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DELIA Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own Search and Rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can’t recall. And then a policeman knocks at her door, and her world fractures into something unrecognisable. In shock and confusion, Delia must search for the truth among her newly discovered memories — even when they threaten to devastate her life, and the lives of those she loves most. My Friend Leonard
Leonard himself is charismatic and contradictory: at once a magnetic father-figure and a shady mafia boss. When he leaves rehabilitation it is to return to this dubious yet prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas. In contrast, when James leaves the centre his world seems set to implode. Unsure where to turn, James calls Leonard and he answers. Paradoxically, it is in the bizarre setting of Leonard’s lawless underworld that James discovers the courage and humanity needed to rebuild his life. Written in the hallmark visceral style of A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard is a mesmerising and touching insight into an incredible world.
In the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, three poets — Byron, Shelley, Keats — come to prominence. This electrifying novel explores their short, extraordinary lives through the eyes of the women who knew and loved them — intensely, scandalously and sometimes tragically. Four women. From widely different backgrounds, they are linked by a sensational fate. Mary Shelley: the gifted daughter of gifted parents, for whom passion leads to exile, loss, and a unique fame. Lady Caroline Lamb: born to fabulous wealth and aristocratic position, who risks everything for the ultimate love affair. Fanny Brawne: her quiet, middle-class girlhood is transformed — and immortalised — by a disturbing encounter with genius. Augusta Leigh: the unassuming poor relation who finds herself flouting the greatest of all taboos. |
Vanishing Acts
My Friend Leonard
is the story of an extraordinary friendship formed in the most unlikely
of circumstances. When James Frey first meets Leonard in the
rehabilitation centre so powerfully described in a A Million Little
Pieces, they are both recovering drug addicts. Despite their highly
unreliable track records, their shared grit and humour spark a mutual
admiration which quickly transforms into firm loyalty.
Passion