![]() ![]() Though it wasn’t the filthy dirty I usually prefer it definitely was a sexy read. When I started I immediately knew I wouldn’t have to worry about it. The title set a pretty high expectation prescedent and I hoped it would meet my expectation. The reason I desperately wanted to read this book wasn’t because of the cover, though it’s a fabulously genius cover, it was because of the title! I unashamedly confess to being a dirty-talk junkie and when a title includes any form or the combination of the words dirty and talk, I’m a goner! She claims she wants his heart instead – but that’s the one thing he can never give. ![]() Yet as the chemistry between him and Christie burns out of control, he can’t help but think this woman is out for his money like all the rest. Tech mogul Joseph Ashton never expected an Internet blind date to end in the best sex of his life. But when research for an article she has to write on online dating leads to the bed of the hottest guy she’s ever met, she knows that if the geek is to keep the hottie CEO, she’s going to have to come out of her digital shell. Source: Requested an early copy from the publisher through NetGalley Publisher: Entangled Publishing, Indulgence line Talking Dirty with the CEO by Jackie Ashenden ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() Book a package ticket (£90 for all six events).Book an individual ticket (£18 per event) to secure your place at the event in the BP Lecture Theatre.You can join this event in person, or via Zoom.Īttend in person (£18 per event or £90 for all six events) This event is part of the Members' exclusive 2023 Literary season: historical fiction. Dawnlands, the third volume in this story, tells the story of the fiercely independent Alinor and her family, who find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England.įrom the last battle in the desolate Somerset Levels to the hidden caves on the slave island of Barbados, the third volume of this epic story follows a family from one end of the empire to another, to find a new dawn in a world which is opening up before them with greater rewards and dangers than ever before. ![]() It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Together with Gareth Russell, Philippa will discuss the inspiration and research behind her reimagining of the tumultuous Stuart period. Join international bestseller Philippa Gregory to explore the latest novel in her spellbinding Fairmile series. ![]() ![]() Nights are spent in the hotel garden falling in love and Tate tells Sam her biggest secret. Tate’s grandma has saved to take her to London before college and while there, she meets Sam and they instantly click. They aren’t rich, but they have each other. Tate lives a small-town life with her mother and grandmother. It asks the question, what if you had a second chance at true love? Would you take it, even if the first time had ended up changing your life (and not always for the better)? This one not only has a dual timeline for the main characters but involves a Hollywood movie set. I love that Christina Lauren novels are so different, yet never fail to be loads of fun. Why I chose it: I will read anything Christina Lauren writes! The not-so-good: I felt the young Tate and Sam section was a tad too long. The good: Christina Lauren’s books are always fun, offering glimpses into another world. ![]() ![]() Can they get past what happened to have a happy ever after? Fourteen years later, Tate and Sam meet again. On a trip to London, she falls for Sam, tells him and suddenly her world changes. In brief: Tate has a secret that she’s never told. ![]() ![]() ![]() I kind of thought I would like to do this interview as a last hurrah." So it's been really whittling away on who I thought I was. "I can't drive, I can't ride a bicycle, I can't write. "I have ongoing dementia," said Munsch, 76, in his interview with Shelagh Rogers. He's decided to share some difficult news that he hasn't talked about publicly before. His publisher, Scholastic Canada, writes that he receives about 10,000 fan letters a year.Īn author like Munsch, a mainstay on bestseller lists since the 1970s, doesn't need to do press. But this year, as his latest books I Can Fix It!and Think Big! come out, he reached out to The Next Chapterfor an interview. ![]() His stories have been translated into 20 languages, including Anishinaabemowin, Arabic and Swedish. Since publishing his first story over 40 years ago, the Guelph, Ont., writer has sold more than 80 million copies of his books in North America alone. A mother rocks her baby to sleep every night and sweetly sings, "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always." A boy yells "Clang clang, rattle-bing-bang!" every night at the top of his lungs to protest bedtime.Īll of these classic tales - and nearly 100 others that line children's bookshelves around the world - come from the brilliant mind of Robert Munsch. ![]() A princess outsmarts a dragon, breaks up with her bum of a prince and skips off, barefoot and dirty, to make her own happy ending. ![]() ![]() ![]() My ImpressionsĪfter reading A Heart Adrift by Laura Frantz, how can I be so disloyal to Esmée and Henri as to start another book? I read this novel as slowly as I could, savoring every poetic turn of phrase and lyrical word picture! A Heart Adrift has left my heart undone!! Replete with romance, intrigue, faith, and history, Laura Frantz has created another enduring masterpiece. Will a war and a cache of regrets keep them apart, or can their shared vision and dedication to the colonial cause heal the wounds of the past? Bestselling and award-winning author Laura Frantz whisks you away to a time fraught with peril–on the sea and in the heart–in this redemptive, romantic story. ![]() But when the colonial government asks him to lead a secret naval expedition against the French, his future is plunged into uncertainty. But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life.Ĭaptain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing the lighthouse in the dangerous Chesapeake Bay, a dream he once shared with Esmee. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she’s never quite recovered. Chocolatier Esmee Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. ![]() It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Club" "A magical tour of Wes Anderson's filmography."- "C magazine" "Each page of this book-filled with conversations, photographs and artwork surrounding each film-showcases Anderson's pop-culture inspirations from Hitchcock and Star Wars to Jacques Cousteau and the French New Wave. The design is meticulously crafted, with gorgeous full-page photos and touches like a still representation of Rushmore's opening montage."- "The A.V. " The Wes Anderson Collection comes as close as a book can to reading like a Wes Anderson film. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel follows the stories of the café staff, notably barista Kazu, and four different customers. There is only one seat in the café that allows time travel the seat is only available when the ghost that usually occupies it goes for a toilet break once back in time, customers can't leave the seat the only people in the past who can be met are people who have visited the café whatever happens in the past, the present won't change and, most importantly, the customer has to return to the present before their cup of coffee goes cold (around 1 hour). In the café, customers have the opportunity to travel back to a time of their choosing, as long as they follow a long list of rules. In a narrow back alley in Tokyo lies a café called Funiculi Funicula. It tells of a café in Tokyo that allows its customers to travel back in time, as long as they return before their coffee gets cold. 2015 Japanese novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchiīefore the Coffee Gets Cold ( コーヒーが冷めないうちに, Kohi ga Samenai Uchi ni ) is a 2015 novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawn to the mystery of why so many inhabitants are born without hearing, the man is determined to find the cause. Mary’s mother still grieves her dead son desperately, but distraction comes in the form of a young scientist that visits the island. In Mary’s own family her mother and brother, recently deceased, could hear and her father cannot. In this isolated community many people are deaf. Deaf from birth, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard (land “sold” by the Wampanoag who reside there still) in 1805 in the village of Chilmark. ![]() ![]() “If you are reading this, I suppose you want to know more about the terrible events of last year – which I almost didn’t survive – and the community where I live.” So begins Mary Lambert’s story. Here’s a quick encapsulation of the plot: If you’ve somehow missed the book, do not worry. I don’t think I’m surprising anyone when I say that one of the great middle grade hits of 2020 has been Ann Clare LeZotte’s Show Me a Sign. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shirah, born in Alexandria, is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power. Aziza is a warrior’s daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and ex- pert marksman who finds passion with a fellow soldier. Revka, a village baker’s wife, watched the murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Yael’s mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman ’ s novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. Is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmer- izing novel, a tour de force of research and imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Uhtred of Bebbanburg's mind is as sharp as his sword. So when the king orders him to take London from the Danes and hand it to his foolish son-in-law Aethelred, Uhtred agrees despite his concerns.įor Aethelred's wife is the king's spirited daughter Aethelflaed and her fate is entwined with Uhtred's. And he gave it to King Alfred of Wessex, who dreams of an England free from Vikings. To serve a king or become one? Uhtred - warrior, pagan, scourge of the Vikings - faces a hard choice.ĭespite being offered a crown of his own, Uhtred is a man of his word. The fourth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.Ī hero will be forged from this broken land.Īs seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. *A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now* ![]() |