SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 STELLA PRIZEIt all began when they started running away …Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash falls like snow, songbirds screech like dinosaurs, and the doctors are calling her mad …In this looking-glass world, Winona is forced to prove she is a sane, ration...

She was not an action woman: she could not run very fast; she favoured ballet slippers over combat boots, never swore and still suffered from nightmares; she did not enjoy confrontation of any kind. She was reluctant to face risk, and it was a quality that made her very good at her job. Her art lay in her ability to pass unnoticed, to slip in and out of the cracks of life, to be quietly invisible.Aboard a luxury yacht as the minder of the world's greatest-and most temperam...

A continuation of the acclaimed novel Thunderhead, Fireweather follows Winona Dalloway as she struggles to come to terms with the unrecognizable world around her.It all began when they started running away . . .Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash falls like snow, songbirds screech like dinosaurs, and the doctors are callin...

A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free.When Winona Dalloway begins her day — in the peaceful early hours before her children, that ‘tiny tornado of little hands and feet’, wake up — she doesn’t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed.On the outside, Winona is a seemingly unremarkable young mother: unobtrusive, quietly going about her tasks. But within is a vivid, chaotic self, teeming with voices — a mind both wild...

Trouble finds the League of the Daring like a magnet seeking metal.Since the League's dangerous, spine-chilling adventure to save Elijah, the Department of Individual Travelers restarted their time travel program.Half of the League races toward the future and time travel. The others embrace the present-1890 Los Angeles.While their friends investigate the new time travel program, Zella and Toby visit Miranda Stanbury. The girl's desperate request for...

While there has been a gradual increase in scholarship on men, ageing and masculinities, little attention has been paid to the social relations of men in later life and the implications for enhancing their social wellbeing and counteracting ageist discourse.Bringing together scholars in social gerontology and the social sciences from across Global North and South nations, this collection fills the gaps in key texts by foregrounding older men’s experiences.It provides new pe...

Samantha is the secretary of Guy, an extraordinarily handsome and sexy CEO. Although she longs for a day when her hidden feelings for him will finally be recognized, he only dates girls who are her complete opposite—he’s never once noticed her. No longer able to take it, Samantha turns in her resignation. However, at that moment Guy’s father is hospitalized. Worried about losing his only remaining blood relative, he asks Samantha to find him a woman who will bear his child and who won’t ex...

ビアンカのそばにはいつもアダムがいた。2人は幼稚園からの幼なじみで、大人になった今も、ビアンカが何か困ったことに巻き込まれるたび、アダムは的確な助言をくれたり、泣く肩を貸してくれたりする。あるとき、ビアンカはまたしても困った事態を招いてしまう。故郷の母親を喜ばせようと、つい結婚したと嘘をついてしまったのだ。母が訪ねてくる間だけ、アダムに夫のふりをしてもらおう――。ところが、いつも優しいアダムが初めて彼女の頼みをはねつけた。そして、見たこともない冷たい男の顔をして言ったのだ。「夫のふりをするのなら、本物らしく、毎晩同じベッドに寝よう」■ビアンカとアダムは友情からお互いの“初めての相手”になったほどの仲。ところがこれが二人の間に誤解を生んでしまい、以来二人はずっと微妙な関係を続けていたのでした。ミランダ・リーが描く友情から始まるロマンスは、甘酸っぱさ100%です。＊本書は、ハーレクイン・イマージュから既に配信されている作品のハーレクイン・セレクト版となります。 ご購入の際は十分ご注意ください。

ティナは、今は亡き親友サラの娘、ボニーの父親をさがしていた。可能性が最も高いのは、秘書だったサラのボス、ドミニクだ。ティナはドミニクの会社を訪ねたが、彼はろくに話も聞かず、門前払いをくわせた。一筋縄ではいかない男のようだ。こうなったら、こちらも不意打ちするしかない。ティナは会社を出た足で、今度はドミニクの自宅に向かった。幸い、孫が欲しくてならないドミニクの母親は、ボニーを見て大喜び。間違いなくドミニクの子供だと断言する。うまく自宅に入りこんだ私を見て、彼はどう反応するかしら？怒り狂うドミニクを想像して、ティナはほくそ笑む。なんとしてもＤＮＡ鑑定に持ちこんで、父親だと認めさせよう。ドミニクの傲慢な態度に持ち前の負けん気を刺激され、ティナは意気込んだ。それが危険な感情の前触れとも知らず……。

Trouble finds the League of the Daring like a magnet seeking metal.Since the League's dangerous, spine-chilling adventure to save Elijah, the Department of Individual Travelers restarted their time travel program.Half of the League races toward the future and time travel. The others embrace the present—1890 Los Angeles.While their friends investigate the new time travel program, Zella and Toby visit Miranda Stanbury. The girl's desperate request for...

A specialist in discreet and dangerous missions, Stevie Duveen - diminutive, brilliant and fearless - is up against people traffickers, sex slaves and the Russian mob on a mission to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the Russian Central Bank. Risk is her business, but this time she's in over her head .Meet Stevie Duveen: striking, brilliant, gifted in seven languages and all kinds of combat - and strategic analyst for Hazard Ltd, an international trouble-shooting ou...

A continuation of the acclaimed novel Thunderhead, Fireweather follows Winona Dalloway as she struggles to come to terms with the unrecognizable world around her.It all began when they started running away . . .Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash falls like snow, songbirds screech like dinosaurs, and the doctors are callin...