If she is to survive and save her crew, Trouble Dog is going to have to remember how to fight. Quickly, what appears to be a straightforward rescue mission turns into something far more dangerous, as Trouble Dog, Konstanz and Childe, find themselves at the centre of a potential new conflict that could engulf not just mankind but the entire galaxy. What Childe doesn’t know is that Sudak is not the person she appears to be. In order to do this, he must reach out to the only person he considers a friend, even if he s not sure she can be trusted. Meanwhile, light years away, intelligence officer Ashton Childe is tasked with locating and saving the poet, Ona Sudak, who was aboard the missing ship, whatever the cost. When a ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of misfits and loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, an ex-captain of a medical frigate who once fought against Trouble Dog, are assigned to investigate and save whoever they can. But, stripped of her weaponry and emptied of her officers, she struggles in the new role she’s chosen for herself. Seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. The warship Trouble Dog was built and bred for calculating violence, yet following a brutal war, she finds herself disgusted by conflict and her role in a possible war crime. Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Winner of the 2018 BSFA Award for Best Novel!įinalist for the 2018 Locus Award for Best SF Novel!
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My first professionally published book, Life Lessons, came out from MLR Press in May 2011. I've been writing far longer than I care to admit (*whispers - forty years*), mostly for my own entertainment, usually M/M romance (with added mystery, fantasy, historical, SciFi.) I also have a few Young Adult stories (some released under the pen name Kira Harp.) My husband finally convinced me that after all the years of writing for fun, I really should submit something, somewhere. Minnesota's a kind, quiet (if sometimes chilly) place and it's home. I was born in Montreal but I've lived for 30 years in Minnesota, where the two seasons are Snow-removal and Road-repair, where the mosquito is the state bird, and where winter can be breathtakingly beautiful. Kaje is pronounced just like cage - it's an old nickname, and my pronouns are she/her/hers. Secrets are spilled and relationships rejiggered, and as the stakes for Katie's future get higher, she must question her own assumptions about what makes for a truly meaningful life. London has never seemed so far away-until Demeter unexpectedly turns up as a guest. Shattered but determined to stay positive, Katie retreats to her family's farm in Somerset to help them set up a vacation business. Then, just as she's finding her feet-not to mention a possible new romance-the worst happens. No wonder Katie takes refuge in not-quite-true Instagram posts, especially as she's desperate to make her dad proud. Katie's life, meanwhile, is a daily struggle-from her dismal rental to her oddball flatmates to the tense office politics she's trying to negotiate. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes. New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella has written her most timely novel yet.Įverywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Part love story, part workplace drama, this sharply observed novel is a witty critique of the false judgments we make in a social-media-obsessed world. In high school, she pretended she was a newspaper sports writer and wrote articles about her experiences on the basketball team. Her passion for writing began in grade school when she started writing poetry. Simpson was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. Will the lack of a motive cause someone to get away with murdering the county's most heartfelt success story?Įricka K.F. However, circumstantial evidence and leads has the detectives at a standstill. With the primary elections looming, the Mayor wants the responsible party for Tasha's death brought to justice. She starts an anymous blog to report the real news about prominent people in the county but is it really 'real news' she's blogging about or is she using her internet stage to quench the desires of her own personal vengefulness against others? Meanwhile, the tragic death of Tasha Everett, a high school valedictorian and community favorite, has the homicide detectives in a whirlwind. As a print journalist, all Suzanne has to do is showcase her talents for others to see and what better stage to present it on than the internet. Suzanne feels like God has failed her so she decides to take matters into her own hands in order to have the good life she feels she deserves. She is unable to bear children, her marriage is falling apart and she is unsatisfied with the current position she holds at her job. Suzanne Tucker feels like all the odds are against her. Every day since the arrest Jed has had to deal with the stares and accusations but now he questions himself and whether he will turn into his father, is it truly in the blood to be a pedophile or killer? Accused and charged with the murders and rapes of several young boys Jed's father sits awaiting for trial. Visit Jed Franklin’s life was turned completely upside down a year ago when his father was arrested. In her spare time, she loves going to the movies, watching TV, and walking. After working at a university for three years, she left to work in their hotel and devote more time to her writing. In 2001, she moved to New Zealand (an incredibly beautiful country) with her husband and two children. But now, she wouldn’t do anything else, and she never gets bored! And it took her a few years of thinking about writing before she actually started. She wasn’t one of those people who wrote as a small child. Which could explain why she was always in trouble! But she redeemed herself later, when at twenty-one she went back to full-time study. She was bored a lot of the time, and it seemed much more fun to dream up ways of disrupting lessons than to actually pay attention. School and Sara weren’t a match made in heaven. Sara Hantz was born in Northampton, England, the eldest of four children (she has three younger brothers). I’m going to do the review of the novel only and will try to not include any of the film’s elements.įirst, I’m just going to say that I love that this novel has two titles (I’m getting the Philosopher’s Stone vs the Sorcerer’s Stone feels). I was just browsing Lily Collins’ movies and I found Love, Rosie and the trailer just captured me and so I watched it and I was in love with the story. I didn’t know about this novel after I saw the movie. One question remains throughout the book, were they always meant to be more than friends and will they risk everything including their friendship on love? The book guides us through their relationship as it continues to change due to distance, new relationships and circumstances which seem determined to keep them apart. Rosie and Alex are close friends from childhood but one day they are suddenly separated when Alex and his family move from Dublin to Boston. Where Rainbows End is a story told through letters, emails and instant messaging about the ever changing relationship between the two main characters Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart. The story is told in the first person so we don’t know all that is going on in David’s head, but we do know he is hurt and angry by Evelyn’s failure to remember anything that happened. David arranges for Evelyn to come to his home in Laurel Canyon and figure out how they will manage the press and the divorce that Ev claims she wants. The attractive guy with the tattoos and guitar picks in her hotel bathroom happens to be heavy metal guitarist, David Ferris, of the band Stage Dive. When she gets home, she finds out the press is camped outside her home. All Evelyn wants to do is get away from the strange guy, take a shower, and get back to her life. In the bathroom with her is a very attractive tattooed guy whose name she figures out must be David because that is the name that is now tattooed on her ass. In the meantime, you have published a book that could be categorized as a new adult based on the characters, but for me it read more like a standard romance with very erotic sex scenes.Įvelyn Thomas wakes up in a hotel bathroom in Vegas with very little memory of the events that took place the night before. I really liked your erotic romances although I felt that the heroines could’ve been a lot stronger. I started reading you on the recommendation of another reader when I was looking into post-apocalyptic romance fiction. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars-Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic-and they should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all. Both a page-turner and literary tour de force, it is a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men. Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Douglas Stuart’s first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. In his subsequent novels, Steinbeck found a more authentic voice by drawing upon direct memories of his life in California. An exception was his first novel Cup of Gold which concerns the pirate Henry Morgan, whose adventures had captured Steinbeck's imagination as a child. Most of his earlier work dealt with subjects familiar to him from his formative years. Steinbeck moved briefly to New York City, but soon returned home to California to begin his career as a writer. This upbringing imparted a regionalistic flavor to his writing, giving many of his works a distinct sense of place. Steinbeck grew up in the Salinas Valley region of California, a culturally diverse place of rich migratory and immigrant history. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, and the novella, Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. The book will be of value to medieval historians, Byzantinists and historians of historiography as well as students of and specialists in modern politics, cultural and intellectual history. The diverse interpretations of the Byzantine phenomenon across and within these historiographic traditions are scrutinised against the backdrop of shifting geopolitical and cultural contexts, in constant dialogue and competition with each other and in communication with extra-regional, western and Russian, academic currents. Synthesising a sprawling mass of material largely unknown to academic audiences, it highlights the important place Byzantium's representations occupy in the identity building and historical consciousness in that part of Europe. This is a comprehensive comparative view of the way the phenomenon of Byzantium has been treated by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains – Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey – from the Enlightenment to the present day. |