An Observer Best Debut of the Year 'Oozes with erotic tension from the start' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Sublime ... I loved this book' Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea
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An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best Young British Novelist ‘I loved this book’ JULIA ARMFIELD ‘Exhilarating’ MONICA HEISEY 'Astonishing' ANDREA LAWLOR 'Should be on everyone's summer reading list' iNEWS 'Scorching … One of our favourite reads' TIME OUT A Guardian Essential Summer Read A sensual debut novel of the forbidden love between a young woman and a headmaster’s wife, unfolding across a single heatwave summer. In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of ‘matron’. There she meets Mrs S, the headmaster’s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite: assured, sophisticated, a paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless heatwave, the matron finds herself irresistibly drawn ever closer into the older woman’s world with their unspoken desire blooming into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer begins to fade, both know that a choice must finally be made. ‘Desire crackles through these pages like fire’ TELEGRAPH ‘Wildly sexy … I kept forgetting to exhale’ CHARLOTTE MENDELSON ‘There’s nothing else like it out there’ THE TIMES 'Compulsively readable … beautiful, brilliant' OBSERVER ‘Moody, generous and brilliant’ JESSIE BURTON 'Rare and thrilling' SARAH WINMAN
The gruesome death of Anabel Simpson, a retired archaeologist living in a small college town, had rocked her friends and neighbors and stymied the medical examiner. After all, she had been a quiet woman known for her ornate garden, Holstein knickknacks and stories of her days exploring ancient ruins. Little did they know, it was all a cover for a woman with a terrible secret steeped in treachery, jealousy and murder.But Anabel's secret began to unravel after Jennifer Stevens first visited the crime scene. Then came the bank robbery, followed by the armed intruder in Anlon Cully's home and the ransom demand for the safe return of Pebbles McCarver.For Anlon, Pebbles and Jennifer, the ensuing chase to solve the mysteries hidden by Anabel's carefully crafted persona is a perilous journey with rapid-fire twists and turns. It is a hunt that stirs up old terrors and new, leading to an epic showdown with an ancient tyrant, the discovery of a priceless, prehistoric treasure and the haunting truth about sweet, little Anabel.Curse of the Painted Lady is the third installment in The Anlon Cully Chronicles series, a thrilling saga of ancient myths, mystical relics and murder. It is the conclusion of the mystery first explored in Shadows of the Stone Benders and continued in Race for the Flash Stone.Fans of series from Dan Brown, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, and James Patterson will most appreciate the blend of murder mystery, archaeology and fantasy baked into Curse of the Painted Lady and the preceding installments of The Anlon Cully Chronicles.
We've all had them. Haunting dreams of past lives. They are so real, the details so fine, you wake up wondering if they might be distant memories instead of subconscious trickery. For Pebbles McCarver, they might be a bit of both. After a near-death experience, she is tormented by recurring visions she can't escape. A woman running, full of fear and panic, always turning to look behind for a pursuer who never appears. Are they deeply buried thoughts seeking Pebbles' conscious attention? A manifestation of emotions from her near-death experience? Or could they be hidden links to an ancient mystery? The journey to discover the answer leads Pebbles, Anlon Cully and Jennifer Stevens on a hair-raising adventure across an ocean, over mountains and into the heart of a jungle. To guide them on their way, Pebbles must confront the demons lurking in the shadows of her mind without losing her sanity in the process. Priestess of Paracas, book four in the Anlon Cully Chronicles mystery-adventure series, steers readers over long-forgotten trails, through two-thousand-year-old ruins and into the mists of mythology. An all-new thriller that stitches together unexplained archaeological artifacts and lost relics with the enigmas presented by dreams.
We've all had them. Haunting dreams of past lives. They are so real, the details so fine, you wake up wondering if they might be distant memories instead of subconscious trickery. For Pebbles McCarver, they might be a bit of both. After a near-death experience, she is tormented by recurring visions she can't escape. A woman running, full of fear and panic, always turning to look behind for a pursuer who never appears. Are they deeply buried thoughts seeking Pebbles' conscious attention? A manifestation of emotions from her near-death experience? Or could they be hidden links to an ancient mystery? The journey to discover the answer leads Pebbles, Anlon Cully and Jennifer Stevens on a hair-raising adventure across an ocean, over mountains and into the heart of a jungle. To guide them on their way, Pebbles must confront the demons lurking in the shadows of her mind without losing her sanity in the process. Priestess of Paracas, book four in the Anlon Cully Chronicles mystery-adventure series, steers readers over long-forgotten trails, through two-thousand-year-old ruins and into the mists of mythology. An all-new thriller that stitches together unexplained archaeological artifacts and lost relics with the enigmas presented by dreams.
Dr. Takoda Wells risks everything to find the GODD chip, a banned gene therapy that might just save the human race.Set in the year 2137, this post-apocalyptic technothriller takes place amid the aftermath of the Genetic Revolution of the 2070s, an era during which the craze of designer babies and gene replacement therapies led to generations of horrible mutations and the eventual worldwide ban on DNA alterations.Now, a new outbreak of mutations threatens to wreak even more havoc unless Takoda and his allies can resurrect the GODD chip, an experimental device that might heal the mutations. But there are factions who view the chip as a threat to the 22nd century world order and they will stop at nothing to foil Takoda's quest.
Dr. Takoda Wells risks everything to find the GODD chip, a banned gene therapy that might just save the human race.Set in the year 2137, this post-apocalyptic technothriller takes place amid the aftermath of the Genetic Revolution of the 2070s, an era during which the craze of designer babies and gene replacement therapies led to generations of horrible mutations and the eventual worldwide ban on DNA alterations.Now, a new outbreak of mutations threatens to wreak even more havoc unless Takoda and his allies can resurrect the GODD chip, an experimental device that might heal the mutations. But there are factions who view the chip as a threat to the 22nd century world order and they will stop at nothing to foil Takoda's quest.
Gamma-ray bursts from a newly awoken star threaten to destroy Jupiter, sparking a desperate struggle to save the solar system and humanity.It wasn't as if Earth was blind to the risk posed by the star. Four years before it awoke, a fleet of humanoid aliens known as the Suhkai had arrived in the solar system to warn of the threat to Jupiter.However, many on Earth didn't take the Suhkai's warning seriously. To them, it seemed impossible to believe that gamma bursts from a star two light-years away could annihilate Jupiter. And the Suhkai did little to rebut the skeptics.If only the Suhkai had revealed everything they knew when they first arrived. But they didn't.Now astronaut Paul Morgan, aerospace magnate Augustus Amato, and scientists Helen Brock and Dennis Pritchard face excruciating choices. And together with astronaut Julia Carillo and scientists Kiera Walsh and Dante Fulton, they must not only contend with the gamma bursts but also with a more ominous danger none of them ever expected.Dynewave, book 3 in the Rorschach Explorer Missions series, is the suspense-filled continuation of the space sci-fi adventure previously chronicled in UMO (prequel), Skywave (book 1) and Magwave (book 2).
Gamma-ray bursts from a newly awoken star threaten to destroy Jupiter, sparking a desperate struggle to save the solar system and humanity.It wasn't as if Earth was blind to the risk posed by the star. Four years before it awoke, a fleet of humanoid aliens known as the Suhkai had arrived in the solar system to warn of the threat to Jupiter.However, many on Earth didn't take the Suhkai's warning seriously. To them, it seemed impossible to believe that gamma bursts from a star two light-years away could annihilate Jupiter. And the Suhkai did little to rebut the skeptics.If only the Suhkai had revealed everything they knew when they first arrived. But they didn't.Now astronaut Paul Morgan, aerospace magnate Augustus Amato, and scientists Helen Brock and Dennis Pritchard face excruciating choices. And together with astronaut Julia Carillo and scientists Kiera Walsh and Dante Fulton, they must not only contend with the gamma bursts but also with a more ominous danger none of them ever expected.Dynewave, book 3 in the Rorschach Explorer Missions series, is the suspense-filled continuation of the space sci-fi adventure previously chronicled in UMO (prequel), Skywave (book 1) and Magwave (book 2).
An extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love. An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted, as though through a prism, towards beings, lovers, states, objects, landscapes, systems, in K Patrick's ground-breaking debut book of poems. These are notes towards a contemporary queer experience that emerge from the body, dodging and playing with logic to create a brand new poetics. Patrick's subversive and distinct poetic manoeuvres through a marriage and a subsequent divorce, nature writing and 20th Century literary figures with agility, delicacy, candour, and humour. By turns both innovative and empathetic, Three Births documents the absurdity of obsessive desires, giving room to states of flux and flow in the body, relationships, ecology and place. George Michael, the history of inches, the ache that lives behind a 'rigid seam': a high-wire linguistic utopia is put forward in Patrick's easy-going, cool and ironic tone, which zaps with syntactic-synaptic wildness. Three Births culminates in the subtle but powerful message that we should be able to inhabit the body we want to inhabit and love freely within this.