The housekeeping job at Te Rangi was just what Maggie Sullivan wanted -- but the boss, John Dangerfield (so aptly known to everyone as "Danger!") refused to consider anyone who wasn't middle-aged. But a series of domestic disasters fo...
First published in 1971, Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains new fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties ...
Vicki was thrilled to be going to the South of France for her beloved sister's wedding to an attractive Frenchman -- until she met an even more attractive Frenchman, Guy Ransart, who, alas! had no time for Vicki at all....
Kathryn's trip to Sardinia was for business rather than pleasure -- but Vittorio Bertini was obviously going to make it as enjoyable for her as possible. And then what should have been a happy experience was ruined for her when she fell in l...
Libby couldn't decide whether Pierce Hardway was genuinely interested in B.W.C. (Because We Care), or whether he saw in its orphaned or deprived boys a source of cheap labour for his herb farm, Clove Orange. And even when she went to Clove Orange ...
Sister Philippa Morgan was inclined to build up a well of resistance when other people praised someone to the skies -- so she was not favorably disposed towards Colin Fletcher long before she had actually met him. He was clever, good-looking, charmin...
When Nigel Frome got Isobel Hendrix the job of secretary to his half-brother, Lucifer Bennetti, it was with the idea that he would thus be able to see a lot more of her. But Lucifer resembled his satanic namesake in more ways than one; wasn't Nige...
“They are a fairly peaceful people. But if they are roused they will fight. They are as hard as their mountains.” British soldier Peter Lennox, a POW in an Italian prison camp, is still fighting his own war. An artist in civilian life, his ha...
Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art. Nine of Yukio Mishima’s finest stories were...
Available for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at...
Set in a `time of discovery, excitement, and intoxication with ideas', this breathes the very essence of the world in which Scott lived. Beautifully recreating the course of his life - his childhood, love of family, literary success, encounters with ...
Caroline Ashton went to Mexico to find out what had happened to her brother Peter -- and was horrified to find him completely in the power of Diego Rivel. The more she learned about Peter's situation, the more her hatred for the arrogant Mexican ...
When Jonathan Grant agreed to try and contact Nicole Berenger in her Italian home in Lugano, he discovered a young rebel embittered by an old family feud, with no reason to love England or her English relatives. In trying to persuade her to return...
She was much too kindhearted Esther had never learned to say no to the demands of her beautiful sister, Averil. She had always lived under her shadow --and thumb! Now Averil had talked her into looking after her little boy for a few weeks. Rodn...
Community reaction toward a local school for black girls in 1833 makes a fourteen-year-old white orphan re-examine her feelings toward higher education, abolition, blacks, and the meaning of womanhood....
NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE FOR THE FIRST TIME!A man diagnosed with inoperable cancer sells his belongings to fulfill a lifelong dream to go on safari in Africa and hunt an elephant. But as he tracks the great creature, a bond forms between the hun...
Sabrina Muir's feeling for her blind patient, Douglas Saint-Sarne, were deep, and she was aware of his own growing interest in herself. But Sabrina was no beauty. What if Douglas recovered his sight? Wouldn't he go straight back to his ol...
Joanna Dowling knew she was going to love the job of home help at Raintree Valley in Northern Australia. The boss, Adam Corraine, considered she would do better working in some smart boutique in the big city, and gave her just two weeks in which to p...