Valerie Martin

• May-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Helene Thatcher, a social worker who helps the hungry and homeless by day, is in her private life the perfect victim. Helene's need to satisfy her lovers Reed, Michael, and Richard is erotic, powerful . . . and dangerous....

• Apr-1987
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-1989
• / General Fiction
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Comprising of ten stories, this collection includes the title story about a family beseiged by a rodent of startling presence and "Sea Lovers," which explores the passions of both land and sea creatures...

• Jan-1990
• / Horror
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From the acclaimed author of the bestselling Italian Fever and award-winning Property, comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid. "Part psychological...

• Jun-1991
• / Contemporary Romance
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In Alexandra, Martin creates a slowly shocking erotic odyssey, a bittersweet love story, a chilling tale of a man destroyed by a desperate and tragic experiment in passion. A strange and artful novel.--Margaret Manning, Boston Sunday Globe....

• May-1995
• / General Fiction
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From the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and prize-winning author of Property comes a riveting story of three women in New Orleans who must face the repercussions of sex, betrayal and the wilder side of human nature. • “Haunting…. An utterly ...

• Jul-1999
• / Suspense
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Part romance, part gothic suspense story, this is the compelling tale of an American woman's awakening as she tumbles headlong into a mystery, art, and eros -- from the bestselling, award-winning author of Property.  • "Spellbin...

• Oct-2001
• / Romance
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Emma is the mistress of Pascal, in an affair which is quickly spiralling towards violence. Pascal, however, is increasingly attracted to Claire, a fanatically Christian novice nun. Together these three are bound in a triangle where pain and passion m...

• Apr-2004
• / General Fiction
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WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE • Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life.... The writing ...

• May-2006
• / General Fiction
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From the Orange Prize-winning author of Property comes a vital and heartbreaking collection of short stories that turns an unflinching eye upon artists -- driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime -- as they struggle beneath the ...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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Two women, Chloe Dale, an artist comfortably ensconced in bucolic suburbia, and Salome Drago, a wily, seductive refugee from a country that no longer exists, confront each other in a Manhattan restaurant, and the battle lines are drawn. Toby Dale, so...

• Dec-2007
• / General Fiction
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From the award-winning author of Property and bestselling author of Mary Reilly -- "a bold retelling of a familiar, beloved story” (Los Angeles Times), inspired by the fresco cycles that depict the life of St. Francis of Assisi.Drawing from myriad...

• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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It's the 1970s in New York -- rents are cheap, love is free, and with the explosion of theater venues Off and Off-Off Broadway, aspiring actors will work for nothing in no clothes. Enter Edward Day, who wants more than anything to move an unsuspectin...

• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-2014
• / Historical
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A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as Martin's landmark Mary Reilly. In 1872 the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was ...

• Aug-2015
• / General Fiction
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From the bestselling author of "Mary Reilly" and the internationally acclaimed "Property," a brilliant collection featuring Valerie Martin's finest short stories to date. For four decades Valerie Martin has been publishing novels and stories that...

• Aug-2020
• / Literary
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A timeless story of family, war, art, and betrayal set around an ancient, ancestral home in the Tuscan countryside from bestselling novelist Valerie Martin. When Jan, an American academic, rents an apartment in a Tuscan villa for the summer, she p...

• Feb-2024
• / Women's Fiction
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From the prize-winning and beloved author Valerie Martin (Mary Reilly, Property, Italian Fever) comes an "utterly brilliant" (Daily Mail) tale of female subversion and agency in a patriarchal world, with two brilliantly crafted protagonists at its ce...

• / Contemporary Romance
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Ms. Martin's trademarks: a preoccupation with the dark underside of life, a taste for disturbing, even macabre imagery… excursions into an unseen realm [of] strange and magical events… Martin possesses a sure storytelling gift, [an] ability to tr...