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The Wilderness
An era-defing novel about four women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they transition from young adults to grown women. Desiree, January, Monique and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood and of big city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays. Desiree is estranged from her sister Danielle, as the two nurse bitter family wounds in different ways. January's struggling with her surprise pregnancy and her relationship with a ‘good’ man she feels ambivalent about. Monique, a librarian and aspiring blogger, finds unexpected online fame after calling out the university where she works for its plans to whitewash fraught history. And Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground, without relying on the largesse of her upper middle-class family who often wonder aloud if she should be doing something better with her life. As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, they must figure out what they mean to one another—amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern life. Angela Flournoy's The Wilderness is a masterful and kaleidoscopic novel, capturing with disarming wit and electric prose how the most profound connections often lie in the tangled, uncertain thicket of friendship.
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Viper In The Nest
Behind the virtues of polite society, there are secrets worth killing for. London, 1759. When a charmless civil servant takes his own life, few are interested in his death. But Lizzie Hardwicke, harlot and informer for the magistrate, is desperate to satiate her curiosity and find out why. Lizzie's search for answers takes her from the smoke-filled rooms of fashionable gambling houses, where politicians mix ambition with pleasure, to the violent streets of Soho. All the while, she is navigating her complicated feelings for the magistrate's assistant, Willam Davenport, and secretly planning her retirement from her increasingly dangerous life at Mrs Farley's Bawdy House. But when the gambling house owner is brutally murdered, Lizzie finds herself tangled in a web of affairs far more complex than she had ever imagined. The darkest of secrets threaten to turn Davenport against her forever and if exposed, could send Lizzie to the gallows.
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The Corpse Played Dead
The curtain rises on a corpse, but who waits in the wings? London, 1759 An undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrates has the fabulous Lizzie Hardwicke posing as a pitiable seamstress at a popular theatre on Drury Lane. She soon learns that behind the scenes there is a world as sordid as the bawdy house she calls home, but possibly far more dangerous. When a nobleman and patron of the arts is brutally murdered and left on display centre-stage, the theatre is thrown into disarray. The investigation becomes all the more urgent with public scrutiny on the magistrate’s men including William Davenport, his assistant, with whom Lizzie continues to grow closer. Her suspect list is long but she must find a way to see through all the masks worn backstage without letting her own slip.
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Empires That Shaped Bharat
Traces ancient Indian history before the sultanates, spanning from early Aryan settlements to the fall of the Rajput dynasties. Examines how dynasties rose through war, ritual, and lineage, looking at key figures who shaped statecraft, culture, and kingship.
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How To Raise Rich Kids
Every parent wishes for their kids to be safe—especially financially. Personal finance wizard, Sarah Megginson, tells you exactly how to create this safety net. Financial stability buys your kids more than just things. It brings them a life full of choices, opportunities and freedom. But handling your finances is no piece of cake. How to Raise Rich Kids helps you build healthy money habits that will equip you to handle sudden financial challenges and meet future goals. As a personal finance expert with over twenty years of experience and a mother herself, Sarah Megginson aims to create a life full of possibilities for her children. She wrote this book to teach them everything she knows about money including its management, investment and enjoyment. Sarah’s three-step method will change your family’s relationship with money for the better by teaching you how to approach finances with your kids when they are at different stages of their lives. You will be able to: ✔ Understand, challenge and shift your own money mindset ✔ Learn how to talk about finances with your kids in effective, age-appropriate ways ✔ Build wealth for them through the types of investing that work best for you. Backed with research, How to Raise Rich Kids provides essential and helpful strategies, tips and case studies, guiding you to be more successful in planning your family’s future. This is your ultimate guide to improving financial literacy—for yourself, as well as your children.
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Sunburn
It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love. Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah. But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. Neither will be easy, but only one will offer her happiness. Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp. An atmospheric sapphic love story and coming-of-age novel.
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Heap Earth Upon It
In this follow up to the award winning Sunburn, a claustrophobic tale of obsession, family, and identity… In January, 1965, the growing town of Ballycrea has four new residents. The O’Leary siblings arrive in their new village under suspicious circumstances. Desperate to make a new start and leave their troubled life behind, the O'Learys offer few, contradicting details about their past. As they slowly settle in to town, the siblings are taken under the wing of Betty and Bill Nevan, a wealthy couple in their forties who have always wanted children. However, as one O’Leary sister grows close to Betty, lines are crossed and their intense relationship becomes difficult to define. All the while, the O’Leary’s buried secrets keep bubbling up, threatening to ruin their new future. Gothic, lush, and suspenseful, Chloe Michelle Howarth spins a tangled web that leaves you wondering who to trust until the very last page.
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Death And The Harlot
When information is power, secrets are worth lives. London, 1759 Lizzie Hardwicke has learned to escape her history and survive the perilous streets of Soho within the walls of Mrs Farley’s Bawdy House, a reputable brothel. But entertaining wealthy customers may not be so profitable when one of them is brutally murdered after a night with her. Lizzie must escape the investigator Davenport’s suspicious eye by solving the murder herself. But the deeper she goes, the more bodies pile up. From her customers to the doorman, everyone has something to hide. All Lizzie needs to do is find the person willing to kill for theirs, before they come for her. Death and the Harlot is the first instalment of the gripping and vividly imagined historical mystery series. Perfect for fans of Sarah Waters and Diana Gabaldon, echoing the atmospheric pull of a Nancy Drew-esque mystery.
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Talk The Walk - A Premarital Playbook
What actually holds a relationship together once the sparks of romance settle? In Talk the Walk, Prof Dr Minnu Bhonsle uses her decades of psychotherapy and counselling experience to guide couples through vital conversations that are tempting to avoid. From defining commitment to navigating finances to expectations for intimacy to long-term goals—this book allows you and your partner to define for yourselves what will help your relationship thrive. Designed to be an easy-to-understand workbook, it provides you with comprehensive prompts and handy space to reflect in writing as you use it in tandem with your partner. Whether you’re contemplating marriage, preparing for life after ‘I do’ or recalibrating years into your partnership, Talk the Walk equips you with the tools to build a life together on your own terms. A self-help guide to prepare premarital couples to go from “you and me” to “we”