No one knows for sure precisely when and where Shakespeare wrote his sonnets or, more intriguingly, who he wrote them for. This wonderfully entertaining novel imagines the circumstances that inspired 30 of the Bard's most popular sonnets. The young Will Shakespeare is living under the patronage of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. The controversial earl is under pressure from his family and those close to the royal court to settle down but he is far too busy drinking, carousing, and cavorting with his motley band of acquaintances to pay attention. Not then the obvious setting for poetic genius but within the politics (both state and sexual) of this lofty household Will finds lots to inspire his pen, and a few attractive distractions too. With 30 sonnets interwoven into the text in seamless fashion, this clever tale crafted from fragments of history wears its scholarship lightly and its love of Shakespeare and poetry proudly.

The Sonnets

Literature & Fiction

Collins, Warwick

British & Irish

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The Marriage of Souls

Contemporary

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The Soviets have laid down a challenge to the America Cup to be battled out in a series of seven races between the finest teams that each country can produce. The Russians win the first three races, until Jim discovers that the US boat has been sabotaged by its own bosses.

Challenge

Genre Fiction

Pan/Macmillan

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

This sequel to "Challenge" tracks the fortunes of the Estonian helmsman, Ivan Illich, who beat Jim Shaw in the America's Cup in 2001. The sailing theme is intertwined with love interest between the divorced Ivan and Lydia Teemant, a lecturer in child psychology.

New World

Silas Grange is a handsome young doctor who prides himself on keeping his appetites under perfect control. But when Grange is summoned by a mysterious, voluptuous widow named Celia Quill, he submits readily to the power of her sensuality. Calmly, expertly, and with studied poise, Mrs. Quill initiates Grange into pleasures beyond his imagination . . . and then proceeds to betray him with deceit beyond his darkest fears. Set in an eighteenth-century English world of polished surfaces and secret desires, THE RATIONALIST weaves a story of reason overthrown by passion, pure intellect subverted by sexual obsession. Warwick Collins, acclaimed author of CHALLENGE, proves himself a master of historical fiction and a prose stylist of extraordinary power. "Ironic and deliciously lustful . . . THE RATIONALIST is classically elegant and romantically sensuous, comic and sexy." -- New York Newsday

The Rationalist

Ballantine Books

Love, repression, and emotional slavery combine to weave a powerful erotic spell as Silas Grange, an utterly rational eighteenth-century doctor, becomes obsessed with a strange, beautiful widow and her daughter

The Rationalist: A Novel

Simon&Schuster

Computer one

In the early years of the twenty-first century, Professor Enzo Yakuda fears that if he sounds a warning against Computer One, the international civil computer network that runs most of the planet, it will lead to humankind's annihilation

Computer One

Computers & Technology

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Computer One: A Novel

Marion Boyars

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