A charming, delightful new regency romance series from author on the rise, Anna Bennett! She needed a husband of convenience. She got her one true love instead.Miss Fiona Hartley's huge dowry should have ensured that finding a husband would be quick. True, she's a tad older than the average debutante, and spends too much time sketching brutally honest character portraits. She desperately needs a husband so she can access her dowry, lest the man blackmailing her reveals a secret that would ...

She’s facing her biggest challenge yetMiss Kitty Beckett is a talented heiress who can breathe life into a dry building plan with her pencils and paints. She can also spot a rake at a hundred yards––and she won’t be tricked or charmed into marriage. Certainly not by any man who might interfere with her dreams. When Bellehaven Bayannounces its first-ever architectural design contest, she vows to win––with a little help from her childhood rival.Turning her buttoned-up ...

New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances in scientific knowledge to address pressing ethical and political challenges. In the...

A fisherman’s daughterMiss Poppy Summers is determined to keep her family’s fishing business afloat. Her poor widowed father has fallen ill, and her foolhardy brother has moved to London, leaving her precious little time to pursue her own dreams. The very lastthing Poppy needs to find tangled in her nets is a dangerously attractive man with a head wound––who claims he’s a duke.And a duke out of waterAndrew Keane is the Duke of Hawking, but he’s having a devil o...

What a girl wantsTo survive her difficult childhood, Miss Hazel Lively relied on two things: a tough exterior and a love of books. Now, she’s realized her lifelong dream of opening a school for girls. She’s hoping the wealthy families who summer at the shore willentrust their daughters to Bellehaven Academy––and help pay for less fortunate students. All Hazel must do is maintain a flawless reputation. It’s a foolproof plan … until a handsome earl strides into her office....

Arnold Bennett: Essays, Personal Development Books, Autobiographical Works & Articles gathers the many-sided prose of a writer best known for fiction yet equally significant as a cultural critic and practical moralist. These pieces range from literary journalism and reflections on modern life to disciplined guides such as his celebrated works on time, reading, and self-cultivation. Bennett's style is lucid, urbane, briskly argumentative, and often wry; it belongs to the Edwardian moment wh...

ARNOLD BENNETT Ultimate Collection gathers the essential range of Bennett's fiction and prose, from the celebrated Five Towns novels to shorter works and reflective essays that display his disciplined realism. His art lies in transforming provincial shops, parlours, factories, and family economies into sites of moral pressure and social change. Written in a lucid, observant Edwardian style, these works stand between Victorian social realism and modernist experimentation, valuing character,...

Born in 1897, Milly Bennett lived an extraordinary life that led from her native San Francisco, to Honolulu, to China for the revolution, to the Soviet Union on the eve of World War II, to the Spanish Civil War, and home again, a journey punctuated with many love affairs, triumphs, and disappointments. This memoir of Milly's early years through her extended stay in China, places the current political turmoil there into a broader historical perspective. Nominally an autobiography of a remar...

First published in 1913, this volume contains insightful notes and sketches by the author of the people and places of various places in Europe, including France, England, Italy, and Switzerland. Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English writer. Although he is perhaps best remembered for his popular novels, Bennett also produced work in other areas including the theatre, propaganda, journalism, and film. Other notable works by this author include: “Helen with a High Hand” (1910), “The...

This is a humorous novel. A Great Man (1904), which Bennett subtitled 'A Frolic, ' gives his humorous talent full rein. The novel is a hilarious character study of Henry Shakespeare Knight from his humble beginnings to his assent to the pinnacle of fame as a popular writer. The work existed as an artistic whole in his head, and he could not persuade himself to seek rest until he had got it down in black-and-white; for, though he wrote letters instead of sonnets, he was nevertheless a sort ...

This volume argues that a renewed commitment to sound macroeconomic policies and structural reforms is needed for countries in South East Europe, or 'the Balkans' achieve to sustainable prosperity, along with enhanced support from the international community. New fiscal and financial architecture has valuable lessons for policymakers in SEE.

She's a secret sensation. Miss Lily Hartley is the anonymous mastermind behind the ton's latest obsession: The Debutante's Revenge, a tell-all advice column for young ladies. To keep her identity hidden, Lily delivers her columns disguised as a boy?which is well and good, until she lands in the middle of tavern brawl. As luck would have it, a devastatingly handsome duke sweeps in to rescue her. He has no idea who she is. Eric Nash, Duke of Stonebridge, discovers there's a beautiful woman h...