Growing up in a Jewish family (Weil)  in 1930's en 40's

Presents the story of Allende's ancestors and youth as it was written by her daughter's hospital bedside, reflecting the challenges and achievements of one family during a turbulent time in Chilean history. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. BOMC Alt. Tour.

The fabulously addictive new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan. When high-flying journalist Sheridan Gray loses her job, her boyfriend and her flat, she knows she must pick herself up and make a new start. But how will she adjust to small-town living and local reporting? Meanwhile, home-loving Nina Fallon's life is shattered when the exploits of her actor husband become national news. Now she's avoiding friends as she runs Ardbawn's guesthouse on her own. When Sheridan moves into Ardbawn, she realises Nina holds the key to a story that will make her name as a reporter again. But as she gets closer to the truth, Sheridan risks jeopardising her relationship with the man she has come to love. Is she better off going it alone? Or is love the greatest prize of all?

In 1932, as Japan conquers Manchuria, three young people--the master of a noble clan, his servant, and a gravedigger's daughter disguised as a boy--form a passionate alliance that is challenged and tested through the years as they become a political leader, a writer, and a great actress. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

This is a memoir of the writer Beryl Fletcher's life between the year of her birth in 1938 and 1972. It is the story of one woman's life -- but it is also the story of many others of her generation who have lived through a time of great change. The memoir also reflects on the life of her mother's generation, women who were primarily wives and mothers. Fearful of 'becoming her mother' with little identity or economic power of her own, Beryl Fletcher none the less married young, eventually running away from her husband with a virtual stranger. Interspersing the intimate narrative of a woman's life story as told by herself is the writer's contemporary voice, describing her current life and relationship. This is a rich multi-layered memoir exploring many themes including that of place, home, sexism and the meaning of language and the fickleness of memory. Beryl Fletcher's work has been acclaimed locally and internationally.

Naomi Jefferson, who experiences loss, betrayal, and addiction, believes that the weight of the world lies on her shoulders, until Joseph, her deceased brother's illegitimate teenage son, enters her life and teaches her a lesson in courage and self-love. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.

In a story set in nineteenth-century New Zealand and modern London, Jack Mackenzie, a minister and amateur botanist, arrives in Dunedin, only to be expelled from New Zealand, an event that has profound repercussions for his present-day descendants.

Kambodscha 1975, die Roten Khmer rücken nach Phnom Penh vor. Das Land versinkt in Grauen und Gewalt. Aus dem umhegten Kind Long Ung wird ein elternloser Flüchtling, der verzweifelt ums Überleben kämpft. Ein sehr persönlicher, erschütternder Erlebnisbericht einer jungen Frau und ein beklemmendes Mahnmal für die Opfer.

A tale inspired by the life of the Spanish saint describes how a wealthy girl from áAvila is sent to a convent by her parents and discovers within herself a spiritual fervor that is alternately criticized and admired by a society that is suffering through the Spanish Inquisition.

Uit het Spaans vertaald.

Traces the life of the venerated Southern writer from her Mississippi childhood to the present and discusses its relationship to her work