I love it when my heroines are sassy and don’t take any bullsh*t from their love interest. Also, I love to see banter between my h and my H. I like my characters witty and intellectual, even if they’re felons and ex-cons. You have some brilliant, quick one liners – how would you describe your sense of humour?ĭry, I guess. Having said that, I am working on a rom-com, so I try to keep things interesting and fresh for both me and my readers J Putting my characters through hell and see how they walk out of there unscathed is just something I find fulfilling. I’ve only been intrigued about the human nature when you face a fight or flight situation. But then I started writing Sparrow and things got a *little* out of hand. I thought I’d be writing rom-coms for sure my whole life. Sparrow and Blood To Dust are considered dark fiction.
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While navigating a whirl of black-tie parties and secret dining societies, the girls discover a surfeit of suspects. Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country girl, arrives for her first term anticipating nothing more sinister than days spent poring over history books in gilded libraries-and, if she's lucky, an invitation to a ball.īut when she discovers a glamorous classmate on a chaise longue with her throat cut, Ursula is catapulted into a murder investigation.ĭetermined to bag her first scoop for the famous student newspaper Cherwell, Ursula enlists the help of trend-setting American exchange student Nancy Feingold to unravel the case. It's 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm's, punting, and ball gowns are de rigeur. The New York Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes takes us back to the decadent 1980s in this comic murder mystery set in the tony world of Oxford University. 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In Rise of the Governor, uber-villain Philip Blake journeyed from his humble beginnings directly into the dark heart of the zombie apocalypse, and became the self-proclaimed leader of a small town called Woodbury. From co-authors Kirkman, creator of the Eisner Award-winning comic as well as executive producer of AMC's blockbuster TV series, and Jay Bonansinga, Stoker Award-finalist and internationally acclaimed author, comes this stunning finale to their ambitious chronicle of human survival amid the plague of undead, which began with The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. The fourth book and epic finale to Robert Kirkman's New York Times bestselling series: The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor Part Two! The Walking Dead original novel series, set in the universe of Robert Kirkman's iconic comic book, comes to a shattering conclusion with The Fall of the Governor Part Two. I felt compelled to go over and tell him that he reminded me of my uncle Jim in Minnesota. In a random tapas bar I did a double-take at an older gentleman sitting at a table near the window. We were meant to be spending a few days together in sunny Spain, but he never turned up at the airport and I ended up in Barcelona on my own, feeling completely lost and betrayed. It was 1994, I was in my mid 20s and in a very unhealthy relationship. I’ll give you the bare bones of it here and then get to why I’m happy I stumbled upon it again so many years later. The story of how I first came to read the Celestine Prophecy could in itself be made into a movie. It was an international best seller and was later adapted into a film, which I’ve heard was pretty poor. This book is particularly special for many of us because it was the very first entry-level read that got us into the whole wonderful world of personal development. I posted a picture on social media recently of me holding the book and was amazed at how many of you also read it in the 90s and expressed a desire to read it again. NOTE: I have turned this into a podcast episode and it comes with notes about each of the nine insights and some journaling prompts! See episode 1 of the Project Me Podcast In the first of this new series of Personal Growth Books Revisited, I’m featuring a book that I first read in 1994 and didn’t pick up again for 23 years, The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic and free. English Title: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None Credits: Sue Asscher and David Widger Revised by Richard Tonsing. Nietzsche's utterance 'God is dead', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Friedrich Nietzsches most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch f r Alle und Keinen, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra). Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. However, being the first book in a series, she may come into her own in later books. Theresa, the only girl in the Glade, is forgettable and relatively one-dimensional. Thomas is a likeable and believable main character, as are the supporting cast of stranded boys. James Dashner’s novel is fast-paced dystopian fiction along the lines of Hunger Games and Divergent. When the first girl is delivered to the Glade shortly after Thomas’ arrival, things begin to rapidly devolve. Boys have arrived in the same manner every thirty days for the past two years, finding themselves in the Glade, a large expanse surrounded by massive stone walls that protect the boys from the maze beyond and the Grievers-half machine, half slug-who live there. Thomas wakes up in an open metal box remembering nothing but his own name. The book is set in “an unidentified city” in India – one that bears a remarkable resemblance to Bombay – opening in the 1970s during the turmoil of the Indira Gandhi-imposed Emergency – a suspension of the Indian Constitution after the then Indian Prime Minister was accused of political chicanery. Defying a court order calling for her resignation, Gandhi instead used the Emergency to throw her opponents in jail, as well as a slew of others who didn’t quite see the world in the same way as she did – activists, intellectuals, journalists, even students. The attempt to liberate Kashyyyk has carried Han Solo, Chewbacca, and a band of smugglers into an ambush-resulting in Chewie's capture and Han's disappearance. But the hunt for Sloane is cut short when Norra receives an urgent request from Princess Leia Organa. Even as more and more officers are brought to justice, Sloane continues to elude the New Republic, and Norra fears Sloane may be searching for a means to save the crumbling Empire from oblivion. Meanwhile, Norra Wexley and her band of Imperial hunters pursue Grand Admiral Rae Sloane and the Empire's remaining leadership across the galaxy. For Han Solo, that means settling his last outstanding debt, by helping Chewbacca liberate the Wookiee's homeworld of Kashyyyk. As the New Republic fights to restore a lasting peace to the galaxy, some dare to imagine new beginnings and new destinies. The Emperor is dead, and the remnants of his former Empire are in retreat. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, the never-before-told story that began with Star Wars: Aftermath continues in this thrilling novel, the second book of Chuck Wendig's bestselling trilogy. Vanity Fair refused to publish an essay he wrote reflecting on the attacks. Indeed, Vidal claimed the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 occurred because the Bush administration was "incompetent" and Bush himself was "inactive and inopportune". It's no surprise then that he detested George W Bush. We'll have a military dictatorship pretty soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together." There was a gleefulness in Vidal's acerbic denunciations of the US: significantly, the New York Times's obituarist yesterday charged that he "presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilisation". He told the Times three years ago that the US is "rotting away at a funereal pace. |