Daughters of Captain Hook

Literature & Fiction

SPALDING, Linda

Contemporary

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, London

A new edition of the first novel of an author who has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Combining humour and pity, it creates the atmosphere of The Jerusalem, where old ladies have nothing to do except eat junket and die peacefully without fuss.

At the Jerusalem

Paul Bailey

This biography defies the conventional portrait of Frieda Lawrence as "love goddess" and "Earth mother", depicting instaed a strong-willed, independent-minded, creative woman who broke every social and sexual taboo of her time. It takes us through Frieda's tumultous life, from her aristocratic Prussian childhood through to her first marriage to a staid English professor in Nottingham, her wild affair with the cocaine-addicted psychoanalyst and free-love advocate Otto Gross, the scandalous abandonment of her husband and three children for the love of a coal miner's son who would become one of the 20th century's greatest novelists, to her years at Mabel Dodge Luhan's artists' colony in Taos, first with Lawrence and then with her third husband, the handsome if hapless Captain Angelino Ravagli. Frieda appeared in every major novel Lawrence wrote during their 18 years together, from "The Rainbow" to "Lady Chatterley's Lover". She was his most trusted reader and she had an anti-intellectual sure-footedness that helped shape one of the most famously embattled unions of the century.

Genius for Living Lawrence

Byrne, Janet

From the author of "Perfume and "The Double Bass" and "The Pigeon", this story is a celebration of childhood and of the joys of growing up.

Story of Mr Sommer

SÜSKIND, Patrick

For 20 years Anna Bouverie, a vicar's wife, had served God in a diversity of ways. When her husband failed to gain promotion and retreated into isolated bitterness, she rebelled and took a job in the local supermarket. Soon she found herself admired by three very different men.

The Rectors Wife (Bloomsbury Modern Library)

Joanna, Trollope

This work looks at Nostradamus's predictions for women. Interpreting the complex verses of the 16th-century prophet, using the system of historical symbolism developed in the author's previous books, Peter Lorie revals startling facts about women's changing position in society: how, particularly in the next two decades after 1995, women will radically gain authority and have far greater influence in human affairs; how they will be able to function independently from male influence; and how a fundamental change will occur in the way that humanity functions within the world. This look at the prophet's writings reveals radical changes for women in all areas of life, a march of women who will cross Europe in 1997 to establish equal rights, as well as a list of women who will become powerful in the next millenium.

Nostradamus Prophecies for Women

Religion & Spirituality

Manuela Mascetti

Occult & Paranormal

A tale of international terrorism that sweeps from the heat of the Middle East to rainswept Northern Ireland. The book is based on the author's own experiences during his 18 years in the SAS.

Going Hostile

Davies, Barry

They met for the first time at a party in Mexico, just as the sixties gave way to the seventies: the androgynous, blond-capped movie actor Diana Soren, and the renowned writer. For two months they live in a perfect world, until Diana becomes a slave to irrational manias and nocturnal frights.

Diana the Goddess Who Hunts Alone

FUENTES,CARLOS

Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea,  which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose  inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on  Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of  saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced  Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to  build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth.  Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce, a chemistry professor in Iowa, is intrigued by  some of the new products Newton's company brings to the market, and  already suspects Newton of being an alien. As Bryce and the FBI close  in, Newton finds his own clarity and sense of purpose diminishing.

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Walter-Tevis

Science Fiction

A powerful elegy to the intimacies and idiocies of family, The Promise of Happiness tells the story of an apparently ordinary family on the cusp of an extraordinary moment: the return of the family's prodigal daughter, Juliet. Her release from an upstate New York prison throws the Judds, formerly of London but now scattered, back together. For her father, Juliet's conviction for a theft she may not have committed had proven the disintegration of a dying society. For her mother, it is a source not only of resentment, but bafflement. And for all of the Judds, it is a moment of both intense joy and confusion.As Justin Cartwright's novel opens, Juliet's parents await her release and return to England. Charlie, their capable and successful son, has been charged with collecting her and softening her reentry into the world, his own life unsettled meanwhile by his glamorous girlfriend's pregnancy and his ambivalence towards it. Sophie, the youngest and most rebellious sibling, is in the midst of getting her chaotic life (mostly) under control. And Juliet herself is wounded, the perfect daughter made scapegoat for a victimless crime. With searching perception and gentle humor, Justin Cartwright gradually reveals the inner struggles of the five disparate Judds as they grapple with their conflicting feelings for each other and the moral dilemmas that beset them, bringing them finally together in what is ultimately a celebration of the layers and universal oddness of the love of a family.

The Promise of Happiness

CARTWRIGHT, Justin

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