While You Were Roguish

She is making a list… When Lady Hadley answers the call to help prepare her cousin’s newly inherited house for Christmas, there is much to do. Hire staff, dust every corner, hang garland… Handling a half-naked man found rummaging in the kitchen is not on her list. When Bess realizes he’s foxed and learns he has a reputation for being wild, she decides to teach him a lesson. Instead, he reignites a fiery passion in her that almost led to her ruin years ago—and threatens to consume her now. He's in the naughty column... Lord Julius Everly is in danger of freezing when his horse dumps him in a creek during a brutal winter storm. Fortunately, his lady neighbors are the hospitable sort. Not only is he given shelter and a warm bed to pass the night, it appears he and the lovely widow making calf-eyes at him the next morning made good use of it. It’s too bad he can’t remember a thing, including asking her to marry him. When Bess’s guilty conscience forces her to confess to lying, Julius can’t deny the truth. She is his other half, and he’ll risk anything to have her. An Everly Manor Happily Ever After Series: Book 1: Must Love Majors Book 2: While You Were Roguish

Two college professors of a reputable California institute of higher learning are drawn together in a series of inexplicable mysteries involving a timeless woman. Two law enforcement officials put their polished skills to the test in some effort to solve an unbreakable chain of dark enigmas that center around Santa Monica, California. Two Britishers are pulled into a web of amicable intrigue that is shielded in a dark secret.

To the loveliest lady in Kent… The anonymous letter arrived at the perfect time. Instead of fretting over selecting a husband and being separated from her twin sister, Lady Laurel Everly is preoccupied with discovering the author’s identity. Partnering with the only man capable of leaving her breathless is an exciting diversion as well. An accidentally overheard conversation months earlier leaves Laurel with doubts about his wishes to marry, but the heat between them is undeniable. Perhaps the situation calls for a bold gesture. After all, she promised to accept a proposal before her parents’ house party ends. Forever yours… With discipline and determination, Captain Gabriel Brazier defied the family doctor to overcome many hardships after the loss of his leg in the war. He relearned how to walk, and he rides like he never left the saddle. Even the launch of his new career as a book illustrator has been successful. Once he wins the hand of the lady who stole his heart last spring, he’ll have everything he wants. But the obstacles of courtship prove more challenging than he anticipated as he struggles to forget the doctor’s most damning prediction. No woman will ever desire him again. Join the house party and fall in love at Everly Manor with this lighthearted Regency romance. This quick story can be read as a stand-alone, but it revisits characters from previous books. Most readers prefer to read the series in order. Appropriate for mature audiences. AN EVERLY MANOR HAPPILY EVER AFTER: 1. Must Love Majors 2. While You Were Roguish 3. Kisses from a Captain

The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler's List and the "complex and mesmerizing" (The Christian Science Monitor) Napoleon's Last Island is at his triumphant best with this vibrant and engaging novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens's son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s. Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England's most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself--or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Even on the other side of the world, Edward encounters the same rabid veneration of his father that exists in England. But Edward has a secret: he has never read a single word of his father's beloved writing. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles. By reimagining the tale of a fascinating yet little-known figure in history, this rollicking, high-spirited tale offers penetrating insights into Colonialism and the fate of Australia's indigenous people, and a wonderfully intimate portrait of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eye of his exiled son.

'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times 'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise' Emilia Clarke 'She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be' New Yorker Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London Review of Books – selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude – have been described as 'virtuoso performances', and 'small masterpieces'. From Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? is a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated – and mordantly funny.