Myriad women out there have suffered due to their husbands’ weaknesses. While many have called their marriage a day and walked away, some have tried to hold on and salvage their union, hoping that their love is strong enough to bring forth a miracle. When children are at stake, they try even harder, hoping to provide the unfettered love of both parents. This book was painstakingly-written to relate my true journey and endless attempts to save my union and husband. I tried even harder becau...

Domestic and Provincial Social Climbing Satire – 5 Classic Society Satire Novels' brings together an illustrious collection of 19th and early 20th-century works that masterfully lampoon the intricacies of social stratification and aspiration. The anthology traverses a spectrum of literary styles, from the biting wit and irony of early Victorian prose to the more nuanced, yet equally piercing commentaries of the Edwardian era. Each novel serves as a mirror, reflecting the absurdities and pr...

In 'Novels That Exposed the Hypocrisy of High Society - 4 Classic Victorian Fiction', the intricate tapestry of Victorian literature is deftly explored through its capacity to critique and illuminate the duplicity of aristocratic life. This collection assembles a diverse array of narratives and literary styles, each delving into the conceit and moral ambiguity entrenched in high society. Without singling out specific works, the anthology assures a comprehensive engagement with both the bit...

The Forgotten Art of Courtship: 40 Romance Novels surveys the changing languages of desire, marriage, social ambition, and emotional self-determination across the long nineteenth century and its literary afterlives. Ranging from comedy of manners and epistolary intrigue to Gothic intensity, domestic realism, historical adventure, and psychologically nuanced social fiction, the volume reveals courtship as both private feeling and public negotiation. Its selection juxtaposes witty examinatio...

The Lost Charm of Courtship - 40 Romance Classics surveys the changing languages of desire, marriage, social ambition, and moral choice across the long nineteenth century and beyond. Its selections range from comedy of manners and epistolary intrigue to Gothic intensity, historical adventure, domestic realism, and psychologically nuanced social fiction. Courtship appears not merely as a route to happy union but as a testing ground for class, gender, inheritance, reputation, and individual ...

ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD IS BACK--INVESTIGATING THE STRANGE RIDDLE OF PENRICK SANDS.On the north coast of Cornwall, residents in the quaint seaside town of Penrick report a terrifying phenomenon--an eerie, glowing apparition that rides the surf at night, adding a weird fascination to this place of picturesque streets, secluded beaches, and abandoned mines. Yet Chief Superintendent Powell soon learns that Penrick already harbors unsolved mysteries. For, thirty years ago, some...

In 1978 Warren Fellows, Paul Hayward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang men's prison, the Bangkok Hilton. For Warren Fellows, it was the beginning of twelve years of hell.The Damage Done takes you behind the bars of a Bangkok prison. A place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where autocratic prison g...

Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize‘The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true. I don’t mind at all if you forget this.The important thing is that I don’t.’On a hot still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed for ever.Her four-year-old boy was paddling peacefully at the water’s edge when a wave pulled him...

‘Touching and uplifting’ MILLY JOHNSON’A beautiful story of loss, discovery and recovery’ HEIDI SWAIN‘Heart-wrenching and compelling’ SARAH MORGAN'Beautiful, poignant and thought-provoking’ CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN***Everything you leave behind tells a story …Heather Morgan doesn’t remember her childhood. She doesn’t want to.For Heather’s mother, every pos...

World famous Indian detective Vish Puri provides a comprehensive guide to the ancient Indian field of investigation and its application in the modern context, including invaluable recommendations for all types of disguises and undercover aliases, operational procedures and methods of detection and observation, not overlooking useful information regarding procedures for vetting prospective brides and grooms, where to get the best street foods while conducting stake outs, and the importance ...

Bang Kwang Prison is one of the most notorious penal institutions in the world. Located seven miles north of Bangkok city in the Nonthaburi Province, the prison is home to over 8,000 inmates, among them ruthless killers, rapists, drug traffickers, conmen and thieves.The Bangkok Hilton is understaffed, overcrowded, and filled with inmates who struggle with insanity as they spend the first months of their sentences chained in leg irons. Prisoners outnumber guards by 50 to 1. Until no...