Kirjahaku

Creative stabs at lust and loss. 'Brilliant moments of writing, a study on a woman's emotional and mental landscape.' 'Peppered with blood and tears and like a car accident you can't look away.' 'An exploration of family relationships, desire, ageing, the price of success, the pain of failing and other usual monsters.'

Abandoned at a posh nursery, five only-children amuse themselves. Sam reads books incessantly and dreams of becoming a loving hero. Coco floats in the air pretending she is a free bird about to marry Paul McCartney, of her own free will. Gabi wants to be George's nurse on ice-skating blades. Boudicca sets spelling speed records enthusiastically encouraged by Sam, when he is not reading, and dreams of tender ponies. And George dresses up as a hundred different princes and has asked for a mirror. Until one day, they decide to investigate their dysfunctional relationships with their parents and devise their own healing system modelled on Alcoholics Anonymous... 'Refreshing, ironic and highly entertaining.'

An Alice in Euroland parody of international politics. Sarah joins four politicians on a boat setting sail across the world to save the Union's parrot. As they fail her one by one, she knows she needs to keep focused if she ever wants to make it back home. 'timely take on the state of our politics, economy and world' 'boldly satirical, with razor-sharp wit which doesn't hold back'

Three weeks until Christmas. Her neighbours either stalk her or flood her, her paperboy courts her non-existent progeny, her work colleagues' lives are in meltdown and her shoulder devil is about to be ordained. But Marmotte is mainly fretting about losing her husband-to-be to his MBA in Singapore. Except her boss has asked her to write a piece on his wife she hates, and spending time with her is changing her. And then there's also the mystery man in the coffee shop...

In a small town in northern Italy, Kiki feels worthless and angry when her longtime partner finds a new cool girl to ride on another decade of easy existence. Meanwhile in London, F tima, the wife of Kiki's best friend, is losing her selfhood after giving birth to twins and being made redundant. Both heroines are determined to rebuild the passion and impunity of their youth, vitalising desires that will bring them to risk everything.

'On corporate greed, excess, and the shady figures who control the world.' 'Fab comedy of underlings in the world of the elites.' Luca is a punch bag, a tea towel, a toilet bowl, to Macco One, the undeniable and unbreakable King of Egg Power, proud of averaging over a hundred flights a year to visit chicken markets around the world. Anna moved to Catania to work for Madame Sicily fulfilling varied tasks from picking up C line swimwear before it hits the runways, to recovering badly parked Lamborghinis. La Revolu o dreams through buildings but builds parking spaces, when she is not helping launder money for her boss's dad's dodgy charities. And finally Carolina is out to conspire with Paquita who met her boss, the German, in a red lit booth, to understand why the man has to drain the passion out of everything. West bEgg is a novel about the behaviour of the power elite who are often still arrogant and uneducated, ridiculously flamboyant, obscene, sex-obsessed, full of entitlement, afraid of rejection and unfortunately indestructible.

After an accident leaves a woman in a coma, her husband sits on a hospital chair day-in day-out singing to her. Nobody can pull him away from her as she threads through the dreams that could save her. Meanwhile, a delusional nurse grows her admiration for him into obsessive desire. A dual narrative by broken heroines winding between desire, anger and forgiveness, to help them re-emerge from their separate tragedies.

Vanity, fear and control; is this a path to happiness? Written fresh out of the author's years in consulting, this tough and unorthodox novel will give you a lot to think about.Meet Vittal. He is a self-and-dad-made man carrying his family's expectations on his shoulders. He has landed a vocation to work for the most renowned, most secretive, highest-priced, most entrusted, most detested organisation of all times. Vittal should be happy, or maybe frightened, after he is told that he will work with people with an unusual quality of character and, with time, he will become those people. When he meets Peter who reeks of success like a true world shaper, Vittal clings to the saving idea that he wants to become him. But as he climbs through stages at Enterprise over the next decade, life loses its meaning and he grows into a swinging smudge of mortality that advances and retreats with his employer's tides. He is lonely, surrounded by emotionless, manipulative schemers, under a haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy and it will never be him. And by the time Lucy arrives to discombobulate this sorry state of affairs, Vittal has become like the others, numbed, out to reach something he does not understand anymore. Lucy won't be able to save him nor him her from Peter, from Enterprise. He won't be able to save Peter or Enterprise either. And five years later, Vittal thinks that writing his story for Nuria can rescue him. It might, but not in the way he had thought

An artist sets to carry out a job he will forever regret. A young professor leads a date to a gruesome end. A couple's drive which starts badly can never be redressed. Short stories of female death set in romantic Pisa.

'Seductively readable, deliciously engrossing...' The Prairies Book Review. A woman, mostly alone in her world but for her dog, shares memories through letters to her old 'tesoro'; a wife trusts her sweetheart psychiatrist blindly through her divorce; a young girl lands a fairy tale wedding soon to turn into a nightmare her cousin yearns to fix. Immersive, witty, tender. This story explores the hurricane-like devastation love is capable of.

Weird. Prickly. Lacerating. Testimony to meaningless, even sinister times in our lives.An old woman plays a tasteless prank on her neighbours; a young nephew takes a long trip to visit his estranged aunt; a defeated boss confesses before he resigns; two mothers discuss their mental health; an anxious female is haunted by animal visions; a kid feels for her nursery teacher become beggar; the future seems dark after a mum attends a school panel; a growing girl fights alcoholic tendencies... and much more.

'A moving story of longing and loss...' The Prairies Book Review. A wealthy arts patron receives a wrongly delivered letter at her secret address in Kensington. Her therapist recognises the intended recipient immediately, leading her into the hands of a defeated composer she will, together with her sweetest accomplice, help back into music.

A bonsai master, a small town governor and a bus driver mend a young woman who leaves her hectic life in Miami to heal in the mountains in Italy. A short poetic, sensual and surreal tale about peaks and troughs, walking, larches, Aufguss, alternative love and starting again.

Ahmed has abandoned her. Nadia is gone the way Isabelle did before, her two fallen warriors. But Marie can still hear His voice clearly. A deep call for justice takes hold in a teenage girl during a religious retreat; what happens next will mark her life for years to come. Set between Zermatt, Brussels, London and Bordeaux, this is a tale of man playing God, of hurt that doesn't find its way out. An uncomfortable but fascinating ripening journey.