A bracing, candid collection that brings together earlier work and new poems to map a restless, autobiographical voice across love, desire, gender, and urban life. The pieces mix fierce political critique, wry humor, and intimate confession, using conversational diction and sharp imagery to interrogate fame, family, sexuality, and the craft of writing. Ranging from tender observation to outraged manifesto, the poems continually search for selfhood and belonging, transforming ordinary moments into luminous, unsparing lyric statements.

Hertigen av Windlemere, Alstone, är stilig, populär och aktad i societeten men han är uttråkad och saknar spänning i livet. För att göra vardagen mer omväxlande utmanar han sin vän sir Hugo att ta en kvinna av låg börd, göra henne till en respektabel dam och introducera henne i societeten. Sir Hugo skickar sin föräldralösa brorsdotter Lorena. När hon får syn på Alstone blir hon hänförd och efter att ha tillbringat tid tillsammans upptäcker Alstone att hennes känslor är besvarade.

Margaret has spent her childhood watching her parents' unhappy marriage, which made her a fierce opponent of the traditional, passionless union. Being a woman with a modern mind is difficult in a time when female submission is still considered a virtue. After their father dies in a car accident Margaret and her mother become unexpected allies as they set out to live their lives, while trying to avoid falling in love with men along the way.

A rollicking medieval adventure that follows a man raised among brigands who rises to become a feared outlaw leader, then becomes entangled in high-stakes political intrigue, shifting loyalties, romance, and revenge as feudal conflicts and struggles for power in 13th-century England threaten to destroy him and those he loves.

Ein opulent recherchierter historischer Roman, der im mittelalterlichen England spielt und das Schicksal einzelner Menschen sowie ganzer Familien in Zeiten politischer Umbrüche, Machtkämpfe und persönlicher Verrätereien verfolgt; mit dichten Beschreibungen des Alltags, klar gezeichneten Figuren, Liebes- und Loyalitätskonflikten sowie Intrigen am Hofe verwebt die Geschichte private Schicksale mit großen historischen Ereignissen und thematisiert Ehrgefühl, Aufstiegschancen und die Härte des Lebens im Spätmittelalter.

Grace Condry has spent a lifetime running from her past. Betrayed as a child by her only love and raised on the streets, she now hides in plain sight as queen of London's darkest corners. Ewan, Duke of Marwick, returns after a decade of searching, determined to win her back and make her his duchess. Grace vows revenge and keeps him close, but their reunion threatens the life she has claimed and the heart she swore he would never steal.

A plucky orphan raised in an English boarding school is sent to live with distant relatives in Manaus and, on the steamer journey and in the lush Amazon, discovers the extraordinary beauty and danger of the rainforest; she makes warm friendships with locals and fellow travellers, uncovers the selfish schemes of her supposed guardians, and ultimately finds courage, belonging, and a new kind of family far from England.

Louise Vemet was raised in the slums of Paris and came of age amid the splendor and corruption of the Second Empire. She rose to prominence in fashion, clothing fabled women of title and pleasure in a society where even sin needed style. She had a lover she could not wed and gave their child a name by entering a passionless marriage. Her life spans Paris under Louis Napoleon and Victorian England, moving from despair to joy.

An orphaned governess endures a harsh childhood and later finds employment at a remote estate where she forms a passionate but fraught attachment to her brooding employer; as gothic secrets and moral conflicts at the house come to light she must choose between love and conscience, asserting her personal integrity and independence in the face of social constraints, and ultimately finds a redemptive resolution after suffering, growth, and unexpected reversals of fortune.

A collection of early-20th-century social-realist narratives set largely in rural Bengal, focusing on intimate human relationships and everyday lives marked by poverty, tradition, and moral struggle; the stories center on dignified, often tragic characters—especially women—who confront rigid social norms, caste and class constraints, unfulfilled love, and family pressures, conveyed in compassionate, lyrical prose that combines emotional intensity with a critique of social injustice while evoking vivid village landscapes and the slow, bittersweet changes in society.

An intimate multigenerational family saga set at an ancestral Ontario estate, following the proud, eccentric Whiteoak household as marriages, rivalries, inheritance disputes and buried secrets strain loyalties and reveal the personalities and frailties of successive generations; the novel explores how tradition, social change and personal ambition shape the fate of the family and the house that binds them.

Ellen Rogers is nineteen, pampered and playful, beautiful but bored, who finds tormenting boys more exciting than horseback riding or piano lessons. She has already twisted Bill Northrup around her fingers and discarded him, and now looks for a bigger game. Ed Lanson is good-looking, powerful and self-educated, with a brutal ego that can crush Ellen; his quotations from Swinburne and Nietzsche, studied lovemaking and calculated ruthlessness reduce her to a bewildered, love-sick girl.