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Grieving, shaken, and feeling very much alone, rory’s life as a member of the shades of london has changed irrevocably. it’s only been a matter of hours since stephen was taken from her, possibly for ever. her classmate charlotte is still missing, kidnapped by the same people who tried to take rory. rory is no longer a schoolgirl haplessly involved in the dealings of a secret government unit. she is their weapon in a matter of life and death. with hardly a moment to think for herself, rory is back to work. charlotte must be found – as must stephen, if he is even out there.

‘laugh-out-loud funny, bananas sexy, and deeply romantic’ andie j. christopher, usa today bestselling author house rules: do your own dishes knock before entering the bathroom never look up your roommate online the wheatons are infamous among the east coast elite for their lack of impulse control, except for their daughter clara. she’s the consummate socialite: over-achieving, well-mannered, predictable. but every wheaton has their weakness. when clara’s childhood crush invites her to move cross-country, the offer is too much to resist. unfortunately, it’s also too good to be true. after a bait-and-switch, clara finds herself sharing a lease with a charming stranger. josh might be a bit too perceptive – not to mention handsome – for comfort, but there’s a good chance he and clara could have survived sharing a summer sublet if she hadn’t looked him up on the internet… once she learns how josh has made a name for himself, clara realises living with him might make her the wheaton’s most scandalous story yet. his professional prowess inspires her to take tackling the stigma against female desire into her own hands. they may not agree on much, but josh and clara both believe women deserve better sex. what they decide to do about it will change both of their lives, and if they’re lucky, they’ll help everyone else get lucky too. ‘incredible . . . one of my top romance reads of 2020!’ jen deluca, author of well met ‘funny, super steamy and surprisingly tender, the roommate raises the bar for rom coms in 2020’ evie dunmore, author of bringing down the duke ‘the roommate is unapologetically sexy as hell. danan’s writing, like her characters, is funny, seductive, and full of heart’ meryl wilsner, author of something to talk about

Now a major bbc tv drama, starring tamara lawrance, lenny henry and hayley atwell. a sunday times bestseller (2011), shortlisted for the man booker prize, the long song by andrea levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in jamaica, for those who loved homegoing, the underground railroad, or the film 12 years a slave. ‘a marvel of luminous storytelling’ financial times you do not know me yet. my son thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. as your storyteller, i am to convey that this tale is set in jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. july is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. she was there when the baptist war raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. my son says i must convey how the story tells also of july’s mama kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of caroline mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides – far too many for me to list here. but what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. perhaps, my son suggests, i might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. all this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. cha, i tell my son, what fuss-fuss. come, let them just read it for themselves.