the author of two previous, critically acclaimed novels Camberwell Beauty and Having a Lovely Time.

She is one of only two female comedians to have won the prestigious Perrier Award. In Belgravia in the heat of summer, Lee Jones, a faded and embittered rock star, is checking out a group of women through the heavy cigarette smoke in a crowded pub. He makes eye contact with one, and winks. After allowing glances to linger for a while longer, he finally moves towards her.

In that moment, his programme of terror - years in the making - has begun. Months later, the first of the many chilling headlines to come appears: Charles Underhill, a wealthy Englishman living in Paris, has good reason to be interested in the activities of the so-called Winking Killer. With a past to hide and his future precarious, Charles is determined to discover the Winker's identity. In the overheating cities of London, Oxford, Paris and Nice, a game of cat and mouse develops, and catching someone's eye becomes increasingly perilous.

But if no one dares look, a killer can hide in plain sight. From 'a master of historical crime fiction' The Guardian , The Winker is a gripping thriller that won't let you look away. It is twenty-five years since Peach did the things she did that summer. Things that have kept her distant from her family and left her alone in London, a woman caught between effacing and flourishing. So when she is woken one night with news that her father is in intensive care she only knows one thing clearly: As Peach tries to confront the crisis at hand and endure her sister's brittle accusations, her brother's simmering resentment, her mother's passive fury - the line between past and present starts to dissolve, taking her fragile sense of adult self with it.

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An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they? The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.

Nina X is loosely inspired by the real case of a tiny Maoist cult in London whose leader kept five women trapped for more than twenty years. Nina X has no books, no toys and no privacy. She has nothing that might be described as love. Her closest emotional connection is with the birds she sees outside her bedroom window, when she is daring enough to remove the plasterboard that covers it.

She has never been outside her small south London house.

Life, Death and Vanilla Slices

She has never met another child. She has no mother and no father; she has a Leader a man , and she has three female comrades. The all-powerful Leader has named her The Project; she is being raised in total ideological purity, entirely separated from the false gods of capitalism and the cult of the self.

He has her record everything in her journal, to track her thoughts; he makes her revise the entries obsessively, until they fit with his narrative. Her words are erased, over and over again. From one of Elle magazine's 'authors to watch' comes a suspenseful and emotionally fraught novel about how little we really know the person we marry. For fans of The Affair and Dr Foster. Every woman has a secret Everyone admires Suzy and her doll's house life. She has a gorgeous family, a beautiful home and a successful business. But Suzy hasn't always been in control. In her past lies a shadowy tale of fear and instability - a life that she once ran away from, and has hidden from ever since.

When Suzy starts being followed, she fears that her past many finally be catching up on her. And when she finds herself unable to do what to her is the most important thing - keep her loved ones safe - she has to decide how far she'd be willing to go to win everything back.

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Rearing its impudent architecture like insult on a landscape of quiet beauty is Windcote, "its very name a masquerade," where inhabitants and guests find themselves driven by obsessions and confusions they have never faced before. Here doors open and close and open again. They hide, release, reveal, and ruin. In this web of tangled imperatives is the child, Destina, untouched by the fevers and failures around her. Her own world is outside in the mystery-locked canyon where, for the time of this story, she seems to find her own truth. Lost enough loves for three lifetimes? Want to break bad habits and replace them with good ones that last?

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Her father comes from the ruling classes of the empire, but her mother's people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the sands. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Mehr is brought to the attention of the Emperor's most feared mystics, who try to force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage. If she fails in their bidding, the gods themselves may awaken and seek vengeance From British debut author Tasha Suri, Empire of Sand is a lush and beautiful tale set in a magical world inspired by medieval India.

An arresting and magical history told through the eyes of an indomitable heroine. I cannot ask for more' Jeannette Ng 'Astounding. Follow her on twitter at tashadrinkstea for updates. In our lives we'll meet something like eighty thousand people. Most of them just in passing, sitting beside them on a bus, buying a latte from them, overtaking them too fast on the motorway.

Others will become friends, lovers, family. Some will stay in our lives forever, and some will be swept away by the flow of life. But we touch all of these people in some way, tiny or huge, making more of a difference that any of us can imagine. Rosie is in a coma, unable to reach out to the world or communicate. She only has one chance to make it back to consciousness - but she's slipping deeper and deeper into a maze of memories and it's going to be hard to find her way out. The story starts off with Anne living out her middle aged existence with her despondent husband and spoilt teenage sons.

She no longer has much contact with her Mum, Jean, after a difficult relationship between the two when Anne was growing up. That is until she gets a phone call out of the blue informing her that her Mother has been involved in an accident and is in a coma. When I saw the title of this book I assumed it would be some hilarious novel, especially as the author is a well known comedian. We have Jean and her memories, reminiscing back to the s and Anne trying to make sense of things in the present day. Feeling sympathetic for the characters is something I found strange in this novel.

The odd chapter is told from their point-of-view which is insightful and makes for an interesting read but you really do feel like giving them a good slap around the face at times! They are so selfish and treat Anne appallingly.

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I then once again found myself feeling sorry for Anne, but at the same time not being sure if I should be feeling sorry for Jean instead. The ending came as a complete surprise to me and I felt the whole story really highlights the sometimes difficult relationships between Mothers, Daughters and Sisters. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account.

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Jean Collins had two daughters. But she only loved one of them.